I'm so happy to be here, sharing my new release
TO CATCH A TEXAS STAR! This
brings the
Texas
Heroes series to an exciting conclusion and it's been a long time
coming. After I wrote the first two โ
KNIGHT ON THE TEXAS PLAINS
and
THE COWBOY WHO CAME
CALLING โ the publisher folded and I never got to complete the series โฆ
until now. This is the book of my heart that I always wanted to write.
We met Marley Rose McClain as a baby in
KNIGHT ON THE TEXAS PLAINS
and now she's all grown up and looking for love. But there are secrets. Why does
she look so different from her parents? What is the secret they're keeping? Why
does a mysterious stranger seem to know her?
She discovers Roan Penny lying severely injured at the side of the road one
frosty morning and takes him to her family ranch. As he recovers, their
attraction grows stronger and stronger and Marley knows he's the one for her. He
calls her his Texas Star and she sees undeniable love in his eyes even as danger
surrounds them at every turn.
Much of Marley's time is spent helping to care for the twelve children her
parents have taken in. It's a struggle but one they gladly bear.
People ask why I write orphans into almost every story and here's why.
The 1800s was overrun with orphans. New York City alone had 30,000 in 1850.
Immigrants arrived and a good many died of disease and starvation, leaving their
children with no place to go. The orphanages bulged at the seams and there were
still so many living on the streets.
In an effort to curb the situation, they began shipping children out on orphan
trains and offering them to any one willing to give them a home. From 1854 to
1929, a quarter of a million orphans rode on those trains. Yet, with no
oversight, a good many faced horrible abuse.
Things weren't much better in out west. People were dying in cholera epidemics,
yellow fever, small pox, etc. Then you add in the numbers of the women dying in
childbirth and it's staggering. The Civil War left even more children without
parents and on the American frontier, there were Indian uprisings in addition to
everything else. It was a horrible time of upheaval and children bore the brunt.
Characters like Marley's mother and father can't turn a blind eye so do whatever
they can to help.
I think adding children to stories makes them richer. Children bring a greater
level of emotion that isn't there otherwise.
For an excerpt of the story, click on the link:
here
I hope you'll try
TO CATCH A
TEXAS STAR and see what I'm talking about. I have a brand new series
beginning in January called
Outlaw Mail Order Brides. Maybe you'll look
for it.
Texas Heroes
#3
When Marley Rose McClain finds a
man lying near death by the side of the road, she has no choice but to take him
home and nurse him back to health. The son of a notorious outlaw, Roan Penny
yearns to make his life count. He longs to be with the captivating beauty who
saved himโbut he knows he'd bring her nothing but trouble.
When a
strange man begins to stalk Marley, a life-long secret is revealed that
threatens to destroy everything she knows--and everything she could hope to be
for Roan. Yet when Marley needs him the most, Roan rides like a bat out of hell
to save his Texas Star...swearing he'll prove once and for all that their love
is worth fighting for.
Romance Western | Romance Historical
[Sourcebooks Casablanca, On Sale: July 3, 2018,
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9781492651017 / eISBN:
9781492651024]
A
great end to a captivating Western series!
It
wasn't called the Wild West for nothing!
Romancing the West One Story at a Time
Linda Broday is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling
author and makes her home in the Texas Panhandle on land the American Indian and
Comancheros once roamed. She is a multi-published western historical romance
author who lives and breathes cowboys and the American West way of life. Here in
the panhandle it's very common to see cowboys, they've provided lots of
inspiration. There's just something about a man in tight jeans, a Stetson and
boots that gets her hot and bothered!
Linda grew up watching TV westerns
back in their heyday and fell in love with the desperados, lawmen and strong men
and women who portrayed the people who settled this wild land that offered so
much opportunity for those who wanted to seek it. They taught her the values,
the strength it took to survive and the tremendous will to keep going when
things got tough. She loves writing stories about similar people who could've
lived back then.
When Linda is not writing, She's scouring the internet
looking for little tidbits to add depth to my stories. She has also been
accused, quite unfairly she might add, of haunting museums and libraries.
Linda's desire to keep history alive is what drives her and she can't imagine
writing anything else.
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