Kindred, An American Love Story - Dean, P. J.
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An herbalist and free Black woman, Kindred Twain, and Lelaheo of the Oneida Nation have been inseparable since childhood. They have been raised together in the Mohawk River Valley on Twainhaven Farm, an idyllic refuge, run by their benefactor Doctor Douglas Twain during the Colonial era. The doctor had liberated Kindred, her grandmother, and another little boy named Joshua from slavery and certain death on a Maryland tobacco plantation and had brought the three North to his estate and freedom. Lelaheo had initially been placed, by his well-intentioned family, with the seemingly kind Rev.…mehr

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An herbalist and free Black woman, Kindred Twain, and Lelaheo of the Oneida Nation have been inseparable since childhood. They have been raised together in the Mohawk River Valley on Twainhaven Farm, an idyllic refuge, run by their benefactor Doctor Douglas Twain during the Colonial era. The doctor had liberated Kindred, her grandmother, and another little boy named Joshua from slavery and certain death on a Maryland tobacco plantation and had brought the three North to his estate and freedom. Lelaheo had initially been placed, by his well-intentioned family, with the seemingly kind Rev. Harkness for schooling to help him navigate the dominant White world. At the rector's home, Lelaheo is renamed Cassian Harkness. At the church school he also met Kindred. But their "schooling" soon morphed into mistreatment. A mistreatment whose results were witnessed one day by Doctor Twain. The children's "schooling" abruptly ended that day with the doctor removing them from the church school and taking Lelaheo out of the abusive rector's care permanently. From that day forward, the physician took on their schooling himself. So, in growing up together, it comes as no surprise to anyone that Kindred's and Lelaheo's close childhood friendship blossoms into love as they reach adulthood. Declaring their love one night, they agree to wait to wed after Lelaheo returns from completing his medical studies in Europe. However, neither one has any idea that the fledgling colonies will revolt against British tyranny, starting the Revolutionary War or that peaceful Twainhaven will soon be thrown into chaos, or that the opportunistic sister of one of Lelaheo's medical school classmates has a plan to tear the couple apart forever.
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I write romance books (Sci-fi and historical), both self-published and traditionally published under the pen name, P. J. DEAN. The medium-sized press (eXtasy Books/Devine Destinies) I write for is headquartered in Canada. I am an only child raised by a single mom when it was not the norm. I saw my father's family, but I was raised mainly in the embrace of my mother's rather large, colorful family. The crew included: a jazz drummer uncle; a female trucker aunt, three WWII vets; other active-duty family members; a grandfather who worked at a funeral home but supplemented the household income as a part-time numbers' runner; a flamboyant former flapper grandmother; a mom who'd had hopes of becoming an opera singer; and a few uncles and aunts who one would call gender-fluid today. Mix that all in with staunchly independent friends and neighbors whom people nowadays would deem as possessing "questionable ethics." Me? I called it being resourceful. I loved every minute of it. My eyes and ears soaked it up. They all forged me in the fire of their many-faceted hearts. I thank everyone of them. They gave me valuable life lessons. And scads of material for character development. Want to know how I was raised? Check out the HBO film Lackawanna Blues. The life the little boy leads in that film is the closest you will come to what mine was like. I would not change a second of it. I miss all of those who shaped me and I hope I am doing them proud. From them I learned to expect the best but be prepared for the worst. Most times, I did. A few times, I didn't. Ouch! I did parochial school from elementary school through high school with a two-year break at a secular college before finally graduating from a Catholic college. The college years were the most eye-opening of all as it was in the midst of the Affirmative Action days. I was attending classes at places I could have only dreamed of if not for that program. And, no, I was not "let in" because the standards were lowered. I earned my spot. I knew I was being scrutinized. I worked harder than any of the "legacy" chicks who coasted on their moms' connections. I attended and graduated from a small, private women's college. I met people from all over the world. The institution was known for graduating confident, outspoken women. I studied with rich girls from here and abroad, merchants' daughters and poor kids like me. The experience was a bonus outside of the academics and a departure from my background. Between all my language and history courses, I graduated with a customized degree in French Civilization. I landed a position at a scientific publishing company which processed reference materials for professionals in the sciences. I lucked out because it had a fledging arts division. I scored a position in that division and loved it. The job consisted of everything my major had entailed. I was in heaven. I could sit and read and research and get paid. With all that knowledge swirling around me every day, I put it to good use by writing. First by writing science fiction romance, then historical romance. But with a goal. All my heroines were to be Black. With that mission in place, I set out to pen a historical romance series centered on Black women. I wanted to write sweeping, grand romances like the ones I had read in the 70s and 80s. With one exception. I wanted them with Black heroines only. So, I dug into the reference and history books to see where the Black world and the European world collided. After reading I found out they had ALWAYS collided on all levels. Hence, I could create heroines from any era. And the women I'd create would not be slaves, or concubines or prostitutes as Black people were many-layered, from many lands, and filled many levels of society in all time periods. That said, my "Love Vanquishes All' series was born. Two books have been released so far - "Kindred, An American Love Story" and "Dissent."