I was supposed to post on Monday, and I missed. So I'm posting today. I had so many birthday greetings on Facebook, that I was dealing with them almost all day Monday and Tuesday. I'm glad people like me enough to take the time to wish me a happy birthday.
I was anxious to share the cover for my next book release with the readers of this blog. Here it is:
I'm impressed with the covers the Charisma graphics department did on all my covers. I loved the cover for
Maggie's Journey. Then when
Mary's Blessing came out, I liked that one even better. And now this cover blows them both away.
Catherine’s Pursuit is
book three in McKenna’s Daughters. This series is about the lives of identical
triplet girls, who were born on one of the last wagon trains on the Oregon
Trail. Their mother dies giving birth, and the girls are separated. They don’t
find out they have sisters until near their 18th birthday.
In book three of the
McKenna’s Daughters series, Catherine McKenna begins a journey to find her lost
sisters that turns into a spiritual journey for the entire McKenna family.
When Angus McKenna was
forced to give two of his daughters to families in the wagon train, he promised
he'd never try to contact them. Catherine made no such pledge. But when she
sets out to find her sisters, she doesn't go alone. Angus sends Collin with
her. Will they discover the two women---and love?Show
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Here's the first page:
Chapter 1
September 19, 1885
San Francisco, California
Catherine
Lenora McKenna could hardly believe the long-awaited day was here. Her eighteenth
birthday.
Now she was an
adult, and her father would have to stop hovering over her as if she were a
fragile china doll in one of his stores. She would be free. Holding her hands
above her head like the ballerina in the music box on her bureau, she whirled
in a circle that lifted the hem of her blue taffeta skirt to a scandalous
height. That didn’t matter, because no one was here to catch a glimpse of her
ankles anyway. Not even her personal maid, Julie, who had gone downstairs to
grab Catherine a more substantial breakfast from the kitchen before she fainted
dead away.
Aunt Kirstin
wanted Catherine to eat very light before her party tonight, where a sumptuous
banquet would precede the ball. There would be presents to open as well.
Catherine hoped her father planned a spectacular gift for her birthday ...
maybe to send her on a tour of the Continent. Of course, Aunt Kirstin would
probably accompany her, but at least, she would be able to see more of the
world for herself, not just read about it.
Europe should
be beautiful in the autumn, or in any season of the year. Since both of her
parents were born in Scotland, she wanted to visit there as well as London ...
Paris ... Rome. She had read every book and magazine she could get her hands
on, so she knew so much about Europe. A thrill of anticipation shot through her
whole body. Visions of walking on London Bridge, or along Avenue des Champs
Ellysees, or visiting The Colosseum danced through her head. Pictures she’d
enjoyed studying with their Holmes stereopticon. She wondered if Father would
accompany her or if he would allow Aunt Kirstin to be her only escort ...
besides a few servants, of course.
“Where is Julie
with my food?” Catherine huffed out an exasperated breath. “Am I going to have
to go the kitchen myself?”
She thrust open
the door and hurried down the hallway, the sound of her footsteps lost in the
thick cushioning of the carpet. At the top of the front stairs, she stopped to
see if she could figure out where her Aunt Kirstin was before she sneaked down
the backstairs.
Peering over
the balcony railing, she caught a glimpse of her aunt’s face through the
partially opened door to the library. Her brows were knit together into a frown
as she stared at someone in the room with her. Catherine had never seen such a
fierce expression on her aunt’s face.
Catherine's Pursuit will release on February 5.
When you're trying to decide whether to buy a book, what is the deciding factor? The cover? The back cover copy? The first page? Or something else?
