Fervent Charity (31 page)
Authors: Paulette Callen
About Paulette Callen
Paulette Callen’s first novel
Charity
was published by Simon and Schuster in 1997. Since then, she has written three other novels:
Command of Silence
,
Death Can Be Murder
, and
Fervent Charity
.
Her poems, articles, and short stories have appeared in small journals, magazines, and anthologies. The poem
“
See, Nadia!” was included
in Beyond Lament, Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust
(Northwestern University Press) and was subsequently selected by artist Carol Rosen for inclusion in her
Holocaust Series
, an eight-book collection of photo/text collages housed in the Whitney Museum, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and the University of Tel Aviv.
Paulette’s employment history includes the Communications Department of a large corporation, a movie theatre, a bank, the gift industry, the ASPCA, the insurance sector, as well as summer stock theatres and a year-long stint with a comedy improvisation company. For nearly four years, she served as a volunteer staff member for POWARS (Pet Owners with Aids Resource Services) in New York City.
After many years as a resident of Manhattan’s Upper West Side, she has returned, with her rescued blind Shih Tzu Lily, to her hometown in South Dakota.
Visit her website:
Charity
(revised edition)
Paulette Callen
ISBN 978-3-95533-076-7 (mobi); 978-3-95533-077-4 (epub)
364 pages
The friendship between Lena Kaiser, a sodbuster’s daughter, and Gustie Roemer, an educated Easterner, is unlikely in any other circumstance but post-frontier Charity, South Dakota. Gustie is considered an outsider, and Lena is too proud to share her problems (which include a hard-drinking husband) with anyone else.
On the nearby Sioux reservation, Gustie also finds love and family with two Dakotah women: Dorcas Many Roads, an old medicine woman, and her adopted granddaughter, Jordis, who bears the scars of the white man’s education.
When Lena’s husband is arrested for murdering his father and the secrets of Gustie’s past follow her to Charity, Lena, Gustie, and Jordis stand together. As buried horrors are unearthed and present tragedies unfold, they discover the strength and beauty of love and friendship that blossom like wild flowers in the tough prairie soil.
Backwards to Oregon
(revised and expanded edition)
Jae
ISBN: 978-3-95533-028-6 (mobi), 978-3-95533-027-9 (epub)
521 pages
“Luke” Hamilton has always been sure that she’d never marry. She accepted that she would spend her life alone when she chose to live her life disguised as a man.
After working in a brothel for three years, Nora Macauley has lost all illusions about love. She no longer hopes for a man who will sweep her off her feet and take her away to begin a new, respectable life.
But now they find themselves married and on the way to Oregon in a covered wagon, with two thousand miles ahead of them.
Beyond the Trail
Jae
ISBN: 978-3-95533-069-9 (mobi), 978-3-95533-070-5 (epub)
136 pages
“Luke” Hamilton has always been sure that she’d never marry. She accepted that she would spend her life alone when she chose to live her life disguised as a man.
After working in a brothel for three years, Nora Macauley has lost all illusions about love. She no longer hopes for a man who will sweep her off her feet and take her away to begin a new, respectable life.
But now they find themselves married and on the way to Oregon in a covered wagon, with two thousand miles ahead of them.
Kicker’s Journey
(second edition)
Lois Cloarec Hart
ISBN: 978-3-95533-057-6 (mobi), 978-3-95533-058-3 (epub)
472 pages
In 1899, two women from very different backgrounds are about to embark on a journey together—one that will take them from the Old World to the New, from the 19th century into the 20th, and from the comfort and familiarity of England to the rigours of Western Canada, where challenges await at every turn.
The journey begins simply for Kicker Stuart when she leaves her home village to take employment as hostler and farrier at Grindleshire Academy for Young Ladies. But when Kicker falls in love with a teacher, Madelyn Bristow, it radically alters the course of her tranquil life.
Together, the lovers flee the brutality of Madelyn’s father and the prejudices of upper crust England in search of freedom to live, and love, as they choose. A journey as much of the heart and soul as of the body, it will find the lovers struggling against the expectations of gender, the oppression of class, and even, at times, each other.
What they find at the end of their journey is not a new Eden, but a land of hope and opportunity that offers them the chance to live out their most cherished dream—a life together.
Hidden Truths
(revised edition)
Jae
“Luke” Hamilton has been living as a husband and father for the past seventeen years. No one but her wife, Nora, knows she is not the man she appears to be. They have raised their daughters to become honest and hard-working young women, but even with their loving foundation, Amy and Nattie are hiding their own secrets.
Just as Luke sets out on a dangerous trip to Fort Boise, a newcomer arrives on the ranch—Rika Aaldenberg, who traveled to Oregon as a mail-order bride, hiding that she’s not the woman in the letters.
When hidden truths are revealed, will their lives and their family fall apart or will love keep them together?
Fervent Charity
© by Paulette Callen
ISBN (mobi): 978-3-95533-080-4
ISBN (epub): 978-3-95533-081-1
Also available as paperback.
Published by Ylva Publishing, legal entity of Ylva Verlag, e.Kfr.
Ylva Verlag, e.Kfr.
Owner: Astrid Ohletz
Am Kirschgarten 2
65830 Kriftel
Germany
http://www.ylva-publishing.com
First Edition: November 2013
Credits:
Edited by Judy Underwood and Cheri Fuller
Cover Design by Streetlight Graphics
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, events, and locations are
fictitious or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons or events,
living or dead, is entirely coincidental. Charity and the Red Sand Reservation
are real places only in the author’s imagination.
All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any
form without permission.