By
Ada Brownell
Ever thought about the DNA in a flower? Or the wonder
of love?
In my new book, Love’s
Delicate Blossom, being edited now after I was sidelined by the
shingles—not those on my roof, but a disease that feels like you’ve had
something nailed to your body—I discovered fruit blossoms are much more than
pretty flowers. Maybe that’s why bouquets are part of weddings. Here’s what the
leading man in the book has to say about blossoms and love. Joe Nichols, explains it to the beautiful
redhead, Ritah O’Casey, who has another fellow after her.
They were almost to Aunt
Charlotte’s house, and Joe slowed the team to a crawl. He turned his dark-haired
head toward Ritah. “The way I figger it…” He paused, looked away and then back
to her. “Love is sort of like growing peaches in an orchard. Doesn’t your uncle
have a peach ranch?”
She adjusted her pretty hat
trimmed with white roses and moved the hat pin a little to hold it atop her
head. “Yes. In Colorado. Uncle John inherited it.” Ritah wondered where Joe was
going with his thought. “John grows wonderful tree-ripened peaches, and it’s
the best fruit I’ve ever eaten. It’s so sweet, juicy and wonderful.”
Joe smiled at her, his white even
teeth reflecting the evening sun. “That’s what I think love is like. Some of
the girls I know are like a sour pie cherry. Others are like a plum, sweet but
still a little sour. I’ve gone out with one or two who never laughed, smiled,
and I felt after I got home like I’d been eating green apples. Yet peaches
aren’t as easy to raise as many other fruits. The blossoms are so delicate it
doesn’t take much cool weather to kill them. I think real love is like that, something
special that must be cared for, like a peach.”
Ritah jerked her head up and
blinked at him. “That’s awesome. I’ll have to think on that, and sometime maybe
I can tell you why Edmund is in love.”
“Edmund?”
“That’s his name.”
He grinned. “Interesting.”
Then she realized she’d never
said she was in love. Her smile flashed back at him and the connection they
made with their eyes sent sparks through her.
***
Toward the end of the book Ritah
discovers lots more about love and peach blossoms, and it has to do with the pesky seed.
Hopefully Love’s Delicate Blossom will be published by Dec. 1. The e-book should be out sooner.There have been many delays..
Here’s the summary for Love's Delicate Blossom and the link to Ada Brownell Amazon page, which has links to
the other two books in the series, The
Lady Fugitive and Peach Blossom
Rancher.
Love’s
Delicate Blossom, an historical suspense
By
Ada Brownell
Sequel
to The Lady Fugitive and Peach Blossom Rancher
Edmund Pritchett III wants to marry Ritah Irene O’Casey,
but she says wait. The beautiful redhead is trying to rescue Tulip, a
14-year-old orphan kidnapped by Henry Hunter to work in his brothel, and Ritah
doesn’t have much time. She has a train ticket to go to college and fulfill her
dreams.
Ritah hopes to become a teacher who can help widows keep
their children when tragedy strikes. She also wants to teach mothers how to prevent
dangerous diseases and treat health problems, in an era when few have access to
a doctor. Instead Ritah ends up fighting for the lives of injured soldiers in a
World War I Army health clinic, and finds her own life threatened by illness as
well as sorrow.
But Ritah finds a teaching job in Penokee, Kansas, and there
Joe Nichols, a handsome farmer, edges his way into her heart. But Edmund Pritchett
III isn’t giving up, and neither is Henry Hunter, who is about to open his
brothel.
Will Rita be able to continue to fight for women and
families, understand enduring love, decide on the man she loves, and defend
herself and her students when Henry Hunter bursts into the school shooting a
pistol?
COMMENT
FROM A READER: Your book set a tone and world from your grandmother’s time, the
historical elements are what readers read the genre for.
Amazon Ada Brownell author page: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001KJ2C06
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