It all started when…

A cluster of ideas and stories bounced around inside my head for years. One day, while working in the Quad Cities, I told a co-worker/friend about a story that had haunted me for nearly a decade. I explained that I went to bed each night with the image of a modern woman suddenly appearing aboard a British warship in the year 1760.

Taken for a lad and a stowaway, this woman briefly links gazes with the rugged sea captain watching her from the quarterdeck above. Instead of coming to her aid, the captain tosses her a sword. In blind reaction she catches the weapon, turns, and faces the motley crew. 

Then . . . I would fall asleep. This nightly pattern continued, never moving forward past the above described scene.

At the end of my tale, my friend sent me a quizzical look and said 3 prophetic words: Write. It. Down.

That evening I took Nina's (pronounced nine-a) advice, put pen to paper, and the journey to authorship began.

TAKE HEART

It is 1763, colonial America, and the British strongholds are falling under the attack of an Indian rebellion. With the crew of the Seawraith at his side, Captain Sullivan (Sully) Wyscott, Earl of Hart, spies a woman materializing in a fog bank on the edge of the battlefield. With hatchet and cutlass in hand, Sullivan slashes his way through the ranks of the enemy to scoop her up and deliver her to safety.

Time deals Sullivan a staggering blow as everything and everyone he once knew disappears and his golden eyes fall on the woman he rescued—none other than Hope Dailey, Gabrielle’s best friend. 

As Sullivan finds himself in another place, another time, he holds a secret. He fears Hope will do what no woman has done—take his heart.

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