Thanks to Book Strand for releasing the rights to my historical Western, A Midwest Summer Night's Dream.
I've spent the past few weeks revising the novella and creating a new cover (sorry their clothing isn't historical. I could find no good images portraying that time period).
The new title is The Taming of the Mountain Man.
You might notice that both titles are a play on Shakespeare's stories, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Taming of the Shrew. Both the hero and heroine are fans of The Bard, and their mutual love of literature is one of the many reasons they fall in love with one another.
Here's the blurb:
Open sky, Shakespeare, solitude - everything Jebediah Greene needs.
Alone since his teens, he’s never known loneliness, until he leaves Winona
Young in California. Worse, he fears she’ll trap herself in a loveless marriage
of convenience. After acting as her guide to San Francisco, how far will Jeb go
to win her heart?
Reading provides escape for Winona Young. Usually. Fleeing
Philadelphia, she learns her distant suitor isn’t who he seemed. Neither is her
mountain man guide, in a good way. Intelligent, but mule-headed, Jeb’s
impossible to speak to, in any language. Winona falls in love with the stunning
beauty of the wilderness, with the simple ways of the Osage people, and with
Jeb. But books can’t teach her how to tame a mountain man.
The hero's name is a nod to one of my ancestors, who was a French Canadian fur trapper in the 1800s. His name was Peter LeVert, which in America became Peter Green. My grandmother's maiden name was Nettie Green. It's fun to include little personal details in stories.
I found it really interesting to research the Osage tribe, too.
If you read the revised version, I hope you enjoy it!
Available now on Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/938323
