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A New Sinclair Island Romance

Dinny’s Challenge: The First Three Chapters

Hilary Walker

‘Dinny’s Challenge’ will be ready to launch at the end of February but you can take a sneak peek at the first three chapters!

Dinny’s Challenge – the first three chapters

I hope you enjoy reading them.

See you on launch day!

WHAT’S THE BOOK ABOUT?

Running into her former fiancé forces Dinny to face her cowardice towards him decades earlier.

Dinny gave Grant back his ring and married the man who was accusing him of fraud.

Now widowed, she attends a wedding on Sinclair Island and unexpectedly runs into her ex-fiancé – three decades after he moved away.

Dinny’s beloved mare is about to go blind and Grant meets with her to suggest an unorthodox solution for saving the horse’s sight. But his girlfriend becomes determined to keep the once engaged couple apart and extracts a promise from Dinny not to interfere in her relationship with him.

Dinny realizes she’s falling in love with Grant again. Problem is, he’s a crook and her deceased husband’s arch-enemy. And she’s given her word to stay away from him.

Grant never stopped loving her, and a nearly fatal incident with a horse gives him the unexpected opportunity to clear his name.

When Dinny discovers the real criminal’s identity, she is faced with the sordid truth that her marriage was based on a lie.

Can Grant forgive her for believing the wrong man? Can she forgive herself – or her late husband?

Under pressure from Grant, she admits her true feelings, she then tells him that she mustn’t give into them. Angry and disappointed, he walks out on her.

Soon afterwards, he risks his life to save his girlfriend and Dinny knows she’s truly lost him.

Her life will be unbearable without him and she has to get him back.

But how?

Here’s that link again:

Dinny’s Challenge – the first three chapters

Over 50s Romance Fiction, Second Chance Romance, Women's Contemporary Romance

“Dinny’s Challenge”: a Fresh Start

Hilary Walker

It’s been interesting to discover that an author friend of mine, who is way more successful than me, is having the same trouble with her current novel as I am. We both suffer from a difficulty to move on from the hero in our previous book to the next one.

Grant didn’t own a horse in the first version. He’s quite a bit older than Fulton in ‘Saving Prophecy’ and his only sport was golf. I hadn’t realized how boring he was until I decided to make him the owner of a beautiful grey gelding. After all, the horses make the book, don’t they?

Dinny’s Challenge is proving a real challenge!

That immediately gave him a snazzier car, an interesting extra hobby, and he is also a member of the volunteer emergency services on the island. I shan’t say which one, but no, he’s not a fireman.

Which brought me to Dinny, who needed spicing up, too. She was under her husband’s thumb for many years, but broke out of her shell after his death. I wasn’t conveying that, apart from having her fulfill her lifelong dream of buying a horse. Now she’s up to all sorts of things, and I’m having a hard time keeping up with her!

Wish me luck as I follow the tricky romance between the two of them.

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Saving Prophecy

Hilary Walker

Over the past few weeks I’ve been busy writing a romance novel inspired by a recent trip to Daufuskie Island with a friend who was giving a riding clinic at Haig Point Stables.

Two things struck me during my visit.

One was the peaceful atmosphere: the only permissible vehicles on the plantation are golf carts.

The other was that two ladies at the barn had met their Mr. Right on the small island. What were the odds? I wondered.

My writer’s brain shot into overdrive and on my return to the mainland – read Hilton Head Island 😉 – I began scribbling down a story woven around events on fictitious Sinclair Island.

My little isle has cars on it – I couldn’t quite wrap my head around a romance conducted in golf carts! Maybe in a later book.

The result is ‘Saving Prophecy,’ and the novel is going through its final edits before I announce a publishing date. I thought it was going to be a standalone book, but the plots for a second and third one wouldn’t leave me alone so I’ve already outlined them both.

‘Saving Prophecy’ will now be the first of the Sinclair Island Romance Series.

The first draft of Laura Harper’s first trilogy book is complete, and I shall resume edits as soon as I am certain of where the next two novels in the series are headed. Writing romance has been a fun interlude which is helping to keep things fresh when I go back to the Harper family.

Today I am revealing the cover, and as the launch date draws closer, I shall disclose a few details about the plot!