Around the Fire New Release Book Spotlight. Today Stone Bridge by Linda Griffin.

 Stonebridge
by
Linda Griffin

Released by The Wild Rose Press, Inc. on November 1, 2023
Rated PG
Paranormal, Historical, Romance

According to BookLife "Griffin's tale abounds in atmosphere, with a compelling supernatural element, a sense of out-of-time mystery, and delicious scheming about bloodlines and inheritances."
 
About the story
 Ghostly notes from an old piano – a welcome and a warning.
After the death of her mother, Rynna Dalton comes to live with her imperious great-grandmother and her bookish, disabled cousin Ted at Stonebridge Manor. Almost immediately she is aware of a mysterious presence, which she believes is the spirit of her mother’s murdered cousin, Rosalind. Rynna is charmed by Rosalind’s lawyer son Jason Wyatt, who courts her, and she agrees to marry him. Meanwhile, Ted and Rynna become good friends. But Stonebridge holds secrets that will profoundly affect her future. Why is Ted so opposed to the match? Why does Rosalind seem to warn Rynna against it? And how far will Jason go to possess Stonebridge—and the woman he professes to love?

I asked Linda what the inspiration for the story was. She wrote back. 
I enjoy ghost stories and always wanted to write one. I also like stories about people coming to live with strangers. When I put the two ideas together, Rynna’s story began to take shape. Then I fell in love with the man who inspired the character of Ted, and he took over the story. One of my favorite books as a child was Karen by Marie Killilea, founder of the Cerebral Palsy Association, and Karen was one of my heroes, so a disabled hero was a natural for me. An earlier version of the story was published by Winston-Derek in 1994. The new version has benefitted by everything I’ve learned about writing since then, and I also pushed the story back to 1958-1959, which seemed a better fit for Rynna’s unliberated attitudes. I spent four months obsessively rewriting the ending, and the only way I could get myself to stop was to start a sequel, which will be published in 2024.
Get your copy today.
https://www.amazon.com/Stonebridge-Linda-Griffin-ebook/dp/B0CGG1TN31
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1000585740
https://books.apple.com/us/book/stonebridge/id6463164419
https://bookshop.org/p/books/stonebridge-linda-griffin/20467808
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About the Author.
Linda Griffin knew she wanted to be a “book maker” as soon as she learned to read, and she wrote her first story, “Judy and the Fairies,” with a plot device stolen from a comic strip, at the age of six. She retired as fiction librarian for the San Diego Public Library to spend more time on her writing. She has had stories published in numerous journals, and Stonebridge is her 8th book from The Wild Rose Press. In addition to the three R’s—reading, writing, and research—she enjoys Scrabble, travel, and movies.
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