My Mary is a highly educated, liberated, twenty-first century woman who made curiosity her sacrament. Her favorite question is why, and no matter what, she is strong enough to keep her feet moving forward, despite the odds. In the end gets her man and discovers some new things about herself.
In the story, Robert’s fiancée Mary was also strong, but seems opinionated, narrow, unkind, selfish, and spoiled. I wanted to make the two Marys as opposite as I could. Of course, we are all hoping that twenty-first century Mary bonds with, and then falls in love with Robert, so they get their Happily-Ever-After (HEA). Though we never meet her, I wonder what happened to Colonial Mary. Did she end up in the twenty-first century and find her own HEA? I hope she does.
One final note. The Townsend orchard eradicator and friend of Major John Andre, Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe, is said to be the author of the first American Valentine, which he gave to Sally (Sarah) Townsend, one of Robert’s sisters. No wonder Robert was so unhappy with the British camped out in the Homestead.
Though a brute in his iron-fisted control over Oyster Bay, and throughout his other postings in the American Colonies, Lieutenant Colonel Simcoe returned to England at the end of the War for Independence. He was a Member of Parliament and later appointed as the first Governor of Upper Canada. He founded the City of York (later: Toronto), abolished slavery in Upper Canada, and established the English traditions such as trial by jury. He is revered in Canada as a great patriot and in the United States he is remembered as a barbarian.
I hope you enjoyed reading C1PHER as much as I enjoyed researching and writing it. I’m sad to say farewell to Mary and Robert for now, but there is always a possibility of another story.
And now, dear Reader, I also bid you, adieu. Until the next time.
A word from the author…
I’m a forever student with a boatload of degrees, a published author, college professor, a book reviewer, a swimwear designer, costume designer and historian. All of these experiences have combined with my passion for reading and writing about the historical past of Italy, England and the U.S. I work as an assistant editor for the Compleat Anachronist, a periodical of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) and I review fiction and non-fiction for the Historical Novel Society. As a long-time member of the Romance Writers of America (RWA), I have served as a former President of the Long Island (New York) chapter (LIRWA).
My American Colonial-era Romance, C1PHER, is my first with The Wild Rose Press.
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