Conquered with Love

TO MY WONDERFUL READERS

Dear Readers,




     Wall of Color has now been published under another name:  AFFAIR OF THE HEART
Conquered Heat has now been published under another name: CONQUERED WITH LOVE







     When I published Wall of Color, I was so afraid that no one would want to buy and read my book. Doubting, instead of believing, came easier. Now, four months later, I am pleased to report that book sales have far exceeded what I ever hoped or expected. I have you, my readers, to thank.

Thank you for your wonderful support that has given me encouragement and the motivation to continue writing.






     With special thanks to all, and my very best to you as you continue happily reading.





Sincerely,
Jeanette Cooper

AUTHOR BIO

Jeanette Cooper fell in love with writing prior to her teens after learning she could shape the world any way she chose with pencil and paper (and with a computer and word processor). Writing presented a personal way to explore the universe, to research the unknowns that served to make her writings more realistic, and to enjoy a vast resource of knowledge and learning.

     Jeanette is a native Georgian from Treutlen County. She attended schools and colleges in Florida, earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education and a Master of Education Degree; thus, becoming an elementary school teacher. With the demands on students to demonstrate proficiency in writing on State Assessment Tests, Jeanette’s favorite subject was teaching creative writing. Her instruction with students kept her own joy of writing alive and active.

     Following her early retirement, after twenty-six years of teaching, Jeanette turned solely to writing fiction and making it a joyous learning venture. She has written fourteen novels ablaze with fiery, passionate romance and suspense, but Wall of Color was her first publication (now published under the name: Affair of the Heart), and is followed by Conquered Heart (now published under the name Conquered with Love.)
  
     Other books include: Desperate Choices, Impending Danger, Violent Visions of Murder, When Justice is Served, and Dark Depths of Love. More recent publications are: A Killer Amongst Us, Seductive Betrayal, Stripped of Dignity, Under Suspicion, The Wrong Victim,  Vulnerable to Deceptive Love, and Nature & Life: A Poetic Journey 

     Jeanette lives in Florida where she enjoys gardening, painting in water colors, and writing, writing, writing...

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Florida Author Celebrates Publication of Historical Romance Novel

Murder, abduction and mayhem set the prelude to beautiful Edreia's birth in Anglo Saxon England. Then sixteen years later (1066), her life changes forever after the fall of England during the Norman Conquest when the Norman leader, Mikkel, claims her amongst the spoils of war.


Live Oak, FL July 29, 2006 -- Georgia-born, Florida author, Jeanette Cooper, celebrates the publication of her book, Conquered with Love, a historical romance that relates a story of murder, abduction and mayhem, and sets the prelude to beautiful Edreia's birth in Anglo Saxon England. The novel depicts Edreia’s emotional struggle to come to terms with a new way of life after the Norman Conquest of 1066 when her father’s fiefdom is seized by Mikkel, leader of the Norman army, who claims Edreia amongst the spoils of war. Edreia’s ensuing hardships, as she grapples with adjusting to changing times, invite conflict and suspense when her heart is under siege by Mikkel, the man she falls desperately in love with.



Jeanette says that she has always had a love of English history, especially in the days of knights and chivalry. “The violence, conflicts, and passion of the period offer abundant inspiration for any writer. The high drama of such an interesting time in history made me eager to write a love story filled with dramatic human events and emotions, not unlike what lovers have experienced throughout history,” she states.



     With a sense of déjà vu, memories of Jeanette’s early life on a farm in Georgia caused her to identify with the historical system of fiefdoms and serfdom in Anglo Saxon England, where tenants worked the fields in return for goods and services. She recalls her father (1910-2002) sharecropping for a landowner and receiving half the earnings from the sale of his harvest. She indicated that her research for Conquered Heart caused her to relive vicariously those hard days of work and sweat by her father and herself with chores aplenty.



     “In essence,” she says thoughtfully, “the past never goes away, but returns like the seasons in different raiment to suffuse with the present and plant seeds of tomorrow."



     After Jeanette retired from teaching elementary school, she engaged in her love of writing as the best method of keeping an active mind while enjoying an interest she coveted from childhood. She has written fourteen novels and one poetry book and is presently working on a historical trilogy set in Savannah, Georgia.



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CONQUERED WITH LOVE SYSNOPSIS

By Jeanette Cooper

Note by author: I have always had a love of English history, especially in the days of knights and chivalry. The violence, conflicts, and passion of the period offer abundant inspiration for writers. The high drama of such an interesting time in history made me eager to write a love story filled with dramatic human events and emotions, not unlike what lovers have experienced throughout history.
In essence, the past never goes away, but returns like the seasons to suffuse with the present and plant seeds of tomorrow. Conquered Heart has a gothic setting, but the story is timeless inasmuch as it relates a tale about lovers, romance, and the conflicts characteristic to passionate relationships.

Conquered Heart is a passionate romance novel woven with breath-taking suspense. Abduction, rape, and murder set the prelude when Lord Raybourne of Valdenwald takes a young peasant girl as his mistress, who bears him a child called Edreia. Sixteen years later, during the Norman Conquest, Mikkel, the Norman leader, wages a siege on Valdenwald, making Edreia his personal prize.

Edreia’s life evolves into an emotional struggle when her freedom is usurped and she is expected to follow the wishes and commands of Mikkel, the new lord of Valdenwald. Defiant and rebellious, she willfully does as she chooses, her actions provoking Mikkel to angry threats of retribution. Edreia’s recalcitrant tongue eventually challenges his patience beyond his control and he acts upon his threat, thus making her his mistress.

Vowing never to submit freely to his passionate nature, a conflicting struggle between hating him and loving him intensifies after Cadena, Mikkel’s betrothed, shows up unexpectedly at Valdenwald.

A battle of wits ensues between Mikkel’s mistress and his betrothed; finally culminating in a diabolical plot between three of Edreia’s enemies to murder her. Immersed in a web of violence, her future allows slim hope for a life with Mikkel.