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HARTFORDS
The perfect gift for your period-drama loving family member. Hartfords is a romantic comedy set in 1840s New England about a young woman who seeks to defeat her family’s nemesis by finding husbands for her four sisters by New Year’s Eve. Purchase this AUTOGRAPHED paperback copy and receive a free gift of a companion bookmark. (US Only)
Book released in October 2021 with León Publishing. A romantic comedy Set in 1840s New England about a young woman who seeks to defeat her family’s nemesis by finding husbands for her four sisters by New Year’s Eve.
Description
Is love a choice or the work of fate?
Think Jane Austen with an extra dash of spunk.
Ginny Barker
Or just the force behind a sister’s scheming?
In a world of propriety and convention, the five Hartford sisters are anything but conventional. So unconventional, they’ll likely never attract husbands, ensuring they’ll be a disgrace to their family and community by dying spinsters.
Then, the eldest sister, Samantha, defies the odds and secures a husband—a wealthy and handsome husband no less. The Hartford’s biggest critic, Daniel Copeland, predicts no other man would ever be as foolish.
To end his criticism, Samantha and her husband make a pact with Daniel, stating he must end his verbal onslaught of their family if every sister is engaged by the end of the year.
Thus a game of matchmaking ensues—countered by Daniel’s sabotage—and the quest for love becomes a very time-sensitive race.
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what i am working on
The current working title of my first book on Spiritual Abuse (in progress) is How to Spot a Narcissist and Other Things I Learned While Working at an Abusive Church.
Description: I'd encountered these crafty, identity-shredding Tasmanian devils on a number of occasions. After doing my own work, reading books, and speaking to people I considered experts, I developed a superpower I wish I didn't need: I could spot a narcissist.
My superpower started developing when I was very young, long before I knew words like "trauma" or "abuse" or "narcissist." But my awareness honed in a place many might think of as unlikely to find one of these individuals: on staff at a church.
This book will show how narcissists are attracted to churches and deliberately manipulate the Bible to stay in power. It will help readers understand what happened to them so they can continue their healing journey and watch out for the influence of narcissists in the future.
What Else I’m Working On…
I am revising a novel about a former pleasure slave who joins up with space pirates and inadvertently becomes embroiled in a conflict with the galactic superpower.
I’m also revising The Temple of Uriah is a young adult novel filled with all your favorite things: mystery, action, slow-burning romance, and—my personal favorite—bomb characters who will become your best friends. My original concept was a story about a super hero who wasn’t super. Someone everyone doubts (and who doubts herself) but in the end, it turns out she was the right person for the job the whole time.
How?
You’ll have to read the story…someday…
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Keelee is the kingdom of Lustan’s next savior known as the Keeper. But she’s not just upset about it, she’s furious. The calling wrenched her and her brother from their life in a small farming village. (Never mind that she wasn’t too keen on that life anyway and is slightly relieved that the calling came just before the Harvest Moon festival when she would have been chosen as someone’s bride.) Now she has to travel to the Temple of Uriah to be trained as a warrior, even though the thought of fighting anyone makes her want to throw up.
If that wasn’t bad enough, her mentor is infuriating. His method of training consists of shoving a sword in her hands and shouting instructions at her. He can’t seem to give a straight answer to any of her questions about the Keeper and he clearly thinks the universe could have chosen a more qualified Keeper than an irritating farm girl.
But when their small band is attacked on the road by mysterious persons with color-changing eyes, Keelee is convinced there’s more going on than her tight-lipped mentor is willing to reveal. This suspicion is compounded when they arrive at the Temple and a figure appears to Keelee warning her to beware.
As Keelee sets out to save her companions from a danger they cannot see, she hopes to solve the biggest mystery of all: why was she (of all people) chosen as Keeper?