Hope C. Tarr – författare

In Scribbling Women and the Real-Life Romance Heroes Who Love Them, twenty-eight romance fiction writers reveal their real-life stories of how they met, wed and love—and are loved and supported by—their spouses and life partners. At times whimsical and laugh-out-loud funny (Jacquie D'Alessandro's Donny & Me?, Nikoo and Jim McGoldrick's Soul Mates for a Thousand Lifetimes), at others poignant and bittersweet (Elf Ahearn's A Lost Friend, A Movie Star, A Man to Love Forever), all unfailingly inspiring (Lisa Renée Jones's Unexpected Treasures; Deanna Raybourn's Once in a Blue Moon), each essay celebrates that most powerful and sacred of human bonds.Love.Happily Ever After isn't only the stuff of romance novels and fairy tales. It is every woman's birthright.Contributors:• Deanna Raybourn• May McGoldrick• Jacquie D'Alessandro• Lisa Renée Jones• Julie Kenner• Katharine Ashe• Donna Grant• Patience Bloom• Leslie Carroll• Katana Collins• Suzan Colón• Elf Ahearn• Carole Bellacera• Caryn Moya Block• Sonali Dev• Carlene Love Flores• Megan Frampton• Leanna Renee Hieber• K.M. Jackson• Delilah Marvelle• Jen McLaughlin• Heather McCollum• Cindy Nord• Mary Rodgers• Kat Simons• Sara Jane Stone• Elisabeth Staab• Hope Tarr

Aran Islands, 1898. Rose O'Neill learns that her beloved brother Donal has died fighting in the Spanish-American war. The news is followed by Donal's comrade-in-arms, Adam Blakely, who arrives a month later on Kilronan's scenic shores. He's come to return Rose's letters. Letters that Adam has re-read a hundred times. Two weeks stretch into two glorious months, then Adam's father falls ill, and he's summoned home to New York. He leaves Rose with the memory of a beautiful night and the promise of marriage. Yet Rose's eighteenth birthday comes and goes, and she doesn't hear a word. Unable to ignore the child growing inside of her, she leaves the only home she's ever known, clutching Adam's address. But in New York's crowded harbor, she's met with a cruel awakening. Penniless, pregnant, and alone in a foreign city, Rose must ford through sweatshops, Lower East Side tenements, and personal tragedy, before she can let go of her first love and hope for a second chance with a good, steady man. Then, just as Rose makes peace with her past, changes nobody could have foreseen threaten to topple the life for which she has sacrificed so much.

TRAVEL FROM IRELAND TO NEW YORK IN THIS COMPELLING HISTORICAL ROMANCE OF HEARTBREAK AND SECOND CHANCES SET IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY.Aran Islands, 1898.Rose O'Neill learns that her beloved brother Donal has died fighting in the Spanish-American war.The news is followed by Donal's comrade-in-arms, Adam Blakely, who arrives a month later on Kilronan's scenic shores. He's come to return Rose's letters. Letters that Adam has re-read a hundred times.Two weeks stretch into two glorious months, then Adam's father falls ill, and he's summoned home to New York.He leaves Rose with the memory of a beautiful night and the promise of marriage. Yet Rose's eighteenth birthday comes and goes, and she doesn't hear a word.Unable to ignore the child growing inside of her, she leaves the only home she's ever known, clutching Adam's address. But in New York's crowded harbor, she's met with a cruel awakening.Penniless, pregnant, and alone in a foreign city, Rose must ford through sweatshops, Lower East Side tenements, and personal tragedy, before she can let go of her first love and hope for a second chance with a good, steady man.Then, just as Rose makes peace with her past, changes nobody could have foreseen threaten to topple the life for which she has sacrificed so much.