It’s Story Inspiration TIME for Between Love & Lies, Gambling Hearts series – book 1.
This Story Inspiration PAGE was around from the very beginning. I didn’t change it at all during my print and eBook reformatting in January. SEEING IT AGAIN however inspired me to add Story Inspiration pages to ALL of my books. Sometimes it only takes ONE SPARK OF INSPIRATION to lead you down a path…
BETWEEN LOVE & LIES – STORY INSPIRATION PAGE
The spark for Between Love & Lies came from the letter below and my collection of Time-Life Old West books containing these lines: “The longhorns were carriers of a microscopic tick. The Texas animals were immune to the parasite, but the same tick produced deadly splenic fever in local cattle.”
I imagined a small farm, held together only by the grit and hard work of its owner, might not survive such an event. I wondered what might happen next, both on that unlucky farm and in the nearest town: Dodge City, the Queen of Cattle Towns—where life would be challenging for a woman who luck had deserted.
~ Jacqui
January 1, 1878 – Letter in the Washington, D. C. Evening Star
“Dodge City is a wicked little town. Here those nomads in regions remote from the restraints of moral, civil, social, and law enforcing life, the Texas cattle drovers, from the very tendencies of their situation the embodiment of waywardness and wantonness, end the journey with their herds, and here they loiter and dissipate, sometimes for months, and share the boughten dalliances of fallen women.”
MORE INSPIRATION TO COME
CLICK HERE to read the opening of Between Love & Lies (Gambling Hearts series, book 1).
I hope you enjoyed reading how something as small as a tick inspired me to write Sadie and Noah’s gamble for love in a town with one of the biggest Wild West reputations. Join me next Monday when I share my next Story Inspiration page.
To read the Story Inspiration Pages for my other stories, click here.
