Davalynn Spencer is our guest today.
She wrote a book called An Unexpected Redemption.
Today, she will share the story behind her story.
Sweet Historical Western Romance
An Unexpected Redemption – Book 2 in the Front Range Brides collection of stories about strong women who find and defend love in 1880s Colorado.
He doesn’t need her sass. She doesn’t need his approval. But they both need a second chance.
Abandoned by her faithless husband for the Dakota gold fields, rancher’s daughter Elizabeth Beaumont returns to her hometown determined to prove she’s not the impetuous girl she once was. Armed with a new skill and old determination, she’s intent on making it on her own. Discovering that the new sheriff lives downstairs in the same boarding house wouldn’t be nearly so frustrating if he’d stay out of her affairs, quit calling her Betsy, and stop making her wonder if she could love again.
Sheriff Garrett Wilson’s first attempt at law enforcement cost an innocent bystander his life, so he exchanged his deputy’s badge for a drover’s bedroll. Now he’s back wearing a star in a Front Range cow town, hunting an arsonist and falling for a woman who wants to know the secret behind his deepest scar. He can run again from his painful past, or he can stay and fight for the town that needs him and the woman who’s worked under his skin and into his heart.
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What inspired you to write this book?
Years ago, good friend, Lynne Schricker—a legitimate horsewoman, trainer, and mountain cowgirl—explained to me the difference between raising young children and raising teenagers. My kids were transitioning into their teen years, and since Lynne was about eight years ahead of me in the child-rearing department, I figured she knew what she was talking about.
Raising children can be compared to driving cattle, she said. Raising teenagers is like moving a band of horses. Though each endeavor’s goal is the same, the methods of accomplishing that goal are not.
Lynne’s explanation fascinated me.
Cattle plod, she said. Like small children. You can ride close beside them, bending their wills with your horse, guiding them, turning them at each step, close enough that your foot and stirrup might brush against them.
But with horses, you ride a ways out. They’re likely to run, and you just keep pace with them from a distance. You can’t turn them with the same ease and approach you use on cattle. Their spirits are different. They’re freer and they feel it. They’re faster and they know it.
The picture Lynne painted for me clarified over the years as my children transformed from bovine-like critters into graceful, high-spirited equines. (Now there’s a metamorphosis story for you. Who needs vampires and werewolves when your own youngsters are transitioning so drastically?)
However, the way Lynne spoke about horses stirred a longing inside me that was far from parental. I wanted to ride as she had, wide and racing with a band of mares on their way from one pasture or high Rocky Mountain park to the next.
That one “movie clip” played over and over in my mind through the years, and I wanted to write it into one of my historical Western romances. That one scene became the impetus behind Book 2 of my Front Range Brides series, An Unexpected Redemption. You’ll find it about half-way through the book.
What a unique story! Thanks for sharing what inspired you to write it.
Wife and mother of professional rodeo bullfighters, Davalynn Spencer writes heart-tugging, cowboy romance set along the Front Range of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.
She is an ECPA and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author and winner of the Will Rogers Gold Medallion for Inspirational Western Fiction, as well as an award-winning rodeo journalist and former crime-beat reporter.
Davalynn makes her home in Colorado where she caters to Blue the Cowdog and mouse detectors Annie and Oakley.
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Davalynn is giving away a copy of An Unexpected Redemption. Follow the directions below to enter.
I would love to win this book because I love all things cowboys, westerns, and horses! Thanks for the opportunity!
Linda – Boy, can I relate! All things cowboy! Thanks for stopping by.
I grew up with horses, so the parenting stories were quite interesting! Thank you for introducing a new to me author, as I always enjoy historical fiction.
Thank you, Cathy!
New author for me.
Hope you enjoy the story, Kim.
I enjoy historical fiction and have heard much about this new-to-me author recently.
Wonderful! Thanks for stopping by!
I like the quote that “Raising children is like driving cattle.”
Sometimes I feel like I’m herding cats.
That’s funny, Dianna. I know exactly what you mean!
I want to know how the main character deals with being abandoned by a husband (I was also abandoned and was a single parent Mom to 4 children–I have not remarried d/t trust issues, & I enjoy being single! And, I’m now a Grandmother, which is fun! :))
Wow, MS, your story is a story! Solo parenting isn’t easy. Blessings to you, and enjoy those grandbabies!
I like the parenting anaology. It is so very true! The book sounds fantastic. I’d like to see how this plays out with her anandonment issues. I would love to read it.
Thanks for stopping by, Perrianne.
I like reading about independent women with something to prove.
Oooh, my kind of reader, Jan!
I love reading books about the state where I live! It looks really good!
Oooh, a fellow Coloradan!