Let me set the scene: Hattie is traveling with a family to California via wagon train. She's grown up in a local orphanage and nabbed the job of helping out with the three small Franklin children as her way to escape and get a life of her own. Billy Monroe has also been hired by to accompany the family, adding extra security and assistance for the mister. Of course, Hattie is naive and inexperienced, and Billy has been on his own for quite a while. Right when they are discovering the pleasantries of keeping company, another young man shows up and threatens to stop their romance dead in its tracks.
Here are my six sentences:
He sauntered
into camp, rivaling Billy in every way. Sun kissed skin, dark hair, broad
shoulders, narrow waist…even the rugged good looks. Rather than sky blue
eyes, sparkling chocolate ones peered from beneath the dust-powdered brim of
his hat. The light reflected from the gold star pinned to his shirt. Hattie
slid Zachary off her hip and stood him on the ground. She smoothed her
skirt with dampened palms and flashed a nervous grin. “H-hello.”
If you want to read more, visit Six Sentence Sunday and click on the authors' links. You're bound to get addicted. Thanks for coming back this week and I hope you'll come back again. I can't wait to finish Hattie's store and share it. I already have a stunning cover and I'll be sharing that too as I get closer to completion.
Oh I so get what you mean about falling out with your heroine. But I loved your offering this week.
ReplyDeleteOh my, Hattie's gonna have her pick of 'em!
ReplyDeleteErm, may I borrow him for a while? Please? Great six! :)
ReplyDeleteSomebody seems smitten. Great six!
ReplyDeleteJ.C.
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I'll take him if she doesn't want him.
ReplyDeleteBlogspot is messing with me today. The anonymous comment is from me, Elaine Cantrell
ReplyDeleteOh I really do want to read more! Wonderful six!
ReplyDeleteWow, she seems quick to jump on the new guy... guess she isn't naive as we'd like to think ;)
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