The Geisha Who Ran Away by India Millar Book Tour and Giveaway :)
The
Song of the Wild Geese
The
Geisha Who Ran Away Book 1
by
India Millar
Genre:
Historical Romance
Terue.
The girl who was plucked from obscurity to become the most sought
after geisha in Edo’s Floating World. The geisha who was so
beautiful and talented that one of the richest nobles in Japan
desired her as his wife.
But
Terue wanted more from life, and was willing to risk everything to
get it. Pregnant with her lover’s child and knowing that the
disgrace would mean certain death for both her and her unborn child,
Terue makes the devastating choice to flee Japan on the day her
daughter – Kazhua, The Geisha with the Green Eyes – was born and
changes both their destinies forever.
It
would not be truthful to say I do not remember my mother. My family.
Of course I do. It is just that their memory is dull somehow. Perhaps
the best way I can describe it is to say that they seem to me as if I
am looking at them through a silken screen. They are there. I can see
their features, but they are slightly blurred somehow. Not quite
real. Of
course, many people would say that I am confused. That the life I led
with my family was real, and each day since I left them has been the
dream. But they do not know. They cannot be expected to understand. I
think my mother was a pretty woman. She always seemed so to me, at
any rate. And my father never took a concubine, so he must also have
found her pleasing. Of course, we were poor, so it may be that he
simply could not afford a concubine rather than a matter of choice.
But I don’t recollect Mother ever complaining that he spent money
they didn’t have on courtesans—or even common whores—so perhaps
he was a contented man, after all. Not
that I understood about concubines or courtesans in those days. I was
a mere child, the only daughter in a family of five brothers. It may
have been simple neglect. After all, what was the point of trying to
teach a mere girl anything about life, or anything else for that
matter? But I was soon to learn differently.
In
fact, I began to learn the day that my new life began.
The
Red Thread of Fate
The
Geisha Who Ran Away Book 2
In
Japan, it is widely believed that everyone’s life is bound by the
red thread of their fate. The thread connects to all those we come in
contact with throughout our lives. Thus, each path in life is
predestined.
Terue
knows this. Just as she knows that one day her red thread will guide
her to Kazhua, the daughter she was forced to abandon on the day of
her birth in Edo’s Floating World. But before she can find Kazhua,
fate has much in store for Terue.
Following
her new husband, Lord Kyle, from the Highlands of Scotland to fight
in the Crimea, Terue serves as a nurse, witnessing the horrors of the
battlefield.
Injured,
kidnapped, and assumed dead, Terue must face the possibility that she
might never see her beloved daughter or husband again…
The
World Is Ours
The
Geisha Who Ran Away Book 3
The
war in the Crimea is over. Delighted to be reunited with her husband,
Lord Kyle, Terue thinks she will soon be home again in her beloved
Scottish Highlands.
But
fate is not finished with her yet.
Terue
learns that her daughter is a geisha in Edo. Overjoyed at the chance
to be reunited with her child again, she and her husband set out to
find Kazhua, returning to where Terue’s life began in the Floating
World.
But
old dangers and new foes abound.
Forced
to live in hiding, finding Kazhua without revealing Terue’s true
identity proves more difficult than they expected. Terue is so close
to finding her daughter, she can feel the red thread that binds them
together pulling taught. But reaching out to Kazhua could put all
their lives at risk.
I
started my career in the heavy industry of British Gas and ended it
in the rarefied atmosphere of the British Library. Now, I share a
blissful early retirement on the wonderful Costa Blanca, living in a
male dominated household with my long suffering husband, a cat and a
dog.
What are
common traps for aspiring writers?
Although it’s
deeply unfashionable to say it, I think one of the biggest traps for
aspiring writers is getting the basics wrong. Spelling. Punctuation.
Grammar. Get them right! Of course, your characters may speak with a
regional accent, or use slang. But for me, if apostrophes are
persistently misused and a novel is peppered with split infinitives,
it gets me so annoyed I don’t enjoy the work. Apart from that, I
think the key to producing a readable book is patience. I know you
want to get it out to the market now.
But take the time to get it right,
first. Check your spelling is consistent. Make sure the action is
plausible and follows sequentially. If you have historical events or
facts in there, check them carefully for accuracy. And try to avoid
the use of the same words when you’re describing something. We all
have key words, which we use too frequently without noticing it. I
tend to overuse “realize” or “realized”. And I do it time and
time again, so that when I come to edit I have the thesaurus
constantly open to give me some variation. Apart from that, give
yourself time to forget what you’ve written. That is vital. Edit
too soon, and you see what you think you wanted to write, not what is
there.
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