Today's special guest is Holly Bush. Holly was born in western Pennsylvania to two avid readers.
There was not a room in her home that did not hold a full bookcase. She worked
in the hospitality industry, owning a restaurant for twenty years and recently
worked as the sales and marketing director in the hospitality/tourism industry
and is credited with building traffic to capacity for a local farm tour,
bringing guests from twenty-two states, booked two years out. Holly has
been a marketing consultant to start-up businesses and has done public speaking
on the subject.
Holly has been writing all of her life and is a voracious reader
of a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction, particularly political and
historical works. She has written four romance novels, all set in the U.S. West
in the mid 1800’s. She frequently attends writing conferences, and has always
been a member of a writer’s group.
Holly is a gardener, a news junkie, has been an active member of
her local library board and loves to spend time near the ocean. She is the
proud mother of two daughters and the wife of a man more than a few years her
junior.
ABOUT THE BOOK
1871 . . . Worlds collide when American
Suffragette, Gertrude Finch, and titled Brit Blake Sanders meet in an explosive
encounter that may forever bind them together. Gertrude Finch escorts a young
relative to London and encounters the stuffy Duke of Wexford at his worst.
Cross the Ocean is the story of an undesired, yet undeniable attraction that
takes Blake and Gertrude across an ocean and into each other’s arms.
AN EXCERPT
Blake
found his guests in the music room listening to Melinda play the pianoforte.
“Miss Finch, may I beg a moment of your time?” he asked as he touched her
elbow.
The
two of them retreated out of hearing distance from the rest.
“Yes?”
Miss Finch clipped off and folded her hands at her waist.
“I
find I do owe you an apology,” Blake began.
“And
every other woman in the room as well,” she replied.
“I
am not concerned with every other female in the room.” Blake stood tall. “I
have many faults, but hurting a guest’s feelings cannot be one of them.”
“I
agree with you there,” Miss Finch said and clapped politely.
“Agree
with what?” he asked.
“You
have many faults. The least of which are poor manners.”
“Yes,
well, in any case, I apologize for what I said.” Blake looked away ashamed. “I
was wrong. You are really quite attractive.”
Gertrude
Finch put her hands on her hips, and her voice rose with each word. “I could
care less what you think of me.”
“Now,
now, no need to call attention our way,” Blake said and glanced at the assembly
listening to Melinda. “No need to be defensive, either. I am aware of the
tender sensibilities women associate with how attractive they are. My own
mother made us all kiss and coo over Aunt Constance, and she had whiskers
longer than . . .”
“Listen
to me, Sanders. I meant what I said. I couldn’t care less whether you think I’m
attractive or not. You dismiss ideas and brains for the lack of a pretty face.
I think you’re a pompous idiot. What do you think of them apples, Your
Highness?” she said.
Blake
held his hands behind his back, and a muscle twitched below his eye. “Miss
Finch, the title ‘Your Highness’ is reserved for the royal family. You
Americans bandy about titles as if a one of you could trace a history further
back than the last mule you shoed.”
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