Luke Blackmon's Rose
by Mary Patterson Thornburg
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GENRE: Adult Romance (w/science-fantasy)
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BLURB:
To
guard herself from the perils of her own sensuality, Rose married a man she
didn’t love. Now, two years after his death, she’s not sure she can really love
anyone. She’s not even sure she cares…
To achieve what he’d always known was his birthright, Luke had to struggle
against tremendous odds. But when science discovered a way to access the past,
a powerful bureaucracy found a way to use Luke. Now, torn from his own time,
everything and everyone he knew, he can see no reason to go on living…
An instant of attraction, uninvited but inescapable, brings Luke and Rose
together. Together, they discover the strength to love, the will to trust and
hope. But will these things be enough to carry them over walls of suspicion,
guilt, bigotry, and hate?
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Excerpt One:
And then the air in the room changed. There was a tingling,
a sort of buzzing not quite within the range of human hearing. She thought,
briefly, of what she'd read somewhere about the feeling people get in a
thunderstorm when they're about to be struck by lightning. She wasn't sure
anyone felt it but herself. Mira, who'd gotten up to look in the refrigerator
for something, was apparently undisturbed. But then she saw Kingsley's
expression change as he glanced past her toward the living room portion of the
greatroom, and she heard—or perhaps felt—soft footsteps behind her. She spun
around.
Where the living room carpet ended, maybe three yards from
where she sat, stood a very tall, very dark, broad-shouldered man. He was
barefoot, dressed in black sweats. She saw him clearly for a fraction of a second
before the lightning bolt she'd felt coming struck. In that fraction of a
second, she realized why Mira had looked familiar to her. And realized, too,
what had been going on with Kingsley since the turn their discussion had taken
that evening—if not before. In that fraction of a second, she knew who she was
looking at.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
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Mary Patterson Thornburg has lived in California, Washington State, Montana, Indiana, and again, finally, in Montana. She was educated at Holy Names College, Montana State University, and Ball State University, where she then taught for many years. She's been reading science fiction and fantasy since she was five, and when she began to write fiction it seemed only natural to write in those genres. Her literary heroes are Mary Shelley, who gave us all a metaphor for technology alienated from its creators, and Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia E. Butler, inventors of worlds that shine their powerful searchlights on this one. She writes what some people call “science fantasy” (aka “fake science fiction) within as wide a range as possible, but almost always with a bit (or a lot) of romance.
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ReplyDeleteThank you for hosting my book today. I'm sorry you didn't feel able to give it a positive review, but I admire your honesty.
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DeleteThis sounds like a good read.
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DeleteLuke Blackmon's Rose sounds like a story that I will enjoy reading and I am looking forward to doing so. If given the chance, would you like to see your story made into a movie and if so, who do you want to see in the starring roles?
ReplyDeleteBea ~ What an interesting question. I was actually thinking about this last night. Of all my books and stories, I think this one might be made into a really good movie. But what about the cast?! This is going to show my age. The characters in the book are in their early thirties (Luke and Rose) and (Mira and Kingsley) in their middle-to-late twenties -- Kingsley is 25, Mira two or three years older (I've got this written down, including their birthdays, somewhere... ). But I automatically think of actors who are maybe twenty years (give or take a couple) older than that. So -- if Kate Winslet and Idris Elba were fifteen years younger than they actually are, I think they'd be perfect for Luke and Rose. And if Queen Latifah were twenty years younger, she would really be a killer Mira. (Or, maybe my second choice only because I've already cast two English actors in American roles...) Ibinabo Jack, who's recently been playing a detective on the British cop show "Vera." As for Kingsley, I haven't cast him yet... he's gotta look young, very handsome, not a big, tall man, but with a lot of presence.... And Joyce? Hmmm... Ha! Thanks for asking!
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