Here is this weeks teaser for Come Home to Me (Book 1 in the Second Chances Time Travel Romance Series)
Squinting into the wind, Rachel wasn’t sure
if the tears that rolled down her cheeks were due to the dust, or if she’d
finally succumbed to homesickness. She missed the company of others, someone
she could talk to, familiar faces of people she’d known all her life. Bracing against
the sensation of someone crushing her chest, she mindlessly set one foot in
front of the other, her worn leather shoes sinking into the loose soil. She
couldn’t think about home anymore, or the friends she’d left behind.
She was the one who suggested to Thomas that
they move out west so he could make a new start. She had really hoped the idea
would brighten his spirits. He’d gone along with her suggestion at first,
seemed almost eager at the idea, but it hadn’t taken long for his broodiness to
return. She glanced up, squinting into the sun that slowly descended into the
far off horizon, and envisioned the Oregon territory she’d heard so much
about. Perhaps when Thomas saw the lush
green valleys of Oregon, and laid claim to the 320 acres of land that would be
theirs to farm, he would finally return to the man she’d known before . . .
Loud giggles penetrated her mind, and she
held her hand to her forehead to shield her eyes from the wind and sun. A rider
on a dun horse galloped towards the line of wagons, heading directly for her.
Jake Owens. Rachel’s heart fluttered in her chest. The man sat his horse
as if he were one with the animal. She hadn’t seen him much over the last three
days, after that first night when he ate supper at her wagon.
So, who knows their Oregon Trail history? Where was this picture taken?
That IS a teaser! Just enough info to make me interested in finding out what's going on with these characters! The pic: I don't recall much about the history of the Oregon Trail, and I don't know what the exact location would be, but it sure looks like it would be in the heart of the badlads of North or South Dakota?!?!
ReplyDeleteYou had me curious, so I went hunting for the answer to your trivia question...and now I know a little more about the Oregon Trail, and that your pic is of "Scott's Bluff" in Nebraska. Very cool!
DeleteYes! Scott's Bluff, Nebraska, one of several bluff formations encountered by emigrants as they traveled through the Nebraska prairie above the North Platte River. It is the second-most referred to landmark on the Oregon, Mormon and California Trail. Chimney Rock is the other. Today, this is a National Monument.
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