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What I’ve been working on! I am in various stages of edits with each story. All have a first draft, some are in edits, and some are at critique partners. I hope to have 2 release in the year 2018. I hope you enjoyed reading the drafted blurp on each of them, if you would like to be a beta reader or critique partner with any of these stories, please contact me at bretesc@gmail.com and I can tell you where I am with the story and what I need. Thanks so much for visiting!
The Christmas Ballet
Today, I'm adding an excerpt from a very rough draft of this story for you. I hope you enjoy it and will look forward to reading the whole book at Christmas time!
“On the nineteenth, the law firm is hosting the annual Christmas party. It’s quite grandeur and lasts all evening long.”
“You want me to be sure and be available to babysit Maria,” Laura said.
“No. I want you to plan to come with me.”
“What?”
“Remember that beautiful green velvet dress we saw at Macy’s? I want you to get that dress, and the accessories to go with it, and attend this party with me.”
“Stefan, really. You know I don’t do those things. I don’t wear those kinds of clothes, and I’m not comfortable in either.”
“You need to get comfortable.” He smiled.
“This is not a part of a job for the nanny and teacher. It’s out of the range of a job description. You need to get Ginger to go with you. I’m not going.” She gave him a defiant look.
“Laura, I want to take you to this event. I’m not taking no for an answer. I will arrange for Rhonda to take you shopping to help you get what you need. You will charge all the purchases to a credit card I will give you, for your use only. This is the first of many social parties you will be attending.”
He watched her as she clenched her hands into fists and released them.
“Who do you think you will get to care for Maria on these…occasions?”
“Usually Lillian is available.”
“Stefan, It’s my job to care for Maria, not be your date to your parties. I don’t like being told what I will or won’t do, I don’t like social parties, and I don’t like wearing expensive clothes. It’s not me and you’re not going to change me.”
“I don’t want to change you. I want you to attend by my side to an event. It won’t hurt you to have some beautiful clothing, to show your feminine side. I want the world to see the beauty I see. Be glad I want to show you off. Some men might decide they don’t want others to see what they see.”
“Flattery doesn’t work with me. You can tell me what to do as far as Maria is concerned, but my personal life is off limits to you.”
“That’s good to know, at least I know you won’t get carried away and escape my grasp. Your personal life interests me.”
“Stefan, you just don’t get it. I. am. not. going. to. this. party, besides your mother would be horrified to see me walk in with you.” Her face harden as she stared at him.
“Look at it this way. You’d be doing me a big favor.”
“How?” She stared at him.
“I’m not interested in the other women that come to this social party looking for an eligible bachelor. With you on my arm, it would send a clear message to all the others that I’m taken.”
“God, you’re impossible. Ginger is more than capable of providing you that kind of service.”
“I don’t want Ginger. You have the grace, quiet beauty, and finesse I want in a date, and I will not take no for an answer. After Maria’s recital, You and Rhonda will set a shopping date. And, one more thing. When you get your hair done, I’d like you to wear it down.” He smiled at her.
“This is not going to happen.” She put her hands on her hips and glared at him in defiant.
“It will. I’ll just have Maria work on you.” He eyed her.
“What?” She yelled at him.
Stefan smiled. “You heard me. You’d never turn down anything from Maria.”
“Grrrr.” She growled and stomped up the stairs.
He laced his hands and put them behind his head, smiling. Oh yeah, it’ll be a night she’ll never forget.
Roadside Love
Lt. Aaron Mansfield was called out to his father’s ranch to investigate the bone that a dog dug up on the Mansfield’s Ranch. After looking over the bone, he called into the Maverick County Sheriff department and requested a detective to come out to investigate. What he never expected, was who they sent out to him.
Liz Grey returned to Maverick County, after she’d been fired from her job as police officer turned detective in L.A., and the apparent ‘sloppy’ police work she had done. She’d been hired by Maverick County Sheriff with a year’s probation and a threat, hanging over her head.
The attraction between Liz and Aaron continued to sizzle and develop as they investigate the 12 year old murder of a young woman named Abby Newell. However, Aaron continues to have issues with Liz and the fact that she left him all those years ago.
Things are never as they seemed, and what she found might cost Liz her life. Will Aaron rescue her in time?
Elkhorn In The Moonlight
Marcus Blackhawk was on a mission. With a well-known law firm, and as a full time father of a five year old, Marcus wanted to get this mission completed so he could return home to his son and his law practice. He’d been given a mission by the Cheyenne Tribal Chief to find the missing Sacred Arrows, and had received a tip that a woman in Mason, Montana, claimed to have seen the arrows in a cave.
Nicole Lancaster was a young woman who had lived a sheltered life in the small town of Mason. She and her dog, Sierra, lived on a motel premises with her brother and his wife. She loved taking Sierra and hiking in the Elkhorn Mountains whenever she could get away.
Marcus meets Nicole, and there is instant attraction. Nicole takes him into Elkhorn Mountains, to the area where she saw the arrows. During their hiking trip, they become more and more attracted to each other.
However, can a romance and lifetime relationship survive between an experience, worldly well-known lawyer and a small town virgin? After one night of passion while trapped in a cave, something new comes up that neither of them were prepared for.
Will this new piece of information bring the two of them back together?
Rocky River Gold
Meghan Harper left her abusive ex-husband and returned to her hometown, Rocky River, Montana and to her only relative, her aunt. She rebuilt her life and opened a beauty salon, and all was going well, until she came to her aunt’s house and found her dead on the floor.
Deputy Javin Kologie was investigating the death of Meghan’s aunt, Doris Carver. He’d been an officer for a long time, and dealt with people who didn’t want to have anything to do with him, but his frustration with Meghan Harper was growing in epic proportions.
While Deputy Kologie continued to investigate the murder of Meghan’s aunt, she had discovered from her aunt’s last will and testament, that someone left her something, and that something was hidden in a mine shaft inside an old ghost town. She and her aunt’s friend began a search down the mine shaft to discover what was hidden.
Even as Javin and Meghan’s feelings began to grow, he knew she was keeping something from him and she was often evasive, never answering all her questions.
People you trust are not always what they seem. Meghan gets trapped in the mine shaft, can Javin rescue her in time?
The Midnight Escape
Jax Devereaux is a commercial fisherman with two crab vessels. He’s spent his whole life around the Bering Sea. He ran the business with his father all his childhood life, until he entered the U.S. Coast Guard. After serving his time, he returned and took over the family business from his father.
Suzanne Pacheco is an R.N. on the run. She is being hunted down by the New York mafia after witnessing a mob hit murder and testifying in court. She managed to escape to a small town in Alaska and thought she was safe.
One day Jax got deathly sick and ended up in the hospital with Suzanne taking care of him. After his release, she wheeled him to his vehicle outside the hospital, and the hunt started all over again. She was totally unprepared for her next less than fun life misadventure on Jax’s crab boat out in the middle of the Bering Sea.
Despite the uncomfortable circumstances on the crab boat, the chemistry between Jax and Suzanne continue to grow.
Will Jax be able to help her get the mob off her back and let her live a normal life again, or will he lose his life trying to save her?
The Fire Within
Jacklyn Carver was so tired, she left and headed back to Montana for a two weeks vacation from her family and the family business she ran. She’d given up her dream to be a Game Warden and living with Gerald in Montana. She ventured out on her first day at her grandparents cabin and she didn’t expect she’d ended up spraining her ankle while on a hike near the cabin.
Gerald Longhorn had given up on love and finding a partner after Jacklyn left him years ago to return to her family in Michigan. He lived a lonely life as FWP Warden Sergeant and manage eleven FWP wardens around Flathead National Forest. He couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw Jacklyn, struggling to walk in the middle of the Flathead National Forest, with a forest fire looming around them.
After rescuing her, Gerald rekindled his relationship with her, while helping her to enjoy her time on crutches, during her vacation.
The lure of responsibility called Jacklyn back to reality and to Michigan. But the more she tried to bury herself into the business her father left for her before he died, the more unhappy she became.
Will she make the decision to do what she’s always wanted to do and this time, will Gerald take her back?
Moonlight Path
Brianna returned home from New York with a broken heart. Facilitating a high school class reunion, she met up with her former love, Johnny Mathis.
Johnny Mathis had resigned from medicine after a tragic event left him unsure if he could ever make the right diagnosis in the future and practice medicine. He loved children and treating them, but the tragedy left him scarred and reeling. He spent most of his time in her sailboat, sailing Lake Michigan.
Seeing Brianna again sparked an interest in him, and they slowly rekindled their relationship. However, someone else was having a hard time with their relationship. Someone was leaving a white rose on Brianna’s steps every day, and trying to kill Johnny.
Brianna’s best friend, Susan, a cop in Grand Haven, and Johnny’s brother, Nick, an FBI agent and profiler, began to investigate the events surrounding Johnny and Brianna.
While Nick and Susan are in a race against time, will Johnny be able to save Brianna from a madman bent on killing him and keeping Brianna for himself?
The Potter’s Wheel
Caitlin McCallester was a potter and owner of a small home she converted to her pottery business. She owned a piece of land that was once under the ownership of the Malone family. A piece of property that Jason Malone was planning to get back.
After many attempts to get Caitlin to move out of the house and give up the property, Caitlyn arranged for a friend to come out to the property that ran along the river, and see if there were gold hidden in the ground.
She finds out what Jason had been up to, and more than ever, she was determined she’d hold on to her property and her house.
One day she found out what Jason was up to, and got into an argument with him. She returned to her home to find it on fire. She went into the burning house and got her dog Sophie when she fell and hit her head on the counter. She suffered from amnesia, and Jason insisted she stay with him while she recovered.
Jason’s ex-girlfriend helped Caitlyn ‘remember’ everything, and she left Jason’s place and went to her friend place to live. Both realized their love for each other, and eventually, Caitlyn forgave Jason and agreed to marry him.
Montana Winter
Constanze Clemmings wanted revenge. She wanted justice for the way that Gerald Longhorn left her and broke her heart.
Gerald had worked his way up in the rehabilitation services department to deputy director, and Constanze managed to get promoted as well, but not in the high position that he had. After problems with some employees and getting everyone straightened out, Constanze ended up working under Gerald’s supervision and leadership.
He manages to convince Constanze to go to the Christmas Ball with him at the State Capitol. After attending the ball, they returned to her place. After a night of passionate lovemaking, Constanze continued on with her plan of revenge, and left him heartbroken, just as he did to her.
Instead of feeling good about her revenge, as she had hoped, she felt worst.
One day, one of boys living with Gerald had an accident, she took the opportunity to go to him. Could she make amends for how she broke his heart, and when she realized the reasons he’d left her, can she even forgive herself?
The Christmas Ballet
Today, I'm adding an excerpt from a very rough draft of this story for you. I hope you enjoy it and will look forward to reading the whole book at Christmas time!
“On the nineteenth, the law firm is hosting the annual Christmas party. It’s quite grandeur and lasts all evening long.”
“You want me to be sure and be available to babysit Maria,” Laura said.
“No. I want you to plan to come with me.”
“What?”
“Remember that beautiful green velvet dress we saw at Macy’s? I want you to get that dress, and the accessories to go with it, and attend this party with me.”
“Stefan, really. You know I don’t do those things. I don’t wear those kinds of clothes, and I’m not comfortable in either.”
“You need to get comfortable.” He smiled.
“This is not a part of a job for the nanny and teacher. It’s out of the range of a job description. You need to get Ginger to go with you. I’m not going.” She gave him a defiant look.
“Laura, I want to take you to this event. I’m not taking no for an answer. I will arrange for Rhonda to take you shopping to help you get what you need. You will charge all the purchases to a credit card I will give you, for your use only. This is the first of many social parties you will be attending.”
He watched her as she clenched her hands into fists and released them.
“Who do you think you will get to care for Maria on these…occasions?”
“Usually Lillian is available.”
“Stefan, It’s my job to care for Maria, not be your date to your parties. I don’t like being told what I will or won’t do, I don’t like social parties, and I don’t like wearing expensive clothes. It’s not me and you’re not going to change me.”
“I don’t want to change you. I want you to attend by my side to an event. It won’t hurt you to have some beautiful clothing, to show your feminine side. I want the world to see the beauty I see. Be glad I want to show you off. Some men might decide they don’t want others to see what they see.”
“Flattery doesn’t work with me. You can tell me what to do as far as Maria is concerned, but my personal life is off limits to you.”
“That’s good to know, at least I know you won’t get carried away and escape my grasp. Your personal life interests me.”
“Stefan, you just don’t get it. I. am. not. going. to. this. party, besides your mother would be horrified to see me walk in with you.” Her face harden as she stared at him.
“Look at it this way. You’d be doing me a big favor.”
“How?” She stared at him.
“I’m not interested in the other women that come to this social party looking for an eligible bachelor. With you on my arm, it would send a clear message to all the others that I’m taken.”
“God, you’re impossible. Ginger is more than capable of providing you that kind of service.”
“I don’t want Ginger. You have the grace, quiet beauty, and finesse I want in a date, and I will not take no for an answer. After Maria’s recital, You and Rhonda will set a shopping date. And, one more thing. When you get your hair done, I’d like you to wear it down.” He smiled at her.
“This is not going to happen.” She put her hands on her hips and glared at him in defiant.
“It will. I’ll just have Maria work on you.” He eyed her.
“What?” She yelled at him.
Stefan smiled. “You heard me. You’d never turn down anything from Maria.”
“Grrrr.” She growled and stomped up the stairs.
He laced his hands and put them behind his head, smiling. Oh yeah, it’ll be a night she’ll never forget.
Roadside Love
Lt. Aaron Mansfield was called out to his father’s ranch to investigate the bone that a dog dug up on the Mansfield’s Ranch. After looking over the bone, he called into the Maverick County Sheriff department and requested a detective to come out to investigate. What he never expected, was who they sent out to him.
Liz Grey returned to Maverick County, after she’d been fired from her job as police officer turned detective in L.A., and the apparent ‘sloppy’ police work she had done. She’d been hired by Maverick County Sheriff with a year’s probation and a threat, hanging over her head.
The attraction between Liz and Aaron continued to sizzle and develop as they investigate the 12 year old murder of a young woman named Abby Newell. However, Aaron continues to have issues with Liz and the fact that she left him all those years ago.
Things are never as they seemed, and what she found might cost Liz her life. Will Aaron rescue her in time?
Elkhorn In The Moonlight
Marcus Blackhawk was on a mission. With a well-known law firm, and as a full time father of a five year old, Marcus wanted to get this mission completed so he could return home to his son and his law practice. He’d been given a mission by the Cheyenne Tribal Chief to find the missing Sacred Arrows, and had received a tip that a woman in Mason, Montana, claimed to have seen the arrows in a cave.
Nicole Lancaster was a young woman who had lived a sheltered life in the small town of Mason. She and her dog, Sierra, lived on a motel premises with her brother and his wife. She loved taking Sierra and hiking in the Elkhorn Mountains whenever she could get away.
Marcus meets Nicole, and there is instant attraction. Nicole takes him into Elkhorn Mountains, to the area where she saw the arrows. During their hiking trip, they become more and more attracted to each other.
However, can a romance and lifetime relationship survive between an experience, worldly well-known lawyer and a small town virgin? After one night of passion while trapped in a cave, something new comes up that neither of them were prepared for.
Will this new piece of information bring the two of them back together?
Rocky River Gold
Meghan Harper left her abusive ex-husband and returned to her hometown, Rocky River, Montana and to her only relative, her aunt. She rebuilt her life and opened a beauty salon, and all was going well, until she came to her aunt’s house and found her dead on the floor.
Deputy Javin Kologie was investigating the death of Meghan’s aunt, Doris Carver. He’d been an officer for a long time, and dealt with people who didn’t want to have anything to do with him, but his frustration with Meghan Harper was growing in epic proportions.
While Deputy Kologie continued to investigate the murder of Meghan’s aunt, she had discovered from her aunt’s last will and testament, that someone left her something, and that something was hidden in a mine shaft inside an old ghost town. She and her aunt’s friend began a search down the mine shaft to discover what was hidden.
Even as Javin and Meghan’s feelings began to grow, he knew she was keeping something from him and she was often evasive, never answering all her questions.
People you trust are not always what they seem. Meghan gets trapped in the mine shaft, can Javin rescue her in time?
The Midnight Escape
Jax Devereaux is a commercial fisherman with two crab vessels. He’s spent his whole life around the Bering Sea. He ran the business with his father all his childhood life, until he entered the U.S. Coast Guard. After serving his time, he returned and took over the family business from his father.
Suzanne Pacheco is an R.N. on the run. She is being hunted down by the New York mafia after witnessing a mob hit murder and testifying in court. She managed to escape to a small town in Alaska and thought she was safe.
One day Jax got deathly sick and ended up in the hospital with Suzanne taking care of him. After his release, she wheeled him to his vehicle outside the hospital, and the hunt started all over again. She was totally unprepared for her next less than fun life misadventure on Jax’s crab boat out in the middle of the Bering Sea.
Despite the uncomfortable circumstances on the crab boat, the chemistry between Jax and Suzanne continue to grow.
Will Jax be able to help her get the mob off her back and let her live a normal life again, or will he lose his life trying to save her?
The Fire Within
Jacklyn Carver was so tired, she left and headed back to Montana for a two weeks vacation from her family and the family business she ran. She’d given up her dream to be a Game Warden and living with Gerald in Montana. She ventured out on her first day at her grandparents cabin and she didn’t expect she’d ended up spraining her ankle while on a hike near the cabin.
Gerald Longhorn had given up on love and finding a partner after Jacklyn left him years ago to return to her family in Michigan. He lived a lonely life as FWP Warden Sergeant and manage eleven FWP wardens around Flathead National Forest. He couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw Jacklyn, struggling to walk in the middle of the Flathead National Forest, with a forest fire looming around them.
After rescuing her, Gerald rekindled his relationship with her, while helping her to enjoy her time on crutches, during her vacation.
The lure of responsibility called Jacklyn back to reality and to Michigan. But the more she tried to bury herself into the business her father left for her before he died, the more unhappy she became.
Will she make the decision to do what she’s always wanted to do and this time, will Gerald take her back?
Moonlight Path
Brianna returned home from New York with a broken heart. Facilitating a high school class reunion, she met up with her former love, Johnny Mathis.
Johnny Mathis had resigned from medicine after a tragic event left him unsure if he could ever make the right diagnosis in the future and practice medicine. He loved children and treating them, but the tragedy left him scarred and reeling. He spent most of his time in her sailboat, sailing Lake Michigan.
Seeing Brianna again sparked an interest in him, and they slowly rekindled their relationship. However, someone else was having a hard time with their relationship. Someone was leaving a white rose on Brianna’s steps every day, and trying to kill Johnny.
Brianna’s best friend, Susan, a cop in Grand Haven, and Johnny’s brother, Nick, an FBI agent and profiler, began to investigate the events surrounding Johnny and Brianna.
While Nick and Susan are in a race against time, will Johnny be able to save Brianna from a madman bent on killing him and keeping Brianna for himself?
The Potter’s Wheel
Caitlin McCallester was a potter and owner of a small home she converted to her pottery business. She owned a piece of land that was once under the ownership of the Malone family. A piece of property that Jason Malone was planning to get back.
After many attempts to get Caitlin to move out of the house and give up the property, Caitlyn arranged for a friend to come out to the property that ran along the river, and see if there were gold hidden in the ground.
She finds out what Jason had been up to, and more than ever, she was determined she’d hold on to her property and her house.
One day she found out what Jason was up to, and got into an argument with him. She returned to her home to find it on fire. She went into the burning house and got her dog Sophie when she fell and hit her head on the counter. She suffered from amnesia, and Jason insisted she stay with him while she recovered.
Jason’s ex-girlfriend helped Caitlyn ‘remember’ everything, and she left Jason’s place and went to her friend place to live. Both realized their love for each other, and eventually, Caitlyn forgave Jason and agreed to marry him.
Montana Winter
Constanze Clemmings wanted revenge. She wanted justice for the way that Gerald Longhorn left her and broke her heart.
Gerald had worked his way up in the rehabilitation services department to deputy director, and Constanze managed to get promoted as well, but not in the high position that he had. After problems with some employees and getting everyone straightened out, Constanze ended up working under Gerald’s supervision and leadership.
He manages to convince Constanze to go to the Christmas Ball with him at the State Capitol. After attending the ball, they returned to her place. After a night of passionate lovemaking, Constanze continued on with her plan of revenge, and left him heartbroken, just as he did to her.
Instead of feeling good about her revenge, as she had hoped, she felt worst.
One day, one of boys living with Gerald had an accident, she took the opportunity to go to him. Could she make amends for how she broke his heart, and when she realized the reasons he’d left her, can she even forgive herself?
The Burn Factor
With this story, I won the National Novel Writing Month award for the most words. The story is somewhat autobiographical. The lyrics of Poor Little Allison by Gordon Lightfoot could certainly give insight into the kind of person that I was.
Poor little Allison standing in the night wind
Laughing out loud turning her face to the summer rain
Poor little Allison never had much going
Hard to forget, always in step with the world she's in
Never knowing, never feeling, showing so much pride
Never saying what she's thinking or feeling deep inside
Poor little Allison, dreaming of the right one
Laughing out loud, lost in a crowd of fair weather friends
Never knowing, never feeling, showing so much pride
Never saying what she's thinking or feeling deep inside
Poor little Allison, standing in the night wind
Wishing out loud, turning her face to the summer rain
Hard to forget, always in step with the world she's in
A young woman, named Allison, down on her luck, ends up in a small town looking for a place to stay. She comes upon a handsome native American named Christian, and she ends up living in his basement, as his house cleaner, and babysitter for his two sons. The relationship developed into love and marriage, but soon, things began to fall apart.
Allison had enough, and left Christian and moved to California. During her first couple of years there, she came to realized that she had an emotional problem. She had been diagnosed as bipolar manic depression. She began her regime of medications and the changes in her life became better, to the point she was working at the hospital.
One day, she was heading to work when there was a terrible accident. Allison ended up in the hospital’s burn center, with severe burns on her body. While she was unconscious, the medical staff found her contact information, and contacted her husband, Christian. Whom she’d never divorce. He came to L.A., and helped her with her recovery from the burns. He brought her back to their town where they lived, and she continued to heal. She developed an ability to understand and care for people who, like herself, went through the extremely painful healing process from severe burns and decided she’d like to go into nursing.
Even with Christian’s help and care for her burns, she was faced with incredible loneliness that only escalated because she had hurt Christian’s family before she left.
Can Allison and Christian rekindle their love for each other? Can his family ever forgive her for the pain she’s caused?
With this story, I won the National Novel Writing Month award for the most words. The story is somewhat autobiographical. The lyrics of Poor Little Allison by Gordon Lightfoot could certainly give insight into the kind of person that I was.
Poor little Allison standing in the night wind
Laughing out loud turning her face to the summer rain
Poor little Allison never had much going
Hard to forget, always in step with the world she's in
Never knowing, never feeling, showing so much pride
Never saying what she's thinking or feeling deep inside
Poor little Allison, dreaming of the right one
Laughing out loud, lost in a crowd of fair weather friends
Never knowing, never feeling, showing so much pride
Never saying what she's thinking or feeling deep inside
Poor little Allison, standing in the night wind
Wishing out loud, turning her face to the summer rain
Hard to forget, always in step with the world she's in
A young woman, named Allison, down on her luck, ends up in a small town looking for a place to stay. She comes upon a handsome native American named Christian, and she ends up living in his basement, as his house cleaner, and babysitter for his two sons. The relationship developed into love and marriage, but soon, things began to fall apart.
Allison had enough, and left Christian and moved to California. During her first couple of years there, she came to realized that she had an emotional problem. She had been diagnosed as bipolar manic depression. She began her regime of medications and the changes in her life became better, to the point she was working at the hospital.
One day, she was heading to work when there was a terrible accident. Allison ended up in the hospital’s burn center, with severe burns on her body. While she was unconscious, the medical staff found her contact information, and contacted her husband, Christian. Whom she’d never divorce. He came to L.A., and helped her with her recovery from the burns. He brought her back to their town where they lived, and she continued to heal. She developed an ability to understand and care for people who, like herself, went through the extremely painful healing process from severe burns and decided she’d like to go into nursing.
Even with Christian’s help and care for her burns, she was faced with incredible loneliness that only escalated because she had hurt Christian’s family before she left.
Can Allison and Christian rekindle their love for each other? Can his family ever forgive her for the pain she’s caused?
