TO TREASURE AN HEIRESS - Roseanna M White - One Free Book

Welcome back, Roseanna. What are some of the spiritual themes you like to write about? Themes of redemption always seem to find their way into my stories. In To Treasure an Heiress, my heroine also has to learn to let go of what she deemed “hers” and give it not only to God, but to her family.

What other books of yours are coming out soon? In May I have a 1920s-Chicago book coming out, called Shadowed Loyalty. It’s about a Mafia boss’s daughter, who learns the high cost of the life her family has chosen—but also learns to see God’s hand in the midst of the darkest of shadows as she struggles with how to love people who make such terrifying decisions. Then in September, the Secrets of the Isles series will wrap up with book 3, Worthy of Legend.

If you could spend an evening with one contemporary person (not a family member of yours), who would it be and why? I think I’d go with Bob Goff—not only does he write amazing non-fiction books that revolutionized how I view the intersection of my faith in God with my love for my neighbor, but his stories also convinced me that he’d be my favorite sort of company—the kind that combines the hilarious with the profound.

What historical person would you like to meet (besides Jesus) and why? Admiral Blinker Hall, the Director of the British Intelligence Division for the Admiralty during the First World War. I learned all about him for my Codebreakers series, and he was not only brilliant, but had an astounding knack for reading people, knowing their strengths and weaknesses, and then fitting together people with roles that would suit them all. I’d love to pick his brain…and see what he’d see in me!

How can you encourage authors who have been receiving only rejections from publishers? I always give two bits of advice here. The first is totally stolen from a post my best friend, Stephanie Morrill, wrote on Go Teen Writers many years ago: respect the dream. If you love this, crave it, have a passion for it, then you have to be willing to put in the time and effort. No one expects a person to become a doctor or an engineer without both years of education and a lot of practice. Why do we expect then to finish our first manuscript one day and have it published a month later? As with all things worthwhile, this path takes time, focus, and dedication.

The second piece of advice is this: no one else’s path is your path. It’s so easy to compare ourselves to other writers, but it’s hard to claw your way out of that trap once you fall into it! Know that each step on your journey is designed by God to be what YOU need to turn YOU into the writer that HE wants you to be.

Tell us about the featured book. To Treasure an Heiress follows the adventurous Beth Tremayne on a continued hunt for pirate treasure, though a not-so-savory antiquities hound is after the same claim. Unfortunately, her truest ally turns out to be Lord Sheridan, a man she is quite determined to find obnoxious because he indirectly started this whole antiquities feud with the aforementioned antiquities hound. Sheridan is a quirky, rather hilarious hero who spends the whole book trying to come up with ways to convince Beth to give him a chance…and, of course, unravel the mystery of the pirate prince whose treasure he’d determined to find.

Please give us the first page of the book.

Prologue

7 May 1650

Tresco, Isles of Scilly

Prince . . . or pirate? Rupert felt like neither as he stood on the bluff, the sea

beckoning him, the wind whirling about him, and the most beautiful woman

in all the world pressed against his chest, her cheeks damp with tears. He

hadn’t expected this when he came to the Isles of Scilly after being exiled

from England for his service to the Crown. He’d expected brothers-in-arms.

Compatriots. Soldiers.

“Briallen.” Her name whispered from his lips like a blessing, just as she

had whispered into his life, into his heart. Only an island lass—that’s what

society would say, were it here to say it. And his family . . . He could only

imagine what his family would think of her. His father, German prince

Frederick V. His mother, daughter of James VI of Scotland and I of England.

They would look on his precious primrose and see only a thorny vine trying

to ensnare him.

She was anything but that. She was his wings. She was his soul. She

was his heart. The only person in all his one and thirty years to make him

crave home and hearth above the next battle, the next adventure. The only

person in all his one and thirty years to make him think it mattered not

whether he ever had a palace or an estate or a relative on a throne—that he

would live on this bare rock of an island all his days, no luxuries beyond his

next breath if he could live there with her.

He pressed a kiss to the lips he had memorized with his own. “I love

you.”

“And I you.” Her fingers smoothed back a lock of his hair that the wind

had torn free, her gaze following its path as she tucked it back into the

binding at the nape of his neck. Her lips pressed tight together.

She wouldn’t ask him to stay, he knew she wouldn’t. But she must be

thinking it, even as he was.

His own glance darted to the shore, the water, his ship at the ready there

in deeper waters, a rowboat waiting to take him to it. They must sail, and

soon. Mucknell had already bidden farewell to his own wife, and neither the

tide nor the pirate admiral would wait for any man—even if that man was a

prince. “I could stay. What do the courts of Portugal or the waters of the

Caribbean have that Tresco does not?”

Briallen breathed a laugh and rested her head against his chest. “Wealth

and treasure and enemies of the Crown for you to rout, that’s what.”

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