Two Soul Mate historical are going on sale for 99¢!!
Al Capone at the Blanche Hotel is on sale for 99¢ May 20-May 27!
Al Capone at the Blanche Hotel tells a story of lives unfolding in different
centuries, but linked and irrevocably altered by a series of murders in
1930.
Lake City,
Florida, June, 1930: Al Capone checks in for an unusually long stay at the
Blanche Hotel, a nice enough joint for an insignificant little whistle stop.
The following night, young Jack Blevins witnesses a body being dumped heralding
the summer of violence to come. One-by-one, people controlling county vice
activities swing from KKK ropes. No moonshine distributor, gaming operator, or
brothel madam, black or white, is safe from the Klan's self-righteous
vigilantism. Jack's older sister Meg, a waitress at the Blanche, and her fiancé,
a sheriff’s deputy, discover reasons to believe the lynchings are cover for a
much larger ambition than simply ridding the county of vice. Someone, possibly
backed by Capone, has secret plans for filling the voids created by the
killings. But as the body count grows and crosses burn, they come to realize
this knowledge may get all of them killed.
Gainesville, Florida,
August, 2011: Liz Reams, an up and coming young academic specializing in the
history of American crime, impulsively moves across the continent to follow a
man who convinces her of his devotion yet refuses to say the three simple words
I love you. Despite entreaties of friends and family, she is attracted to
edginess and a certain type of glamour in her men, both living and historical.
Her personal life is an emotional roller coaster, but her career options
suddenly blossom beyond all expectation, creating a very different type of
stress. To deal with it all, Liz loses herself in her professional passion,
original research into the life and times of her favorite bad boy, Al Capone.
What she discovers about 1930’s summer of violence, and herself in the process,
leaves her reeling at first and then changed forever.
From Soul Mate Publishing:
Al Capone at the Blanche Hotel
Take
a look at the real Blanche Hotel and other actual locations featured in Al Capone at the
Blanche Hotel! https://www.pinterest.com/lindabennettpen/al-capone-at-the-blanche-hotel/
Confederado do Norte,
2015 Honorable Mention in the RONE Awards, is on sale for 99¢ May 27- June 3!!
Set during the aftermath of the American
Civil War, Confederado do Norte tells the story of Mary Catherine MacDonald Dias Oliveira Atwell, a
child torn from her war devastated home in Georgia and thrust into the
primitive Brazilian interior where the young woman she becomes must learn to
recreate herself in order to survive.
October, 1866.
Mary Catherine is
devastated when her family emigrates from Georgia to Brazil because her father
and maternal uncle refuse to accept the terms of Reconstruction following the
Confederacy’s defeat. Shortly after arrival in their new country, she is
orphaned, leaving her in Uncle Nathan’s care. He hates Mary Catherine, blaming
her for his sister’s death. She despises him because she believes Nathan
murdered her father. When Mary Catherine discovers Nathan’s plan to be rid of
her as well, she flees into the mountain wilderness filled with jaguars and
equally dangerous men. Finding refuge among kind peasants, she grows into a
beauty, ultimately marrying the scion of a wealthy Portuguese family. Happiness
and security seem assured until civil unrest brings armed marauders who have an
inexplicable connection to Mary Catherine. Recreating herself has protected
Mary Catherine in the past, but this new crisis will demand all of the courage,
intelligence, and creativity she possesses simply to survive.
See scenes from
Brazil and other locations featured in Confederado do Norte! https://www.pinterest.com/lindabennettpen/confederado-do-norte/
BIO:
Linda shares this about herself:
"I have been in love with the past for as long as
I can remember. Anything with a history, whether shabby or majestic, recent or
ancient, instantly draws me in. I suppose it comes from being part of a large
extended family that spanned several generations. Long summer afternoons on my
grandmother's porch or winter evenings gathered around her fireplace were
filled with stories both entertaining and poignant. Of course being set in the
American South, those stories were also peopled by some very interesting
characters, some of whom have found their way into my work.
As for my venture in
writing, it has allowed me to reinvent myself. We humans are truly multifaceted
creatures, but unfortunately we tend to sort and categorize each other into
neat, easily understood packages that rarely reveal the whole person. Perhaps
you, too, want to step out of the box in which you find yourself. I encourage
you to look at the possibilities and imagine. Be filled with childlike wonder
in your mental wanderings. Envision what might be, not simply what is. Let us
never forget, all good fiction begins when someone says to her or himself,
Let's pretend."
Linda resides in the Houston
area with one sweet husband and one adorable German Shorthaired Pointer who is
quite certain she’s a little girl.
Twitter:
@LindaPennell
