Journey to Sand Castle - Softcover

Breene, Leslee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1484958977 ISBN 13: 9781484958971

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Tess Cameron, a divorced teacher, becomes the unwiting guardian of a bi-racial orphan. She is compelled to take the little girl from New Orleans to the Colorado San Luis Valley to meet her grandfather. Estranged from the child's missing mother, the grandfather is unaware of the granddaughter's existence and doesn't want her.Grant Wilder, a widowed outfitter, offers Tess temporary employment on his ranch. But can Tess's wandering spirit find the faith to accept permanent responsibility of the child and open her heart to love again in this land of amazing beauty and haunting secrets?

About this title

About the Author:

ABOUT THE AUTHOR - LESLEE BREENE Leslee Breene, award-winning author of novel and short fiction, takes pride in being a Denver native. She lives beneath the Colorado Rockies with her husband and, hopefully soon, beloved rescue canine. STARLIGHT RESCUE, (2011- Treble Heart Books) a western romance, is available in soft cover through www.lesleebreene.com and Amazon.com, and is set beneath the Wyoming Big Horn Mountains on an animal rescue ranch. It received an RWA PASIC Book of Your Heart Award in the contemporary, single-title category. HEARTS ON THE WIND (2008- Five Star), a Denver bestseller, was her third published historical romance. LEADVILLE LADY (2006- Five Star) received the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers PEN Award. The RWA Valley Forge Chapter awarded second place to her debut novel, FOXFIRE . Ms. Breene's short fiction has been published in various magazines, won national awards, and finaled in the 2009, 2011 and 2012 Women Writing the West LAURA (Ingalls Wilder) competitions. http://womenwritingthewest.org/laurajournal.html. Ms. Breene attended the University of Denver, received a Denver Fashion Group Scholarship, and graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City. For several years, she worked as a newspaper fashion illustrator in San Francisco. During leisure time away from the computer, she enjoys scouting for book settings with her husband in the Colorado Rockies. Some memorable research sites are Leadville, the Colorado Sand Dunes, Buffalo and Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Western music is her passion. She supports the annual Colorado Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Golden, Colorado and the monthly ASL Concert at the Old Town Pickin' Parlor, Arvada, Colorado. She is an active member of RWA, Colorado Romance Writers, and Women Writing the West. She is available for Denver/suburban area library and group speaking engagements. Visitors are welcome at her website: www.lesleebreene.com and www.facebook.com/lesleebreene.

Review:

"Leslee Breene confronts conflict, resistance, and prejudice in  JOURNEY TO SAND CASTLE, with an abandoned child, a teacher, and a three-legged cat in the aftermath of Katrina. 'A displaced child floating between past and present' aptly describes Tess's attempts to reunite Crystal with her grandfather in a well-written story of love and redemption. Fate spins the characters around and changes everything in their lives." ~ Heidi M. Thomas, Follow the Dream, WILLA Literary Award Winner

"JOURNEY TO SAND CASTLE takes the reader on a journey of discovery of caring for someone other than yourself. Tess must put her own life's decisions aside for a small child and finds a life more enriched than she could have foreseen. Ms. Breene restores your faith in the goodness of people." ~ Joan Clayton, Executive Assistant Director, Englewood (CO) Public Library (retired)

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1484958977
• ISBN 13: 9781484958971
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298