Patricia Furstenberg, Writer of Historical Fiction, Children's Books
Travel via Stories
Celebrate with me the publication day of The Book That Should Have Been Lost !
1450: Walk beside the young Vlad Dracula and Kate Webber (When Secrets Bloom) from Roman Fortress to Kronstadt before history became legend.
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Three historical short stories by Marian L. Thorpe, Annie Whitehead, and Patricia Furstenberg echo the haunting themes of deep regret, lost love, and the enduring ache of memory found in Lord Huron’s The Night We Met.
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“I trust scars more than smiles.” At first, it sounds like the kind of sentence one should not agree with: “I trust scars more than smiles. Yours told me more than any oath ever could.” (When Secrets Bloom)
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Long before Bram Stoker wrote Dracula there was Vlad the Impaler: voivode of Wallachia, enemy of the Ottomans, ruler feared as much for his punishments as for his political cunning.
This is the Vlad who moves through the pages of When Secrets Bloom and Kate’s Letter, included in the Courage Anthology out 17 JUNE. Vlad the man, consumed by passions and hidden fears—not as a figure of legend already swallowed by bats and myth. A man still anchored in the hard geography of his own century.
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“I step where I am needed… even when the ground burns beneath me.” I like this quote because it represents Kate Webber, the main character from When Secrets Bloom. Kate does not act because she believes she will win. She acts because not acting is unthinkable.
And her choice sets the course of everything that follows.
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