IN SEARCH OF FOREVER - Patricia Lee - One Free Book

Welcome back. Patricia. God has really been moving in your writing life. What do you see on the horizon? God has indeed blessed my writing, beyond what I ever dreamed could happen. I’m older now and don’t know how many stories may be left to write. I could stop writing now and be completely satisfied.  But God will decide that for me.

Tell us a little about your family. I’m married to my husband of 48 years this July. We reared two children—a son who is almost 40 and working as an aid to those with disabilities.  My daughter is an artist.  Her medium is colored pencil and her subjects are critters of all kinds.

Has your writing changed your reading habits? If so, how? I read a lot of Christian fiction. Reading helps to hone my own writing skills.  Studying how someone else wrote a scene helps me improve my own scenes.  There’s something about absorbing someone else’s prose that lends strength to my own.  A writer who doesn’t read is a writer who doesn’t publish.

What are you working on right now? I have a women’s fiction tale set on a fictitious island in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia.  This story involves blackmail, conflict between heirs, and a child in danger.

What outside interests do you have? I scrapbook, play piano, bird watch, and love flowers.

How do you choose your settings for each book? The setting is usually dictated by the storyline. One of my books was about wild horses so I had to have the characters live in a region where horses could roam. Another book involved commercial fishermen where they were stuck in Dutch Harbor Alaska.

If you could spend an evening with one historical person, who would it be and why? I’d like to spend time with Mary, mother of Jesus. When I think of her and the courage it must have taken to rear Jesus, watch him die, and go on living after the crucifixion, I stand in awe of her.

What is the one thing you wish you had known before you started writing novels?        Marketing my books has taken me by surprise. That’s is a third career in itself. I’m not good at it and it claims a lot of time.

What new lessons is the Lord teaching you right now?

I’m having some severe mobility issues, and I’m learning how to trust the Lord for each day.

What are the three best things you can tell other authors to do to be successful?

            *Never, never, never give up.

            *Pray before every writing session. Let God direct your writing. Don’t miss a day.

            *Involve yourself with other writers. Draw from their strength.

Tell us about the featured book. This story takes readers back to where the Mueller Rescue Ranch began. Jayden Clarke, the foster child in the original story Love Calls Her Home is now grown and returned from a tour in Afghanistan. He’s been wounded and has not fulfilled his dream of following in his father’s footsteps, so he is disillusioned and unsure of his future. His high school best friend Baylie Summers is waiting for his return, her own recent past full of regrets. 

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Can they bridge the long gap in their friendship?

Growing up Jayden Clarke dreamed of becoming a Marine like his late father, who was killed in Afghanistan when Jayden was nine. His foster dad, Kurt, was also a decorated soldier. But his own encounter with a narrowly missed IED in Afghanistan leaves Jayden wounded and honorably discharged. He returns home defeated, his dream destroyed, not certain what his future will hold. Who will he become now? Is there anyone he can turn to?

Baylie Summers, two years out of college, has returned to the Mueller Rescue ranch where her best friend Jayden Clarke once lived as a foster teen. She hasn’t seen him since they graduated six years ago but she’s thrilled when she lands the job as the ranch’s fundraising newsletter writer.  Seeking refuge from the storms of life, Baylie waits for Jayden to return home, hoping he’ll have wisdom to help her recover from past incidents she wants to forget. Once a foster child herself, she fears Jayden might not like the woman she’s become. Will telling her secret make her lose Jayden forever?

Please give us the first page of the book.

CHAPTER ONE

“Stay low, Private.” Jayden Clarke rolled the injured man into a rocky outcropping along the side of the Jalalabad-Kabul road and patted his shoulder. “I’m going back up.”

“No, Clarke!” The man rasped. “You’ll be a target.”

Jayden ignored his plea and turned away, crawling toward the burning Humvee in which he and four others had been riding only moments before. One wheel caught only a minor shock of an IED blast, but the vehicle had overturned, throwing them out. Enemy fire pelted the air above causing debris to churn like a sand storm. His courage waned the closer he got. An image of his hero dad flashed before his eyes. Had Dad braved a hailstorm of bullets like this when he was pinned down by enemy fire? Did he feel death coming at him? Did he persist in spite of it all? Jayden swallowed.

I will make you proud.

He dismissed the images and focused on his target. Were any more men stranded beneath the vehicle’s overturned frame? Dust choked the air, making him wheeze. He slithered on his belly toward the wreckage, squinting through the cloud of smoke.
Steadying himself on one knee, he scanned the area for other survivors. Seeing no one he turned to go back the way he came. Before he could clear the pavement, another deafening blast rocked the ground. The Humvee rolled to its back in the force of this new explosion, catching Jayden’s right leg beneath its front tire. He screamed, the weight of the vehicle against his thigh pinning him to the ground. Pain raced up his calf, knee throbbing.

He tried to see through the haze, his safety glasses askew on his nose, but countless fragments flew from the cloud of smoke and blinded him. Shapes danced like images in a fun house mirror, grotesque figures that laughed from the reflection. In a last effort to make sense of what he saw he squinted, collapsing as everything around him dissolved to shades of gray.

How can readers find you on the Internet?

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Thanks, Patricia, for sharing In Search of Forever with my blog readers.

Readers, here’s a link to the book.

https://www.amazon.com/Search-Forever-Mended-Hearts/dp/1953957307/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1686403891&sr=1-1

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THE SISTER'S PLIGHT - Patricia Lee - One Free Book

 

Welcome, Patricia. Why do you write the kind of books you do? My author website tagline is “Broken people in search of an unbroken God.” So many people in today’s world are walking around with broken hearts and dreams, desperate to find answers to the challenges they face. In my stories my characters often embody that pain and I try to a write compassionate tale where the characters , with God’s help, work through their problems. At each story’s end, the hurting  character has found solutions that will help them move on with their lives.

Besides when you came to know the Lord, what is the happiest day in your life? I came to motherhood late. My husband and I had married, both had jobs, and struggled to establish a foothold with an unstable economy. But one day, after nine years of marriage, we looked at each other and said we needed to add a child to our family. God didn’t waste time. Two weeks later I was expecting our son and the day he was born both my husband and I were in awe of what we had done. In the delivery room, my husband said, “It’s a baby!” As if we had expected something else. We still laugh at that. 

How has being published changed your life? Once a publisher discovers you and offers a contract, your life is suddenly thrown into a tailspin as you meet deadline after deadline. When writing that first book you have a lot of time to write as you are inspired. Then along comes the contract. I found myself editing the first book, writing the second book, and trying to keep track of ideas for the third book. No more leisurely afternoons playing with words and testing sentences. And let’s not even talk about the manuscript edits that fall in there somewhere. But for all its pitfalls I can say being published is a wonderful experience. I’ve discovered my readers are amazing people.

What are you reading right now? I recently completed All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriott. I had never read the book but PBS aired a season of the story earlier this year.  Wonderful—both the book and the series.

What is your current work in progress? This is a first for me. My original publisher asked me to write on speculation a fifth book in my first series. The story will re-introduce Jayden, the foster boy who filled the pages of my third book, Love Calls Her Home, as a grown man returning from Afghanistan. If accepted The Mended Hearts series will have five books. I’ve never been asked by a publisher to write a book. So I’m pretty thrilled. As with any proposed story, there’s always the chance of being turned down.

I’ve only had that happen once, too. What would be your dream vacation? I would like to spend a week in Baja, California. I’ve heard it is beautiful there. The thought of relaxing on a beach sounds like the vacation for me.

I’ve wanted to go there, too. How do you do you choose your settings for each book? The plot of the story usually determines the setting. For instance the characters of my first book were fishermen who worked for the government. The setting had to be a coastal setting. The third book dealt with wild horses. Needed to put them in a high desert where they could roam free. This newest book follows the prairie crossing of a wagon train in the 1850s. Not much chance of doing that without a prairie, dust, wild buffalo, and natives.

If you could spend an evening with one person who is currently alive, who would it be and why? I have come to admire Melania Trump. In the face of a most brutal press and a damning public she has held her head high and carried out her task with the dignity of a queen. She didn’t ask for the role of first lady when she first emigrated to the United States. That position was thrust upon her by the ambitions of her husband. She assumed the responsibility with grace. We could learn a lot about the power of a dignified woman from her.

It’s a shame that so many in the country didn’t give her the respect a First Lady deserves. What are your hobbies, besides writing and reading? I love to grow flowers. For years my husband and I maintained a large dahlia garden at the back of our property. We built a patio entertainment area at the back of our home and filled the nooks and crannies with pots of flowers. My husband likes succulents and I prefer the blooming annuals. So we grow a bit of each.

I like both, too. What is your most difficult writing obstacle, and how do you overcome it? The stare of a blank page is one of the most mind numbing obstacles for any writer. When I sit down at the computer, hoping to write delightful prose and make my word count for the day, I often find the wide white screen an immovable obstacle. I’ve been told by others to sit and write whatever comes to mind. Get the creative juices flowing. That is good advice. But my most effective tool is opening the word of God and reading for a few minutes. There’s nothing more powerful to stimulate the mind than an uplifting passage of Scripture.

Yes. That and praying. What advice would you give to a beginning author? Don’t let  rejection stop you. Publishers look for a work that will represent their line of stories. Yours may not fit their line-up. The rejection is not a statement on your ability.

By the same token don’t be so in love with your work that you can’t learn and grow from an editor’s assessment of your story. Writers who succeed learn to stretch and grow from each exercise, and that includes rewrite.

Always keep writing. Never stop.

Tell us about the featured book. The Sister’s Plight is the second and final book in the Call of the Frontier series, a story I’ve always wanted to write. The tale traces the journey of my great-great-great grandfather who crossed the prairies in 1847 seeking free land in the Oregon territory. He homesteaded for four years before returning to Iowa to claim his bride and bring her across the plains. The first time he came by horseback. The second time he led a wagon train which included his new wife, three brothers, and his wife’s family.

The story is told in dual time and follows not only the historical thread, but features a contemporary young woman who follows the path of the wagon train seeking answers to the long lost love of her great uncle. What she finds is her own love story.

From the back cover:

Will a pair of long lost treasures recovered a continent apart pave the way for two eager hearts to find each other?

 Realtor Blake Bergstrom stumbles upon an ancient barn while checking fences along a deserted property. A cursory inspection reveals a prairie schooner stored at the building’s back. He climbs into the wagon and discovers a rusted lockbox. Secreted within is a water color portrait of a young man. Whose picture could this be and why is it here?

When her mother needs her to check an abandoned cabin before the plantation where it sits is sold, Emberly Chastain uncovers her great-great-great Uncle Fred’s Bible and takes it with her. Tucked inside is a watercolor portrait of a young woman Emberly can’t place. Her uncle never married. Who can she be?

Curiosity sets Emberly on a quest to solve the mystery, a journey that will take her across the continent following a long ago wagon train. Will what she finds help her own heart mend and open the door to a new love?

First page of the book:

Intrigued by what appeared to be the outer shell of a ramshackle barn, Blake Bergstrom squeezed through a hole left vacant by a sagging door. The remnants of its hinge had pulled loose from the casing, exposing the narrow gap. The droop of the fascia board along the roofline and the list of the corners at strange angles darkened the interior, hindering visibility. Wary of the building’s safety, he stumbled forward. A shaft of light penetrated the roof, providing an eerie glow in the center of the space—enough intensity to cast unidentifiable shadows around the perimeter.  He blinked, trying to force his eyes to adjust to the dim core. Odors of mold and decaying matter offended his nose. He held his breath. One good sneeze might send the old barn crashing to the ground.

He hadn’t expected to find a building on this isolated acreage his realtor father asked him to explore. But here on the outside corner, buried in a stand of firs, he’d come upon the concealed walls of a long forgotten dwelling. Moss disguised the roof in copious shades of green. Overgrown saplings surrounded the crumbling walls. The front and sides were iffy at best. Only the back wall stood upright on its foundation.

Wonder what this once was.

He crept further into the dusky interior, noting what must have been a row of stalls on one side. Three ten-foot uprights, probably the straightest supports in the place, held the main beam running across the ceiling. At the end, a spacious area filled with a mountain of hay stood open to a loft above. The wind sailed through, delivering more hay on its journey from the upper floor. On the opposite wall ancient hand tools hung in rusted silence. An assortment of leather harnesses and headstalls, their bits intact, covered the remaining corner. Cobwebs filled the spaces where an animal’s head or shoulder might once have been.

Was this a livery?

He picked up a pitchfork stuck in the mound and rustled through the hay. Dust as thick as a cloud of locusts kicked up, making him cough. He thrust the handle of the tool back into the silage so it would stand, startled when the tines connected with something solid behind the mound. Careful not to disturb the hay to avoid another invasion of dust, he pulled the debris aside and squinted to see beyond. Wood mixed with metal emerged with each sweep of his hand. As he worked, a door became visible. A separate room, perhaps? To the door’s left a set of rungs led skyward up the wall. 

He reached for the leather handle and pulled. The opening widened a few inches, but the hay blocked movement further. As he continued removing the hay, the door swung toward him and he peered into the dim interior. A covered wagon stood inside. Why was this here?

The canvas top still stretched over the wooden bows that arched across the wagon. Blake noticed a few holes in the fabric, but if he considered how old the transport must be the condition of the covering amazed him. Missing a spoke here and there, the wheels showed signs of rot and rust. The frame, though, appeared rock solid.

Blake pulled his cell phone from his pocket to see if he had service out here. Only one band of wifi popped up. Not much, but enough for his needs. He ran an internet search for a more elaborate description of the conveyance. Images rolled up and as he scrolled through them, he found one that duplicated the wagon in front of him.  A prairie schooner—used by the wealthier settlers crossing the plains in the 1800s. Who had left it here?

A note from the author:

My publisher will make The Descendant's Daughter free for download July 1-5 as a complementary kickoff to the release of The Sister's Plight. https://amzn.to/3hbWVL5

Ways to connect with me:

Facebook  @patricialeebooks

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Thank you, Patricia, for sharing this book with my blog readers and me. I’m eager to read it.

Readers, here is a link to the book.

https://amzn.to/2SZMMZz - Kindle Preorder

A print copy will be available later.

Leave a comment for a chance to win a free copy of the book. You must follow these instructions to be in the drawing. Please tell us where you live, at least the state or territory or country if outside North America. (Comments containing links may be subject to removal by blog owner.)

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THE DESCENDANT'S DAUGHTER - Patricia Lee - One Free Book

Welcome back, Patricia. Tell us how much of yourself you write into your characters. My characters are taken from personalities of people I know. For this release, The Descendant’s Daughter, my characters are based on real people who lived more than two hundred years ago. I imagined how my family ancestors might have lived and what their lives may have been like. Though my family history is rich with tales of adventure and amazing incidents, the individual day-to-day living components were missing. I researched what life might have been like in their time period, historical events that may have affected them, and how they may have reacted to their surroundings. My great-great-great-grandmother lived where runaway slaves arrived in increasing numbers and slave hunters came behind them. There’s no indication she played a role in that, but as she was the daughter of a Puritan minister I can’t imagine her not having some exposure. So I added that element to the story. Fiction allows that.

What is the quirkiest thing you have ever done? Early in our marriage, my husband and I decided to spend the summer tent camping around our state. One weekend we wound up at Crater Lake National Park. The first night we camped at a state campground where a park ranger explained all the ins and outs of staying safe in that area. Keep your tent closed. Hang your food from a tree limb. Don’t run if confronted by a bear. That sort of thing.

The second night we stopped at an off-the-road site with a fire pit and little else. We cooked our dinner and popped Jiffy-Pop corn over the flames. We took a box of crackers with us into the tent to snack on by flashlight. In the middle of the night, a storm woke us and we heard the noise of an animal rooting around outside. We immediately thought bears since we’d been conditioned to watch for them the night before.

We didn’t know what to do. We had the crackers which we knew the animal could probably smell. We were ready to toss the crackers and run for our car when a lightning flash revealed the shadows of three deer. The next morning we discovered the jiffy-pop container licked clean and deer scat on the ground. Forty years later, we’re still laughing at how frightened we were of an imagined bear sighting.

When did you first discover that you were a writer? Actually it was the encouragement of a first grade teacher that planted the seed in me to pursue writing. She thought my simple twenty-five word paragraph was remarkable for a child my age. Since then I’ve always written something—but not everything was worth reading.

Tell us the range of the kinds of books you enjoy reading. I love to read contemporary fiction as well as historical tales and biblical fiction. I’m a fan of Deb Raney, Melanie Campbell, Camille Eide and Lauraine Snelling. I love historical stories by Laura Frantz, Elizabeth Camden, Lynn Austin, Karen Barnett, and Sarah Sundin. These authors write a wide range of novels. I enjoy being transported to another time and place through the means of story. My most recently read novel is Waves of Mercy by Lynn Austin.

How do you keep your sanity in our run, run, run world? Last year, 2020, was a difficult year for all of us. Staying ahead of the virus, keeping hopeful in the wake of endless isolation, and continuing to pursue my writing efforts became a venture in faith. I’m sure I’m not alone when I say I often found myself on the edge of despair, fighting to keep my spirits up. My creative muse slowed to a standstill several times, but the time I spent in Bible study and prayer kept me going. Our Lord is an ever present help in times of trouble.

Yes, He is. How do you choose your characters’ names? For this release I used the family names of the historical characters. These were real people and much of what I tell is based on the lives they lived. For the contemporary characters, I chose names based on their personalities, trying to mirror the players in the historical section of the book. Halle is a family name. Garrett sounds like a name from the past. Cornelius and Sephronia speak for themselves.

What is the accomplishment that you are most proud of? My husband and I have been married 46 years this July. In this world of throwaway relationships, I consider that an achievement. We’ve had many challenges thrown at us and we survived the storm.

I understand that. James and I will celebrate our 56^th anniversary in November. If you were an animal, which one would you be, and why? Cats have it made. They sleep when they want, get their food served to them, and pick and choose who or what will entertain them at any given moment. A king on his throne     couldn’t have it any better.

What is your favorite food? Dutch Brothers makes a blended iced coffee drink that I never refuse. I’ll order one of those before I even consider ice cream, cake, or garlic beef enchiladas. And that is saying something.

I love enchiladas, almost any kind, but I’ve never had them with garlic. I need to try that. What is the problem with writing that was your greatest roadblock, and how did you overcome it? Research often takes me down rabbit trails which may be interesting, but they can be of very little merit to the story I’m trying to tell. I have to focus on the direction of the novel and discard a lot of information I cannot use. When I find I’ve strayed off the beaten path I make the painful decision to cut and discard to put the story back on track.

Tell us about the featured book. The Descendant’s Daughter is a timeslip novel based on a true family story. I’d heard the tales of my great-great-great-grandfather while I was growing up but it wasn’t until I reached adulthood that I realized what a great accomplishment it was to cross the prairie three times to homestead in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. He must have been quite a rugged individual to ride a horse from Ohio to Oregon and back and then cross one more time to bring his bride to her new home.

In this story I imagine a twenty-first century heroine who is a descendant of his. But her story is one of surprise when she learns who she is. Here’s a sample of what to expect:

Halle Jayne Murphy can’t imagine change.

She loves her career. She shares an apartment with her best friend. She’s happy.

She has lived an idyllic life in San Francisco growing up as the only child of Maisie and Fred Murphy. A graduate in architecture of the Art Institute, Halle works for one of the city’s historic home tours, a job that suits her.

But one Sunday while she’s working, her mother slips at church and falls, the head injury claiming her life. At the memorial service, the pastor presents an envelope of documents that he says will rock Halle’s world. Now officially an orphan, everything Halle believed about herself will soon prove to be false. Will she accept the challenge?

Garrett James has studied the life and adventures of his great-great-grandfather Cornelius Joel Hills, tracing his westward migration from Cortland, New York, to Oregon’s Willamette Valley in 1847. Garrett has searched for clues that will lead him to a lost bag of gold Cornelius buried but never reclaimed. Garrett believes the answers lie in the old family mansion no one seems to want. He decides to let himself into the house with a hammer and nails, only to discover the long lost owner has finally arrived.

Will this pixie of a girl allow him to look for answers or has he stumbled upon a greater treasure?

Please give us the first page of the book.

The candles flickered in the drafty chapel as bits of light danced on the brass trappings of the coffin waiting at the front. Detailed insets of painted carnations adorned the casket, cheery flowers in hues of champagne, cotton candy, and peppermint taffy—colors indicative of the dynamic woman who had chosen this for her home going. The pink embossed steel container seemed more fitting for a praise service, as if death had not visited this room.

But it had, and the contradiction mystified Halle Jayne Murphy. She sat alone on the family pew, sorrow contained behind huge gulps of air and empty swallows, her late mother the one she mourned. A packet of papers lay on the pew beside her, their contents unknown. Pastor said he’d be back to explain. She didn’t want to know.

As her roommate, Piper Flanagan, and other mourners passed by and exited the memorial service, they glanced sideways at her with nods and sympathetic smiles. Piper cast an upraised eyebrow her direction, as if to ask, “You okay?”

 Halle shrugged and Piper moved on through the line. Halle would catch up with her later. Though the memorial service for Maisie Elaine Murphy had ended, Halle’s grief had only begun.

Shock, disbelief, and despair still warred inside her since her mother’s accidental death last Sunday. How could one so full of life suddenly be gone, slipping on a wet step and tumbling to the concrete sidewalk at church? The cement stair rail stopped her freefall, but not before her head smashed the immovable post. By the time the paramedics arrived, the massive hematoma inside her skull had claimed the life for which the rest of her body fought.

Halle had been working Sunday, her job as a docent in San Francisco’s lineup of museum tours keeping her away from church more often than her mother liked. Leaving Mom to attend church alone after Dad died always riddled her with guilt. Mom would have welcomed her company, the two remaining Murphys facing the world together. But as the newest docent, Halle often pulled the short straw, the Sunday shift falling to her. Mom understood her absence. The jaws of a job had held her captive, but the truth didn’t soften the hurt of her loss nor lessen her feelings of guilt. Returning to church services now would remind her of what she’d never had time to solidify—a relationship with her mother as a widow. The untimely death left a gaping hole where Halle’s faith used to reside. She doubted she’d ever take a step inside a place of worship again.

Interesting. How can readers find you on the Internet? 

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Thank you, Patricia, for sharing this new book with my blog readers and me. I’m eager to read my copy, which arrived a few days ago.

Readers, here are links to the book.

https://amzn.to/39JdACF

https://amzn.to/3cRc5En

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