Ocean Atween Us

"Written with a lot of love."--Markus Zusak, best-selling author of The Book Thief

"Heart-wrenching action, fascinating historical details, and the joy of first love."--Constance Van Hoven, The Twelve Days of Christmas in Minnesota

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Will Glover, who spends his days picking in a 19th century, Scottish coal pit, realizes the girl who used to throw rocks at his back now frustrates him in a whole new way. Lucie, with her luxurious, rose-scented hair and penetrating green eyes, torments Will's heart while they dance a reel to ring in the New Year. Will sees a happy future in her eyes-they'll wed, and she'll bear him sons to work aside him down the mine. Will can't live without kissing her smiling lips at celebration's end.

The Kissing Reel When Lucie skips toward Will with a hanky clutched in her hand, a sweetness breaks against his heart like a wave curling to the shore. Lucie flips her sassy head around, skips past, turns back, gives him a saucy look, and drops the hanky. Will scoops it up, races round the ring of jeering dancers, needing to catch Lucie and kiss her pink mouth more than breath.

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A Romantic Historical Novel God seems to smile on their young love, but sinister forces arise and threaten to destroy it. Lucie's faither bargains with the Duke's rich factor, a depraved tyrant eager to bury his ailing wife and force Lucie to wed. Will's faither with secret dreams of pioneering coal mines in the Americas binds the family to a stranger searching Ayrshire for the best colliers to fill his ship.

Inspirational Historical Romance Will and Lucie run off to wed, but her faither discovers them, tears Lucie from Will's arms, and beats him senseless. Will stumbles onward to escape his own faither's betrayal.

The stars shine down, watching over Will with a thousand tender eyes. He whispers his thanks to the Good Lord for lighting his way. Will says, "No sooner has the prayer left my lips than I am filled with dread. Not fear of the night or the way. All round me is calm, but I cannot take a step forward. Mither, Faither, Jacob, Davie-even wee Andrew-are ranged across the road in front of me. Then they are gone. Vanished. And I'm a lonely soul on a lonely road."

Shame forces Will to turn his feet homeward. An unseen power compels each step.

He leaves Scotland with a scrap of Lucie's bonnie hankie wrapped around a wee bit of Ayrshire coal. "I'll no go, I'll no go, I'll no go," his heart protests as Lucie's frantic, waving figure disappears in the mist. He vows he will return for the only lass he'll ever love.

Pioneer Fiction Journey with Will as he struggles to survive seasickness, storms, starvation, an untamed mine in New Scotia, and a desperate night on a frozen canal bank in Pennsylvania's coal country. Experience the pain of Will's lost love and alienation from God and family. Pray he makes it home again.

Let family history writing coach and LDS author, Angela Morrison, plunge you back to the days of your forebears and motivate you to explore your own family history and genealogy.

Literary Fiction - Historical Inspired by Alex Haley's genealogy and family history in Roots and her mother's bedtime tales, Angela brings you the first book in her pioneer fiction series, We, Glovers. You'll find the tragic love stories she's famous for, narrated in intimate first-person prose-this time with a delicious hint of Scots

Christian and LDS fiction readers: PG/PG-13, mature, no explicit content CATEGORIES: Pioneer Fiction - Historical; Literary Fiction - Family Relationships; Family History - Genealogy; LDS Fiction - LDS Author