The Blue Enchantress by M. L. Tyndall
September 9, 2009
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
M. L. (MaryLu) Tyndall grew up on the beaches of South Florida loving the sea and the warm tropics. But despite the beauty around her, she always felt an ache in her soul–a longing for something more.
After college, she married and moved to California where she had two children and settled into a job at a local computer company. Although she had done everything the world expected, she was still miserable. She hated her job and her marriage was falling apart.
Still searching for purpose, adventure and true love, she spent her late twenties and early thirties doing all the things the world told her would make her happy, and after years, her children suffered, her second marriage suffered, and she was still miserable.
One day, she picked up her old Bible, dusted it off, and began to read. Somewhere in the middle, God opened her hardened heart to see that He was real, that He still loved her, and that He had a purpose for her life, if she’d only give her heart to Him completely.
She had written stories her whole life, but never had the confidence to try and get any of them published. But as God began to change her heart, He also showed her that writing had been His wonderful plan for her all along!
Her other current release in the Charles Towne Belles series includes The Red Siren.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Betrayed by the man she longed to marry, Hope Westcott is about to be auctioned off as a slave to the highest bidder on an island in the Caribbean . After enduring a difficult childhood in an unloving home, Hope’s search for love and self-worth have led her down a very dangerous path. All she ever wanted was to find true love and open an orphanage where she could raise children with all the love she never experienced as a child. But how can a woman with a sordid past ever hope to run an orphanage, let alone attract the love of an honorable man?
Determined to overcome the shame of his mother’s past, Nathaniel Mason worked for many years to build his own fleet of merchant ships in an effort to finally acquire the respect of Charles Towne society. Ignoring the call of God on his life to become a preacher, he forges ahead with his plans for success at a distant port in the Caribbean , when he sees a young lady he knows from Charles Towne being sold as a slave. In an effort to save Hope, he is forced to sell one of his two ships, only to discover that her predicament was caused by her own bad behavior. Angry and determined to rid himself of her as soon as possible, Nathaniel embarks on a journey that will change the course of his life.
If you would like to read the first chapter of The Blue Enchantress, go HERE
Sally Says: I’ve read a number of MaryLu’s novels, and they’re all lighthearted, fun adventurous romances set somewhere in the Caribbean with pirates and plunder aplenty.
Arg.
With all the drama and comedy of Pirates of the Caribbean, The Blue Enchantress continues the story of Hope, the I’ll-do-anything-for-love Wescott sister. What made me want to read the book was the knowledge that she was being auctioned off as a slave after stowing away on Lord Falkland’s boat — only to find he was already married. Whoops. I wondered how that predicament would work out and had to read the book.
The Blue Enchantress is a fun read about a woman who believes it might be too late for her to have a happily-ever-after, with God or with a man. Fans of historical romance and adventure (think Julie Lessman’s Daughters of Boston series) and anyone who enjoys a good pirate escape will love The Blue Enchantress, The Red Siren, and any of MaryLu’s other novels.
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I’ve been intending to read some of MaryLu’s books for quite awhile and finally got around to it with The Blue Enchantress. It was great fun! I’ve also enjoyed meeting MaryLu–at least in an online, virtual kind of way. I’m going to have an interview with her on my blog in a week or two.