Love Covers by Julia David
Two strangers hiding their own life-long secrets. Can pretending to be married…be that hard?
The town of Greenlock shuns the daughter of the mortician. Day after day, Lauren begrudgingly has to take over her father’s duties creating despondence in her tender heart.
Then a voice speaks from the morgue basement. A rough and tumble outlaw who’s supposed to be dead is still alive! For some unfathomable reason, Lauren agrees to help him stay dead.
Elias was raised at Lennhurst Asylum. Since he had no family or future, he jumped a half-served prison sentence and enlisted in the recent Civil War to wield explosives. From running and surviving all his life, all Elias promised anyone was loyalty. Love was out of the question. When Lauren mentions her longing to see her mother and sister in Colorado, for loyalty’s sake, he offers to take her on the arduous wagon train journey. Of course, it wouldn’t be proper not to be married while traveling together. Lauren and Elias, so vastly opposite; their charade should be easy and yet they never expected it to threaten their very lives.
Loyalty versus love. Can Love Cover a multitude of sin or destroy a future?
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Julia David is an avid journal writer, published romance author, serial DIY'er and certified life coach. Addicted to Hallmark movies and baking, she believes it's crucial to have some predictable things in life. Her tagline 'escape to an era where true love prevails' was from her own reason for reading stacks of books.
Married and mother to five, she also ministers to pregnant and parenting teens.
Find more at juliadwrites.com
What inspired you to write your book?
LOVE, love, love clean but true to life romance. I was inspired to write something inspirational, yet not to Polly-Anna.
Here is a short sample from the book:
“I’ve never had a sweetheart. Can I call you sweetheart before I die and go to hell?”
“Stop being ridiculous!” She rubbed her forehead. “I think you landed on your head after that gunshot knocked you off your feet.”
“Humph,” He frowned. “I’m Elias Browne; I am twenty-six. I think. I grew up at Lennhurst Asylum Hospital…”
“That explains a lot.” Lauren took another look at his hair. Those long, fuzzy ropes are probably full of lice and… Her lips curled and nose wrinkled.
“I have a sister named Anna.”
“How does one grow up in a hospital?” She knew something was wrong with him.
“My mother was crazy,” he whispered.
Lauren shook her head, why was she even having this conversation? Another absurd moment in her absurd life, she needed to stop this and go for the sheriff herself. Searching around the damp basement, she needed to find something to tie him up with. Maybe his leg to the ice bed, or his wrist to dead man number two.
“I won’t call you sweetheart if you do me just one favor?” He still hadn’t moved an inch.
“Get you a blanket?” Sarcasm, though unusual from her, spewed from her mouth. This time she wouldn’t be tricked.
“Nope. Will you help me stay dead?”
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