Disarming the Wildest Warrior
1725,
Williamsburg.
No more English tea parties with her
father’s medical colleagues for Gilda
Griffiths. She left those behind for the open Virginia plains and plans to
leave the East Coast too before a violent figure from her past catches up with
her. When Williamsburg bully, Emmett
Lawson assaults an elderly Shawnee chief however Gilda feels compelled to
use her medical background to nurse him, despite the vocal protests of his
embittered yet devastatingly handsome son.
Blue
Sky knows his destiny is written in blood. If his
father dies it will fall to him to keep the Shawnee people alive and safe from
the cruelty of the white settlers who slaughtered his mother. Nothing can
distract him from his duty until Gilda hustles her way into his life. How can
this woman penetrate the armour he spent so long constructing with a single
glance? And why is he tortured by thoughts of making her his?
While Gilda and Blue Sky grapple with their
forbidden attraction, the dark threat Gilda fears most moves ever closer across
the Atlantic. Can Gilda and Blue Sky put their pasts behind them and ride
together towards a future neither of them believed could be theirs?
10% of all profits from this book will be
donated to the Native American Heritage Association on an annual basis.
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Author Q&A
1. What is the first book that made you cry?
It
was probably The Lion the Witch and the
Wardrobe. There's that really gut-punching chapter where Aslan is shaved of
all his fur and sacrificed. I loved animals from a young age and the idea of a
creature being treated like that (I didn't really get the Christian analogy
back then) had me crying on and off for days afterwards. If I remember the
insane sense of relief that washed over me when I realised Aslan wasn't really
gone. Crikey, I'm tearing up now just thinking about it!
2. How long, on average, does it take you to write a book?
A
novel usually takes five months. A novella can be written in two. It's just
basic maths really. If you write 15oo words 5 days a week that's 75000 words in
five months or 30,000 words in two.
3. How do you select the names of your characters?
I
like to research the meaning of a name. So I'll look for names that are a fit
for that character's personality or can be used in an ironic sense. Sometimes,
they literally just come to you and you know they sound good. Have some kind of
musicality to them. But that's quite a rare gift after you've been writing for
a while so usually it's about research.
4. What creature do you consider your "spirit animal" to be?
Ladybirds
follow me everywhere. And have for as long as I can remember. They show up in
the most unexpected and unlikely places. So I think I'd offend the ladybird
community if I didn't pick them.
5. What are your top 5 favorite movies?
You
know, I could pick lots of really obvious choices, like who doesn't adore
watching Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future? or Harrison Ford as Indiana
Jones? But I'm taking all those classics as a given. And this is my
less-obvious list:
1. Grease 2 (yes, you read that right, the '2' is not a
typo). 2. Die Hard. 3. Romancing the Stone 4. Empire Records 5. 13 Going on 30.
6. If you were the last person on Earth, what would you do?
Travel
in search of the other 'last people on earth'. I'd never truly believe that on
a planet this size I could be alone. And even if I was, the hope that I wasn't,
and might find someone who believed themselves to be alone and be able to comfort
them, would keep me alive.
7. What fictional character would you want to be friends with in real
life?
The Dread Pirate Roberts from The Princess Bride.
8. Do you have any advice for aspiring writers?
Don't
put pressure on yourself to create something of artistic brilliance - especially on a first draft. Just trust
yourself, write and see what comes out of the pen. The editing process can work
wonders with something even half-decent. I do have a whole book about how to
become a published writer. It's available free, here: https://payhip.com/b/94wX
9. What book do you wish you had written?
The
Princess Bride by William Goldman. It's my favourite.
10. If you could live in any time period, what would it be and why?
It's
difficult to answer that because so many people had a terrible time of it in
the past and witnessing discrimination and persecution is not something any of
us would wish for. But if I were to focus only on the positives of an era, I'd
probably choose to travel to the interwar period so 1920 - 1938. I feel like we
hear a lot less about that time because of the, understandable, onus on 20th
Century conflicts. And every inch of the earth's surface has yet to be mapped
so there's still room for a bit of adventure.
10. What is your favorite genre to read?
Historical
Romance. I just love all that old-fashioned romance and high adventure.
Author
Bio –
Helen Cox is a Yorkshire-born novelist and
poet. After completing her MA in creative writing at the University of York St.
John Helen wrote for a range of publications, edited her own independent film
magazine for five years and penned three non-fiction books. Her first two
novels were published by HarperCollins in 2016. She currently lives by the sea
in Sunderland where she writes poetry, romance novellas, and The Kitt Hartley
series alongside hosting The Poetrygram podcast.
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