Thursday 1 February 2018

Otto's Offer




ZINA ABBOTT is the pen name used by Robyn Echols for her adult Golden Oaks series which includes Family Secrets, the first book in the series, and her historical novels.

Except for the first year of her life, Robyn has lived in California. She started her young life in San Diego and has had gradually moved northward. She has been writing since she was in junior high school.

After working several jobs, including that of being a rural carrier and union steward for the California Rural Letter Carriers' Association, she has spent years learning and teaching family history topics. She enjoys focusing on history from a genealogist's perspective by seeking out the details of everyday life in the past. Several of her family history articles have been published in genealogy magazines.

She resides with her husband in California near the "Gateway to Yosemite." When she is not piecing together novel plots and characters, she enjoys piecing together quilt blocks.



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In 1868, Otto Atwell has a 160 acre homestead near Abilene, Kansas and a limp as a result of an arrow shot in his low back while with the 16th Kansas Cavalry on the Powder River Expedition in 1865. What he doesn’t have is a wife. Then again, what woman would want to marry a cripple? 

Libby Jones comes to Junction City as a mail order bride. Not only does the man who sent for her reject her, he tries to sell her to the local brothel to recoup his fee. Otto offers to marry her, but she rejects him in favor of a job with his relatives. 

Will Otto’s offer still stand when trouble from Libby’s past catches up with her?







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Snippet:

Otto could tell he needed to come to his brother’s rescue. “Thank you, Henry. I appreciate what you did.” He faced to his father. “Try to not be too hard on him, Pa. I think he did use good judgment. He held his fire until it was clear that man intended to charge me and Libby with the knife and do bodily harm, but he didn’t wait so long he and I were upon each other and Henry couldn’t hit him without risking me.”

            Henry stood a little taller after Otto’s defense, but still he turned to his father for approval.


            Otto waited while his father, with a bemused expression, looked between his two sons. Otto knew part of the problem was that the words “Henry” and “good judgment” didn’t normally go together in the same sentence.



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