A Sunday Kind of Love by Lynna Banning
Lynna Banning combined a lifelong love of history and literature into a satisfying career as a writer. Born in Oregon, she graduated from Scripps College and embarked on a career as an editor and technical writer and later as a high school English teacher. When she retired, she began writing fiction, and to date has published 34 historical romances with Harlequin/Harper Collins and 4 western historical romances with Prairie Rose Publications.
This is Author Lynna Banning’s writing and publication journey in her own words…
Inspiration to start writing…
The inspiration for my first book came from a photograph of an Arab man’s face. The expression in his eyes suggested great suffering, and I couldn’t help wondering why. The next thing I knew I began to tell myself his story—and that resulted in my first book, The Saracen, set in 12th Century Spain.
Lynna’s works…
My second book, Western Rose, is a western historical romance, set in Oregon, and it is based loosely on the riotous courtship of my grandparents. I’m drawn to Oregon as a setting for my western historical novels because my mother grew up on a ranch near Roseburg, and she and my grandmother were full of western lore and many stories about ranch life.
All of my novels are available from Amazon. Snippets from each book (and a “buy button”) are available on my website www.lynnabanning.net. My next novel, A Dish Full of Stars, will be available in October.
A Sunday Kind of Love Blurb
Hard-working Leah Rydell has no time for romance. So when Callahan Zander, the new preacher at the Maple Shade Church, comes to town, 25-year-old Leah is not interested in him or his church sermons. For some reason he makes her uneasy.
But Cal is interested in her because he has a secret. Raised dirt-poor in Texas, he survived by playing poker in saloons, and when he shot a man who was cheating, he ended up in prison. There he meets young Johnny Rydell, Leah’s brother, and when they are released, Johnny disappears, owing Cal $700. Knowing Johnny will come looking for his sister, Cal decides to use her as bait to collect his money.
One of Lynna’s favourite scenes from A Sunday Kind of Love…
“She didn’t trust him. ‘There is something I want to say to you. You are a snake, Cal Zander. You are dishonest and deceitful, and I wish I’d brought along that gun you picked out. But if I killed you, I would never find my brother Johnny, so right now I don’t have a choice. But hear this, Mister Zander: After I find my brother, I am going to push you off the nearest cliff!’”
