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Beth Dodd has made a promise to help “Lulu”, a
young prostitute at the Blue Feather, keep her baby if she decides to leave the
whorehouse and become a respectable woman. But Beth hadn’t counted on the
obstacles she and the new mother will face from society in the mining town of
Lundy. From the obstinate landlady, Mrs. Ford, to her intractable German boss,
Gus Herschel, Beth must fight for the woman she’s promised to help. But Beth
Dodd never gives in, and she keeps her word with a stubbornness that Lundy folks
are not accustomed to seeing from a woman.
Once Lulu, now known as the more respectable Louisa Parmley, starts working for Gus in his kitchen, she proves that Beth was right to take a chance on her. She has every intention of making a good life for her new daughter. But can she also hope to find happiness with Gus? And will Gus be able to accept her and baby Sophie Ann as his? Love was never in the cards for Gus, but Louisa dreams of happiness with the stoic man, and Beth is determined to bring them together through HER INDEPENDENT SPIRIT.
Once Lulu, now known as the more respectable Louisa Parmley, starts working for Gus in his kitchen, she proves that Beth was right to take a chance on her. She has every intention of making a good life for her new daughter. But can she also hope to find happiness with Gus? And will Gus be able to accept her and baby Sophie Ann as his? Love was never in the cards for Gus, but Louisa dreams of happiness with the stoic man, and Beth is determined to bring them together through HER INDEPENDENT SPIRIT.
Excerpt
#1:
Albert,
the muscle Miss Flora hired to enforce order in the brothel entered the room
holding what appeared to be a small folded bundle of flannel. “Miss Lulu, this
is for your baby.”
“Who
would bring the baby a gift? Not that many people know me let alone know I have
a baby.”
Bewildered,
Lulu reached for one edge of the fabric and shook it free of its folds. One
side was solid white flannel. The other side had a checkerboard patchwork
design of striped blue blocks and red flannel blocks alternating with white
flannel blocks. It was a quilt with a thin fabric center instead of heavier
cotton filling. It was not the most artfully designed quilt Lulu had ever seen,
but the corners of the squares matched up and the stitches that held all the
layers together were neat and even.
“It
was the midwife. She said no matter what, baby Sophie Ann needs a blanket.”
“The
midwife! She brought the baby a blanket?”
Lulu
recalled the woman, Jim Dodd’s widow, not much older than she was, who had come
to help with the birth of Sophie Ann. That day she had offered to help Lulu get
work as a cook so she could keep Sophie Ann but only if Lulu gave up being a
prostitute and be the one to walk away from the Blue Feather. Had she said that
just to be nice, or had she meant what she said?
“Oh, Albert! Where is she? I need to talk to
her.”
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Zina Abbott is the pen name used by Robyn
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Thank you, Elaine, for hosting a blog post for HER INDEPENDENT SPIRIT blitz. Unfortunately, the link I gave for the Facebook event is wrong--it leads to the FB group sponsoring the event. The Sweet Clean Romance Event link is https://www.facebook.com/events/1076390125732383/
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