Showing posts with label Margaret Tanner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Margaret Tanner. Show all posts

Friday, June 13, 2014

Frontier Belle



Weekenders Romance Watch




Frontier Belle
Author: Margaret Tanner
Genre: Mainstream Romance
Buy: Amazon


Blurb:
Tommy Lindsay arrives in colonial Australia to claim the rundown farm she and her brothers have inherited.

Hidden behind her English rose beauty, beats the heart of a courageous young woman. She will need all this strength to survive the unforgiving heat and danger. 

Adam Munro, has no room in his heart to love a woman.  All he ever wanted was a presentable wife who would provide him with heirs.   He didn’t need passion in his life, not until he met the beautiful English belle living next door. Has he left it too late to capture her heart?


Enchanting Excerpt:
North East Victoria – 1879

Tommy Lindsay wiped her damp forehead with a lace handkerchief. Perspiration ran in rivulets between her breasts, pooling at the waistband of her gown and leaving a damp patch. She coughed a couple of times to clear the dust clogging up her throat.

“I don’t like it here.” Her little brother, Jamie, kicked one of the leather sea trunks and she was tempted to join him. “Why doesn’t someone come?”
A few boxes and trunks stacked on the hotel verandah held all her possessions and those of her two brothers. Just thinking about how the once proud Lindsay family had been reduced to such pernicious circumstances caused tears to build up at the back of her eyes. She wouldn’t cry. She couldn’t afford such a luxury, not with a young brother and a sick older brother to worry about. She had to be strong, resolute.

Warrior, a thoroughbred black stallion, stomped and snorted restlessly.

“Easy, boy.” David patted the stallion's glistening neck. “How much longer do we have to hang around, Tommy?”

“I don't know.” Her voice trembled even though she fought to control it. “Uncle Henry’s lawyer said someone would take us to the farm. Do you think he might have forgotten? Maybe he got the days mixed up?”

Sick dread washed over her. Oh, God, what if this desperate undertaking of theirs failed? It was sheer madness sailing thousands of miles across the sea to start a new life in an alien, hostile country, but what other choice did they have?


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Thursday, February 28, 2013

A Rose in No-Man's Land


Tantalizing Thursday

Excerpt

 

 

           A Rose in No-Man's Land
Author: Margaret Tanner
Genre: Mainstream/Historical Romance
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Excerpt:

“They’re being discreet and leaving us alone,” Amy muttered. “Sophie is in matchmaking mode. She’s frightened I’ll be left an old maid.”

“Not much chance of that.”

“Isn’t there?”

“You have such a fragile beauty it makes a man want to protect you forever. I only wish things could be different.”

“Don’t you want to get married, Mark? Have a home and children? I mean, when the war is over.”

“No, it could never work for me. It’s too late. I’m a loner now.” The flat, bleak statement filled her with an overwhelming sadness.

“Can you play anything other than Australian ballads?” He asked, in an obvious change of subject.

Friday, February 8, 2013

A Rose in No-Man's Land

A Rose in No-Man's Land
Margaret Tanner
During World War 1, Sister Amy Smithfield an Australian Army nurse meets an English Captain, Mark Tremayne. Their love is forbidden because Mark is bound to another woman – his dead wife. Blackmailed by his sister-in-law, who has in her possession an incriminating letter, he can never marry again or tell Amy the truth, unless he wants to risk the gallows for a murder he did not commit.

Mark’s chances of surviving the trenches of France grow less each day, and in desperation, they risk a few nights of passion in Paris . The lovers are discovered and Amy is banished to London in disgrace.
A Rose in No-Man's Land