Zina Abbott Books: Saturday Snippet: Confounded Woman!

Saturday, January 7, 2023

Saturday Snippet: Confounded Woman!

Today's Saturday Snippet is taken from

Mail Order Penelope

Widows, Brides and Secret Babies, Book 23

by Zina Abbott

Rather than peer through the window to assess what he would find inside, he jerked the door open and stepped forward. His gaze was drawn to a man sprawled across the forward-facing bench. Sitting on the center bench, Mrs. Humphrey bent over him and held a white cloth to his arm.

“You’ve got wounded in here? Move aside, Mrs. Humphry and let me take a look.” Marcus placed his foot on the metal rod that served as a step as he prepared to enter the coach. He quickly realized Mrs. Humphry had not moved one inch. He might as well have not spoken. The only indication she heard him was the ripple in her jaw muscles and the tightening of the skin around her eyes.

Without looking at him, Mrs. Humphry snapped out a response with what he recognized as an irritated tone. “Not now, Captain. I’m busy.”

In dead silence, Marcus clenched his back teeth and stared at her. So much for a hysterically crying woman crumpled on the floor. He was the surgeon. He was the expert. He was an officer and was accustomed to being obeyed. Yet, she dismissed him as irrelevant. Confounded woman.

Mail Order Penelope is part of the joint author promotion, Strong Female Leads, listed below. It is also available in ebook format, including at no additional cost with a Kindle Unlimited subscription. To find the book description and purchase link,

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On Pre-order ~ Released in two days on 1/09/23!

A book with a lawman theme, Lauren, Rescue Me (Mail-order Brides), Book 2, is my final book that includes references to the 1878 total solar eclipse. It currently on pre-order as an ebook. It is scheduled for release on January 9, 2023. To find the book description and pre-order purchase link,

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Please CLICK HERE to read an excerpt.

My next book I will be writing for the series, Rescue Me (Mail-order Brides) is Book 8,

Elise.

I so enjoyed writing a romance about a historical German immigrant character in Bee Sting Cake by Brunhilde, I chose to write another romance between a young woman from Hesse and a recently mustered out soldier whose great-grandfather was a Hessian soldier captured by George Washington and granted land in Pennsylvania with German-speaking Americans in exchange for agreeing to no longer fight against the Continental Army. He married a woman he sent for from Hesse, and his son married a German-speaking woman. Although he is a several-generations American, Kurt Neumann is familiar with Hesse and remembers some German from before his paternal grandparents died. So, when Elise Meyer needs rescuing, other newly-mustered out soldiers with Kurt, who call him by the nickname, "Dutchy", (Those idiot Americans never could get it right that it was Deutsch, with an "oi" sound instead of a short "u" sound.) tease him into picking up on her.

This story also allows me to refer to a well-known fairy tale/fable that originated in Hesse, but which the English have since stolen/borrowed and adapted to their culture.

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Ellie, book 13 in the Runaway Brides of the West series is now for sale as an ebook, plus available on Kindle Unlimited at no additional cost. This book also has a connection to the 1878 total solar eclipse, although Ellie and Rand's story takes place a year later.

To find the book description and pre-order link for Ellie, please CLICK HERE.