From the Ground Up (Dan + Shay)

Shall we begin the final Monday in February with the final Love Song of the month and an excerpt from one of my books?

I heard this song while wandering a grocery store aisle a week or so ago. I had not heard it for some time and had forgotten about it, actually. However, while choosing a bottle of salsa for my youngest son and singing along with the radio, I decided it would be a good song to share today.

Later, I listened to it again at home to pick a story to go with the song. The story that came to mind first was So Very Unexpected because that is a story where the hero stands next to the heroine and protects and guides her into their happily ever after. The hero also has a wonderful model of marriage to use as his guide — that of his mother and father.

In fact, the line below is spoken by Marcus’s father, who falls in love with the idea of having Lydia for his daughter.

Yes, this Lydia is a very different sort of Lydia, but then, when do I write standard-issue characters. 😉 LOL

So Very Unexpected, Lydia and Marcus’s story, is book three of my Pride and Prejudice variation series Willow Hall.

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Leenie Brown fell in love with Jane Austen's works when she first read Sense and Sensibility followed immediately by Pride and Prejudice in her early teens. As the second of five daughters and an avid reader, she has always loved to see where her imagination takes her and to play with and write about the characters she meets along the way. In 2013, these two loves collided when she stumbled upon the world of Jane Austen Fan Fiction. A year later, in 2014, she began writing her own Austen-inspired stories and began publishing them in 2015. Leenie lives in Nova Scotia, Canada with her two teenage boys and her very own Mr. Brown (a wonderful mix of all the best of Darcy, Bingley and Edmund with healthy dose of the teasing Mr. Tillney and just a dash of the scolding Mr. Knightley).

4 thoughts on “From the Ground Up (Dan + Shay)”

  2. “Your heart will be complete” Never more powerful words. That was a beautiful song. Your shopping for your son’s favorite salsa made me laugh. I too was buying salsa for my husband as I gathered supplies prior to the forecast of bad weather [snow and ice] locked us in our home for a week. LOL! We are expecting 60 degree weather by Wednesday. That’s Kentucky for you. Snow and ice for a few days then rain and sun to melt it all away. Spring, where art thou? LOL! Blessings, Leenie, stay safe, and healthy.

    1. Oooh, 60 degrees sounds down right balmy! 🙂 I’m glad you’re going to get some warmth soon. We’re supposed to get rain tomorrow so our snow might be gone soon (of course, it could always come back and probably will at some point). I’m also glad you have survived the bad weather and that you had salsa to keep you company. LOL My son loves chips and salsa.

      Marcus’s dad was a sweet and wise man. I still love that Lydia. 🙂

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