Book Blitz: NISSA by Zina Abbott

My name is Robyn Echols. Zina Abbott is the pen I use for my historical novels. I’m a member of Women Writing the West and Western Writers of America. I currently live with my husband in California’s central valley near the “Gateway to Yosemite.”

I love to read, quilt, work with digital images on my photo editing program, and work on my own family history.

I am a blogger. In addition to my own blog, I blog for several group blogs including the Sweet Americana Sweethearts blog, which I started and administer.

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A widow with two small children, Nissa Stillwell was forced out of the mining supervisor's house after her husband died in the mine disaster in Wildcat Ridge, Utah. She quickly learns before his death, he went heavily into debt. She leaves what few possessions remain behind and contracts with the Ridge Hotel to do their laundry and live in the laundry shed and drying yard next to the hotel. She is able to make ends meet—barely.

          Being left with only the furnishings and personal items that make up James Stillwell’s estate, Mortimer Crane goes after Nissa to pay the balance owed. She refuses, but he insists she work off the debt in his Gentlemen Only Salon.

          Rancher Dallin Walsh has been too busy building up his spread in the isolated mountains of western Colorado to look for a wife. He comes to Wildcat Ridge for a big horse auction. Between Crane and three drifters, he comes to Nissa’s defense more than once. Desperate to leave Wildcat Ridge, Nissa asks him to hire her as a housekeeper. Does Dallin want a housekeeper—or does he have something else in mind?

          Hal and Buck, two wranglers who work for Dallin, soon find most women in town are as eager to find husbands to move to Wildcat Ridge so they can keep their homes as they are to sell horses. A woman in difficulty captures Hal’s attention. Another woman finds Buck, but he definitely is not interested in a wife.

          Who will go to Colorado, and who will stay in Wildcat Ridge?

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10 Fun Facts About Myself

1.  I’m not a fun person—I tend to be serious.

2.  I’ll go to an organizational meeting with a speaker or class before I’ll go to a social party.

3.  I’m analytical and sometimes suffer from “analysis paralysis.”

4.  I like to quilt rather than sew garments because l like doing the math to create new block designs.

5.  The other fun part of quilting for me is to put together colors and fabric patterns I don’t think will look good together – but in the end, they do!

6.  I like photography, but I’m not a professional. Thank goodness for digital cameras and photo-editing programs.

7.  I love to create digital memes, banners and blog post headers.

8.  I belong to my county genealogical society.

9.  My idea of camping is staying in a fifth wheel or a trailer—with internet access.

10.  I’d rather be reading.

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Saturday Snippets: You’re a Haint, Ain’t You?

The following snippet is from 

Haunted by Love 

Part of the Eastern Sierra Brides 1884 series

          Hazel waited, but heard no response. “I can tell you’re here, Charlotte, and you seem a mite sad, but I can’t see you none. And there ain’t no baby that I can see. Are-are you under the bed, or hidin’ in a closet?”

          Hazel gasped for breath and gripped the bedpost until her fingers ached as she witnessed the scene before her eyes. Where before the carpet in colors of red, blue and beige between the bed and the side window and a nightstand appeared bare, she now watched as a mound of white materialized on top. Next she watched a dark spot in the center which Hazel soon realized it was hair lift to reveal a face. It belonged to an attractive young woman perhaps in her mid-twenties. Hazel had no idea how the woman accomplished it, but she rose to her feet as if pulled up by a puppeteer’s string until she stood at her full height. The two studied each other. Hazel’s eyes never left Charlotte’s face, yet with her peripheral vision she could not help but notice the beautiful nip and tucked yoke edged with lace on the white nightgown the woman wore.

          Gradually, the fear Hazel felt faded. The person before her radiated sorrow and worry, but nothing Hazel considered threatening. She began to suspect what she was seeing.

          “You’re a haint, ain’t you?”

You may read the book description and find the purchase link for Haunted by Love by CLICKING HERE. 

The Eastern Sierra Brides 1884 series is complete. However, I am not finished writing stories set in Mono County on the east side of the Sierra-Nevada Mountains. To keep abreast of coming publications, please sign up to "like" my Facebook page by CLICKING HERE.

Saturday Snippets: Isn't This a Sight? #giveaway

The following snippet is from  

Nissa

part of the series

The Widows of Wildcat Ridge

            “Well, isn’t this a sight?”

            Nissa cringed inside as she recognized the voice and spun around to face her late husband’s employer and her nemesis, Mortimer Crane. “What are you doing here? You have not been invited to come onto my property. I want you to go now.”

            Mortimer smiled sardonically as he spread his hands, palms up, and stepped closer. “Now, Mrs. Stillwell. Tsk. Tsk. Is this any way to behave around an old friend?”

MONDAY,  Nissa, from The Widows of Wildcat Ridge series will be released. I am having a mini-celebration over on our Widows of Wildcat Ridge Readers Group. If you have not yet joined this group, now is the time—PLEASE CLICK HERE.

Nissa is still on preorder but will be released October 15th. To read the book description and reserve your copy, please CLICK HERE.

To see the other books already published or available on preorder in The Widows of Wildcat Ridge series on Amazon, PLEASE CLICK HERE.

Also, please enter the Rafflecopter below for a chance to to be the one to win my pre-celebration prize of two of my autographed print books: Independence Day 1881 and Harvest Dance 1881 (USA readers only. Outside the USA I’ll send digital versions.)

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Saturday Snippets: I Believe It Will Be Safe to Attend

This book will spoil you alert --

Nissa from the series,

The Widows of Wildcat Ridge

has a secondary romance.

I'm afraid it might steal the show. Here's a snippet:

Hal watched as she furtively glanced over to Mr. Crane. He also looked over. Mr. Crane had assumed the stance of one filled with a sense of self-importance. He now talked with another customer on the other side of the room from the teller cage.

            Hal turned back at the sound of his money being slid across the counter towards him. Miss Templeton leaned forward until her face almost touched the bars. She looked him in the eye.

            “My first name is Birdie. Considering the dance is a community affair and we women from the church will be helping with refreshments…” Hal watched Birdie check once more that Mortimer Crane’s attention remained focused elsewhere. “Yes…yes, I believe it will be safe for me to attend the dance. I hope to see you there, Mr. Summers.”

            Momentarily speechless, Hal stared at Miss Birdie Templeton.

            Safe to attend a community dance?

Nissa is now on preorder. The publication date is October 15, 2018. To view the book description and purchase, PLEASE CLICK HERE.

 

I'll be having a mini-release party with games, sharing and a few prizes to be held October 15th on The Widows of Wildcat Ridge Readers Group on Facebook. If you have not already done so,

please join the Facebook The Widows of Wildcat Ridge Reader's Group: CLICK HERE.