What I had yet to discover back then was that Justin has Asperger's Syndrome, or high functioning Autism. Oh, we knew something was wrong. There were hints, like how he walked as a child: step, step, step, turn; step, step, step, turn. Or the way he'd take a silver pen and move it back and forth in front of his eyes for minutes at a time to calm himself. But he was verbal and very, very, very bright. He started his first business at fourteen, teaching people how to use their computers. No surprise that he is now a highly successful computer programmer.
But as I said, I didn't know any of that back when Gilliam's story occurred to me so I let myself imagine what Justin's life might have been like if he'd lived in the Twelfth Century.
If this is the first of my books you've read and you think you'd like to try another, here's the whole list:
The Seasons Series (sometimes known as The Graistan Chronicles)
Winter's Heat
Summer's Storm
Spring's Fury
Autumn's Flame
A Love for All Seasons
Or buy them all at once as The Seasons Series and save a few pence.
The Lady Series,
(Although two doesn't quite a series make. There were supposed to be more. Hmm, I wonder....)
Lady in Waiting
Lady in White
Or buy these two as a set in The Lady Series and save a few more pence
The Warrior Series
The Warrior's Wife
The Warrior's Maiden
The Warrior's Game
Or buy all three as a set in The Warrior Series and save a few more pence
My only Regency era book
I'm afraid it will be my only one, too. It was too modern for me. I'm better off back when guys just bashed each other with hunks of steel.
Almost Perfect
Men-ipulation, Monica Sarli's Memoir (which I co-wrote)
Men-ipulation is a memoir of addiction and recovery. After fifteen years abusing Cocaine, Crack and (her personal favorite) Heroin, Monica chose on August 4, 1986 to clean up and hasn't looked back-even though cleaning up cost her everything she valued in life. For anyone struggling with addiction or who loves someone suffering with addiction, this is a book you won't want to miss. (And, yes she really talks like that all the time.)
By the way, I'll note here that I am title defective. For the first five books, my fabulous stepdaughter Amberly Neese came up with the original and very clever idea of using the seasons, and the publisher ran with it. Beyond that, well, I count on the kindness of editors and others.
If you want to keep up with me or send me a note, please feel free to email me at [email protected] or visit my website at DeniseDomning.com where you can read the old entries on my blog. I've stopped blogging now that I'm writing again. However, my husband and I are definitely still living a life that mangles the old "Green Acres" TV series with the book Under the Tuscan Sun.
Wish me luck! I think I'll need it.
Daring Damsels, Copyright © 2013 by Laurel O’Donnell, Eliza Knight, Catherine Kean, Denise Domning
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The characters and events portrayed in these historical romance novels are fictitious or are used fictitiously. Apart from well-known historical figures, any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not intended by the authors.
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