Here's a little about author Mary Connealy, and what drives her to write and where her ideas originate....
The start and the writing of Ambush of the Heart....
I took a train ride…about a year before I started Rocky Mountain Marshals. Mainly because I’d always kind of wanted to, but also in an effort to see wild land. The land I wrote about all the time. Land you can’t see from a plane.I rode that train from Denver to San Francisco. I’m glad I did it. Not because I discovered I love train travel, quite the opposite. Thirty hour trip, not one second of sleep. Mild motion sickness through-out.The reason I’m glad I did it is because, I always wanted to do it and now I don’t anymore.
What else could that work with? Hmmm…
Anyway, the great thing was seeing the mountains. The pass we rode over the Sierra Nevada Mountains on (hello…Donner Party anyone?) And the pass we rode through just west of Denver when we really cruised along some staggeringly beautiful mountains.
The thing that struck me was…this huge, steep slopes that seemed to reach up to the sky and my mind thinks, nothing up there but peaks…and then, because I have a weird writer’s brain, I thought…what if there’s more? What’s really beyond those peaks?
Add in something someone who lives near the Grand Canyon once told me…there are several well known trails to the bottom…but there are unknown trails. Trails that might take some climbing, trails horses can move over but no person would even see those trails if they didn’t watch a horse or a deer or an elk bound down and up in unlikely places.
My story was born.
I Imagined riders—US Marshals and a few others…including my heroine of course—going up that impossibly steep slope (hey, it’s not like it was a straight cliff or anything!!! It could happen!!!) When they get to the top…there’s more. There’s a hard, brutal, path forward. One of the marshals knows part of the way…but wow, is it ever rugged. And if you think my marshals get lost…well, it’s even worse than that. They get separated and separately lost.
That running fight with men trying to break the prisoner they were transporting free, leads them straight into the wild. With trouble coming hard behind them, and trackless wilderness in front of them, they need to get back to civilization. [©Mary Connealy]
Now that Mary's tickled your imagination with train rides, rugged mountain peaks, and the good guys (US Marshals) chasing the bad guys, you can dive into the full-blown story - Ambush of the Heart! Releases in early February and the title's first word, Ambush, carries with it excitement, fear, intrigue, and a hope for a hero.
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| ISBN: 9780764245992 Bethany House Publishing Order: Baker Book House |
When bandits strike in the wilderness, can love and faith overcome the shadows of danger?
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