Jennie Marsland

 Do you love stories that take you back to an earlier time? When people lived close to the land, and just as close to their passions?  So do I. Glimpses of the past have always sparked my imagination, and for me, it's been a natural step from reading historical fiction to writing the first book in my Wallace Flats Series, McShannon's Chance, now  available from Bluewood Publishing!  

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Print release is coming very early in 2010. Keep watching for it here...there'll be another contest to celebrate!

        Read an Excerpt

Trey McShannon survived the carnage of the Civil War, only to discover that the deepest wounds are those to the heart. A traitor to his home state of Georgia, Trey has built a new life for himself in the untamed Colorado Territory. Now it’s time to find a wife to share the future he’s worked so hard for – but can he free himself from his past?

Beth Underhill is looking for choices.  Needing to marry to escape being sent back East, she prefers Trey’s honest business proposal to false promises of love. Can a union between a man who isn’t sure he can still feel love, and a woman who doesn’t believe it exists, blossom into more than a marriage of convenience?

 McShannon's Chance is the first in a series of three, perhaps four books about the McShannon family, their loves, friends and enemies. Descended from Cajun, Irish and Scottish stock, the McShannons are as resilient as they are restless, like the Thoroughbred horses they raise and know so well. In the new world or the old, wherever they settle, whatever they've lost, they survive and leave their mark on the land and the people around them.

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