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Violet’s Voice
The Reclusive Man
by Annee Jones
Genre: Christian Historical Western Romance
Synopsis
Her voice saved him once…. Is he strong enough now to return the favor?
Following the mine’s collapse, Damien Cross lay between life and death, drifting in and out of consciousness in the makeshift hospital bed. Suddenly a voice captured his attention – a woman was singing. It was the most beautiful song he’d ever heard. The lyrical notes stirred something deep inside of him, willing him to live. If he could just hang on to the angel’s voice a little longer…
Five years have passed since that fateful day, and Damien can no longer stand to be confined anywhere – or beholden to anyone. He much prefers the company of horses to humans. However, in his dreams he still hears the voice of the angel, like a salve for his bitter, broken heart. One day as he is walking past the town’s saloon on his way to the bank, the sounds of music within drifts outside, and a woman begins to sing. Shocked, Damien recognizes her voice – his angel.
Violet Lovelace is struggling to make ends meet following the carriage accident that claimed the life of her father and left her mother in a wheelchair. Teaching voice lessons to children isn’t enough to pay for the pain medication her mother so desperately needs. When Violet is offered a job singing at the local saloon, she accepts despite her misgivings. But what other choice does she have?
Join Damien and Violet on their journey of discovering the light of hope in the throes of darkness and the triumphant power of love.
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Enjoy this peek inside:
The late summer breeze felt wonderful against his heated face. He paused at the hitching post to take a deep breath.
“Well, Bluebell,” he said to the dappled mare as he unhooked the horse’s worn leather reins, “Guess that’s what I get for coming into town. A reminder that I’m not welcome here.”
Even the steady clip-clop of his beloved horse and the peaceful landscape around him did little to soften the constricted feeling around his heart as they made their way home.
That night, Damien lay in bed, trying to ignore the throbbing pain in his low back and hip. It was always present. Thankfully during the day when he was working on the ranch with the yearlings he was too occupied to notice. However, it seemed the minute he walked indoors at suppertime he turned into a decrepit old man, limping around the house, fumbling at the stove, and angry at everything and nothing at the same time.
Punching his pillow, he rolled over onto his side. From this vantage point, he could see out the window, realizing he’d forgotten to pull the drapes before blowing out the light. He didn’t feel like going to the effort of rising to cover the glass now. Outside, the night was clear, and the sky was full of stars. They were clustered together in small groups. Were they mocking him with their twinkling? Perhaps even the stars didn’t want him.
He rolled onto his back and stared up at the darkness of the ceiling instead. His eyelids began to droop. As he sank into that space between wake and slumber known as the land of dreams, he heard the voice of the angel again, singing her same beautiful song. Having realized long ago that the voice probably just belonged to some nurse or caregiver at the hospital who helped tend to the injured miners after the mine’s collapse, he still felt grateful for the gift of her voice. He’d never forgotten it, and it continued to soothe him during lonely nights like this one. Relaxing into the music in his memory, sleep at last overtook him completely.
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About Author Annee Jones
Author Annee Jones loves to write all things romance, fantasy, cozy mystery, & more. She is passionate about writing stories where dreams come true, and love wins in the end!
Professionally, Annee works as a disability counselor where she helps her clients navigate through complex medical and legal systems while rediscovering their wholeness in Spirit.
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After teaching and working in early education for a decade, Maria Mankin has published six books with Pilgrim Press and has contributed to several anthologies. She is also a co-author of Circ, a mystery set in Skegness England, published by Pigeon Park Press, and Pitching Our Tents: Poetry of Hospitality. She is a regular contributor to Living Psalms, a collection in which the Psalms are reinterpreted in poetry and art as a reflection of God’s work of justice and compassion. She is currently working on a book of poetry and the third novel in the Rev and Rye Cozy Mysteries.
After trouping the country in the 70s as assistant manager of theatrical tours for choreographer Agnes de Mille, The National Theatre of Great Britain, The Royal Shakespeare Company and the Black Broadway production of ‘Guys and Dolls,’ Maren Tirabassi changed careers, to the surprise of everyone, to study at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and later Harvard Divinity School. Ordained in the United Church of Christ, she served as a bi-vocational pastor to seven churches in Massachusetts and New Hampshire while developing her writing career. Maren is the author of twenty-two books, fiction, non-fiction and poetry, the majority published by The Pilgrim Press.