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| La Belle Christiane |
Can the
beautiful daughter of a French courtesan find a love that lasts for a lifetime?
In the early
1770's, Christiane Pelletier, an extraordinarily beautiful young woman, is next
in a line of courtesans who have been favorites at the French court during the
reigns of two monarchs. Yet she longs to be the beloved wife of one man, not a
lovely piece of human art passed from one noble to another. And the winds of
change are sweeping Europe.
After her
mother's violent murder, Christiane flees France with her renegade father. In
the Canadian wilderness, she survives the shock of leaving a life of wealth and
privilege. To escape frontier violence, she moves southward only to become
involved in the burgeoning American Revolution. Daughter of a French courtesan
to frontier wife to companion of Lady Washington, Christiane moves into the
heart of the American rebel elite. But one man in her life can never be
forgotten. Once he was her friend. Now he has become her enemy. Will he become
her destiny? Only God knows.
First page excerpt
Chapter One
Tonight, I’ll lie beside some stranger as
his wife. Christiane
blinked away the bright morning sunlight but could not blink away the dread.
Once again she had embarked on another journey that would change her life. She
sat between her Algonquin father Shaw-nee-awk-kee and his son in a birch bark
canoe. To the rhythm of the dipping paddles, they were gliding farther down the
Ottawa River. In the cramped space, she hugged her knees to herself and pressed
her forehead against her tattered skirt.
She glanced
sideways into the remorseless current, wishing for time, for control. But
instead, the river, shimmering with molten sunlight, gave her glimmers of the
past--candlelight on silver, soft lace against skin, frosting on the tip of the
tongue. But she’d fled France with her father, here to Canada and then. . . She
thrust all thoughts of the past year aside. She had to face today. Tonight, I’ll be some stranger’s wife.
The Story Behind Lyn Cote Self-Publishing
La Belle Christiane
When I began writing
my first manuscript, I literally ran after my two toddlers with a clipboard in
my hand and wrote whenever they paused! I wrote that story without knowing
anything about writing or marketing fiction. In fact, I told myself just to
write the book and then I'd think about polishing and marketing it. The thought
of that was overwhelming at that time. It took me three years of writing to
finish my first manuscript-1,000 handwritten pages. Whew!
I found out that
while it garnered interest from agents and editors, it never found a publisher.
I think that's because there are "unwritten" rules for inspirational
fiction and I didn't know them or follow them. I still think it's a good story
and I've revised it and improved it once more. And now it's FINALLY available
in digital and print. I did this because I didn't want it to sit ignored in my
files forever. So now I'll let the readers decide whether it deserved to be
published or not. I hope you agree with me and let others know about it.
Thanks.-- Lyn
ABOUT AUTHOR LYN COTE
An award-winning
author of both contemporary and historical inspirational romance, LYN COTE has
been a 2006 RITA finalist as well as a finalist for the HOLT Medallion and the
National Readers Choice Award, and in 2011 a winner of the prestigious American
Christian Fiction Writer's CAROL Award. Lyn lives with her husband and four
cats in the northwoods of Wisconsin.
http://www.BooksbyLynCote.com
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