Keeper of My Dreams by Susan Leigh Furlong | $20 Giveaway & Spotlight Tour
A book blog tour from Goddess Fish Promotions.
Thank you to the author, publisher, and Marianne & Judy at Goddess Fish for providing me with the information for this tour.
Book Details
Keeper of My Dreams by Susan Leigh Furlong Published by Wild Rose Press on 09/06/2021
Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, Scottish Historical Fiction
Format: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 278
Reid Haliburton, a skilled gunsmith, resolves to keep his revolutionary handgun away from those who would abuse its power. But a vicious pirate decides the gun will be his.
The price of refusing is Reid's life and those of his three young sons. Reid's only chance to save his sons is to send them away and face the pirate's wrath alone.
Widowed Leena Cullane Adair is stunned to find the three lads hiding in her cart. Although she only met their father a week ago, he has wakened her interest in life and love. He holds her heart and her dreams, and she will do whatever it takes to keep him and his sons alive.
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Excerpt from Keeper of My Dreams
With the gentleness of a great healer, Leena washed away the blood, applied salve, and wrapped both hands with strips of cloth torn from the checkered material she’d bought for the tablecloths for Marta, the cook. When she finished, he held up his red and white covered hands.
“I’m sorry you had to waste the cloth on me,” he said.
“Marta will understand. Do they pain ye much?”
“Nay,” he lied.
“Ye were verra brave when we lowered ye down the cliff.”
He narrowed his eyes. “Only a lunatic without his senses wouldna be afeared. If ye dinna think me afeared, ye must no’ think me much of a man. ’Twas a long way down.”
“Ye didna show it.”
“Fear is an odd thing. When the men were beating me in the shop, I wasna afeared. I kenned I could take it. I just hoped they didna kill me, but when my lads showed up, fear nearly swallowed me. And when I lay in bed until yer brother came, I was sick with fear that they hadna hidden in yer cart. Now that Hendrie and Ramy are safe with ye, I have fear in my soul for Willie.”
“ ’Tis because ye love them. Love and fear tangle up in each other.”
He looked away for a moment and then turned back. He had to tell her what he felt. If he did, she might forgive him. “And I feared…I feared I ne’er see ye again.
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About Susan Leigh Furlong
Susan Leigh Furlong was born in the middle of a blinding spring snowstorm at the University of Michigan, which forced her mother to walk across campus in the snow to the hospital while in labor. Susan doesn’t remember any of this auspicious beginning, but it always makes for a good story! As a child she moved across the country six times to various big cities before the age of fourteen because of her father’s career in women’s ready-to-wear clothing. At college she met and married her love, and moved to his small hometown in southern Ohio, and you couldn’t get her out of there with a crowbar! She taught first grade and fourth grade and raised her children who did not have to change schools even once. Creating stories started early in life—as is typical of most writers—even before she could actually write. Then came handwritten pages stuffed in her underwear drawer, followed by stories created on a manual typewriter. Her first computer—a Commodore 64—was replaced by a series of computers and laptops, which her husband promised she could never fill up the storage space, but she always did. At age 32 she performed in her first community theater play—Guys and Dolls—where she quickly realized that she wanted to play ALL the parts, which is exactly what a writer does. She writes and/or directs church-related plays and sketches and also performs and sings with a music and drama ministry, LightReaders.
Her love of history led her to write two plays about her now hometown, presented in reader’s theater-style by local citizens, followed by two non-fiction books about the local history published by Arcadia Publishing. She loves to do the research even though old books and documents make her cough and sneeze! Susan first discovered romance novels when she won a copy of Velvet Song by Jude Deveraux at the local bookstore. She reads all varieties of books, but historical romance is forever her first choice.
Steadfast Will I Be and By Promise Made were published by The Wild Rose Press in 2019 and 2020 respectively. By Promise Made won the NEST – National Excellence in Story Telling – for Historical Romance for 2021. Her third book – Keeper of My Dreams – a continuation of the Cullane family adventures - will be officially released on September 6, 2021.
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Giveaway!
Susan Leigh Furlong will be awarding a $20 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
Visit more stops on the tour for extra chances to win!
Full Tour Schedule:
September 27: Momma Says: To Read or Not to Read
September 28: Straight From the Library
September 29: Fabulous and Brunette
September 30: Locks, Hooks and Books
October 1: Novels Alive
October 4: Andi’s Book Reviews
October 5: Westveil Publishing
October 6:Long and Short Reviews
October 7: Literary Gold
October 8: The Key of Love
October 11: Lynn’s Romance Enthusiasm
October 12: Dawn’s Reading Nook
October 13: Hope. Dreams. Life… Love
October 14: All the Ups and Downs
October 15: Gina Rae Mitchell
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This sounds like an interesting book and I also like the cover.
Happy Friday! I hope that you have enjoyed your book tour and I wish you the best of luck in all of your future endeavors, I am looking forward to reading your stories. Have a great weekend!
Really like the book cover & excerpt. Would love to read & review book in print format myself. The book cover and title is very intriguing. Makes me really interested in book
Great excerpt and cover.
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