BLURB:
In
the depths of the Great Depression, Ellie suffers another crash—that of her
marriage. She’s left struggling to restore her shattered life, feeling as
damaged as the stained-glass panels she refurbishes for Chicago’s historic
structures. While visiting her aunt in Marietta, Ohio, a charming river town,
Ellie encounters towboat captain Wyatt and feels a searing attraction to him.
But thanks to past and subsequent wounds, her attempts at opening herself to
love seem futile. Her hope for love and her determination to find the place she
belongs are further complicated by her tendency to make impulsive decisions. In
her journey, Ellie draws on an unrealized level of courage and learns she must
identify her brightest passions in charting her course.
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Excerpt
Once the world creaked back to a tentative rotation and time
again began ticking away, Ellie salvaged the remnants of herself and hobbled to
her feet. She shoved her hair from her face and brushed away the bits of grass
pasted to her arms. How long had she lain there, on this deserted patch of
ground? Long enough for the world to have revolved away from the sun. Long
enough, apparently, for Earth’s gravity to pull the life from her, because the
only thing she felt or thought or knew was the faint echo of a crippled
heartbeat.
Ellie hugged her arms and looked to the darkening sky. She’d
fallen asleep, obviously, but for all this time? Even amid all the darkness,
the stars still twinkled. Damned stars. She’d taken Aunt Lillian’s little fable
about finding one’s place according to where their three stars crossed too
seriously. It had been intended simply as inspiration. Wyatt was gone, so he
obviously hadn’t been some fairytale second star. And she never had figured out
what her would-be third star was.
Time to get her heart out of the stars and her head out of
her behind. She’d been selfish. What about all the other people suffering in
the wake of the devastating flood? What about all those who had it much worse
than she during this never-ending Depression? Those were the people she needed
to look to the stars for, not her own self-serving wants, so she closed her
eyes and made a wish for everyone but herself.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Dottie
scratched out her first fiction as a little kid transfixed by the books she
read all those lazy summer days on the front porch swing. Two of her short
stories have been published in The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park’s
literary journal, Hemingway Shorts, having placed among the top ten entries in
its annual short story contests.
Where
the Stars Cross, Dottie’s first novel, is available for purchase at:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Where-Stars-Cross-Dottie-Sines/dp/1509257373/ref=sr_1_1
(where it’s on the Hot New Releases list for 20th century historical romance!)
Website:
https://www.dottiesines.com/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555443236996
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/dottie_sines_author/
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3 comments:
Thank you so much for featuring WHERE THE STARS CROSS today.
This looks like a very enjoyable read. Thanks for sharing.
What an awesome sounding book.
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