Sketches and Secrets of Summer Cover

Sketches and Secrets of Summer is in the final days of being prepared for publication, which is slated for August 20. It should be on preorder soon. I’ll post here on the blog when it is available. Now, how about a little teaser of an excerpt from the book that hints at why the word secrets is in the title. 😉

Aaron’s hands were clasped behind his back as he walked at a sedate pace towards where Miss Bennet and Miss Darcy were seated. He glanced warily at Stuart.

“Just say it.” Stuart knew that look. Aaron was thinking something that he thought needed to be said but was something which might make Stuart angry.

“A wife might make your job easier.”

“I am sure you are correct, which is why Broderick should have left the girls to you.”

“I have no wife.”

“No, but you also have no aversion to taking one.”

Aaron huffed. “Are you going to allow Sarah to steal all your happiness?”

“It was not Sarah who did the stealing.”

“Yes, it was.” Aaron took hold of Stuart’s arm and stopped him. “Broderick was not without fault, but the greatest share of the blame must fall to the schemer who played brother against brother to gain all she wanted.”

Stuart’s brow furrowed. “What do you mean?”

“I cannot say. Not yet.”

[from Sketches and Secrets of Summer]

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Leenie Brown

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).

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