Guest author: Robbie Cheadle ~ Dick Turpin


Read a chilling excerpt from Roberta Eaton Cheadle’s Through the Nethergate.

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The myth of Dick Turpin

Fiction writer, Harrison Ainsworth, glamourised thief and highway man, Dick Turpin, in his 1834 novel, Rookwood. The novel is set in England in 1737 at a manor house called Rookwood Place and the plot revolves around the mysterious death of the owner, Piers Rookwood, and the subsequent rivalry for inheritance of the property between his two sons.

During the course of the story, Dick Turpin, a highway man, is introduced at the manor under the pseudonym Palmer. During his stay, Palmer makes a bet with one of the other house guests that he can capture Dick Turpin. He is eventually forced to escape upon his horse, Black Bess. The horse, although fast enough to stay ahead of all the other horses, eventually collapses and dies from the stress of the escape.

In the novel, Ainsworth describes Turpin as galloping north in the dark: “His blood…

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The Rancher’s Family by @BarbaraWDaille #NewRelease #Romance @HarlequinBooks


Cover original The Rancher's Family

 

Thanks for sharing my new release, Jacquie!

I love this cover!!

 

Book Blurb:

 

“Are you my new mommy?”

She certainly hopes so…

After a devastating loss, Cara Leonetti’s dreams of a husband and children are on hold. But Cowboy Creek’s local matchmaker thinks otherwise! And Cara finds herself unexpectedly entangled in the day-to-day family chaos of widower Wes Daniels and his two small children. She’s falling hard, but the strong, silent rancher doesn’t trust in love. Can Cara put her own fears aside and show Wes that they’re stronger together?

 

 

Excerpt from The Rancher’s Family:

When Cara closed the laptop, Wes reached out to help her to her feet. Though her hand was small, her grip was strong. Her fingers, slim and warm, fit perfectly in his.

 

Part of him wanted to keep holding on. The sane part of him made him release her hand the minute she stood upright.

 

“Thanks.” She spent a while putting the computer on the dresser, settling it just so and fiddling with the lid—all unnecessarily, as far as he could see. Finally, she said, “I have to confess.”

 

That explained the delaying tactics. He waited.

 

“I’d have made even better progress if I hadn’t been online most of the afternoon.”

 

“Don’t tell me. You’re an internet shopper?”

 

“No.”

 

“A closet gamer?”

 

“No, not that.”

 

“Addicted to hanging out outline?”

 

“Not that, either. I’m looking for a job.”

 

“Sounds like you have one—with Andi.” He expected her to laugh or at least smile. Wrong again. Her expression suddenly turned solemn.

 

“No, that’s just temporary. I really need to get back home.”

 

Yet another thing he knew about her—where she lived. “What’s the attraction in Phoenix?”

 

Now she grinned. “Oh…the heat, the saguaros, the local petting zoo. Just think of all the animals Mark could find there to inspire his drawings. Where does he get his interest in art, anyhow?”

 

Nice. With one quick question—and that stunning grin—she had deftly turned the conversation away from a topic she evidently wanted to avoid. Unfortunately, she had also led them to one he didn’t want to discuss.

 

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