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Cover Art for In Defense of Delia: A Sangamon Novel

July 21, 2022 By: Patricia

I’m so pleased to show off this excellent cover for In Defense of Delia which will be released by Five Star/Cengage on November 23, 2022.

 

 

Cover design credit: Kathy Heming

 

Synopsis:

1838: Delia Pritchard gets a chilly reception when she returns to Sangamon, Illinois, after a thirteen-year absence. She’s riding a Palouse stallion, is dressed like a man, has a bullet in her shoulder, and leads a horse with a seven-year-old black boy astride.

Some think Delia left at the age of sixteen because she killed her parents and set fire to their cabin with the bodies inside. It is also rumored that Delia runs with outlaws and that she shot a lawman.

When Doc Hemmer insists Delia and the boy remain in Sangamon while she recuperates from surgery, he doesn’t realize a vicious gang known as the Biedler brothers is on her trail. Preacher John Claymore, also unaware of the danger, wants to meet Doc’s patient with the beautiful eyes.

Farmer Annie Gray kills one of the Biedlers and triggers a violent response from the gang. Delia knows the brothers will be relentless. She brought this disaster down on the town and its residents. Can she save them all?

 

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Comments

  1. Alex J. Cavanaugh says

    July 22, 2022 at 12:35 pm

    Very cool! Looks like it would also make a great movie poster. Dream big!

    • Patricia says

      July 22, 2022 at 1:51 pm

      Dreaming big indeed. Wouldn’t that be an awesome development?

  2. Madeline mora-summonte says

    July 22, 2022 at 9:01 am

    You should be pleased! Congratulations on the new release!

    • Patricia says

      July 22, 2022 at 1:51 pm

      Thanks, Madeline! I’m happy to have another historical novel published, but my next effort is another amateur sleuth mystery. I’m definitely a genre-hopper.

Meet Patricia

I read, I write, I blog, and sometimes I do the laundry and cook. My 2014 novel, Dead Wrong, was a finalist in the thriller category of the 2015 Colorado Book Awards. Wishing Caswell Dead (Five Star/Cengage, December 20, 2017) is a historical mystery set in 1830s Illinois in the fictitious Village of Sangamon. The novel was a finalist for the 2018 Colorado Book Awards for General Fiction. Read More…

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