Dwight W. Hunter

Francine (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The character of Francine was introduced in and played an active part in the novel, Mei Ling. At the time Francine owned a Social Club in the gold town of Florence, Idaho Territory and became the life long friend of a tough little Chinese girl, Mei Ling.
Bernard DuMont was an autocratic eastern industrialist steeped in the concept of social castes, imagining himself as occupying the top social rung and further imbued with the mission to protect and promote his family name. He further fixated on the notion daughters' sole purpose was to serve as pawns to merge up caste families and consolidate wealth.
Disappointment entered DuMont's life when his third child was born a girl. Worse yet, Francine matured with a rebellious nature, unwilling to accept the role he set for her. When Francine reached marriageable age all the young men, DuMont felt worthy of his daughter, were unsuccessfully paraded before her. Francine was more interested in other activities than marriage and turned a cold shoulder to the young dilettante's ambitions until the pool of suitors ran dry.
Not willing to accept the situation of Francine being an undesirable bride, DuMont entered into a contract with a young threadbare aristocrat to wed his troublesome daughter. Edward and Francine fell in love and enjoyed a harmonious marriage, until disaster stuck, leaving Francine a widow.
With little more than the clothes she wore, Francine was offered employment by wheelchair bound gentleman, Mr. Whitcome. During the following winter Mr. Whitcome contacted pneumonia. When realizing he was on the verge of dying, Mr. Whitcome bequeathed his estate to Francine. Following her benefactor's, Francine moved west and worked in riverfront bar where agents from both sides of Civil War were part of the clientele.
Using money from her inheritance Francine built and operated a successful Social Club in Denver, until powerful interests, not believing in competition, gave Francine cause to sell her business. She teamed up with a former drayage own and participated in several northwestern gold stampedes.
Francine's life ended in Lewiston, Idaho Territory while being cared for by her Chinese friend Mei Ling.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dwight W. Hunter
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781301093649
• Artikelnr.: 48382412

Autorenporträt

I was born and reared on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation in Northern Idaho, graduated from Nezperce High school in the class of '50, spent a four-year tour of duty in the Navy which took me to California, Tennessee, Japan and Alaska. After leaving the Navy I received a B.S. Degree in Engineering from Indiana Institute of Technology at Fort Wayne, Indiana and subsequently spent thirty years in the Aerospace industry and private business
Shifting careers in 1986 I received an A.S. Degree from the Allied Health Department of Mission College at Santa Clara, California, followed by ten years as a Psych Nurse with the California Department of Developmental Services.
Soon after retirement I revisited Idaho, to keep a blind date with Mary, who subsequently became my life partner. We pooled our money, bought a used van and RV trailer and became RV'ers.
One day, while enjoying the sun and sea at Morro Bay, CA State Park, I made a comment that someone should write bodice ripper romance novels about retired senior citizens. Mary replied with a question. Why don't you? In answer to her question I authored my first novel about a strong-willed retired lady and a less then bright snowbird cowboy.
Like most nascent writers, following the birth of my first book I self published and quickly discovered potential readers were not scrambling to purchase this newly minted masterpiece. Setting aside my dreams for instant fame, I continued to write for my own amusement.
In six following novels I shifted time frames to the post-Civil War era and younger women protagonists. To date I have written seven titles in the Sisters of Destiny Series. Members in this fictional sisterhood possess a common gene, giving them the chutzpa to out think, out shoot and out maneuver ego driven men thoughtless enough to stand in their way.
After completing my seventh novel I learned about e-books and a friend offered to create a web site to market my books in their original print format. Unfortunately she died unexpectedly and the web site project suffered a still-birth.
A couple of years later I heard about Smashwords and quickly learned my initial attempt at website marketing books, in their print format, was not the way to bring books to market.
Mary and I have given up full time RV'ing and settled down in the quasi frontier town of Pahrump, NV. Since becoming domesticated, I have devoted a major portion of my time to converting books into Smashwords forma...