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The Story Behind the Story: Tammy Barley shares how she created characters for Love's Rescue
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I recently asked author Tammy Barley to tell us a bit about the story behind her story, Love's Rescue. Here's what she had to say:
I chose most of my male character descriptions (ranchmen and other men of Nevada Territory), and partly their personalities, based on actual black-and-white Civil War photos of men who fought, some who died, in the Civil War. A photo of one soldier, Isaac I. Stevens, gripped me in a Somewhere in Time way that I just couldn’t get out of my head.
Sadly, the man died at Chantilly on September 1, 1862. He was still young, and yet there’s directness and intensity in his face that tell me he was prepared to fight for what was right, no matter what it cost him. By his expression, he may have sensed it would cost his life. He’s someone I would like to have known, and he’s someone whose life and sacrifice can now be remembered 150 years after he died, since though Love’s Rescue his memory lives on.
So I loved making this man into Ambrose, the heroine’s brother. I loved thinking of Ambrose as my own brother. That made writing his scenes and his character real to me. Ambrose’s character has touched others as well; a number of readers asked if I will be writing his story. I may.
About the book – Love's Rescue
A Dividing Conflict
In 1863, the War Between the States is dividing more than a nation. To escape the conflict, Jessica Hale and her family flee their Kentucky home and head for Nevada Territory. Her brother, Ambrose, committed to the Confederates, rejoins his Kentucky militia and is disowned by his father. But the worst is yet to come.
A Heroic Kidnapper
When Unionists presume the family to be Confederate sympathizers, they set a devastating fire to their home. All alone and then “kidnapped” by cattleman Jake Bennett, Jessica is taken to a ranch deep in the Sierra Nevada wilderness. Can she overcome her resentment toward Jake for failing to save her family?
The Depths of Love
When Jake launches a plan to help Jessica’s brother escape from prison camp, she sees him for the honest, good-hearted Christian man that he is and now knows the depth of his love for her. Through the lingering smoke and smoldering ashes from her ruined home and murdered family, will Jessica see a future with Jake?
For more information visit the Tammy Barley website. http://www.tammybarley.com/ There you’ll find a contest you can enter to win—get this—a one-week vacation for two to a Western guest ranch resort to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Includes the lodge stay, three phenomenal meals per day for two, and all the horses you can hug (yes, you also get to ride them)! Hurry, though—the drawing is only a couple of months away!
Love's Rescue
Paperback: 366 pages
Publisher: Whitaker House (June 4, 2009)
ISBN-10: 1603741089
ISBN-13: 978-1603741088
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