CERISE AMOUR! Gem Sivad gets hotter!!
First,
let me say thank you for the opportunity to visit with you on An Avid Readers Haven
today.
I’m Gem Sivad and I write historical romance novels. I think I do this to test the limits of my female characters. The history books are filled with the accomplishments of men but little is said about how women shaped the nation as well.
In my Unlikely Gentlemen series I have encouraged my heroines to embrace
progressive ideas and demonstrate their ability to think independently. I have
no doubt such women were abundant in the early days of America’s history.
Cerise
Fitzwilliam was a walk-on character in Outrageous Pride. For such a small part,
she had a lot of impact on me as well as readers. I had so many questions about
her after that book ended I wrote a novella to explain.
I soon realized that in order to understand the adult Cerise, I had to
investigate, Cherry, the younger girl. Amazingly, her story told itself and I
discovered that when she was sixteen, and stranded behind enemy lines during
the Civil War, she rescued a Confederate soldier. Her subsequent relationship
with Jeb Carter changed the rest of her life.
Cerise Amour, Unlikely Gentlemen 2.5, is their story.
SYNOPSIS:
After a hasty Civil War marriage to Confederate soldier, Jeb Carter, Cherry
Fitzwilliam finds herself abandoned among strangers; over the next twenty-five
years she carefully constructs a life based on lies.
Her neighbors and daughter believe she’s a widow who lost her husband in the
war. But Jeb is alive and prosperous and Cherry’s one indulgence is a much
anticipated monthly meeting with him that usually devolves into a shouting match.
When Jeb Carter becomes ill, perhaps even dying, discord changes to despair and he asks her to be with him to the end. Avoiding the questions of family and friends, they leave Texas on a journey that takes them to a love they’ve long denied.
