In 2004, traveling on a bus around New Zealand, I wrote the outline of an historical romance as a screen play. The first draft of the novel crawled painfully to life between nursing my fourth child and shuttling my other three to preschool in 2009. It then sat, untouched, for a year as I struggled to find time for the editing process. Throughout 2010, I maintained this personal blog and continued to make time for and love writing here. So, I thought, why not? Why not blog UNION PACIFIC and see if I can tease that elusive second draft into being with a little help from my friends.
Summer Connolly Romance was born on December 31, 2010. Please join me there for a little dose of romance, gunfights and cowboys in the wild west of 1880. If that doesn't entice you, maybe this will.
UNION PACIFIC
Beautiful, willful Emily Davenport lives the life of a privileged debutante in Victorian Boston. She is the center of her father’s world and the heiress to a controlling interest in her family’s transcontinental banking empire. When her father dies suddenly, Emily learns the true nature of the man she loves and the hard truth of reputations in Boston society.
Betrayed, devastated and grieving her father, Emily is forced to flee scandal and travel to San Francisco to live with her grandfather, the legendary patriarch of Davenport & Harrington Bank & Trust. Her grandfather sends his best security man to meet her in Chicago and guard her on the journey across the western territories. In his care, she survives a violent train robbery and evades the outlaws seeking to kidnap her and hold her for ransom. If her grandfather’s hired gun can protect her as they cross the final mountains to safety in California, the question becomes who will protect her heart from him?
See you there.
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