Letters & Lies from Colleen L Donnelly
Give a warm welcome to Colleen L. Donnelly, author of Letters and Lies new release. Pull up a chair, grab a drink of your choice from the cooler, a Chocolate Chip or Peanut Butter cookie from the plate, and let’s find out a little about Colleen and her Letters & Lies.
Thank you, Tena, for letting me air my newest characters and the smiles they still give me, even after two years of wrestling them to the page. “Letters and Lies” is a humorous divergence and stretch from my normal serious historical novels, a fun read I wrapped around matters of the heart, utter disappointment, and the staggering realization that going left when you should have gone right can still spawn a measure of success amidst a glut of failures.
I scratch my head at slapstick comedy, and maybe some will at my dry sense of humor. But it worked well when it came to creating a determined heroine I think we can all relate to, one with a blind eye to her own foibles. Louise Archer wanted what she couldn’t have, and wanted it badly enough she gave herself permission to lie, assume a false identity, take over someone else’s family business, upend a small town’s economy, and throw suspicion at a haughty banker in order to get it. Red-faced every time one of her schemes backfires, and horrified at the woman she has become, Louise’s broken heart and social humiliation propel her forward through a plethora of wrongs to make a single right…the right she thought she wanted…something, again, I think we can all relate to, and I hope many enjoy.
Speed Round (one word only answer): Yep, I know torture for a writer!<evil laugh>
Favorite movie: Follow the Stars Home
Favorite book: The Monk (the really old story by Matthew Lewis)
Last book read: Where the Crawdads Sing
Favorite color: Yellow
Stilettos or flipflops: Flipflops
Coffee or tea: COFFEE
Ebook or audiobook or paperback: Paperback
Pencil or pen: Pen
Favorite song: For Those Tears I Died
Streak or not: Once
Favorite dessert: Icebox Dessert
Favorite junk food: Fritos
Favorite thing to do to relax: Walk
Champagne or gin: Don’t drink
Paranormal or Historical: Historical
Wonder Woman or Top Model: Uhhhh…
Favorite TV show: Seinfeld
Hot or cold: Hot
POV: First
I’d die if I don’t have: Coffee
Review or Not: Review
Now give us the scoop on Letters & Lies.
Louise Archer boards a westbound train in St. Louis to find the Kansas homesteader who wooed and proposed to her by correspondence, then jilted her by telegram – Don’t come, I can’t marry you. Giving a false name to hide her humiliation, her lie backfires when a marshal interferes and offers her his seat.
Marshal Everett McCloud intends to verify the woman coming to marry his homesteading friend is suitable. At the St. Louis train station, his plan detours when he offers his seat to a captivating woman whose name thankfully isn’t Louise Archer.
Everett’s plans thwart hers, until he begins to resemble the man she came west to find, and she the woman meant to marry his friend.
Buy Link: https://amzn.to/2yNFGNv
A sneak peek between the pages of Letters & Lies!
“Kansas Concoctions.” Cook burst into the dining area with a shout, a tray in one hand and a spatula in the other. The tray clattered on the side table. Every head turned, every brow raised, surely every eye spotted the butt of his pistol that jutted from his apron. The gasp which issued from the civilized sector told me they had.
Drat. “Confections,” I said to Joshua. “He means Kansas Confections. Excuse me.” I marched in Cook’s
direction, a steady but civilized step which quickened when the spatula thudded next to the tray. “Cook,” I
hissed. He turned, his surly glare stopping before it reached me. He leveled a gaze on Rudy, and Lizzy next
to him. “Cook,” I hissed even louder. He set out Rudy’s direction. I switched my course and saw Deputy Joshua come to his feet. Now three sets of footsteps marched through the hush which fell over Eat Here. Travelers I had worked so hard to make comfortable stopped eating and talking, everyone’s attention on the Wild West show which promised to ruin everything.
Drat Cook.
About the Author:
Scientist gone rogue, Colleen has left the world of black and white facts for the mushy swamp of broken hearts, betrayals, and impossible relationships she mixes together on the page instead of in a test tube.
Way to go Colleen!
Now you can find Colleen at:
http://www.colleenldonnelly.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ColleenLDonnelly
https://twitter.com/colleenLdonnell
http://www.Goodreads.com/colleenldonnelly
It was wonderful having you with us today. Please feel free to stop by anytime. Good Luck with Letters & Lies.
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