Wellington Letters
Wellington Cross
by Cheryl R. Lane
Date of Publication: October 2017
Publisher: Cheryl R. Lane
Genre: Historical Romance, Historical Fiction
Two generations...two different war stories...two different love
stories. Letters written about love and war.
BLURB
This
book follows William and Ginny's son, Liam, to Cuba in 1898 where he has joined
Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders in fighting against Spain in the Spanish
American War. As a field doctor, Liam will help many, see some die, and also
surprisingly fall in love.
Meanwhile
back at home at The Forest Plantation in Charles City, Virginia, his father Dr.
William Brown reads Liam's letters to the family and is reminded of a story
from the War Between the States.
This
story involves his cousin Judy being a spy and how she fell in love with a
Union soldier. As William tells the story to his family, a secret is revealed
that even his wife Ginny doesn't know about.
Meet Judy
Hi! I’m
Cheryl R. Lane, and I am the author of two romance series: the historical romance Wellington Cross
Series and the paranormal romance Angel series.
Today I’d like to discuss one of the characters from my new book, Wellington
Letters, book six in the Wellington Cross Series. Her name is Judy.
Judy
Wheeler is a cousin of Dr. William Brown, a familiar character in my Wellington
Cross Series. Judy’s mother Patsy and William’s mother were
sisters. Judy was first introduced in my book, Wellington Grove, and then also played an important role in my
novella, A Wellington Christmas. In Wellington
Letters, we learn about the love story of how she, a Virginia woman, fell
in love with a Union soldier during the Civil War, or War Between the States,
as they liked to refer to it.
Judy
was just fifteen years old when the War Between the States began in 1861.
By 1863, her father, two brothers, and cousin William had all gone off to war,
and she and her mother lived alone at their family home in Petersburg,
Virginia. They had a two-story brick home on the Appomattox River with
several dependencies. One fateful day in June 1864, a lone soldier
stumbled onto their front porch steps carrying a letter that he was unable to
deliver. Judy takes it upon herself to put the letter into the hands of
Confederate Colonel Jackson. First, she must get away from the Union
soldiers who have invaded her family home. She witnesses a death, is
nearly raped, and has a run-in with a bear on this quest. Not to mention entanglements with both Union
and Confederate soldiers invading their home.
She and her mother end up in Colonial Heights tending wounded soldiers
at the Dandridge home where they encounter death and disease. Somewhere
along the way, Judy falls in love with kind, blue-eyed Benjamin Morehouse, a
Union soldier, much to the dismay of her family.
Would
you be brave enough to date a man that your family didn’t like? A man that you didn’t want to like, but you
did because he had many good qualities like being brave, strong, kind, and
true? Judy did and tried her best to
help her family – among others – see the good in Benjamin.
Author
Info
Cheryl
R. Lane was born and raised in Johnson City, Tennessee, and went to college at
East Tennessee State University before marrying her high school sweetheart and
moving to Virginia Beach, Virginia.
She
started writing as a hobby when she was in college after purchasing a couple of
Southern Heritage cookbooks, which were filled with pages of beautiful old
plantation homes. She used to sit outside in her backyard and type on a manual
typewriter at a picnic table under tall maple trees.
She
continued writing after moving to Virginia Beach and visiting beautifully
restored homes in Williamsburg as well as plantations on the James River. She
has been working in medical and now legal transcription while writing on the
side, and finally decided to self-publish her first novel in December
2012. She enjoys the freedom and creativity of self-publishing.
She
loves being outside in nature and her hobbies include visiting historical homes
and gardens, reading, traveling, exercising, and going to the beach. She
is still married to her sweetheart after 29 years, and they have one son who is
an actor and a Havanese bichon.
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