Hey peeps! Cassandra Dean here, ready to tell you all about The Diamond Series
and book the second, Fool’s Gold.
Wow, book 2 in
a series I never thought I would write. Crazy, hey? As you may know, I really
like watching westerns on the tv and the place that plays the movies, but I’ve
never thought of writing my own. So when my editor suggest I write for Decadent Publishing’s Western Escape, I
was a bit hesitant as I wasn’t sure I could do the genre justice. I mean, I
hear English voices in my head real good, but Old American West ones? Not so
much. However, I went away, had a bit of a think, and came up with book 1 of
the series, Rough Diamond!
After Rough Diamond was finished, I thought that was it. Alice and Rupert had their
happily ever after and though I could now hear Western voices in my head, I
thought one book would be it. However, the West is seductive, my friends. Two
secondary characters, Pearl and Ethan, were unduly antagonistic to each other
in Rough Diamond and I was all-fired curious as to why this was so. The tendrils of
a new story formed and before I knew it, Fool’s
Gold was here!
Fool’sGold
is Christmas at the Diamond Saloon in Freewill, Wyoming. Pearl is now the
manager of the Diamond while the owner, Alice, is away. It’s Christmas Eve and
all she wants to do is wait out the blizzard that’s blowing their way in an
unusually empty saloon, curled up in bed with a whiskey and a French magazine.
A pounding on the Diamond’s door robs her of such thoughts, and when she opens
the saloon to whoever is doing the pounding, she’s all het up to see it’s the
overwhelmingly annoying Ethan Garret. Before she can get him to leave again,
the blizzard blows in and the two of them are trapped alone in an empty
saloon...Shenanigans ensue :)
Here’s the
blurb, peeps!
Christmas in Freewill
Christmas Eve,
the Diamond Saloon is empty of its people, and Pearl la Monte has a hankering
to retire early. A pounding at the Diamond’s door rids her of such a fool
notion. Her irritation rises when she sees the prissy, polite-like Garrett
standing outside.
Ethan Garrett
has a powerful need to gain succor. When the saloon’s voluptuous redheaded
singer scowls at him from the threshold of the Diamond, he doesn’t stop to
think on how his ire at her has disappeared. Or how he just wants to spend some
time in her company.
When a
blizzard storms in, trapping them, will they spend their time arguing or find
their irritation for each other disguises something more?
Sounds pretty
nifty, right? Crazily enough, I’m planning on writing number three. Tentatively
entitled Emerald Sea,
this story is very much in progress. I think there may be a gunslinger,
and a chorus girl. Maybe. Who knows, anything is possible at this stage!
Thanks so much
for hanging with me, peeps, and I hope you’ll check out the Diamond Saloon and her people.
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