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Today I interview my character Alice Collins from
Today I interview my character Alice Collins from
A
Right to Love.
Liza: Welcome, Alice. I understand you are a friend of Victor Hamilton
from the Adventures of Xavier & Vic series.
Alice: I am. We were best of friends for many years. Then as we
matured and my step-father kept demanding I marry the various odious young men
he forced me to entertain, I realized Vic was far superior in all ways and
unlike these cretins, he would never steal my fortune or take over my estate
farms and run them into the ground. So I tried my hardest to make him fall in
love with me, which unfortunately had the reverse effect than I’d hoped for.
Instead of drawing him in, my every effort scared him away. When in
desperation, I went to Claire, asking for her assistance.
Instead of help, she picked up a picture from her shelf and
laid it on the bed between us. Then she advised me to look elsewhere, for her
brother would never marry. All the while she tapped on the picture frame.
At first I thought she meant he preferred other young men,
but her constant tapping caused me to take note of the picture. It was of her
aunt and two young girls. The younger girl was Claire, but the older girl
confused me, for she had Vic’s facial features. I cannot tell you how stunned
to the core I was when I realized what it meant. I had known Vic for years and
never once had I suspected he was anything but a boy.
Claire then made me swear to never tell anyone. I, of
course, promised her I wouldn’t.
Liza: But you just shared it with the entire world.
Alice: Your world, not mine. And in your world, Liza O’Connor has
already told everyone that my childhood best friend was a young girl who
decided life would be better if she became a boy. And he is the finest young
man I’ve ever met. And now to all his other attributes, he determined where my
vicious step-father had hidden my mother and with the help of Jacko B. Goodnow,
saved her from being murdered and enabled me to meet and fall in love with a
fabulous man. Without Victor, I would
have lost my mother, gone to prison for killing my step-father had never meet Jacko.
Liza: It sounds as if you still love Victor.
Alice: Without question, I do. Only it is a love of deep
friendship. To be honest, once I discovered Vic’s secret, I gave up on men. I
intended to remain single for my entire life. But when Jacko rescued and
brought my mother home, I fell in love with him at first sight. I had not
thought such a thing possible. But he
was everything I wanted in a man: kind, loving, caring, honest, brave…
Liza: I believe he’s also a gypsy, pirate, and thief. By his own
admission, he has also murdered people
Alice: He was never a pirate by choice, but, yes, he is a gypsy
by birth.
Liza:That won’t go over well in society.
Alice: We are telling people in my time that he is a wealthy
Spaniard and his name is Jacon Bienora. As to his love of stealing, he only takes something for good reasons, such as stealing my mother from Bedlam, and to the deaths attributed to him: he has only done so for the good of his country or when forced to defend himself, neither of which, do I consider murder.
Spaniard and his name is Jacon Bienora. As to his love of stealing, he only takes something for good reasons, such as stealing my mother from Bedlam, and to the deaths attributed to him: he has only done so for the good of his country or when forced to defend himself, neither of which, do I consider murder.
Liza: He sounds most intriguing, let’s find out more.
BLURB
Jacko, a gypsy with a great love for stealing, rescues a
suffragette from Bedlam. Upon returning the elderly woman to safety, he meets
her blue-stocking daughter. Alice has decided she prefers managing her estate
farms over London society. She is resigned to never marry until the handsome
and surprisingly wealthy man with a dark past and several identities steals her
heart.
EXCERPT
Rob shook his head and smiled. “I
apologize if I have embarrassed you. It is only that your people are worried
about their futures. They fear you will marry a gentleman from town and return
to London, or you will not marry at all, and leave us with no future. So they
sent me to speak to you.”
“About?”
“About marrying the right type of
fellow. I know you are a fine lady, but it seems to me you don’t particularly
care for the ‘fine’ gentlemen, at least not the one you nearly drowned two
years ago.”
Alice laughed in outrage. “I did
not drown him. I simply turned over the boat to see whom he would save, himself
or me. When he clung to the boat and left me to sink or swim, I swam to shore‒end
of story.”
“He remained out there for several
hours, bleating like a frightened lamb.”
Alice realized Rob’s house was on
the other side of the lake. “I apologize if he upset your sheep.”
“You laugh, but my sheep were
unsettled for a week from all that noise.” Rob sobered. “If you don’t care for
the gents, might you consider someone a bit humbler in birth, but stronger in
character? I think character is what you find missing among the gentry. You
deserve a man who thinks of you first, who steps forward when danger approaches
and would face death to keep you safe.”
His words shocked her, as did her
heart’s reaction to them. Dear God, he voiced exactly what she wanted.
A Right
to Love
Free with
Amazon Kindle Unlimited
A Right
to Love is a spin off
of the
Adventures of Xavier & Vic’s
Humorous,
Late Victorian, Romantic Sleuth series
About the Author
Liza O’Connor was raised
badly by feral cats, left the South/Midwest and wandered off to find nicer
people on the east coast. There she worked for the meanest man on Wall Street,
while her psychotic husband tried to kill her three times. (So much for finding
nicer people.) Then one day she declared enough, got a better job, divorced her
husband, and fell in love with her new life where people behaved normally. But
all those bad behaviors has given her lots of fodder for her humorous romances.
Please buy these books, because otherwise, she’ll become grumpy and write
troubled novels instead. They will likely traumatize you.
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