
Title: Mine to Tell
Author: Colleen L Donnelly
Genre: Historical Romance
Book Blurb:
Annabelle Crouse defies her family shame by opening up her great-grandmother’s shunned life. And the boarded-up house Julianne Crouse had been relegated to by an unforgiving husband after an unexplained absence. His accusation of betrayal has tainted the Crouse women with disgrace for years, and Annabelle wants freed. Pressing through cobwebs and dust, she finds hidden clues and the coded story left behind by her great-grandmother — Why did she go? And why did she return? Only one person, a man she grew up with but never noticed, stands with Annabelle as she discovers the parallels between her life and her great-grandmother’s story–two women, generations apart, daring to experience what love truly is.
Excerpt:
“Mine to tell,” Kyle said suddenly. It was a jolt. I was yanked from my mental tumble into a pit of unredemption. Alex looked up too, a quizzical expression on his face. “Julianne left a story behind,” Kyle continued. “Some of it speculation and rumors by people who don’t know, and the rest of it by her own hand. It was a love story. One that was countered with suffering.”
We were all quiet. I looked at him, my heart melting as I heard his masculine voice speak of love and suffering. I wanted to lean across the table and hug him, but I was too afraid.
Alex leaned back in his chair. “What my father went through didn’t feel like love when we were little.”
“But maybe it was,” Kyle persisted, his tone smooth and even. “Does love always turn out the way we want it to?” Then he looked at me. “Julianne Crouse was a fine woman. We haven’t finished her story, but she suffered, and she was fine indeed.”
Tears came to my eyes. “Thank you,” I squeaked. Kyle stood and walked around the table to me. He helped me stand as he thanked them for their time. He retrieved Julianne’s picture, took my hand, and together we went to the door, Alex and his wife following us.
“I hope you’re right,” Alex said, running his hand through his thin, brittle hair as we stepped outside. “My father had some things to come to terms with, but he was a good man. A better man later in life, when he told us he was sorry. I never knew for what.”
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“Mine to Tell” is a satisfying story of love lost and the struggle to recover it which immediately became an Amazon #1 bestseller. Told at an engaging pace, this tale traces the journeys of two women facing personal, family, and social hurdles that stand between them and the one they long to be with.
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Author Biography:
Colleen L Donnelly put her science education to use for years and then put it behind her to pursue other passions. Her first love is writing and her second is hunting—hunting for that next good story, for shed antlers or mushrooms in the woods, or for the next good author to read. An avid believer in work hard/play hard, Colleen splits her time between indoors and out, always busy at something.
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