The St. Briac Novels 1-2 Omnibus by Cynthia Wright

Author:Cynthia Wright [Wright, Cynthia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781614171867
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Publisher: ePublishing Works!
Published: 2011-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

The End

Author's Note

What a wonderful experience it has been for me to be able to resurrect my sleeping novels and see them live again as eBooks! One of the best parts has been the opportunity to edit and freshen them for this second birth. It's been a joy—and no book has given me more joy than YOU & NO OTHER. I think I loved it even more the second time around than during the many months of its original creation.

As I reread and edited, I also thought back to the weeks I spent in France doing research for YOU & NO OTHER. When I planned that trip, I knew that I loved France and wanted to set a book there, but that was all I knew. (My knowledge of French history was pretty firm back to the mid-18th century, but American schools didn't teach much before then.)

I went with Margo, my best friend since high school, and we were only 26 at the time. It was a rollicking 3 weeks, fraught with adventures. We traveled from Paris south to Fontainebleau where I met King Francois I for the first time. He was charisma personified—how could I not have known about him before? I listened to the stories about him, stared at his salamander emblems that were everywhere, and bought a big postcard of his image that I've kept for 30 years. As fate would have it, Francois traveled with us to Amboise (where a wild boar really did storm the chateau), Blois, Chenonceau, and south to Nieuil, where we actually stayed in his own hunting lodge—the same one that opens YOU & NO OTHER. In the morning, we took a long walk in the woods where Aimee and St. Briac met for the first time.

Our journey took us to dozens of other unforgettable places, but I already knew in my heart that King Francois I would be a centerpiece in my next novel. My challenge was to create a hero who could stand toe to toe with him, and then some! St. Briac definitely fits the bill, I believe! He is my own dream hero. I love a man who can make me laugh and who has a wicked twinkle like his. Sigh!

One other place we went in the Loire Valley was Usse, where I saw the magical chateau that became St. Briac's Chateau du Soleil—not just in this book, but also in OF ONE HEART, SPRING FIRES and NATALYA.

I'm doing a blog post on my website, with photos from my original trip to France to celebrate the release of YOU & NO OTHER. It's the first in a series of posts that deal with the inspiration and research behind my novels. I hope you'll come over to my website to read it and sign up for future installments: http://cynthia-wright.com/

I invite you to rejoin Aimee & Thomas six years later in OF ONE HEART as they return to the court of King Francois with their newly-widowed friend, Micheline. This book (previously titled A BATTLE FOR LOVE) features an irresistible English hero, Andrew, Lord Sandhurst.

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