The Fourth of July Bride by Amanda Cabot is part of The 12 Brides of Summer Novella Collection, and includes romantic fireworks!
A sequel to her The Christmas Star Bride, the new novella returns readers to Esther’s bakery –the site of Esther’s Christmas romance with Jeremy, a portrait painter.
Amanda enjoyed coming up with a summer romance to match.
“I had so much fun with Jeremy and Esther that I wanted to include them in this story. As readers know, Jeremy paints portraits in Esther’s bakery, so I started asking myself, ‘Who else would want a portrait painted, and who else would be in the bakery?’ One question led to another, and before I knew it, Naomi and Gideon had come to life.”
Set in Amanda’s adopted hometown of Cheyenne, Wyoming in the 1880s,
“The Fourth of July Bride takes place about six months after The Christmas Star Bride’s final scene, and – as you might expect – the weather has changed. So, too, have Esther and Jeremy. They’re expecting a blessed event, and that’s caused all kinds of changes in their lives.”
Jeremy is still painting in a corner of the bakery and, in this case, is working on a portrait of the handsome and wealthy bachelor Gideon Carlisle. Gideon’s mother back east is after him to settle down and he hopes a painting will convince her he’s doing fine and doesn’t need a bride.
Gideon enjoys sitting for the portrait and likes passing the time with the beautiful Naomi who works at the bakery.
English: Fireworks on the Fourth of July (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
For her part, Naomi is smitten, but waiting for Gideon to make a move. She’s worried about money and when Gideon comes up with an interesting proposition to meet her need, she agrees even as her heart breaks. Can he really be so blind? What will his mother think when she comes to visit in time for the fourth of July?
Will there be fireworks?
You’ll have to read The Fourth of July Bride to find out!
Amanda enjoyed writing about Cheyenne, having already written two full-length novels about this time period: Waiting for Spring and With Autumn’s Return. (Several characters from Waiting for Spring make a cameo appearance in The Fourth of July Bride.)
“It’s fun to bring Cheyenne in the 1880s to life for my readers, because not many people realize that the cattle barons made Cheyenne the wealthiest city per capita in the country or that we had the only opera house west of the Mississippi.”
While Amanda enjoys writing historical fiction, she’s recently branched out into more contemporary stories. See her website for more details.
Who is Amanda Cabot?
Amanda Cabot is the author of more than thirty novels, including the CBA bestseller Christmas Roses and Waiting for Spring.
She write about her life on her website, and notes the following:
“No doubt about it, I’ve been blessed. I had parents who nurtured my love of reading and have a husband who’s not just my best friend but who’s driven tens of thousands of miles to help me research books and who, after all these years, still hasn’t lost his sense of humor, even when dinner is late because I have “just one more scene” to write.”
For more information about Amanda, please visit her website or read her blog.
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