Trust Your Heart

by Stone, Veronica

• ISBN13: 9780974531601
• ISBN10: 097453160X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-01
• Publisher: Salvstone Books

Summary

Donavan St Auburn is reputed to be fierce and invincible. But upon entering the land bestowed upon him by King Rufus, he meets his match. For instead of an empty castle, Donavan finds it occupied by the spirited Keelin Defratey. With her home threatened, Keelin takes Donavan prisoner realising too late that she holds the King's Defender in her pit. Faced with a decision that threatens her pride and risks everything she holds dear, Keelin unites with the Defender. Together Keeling and Donavan struggle to hold Shadowood. The Earl of Denton wants it and will stop at nothing to get it. Pulled deeper into the tangle of lies and deceit by the people that surround them, both discover their fragile relationship and new feelings are threatened. Forced to act, Donavan must look within himself for the answers he seeks while Keelin strives to restore her family honour. But in the end, will either learn to trust their hearts?

Author Biography

Veronica Stone I was born the fourth child in a family of five and raised on a small lake in the middle of Michigan. Like most children, I had bad dreams and was afraid of the dark. As I got older, the dreams or nightmares, as most were by then, got worse and I began to sleep walk. At night, I was terrified to go to sleep; afraid that I would wake up somewhere other than my bed or that the vivid dreams I had would actually kill me. I died in my dreams quite frequently. Most times by being stabbed, drowned, or falling from high places. I actually hit the ground several times and felt all my bones break. As a child, I was haunted by what my mind created for me in my sleep.My parents didn't understand what I was telling them. They just thought I was like every other young child and that I would learn to accept the fact that the images in my head were only dreams and couldn't hurt me. That was when I began paying attention to the dreams and soon it became apparent that they were actually stories coming to me in bits and pieces.As I began writing them down, I realized more than one story was taking place and I started making charts of the characters. I wrote down how they looked, their eye color, height, weight, family members, houses they lived in, tattoos, and what pets they had. I wrote down anything that made the characters who and what they were. Soon full novels were coming to me in the form of dreams and I found myself excited to go to sleep. Though I continued to sleep walk, I began to want to sleep just so I could find out what was going to happen next in the stories I had begun to write.This had taken my talent to a new level and I started to research what was happening to me. I read everything I could get my hands on about sleep walking and even looked into a sleep clinic. I researched other authors to see if other people did what I could do. I was desperate to understand what was happening to me while I slept. I soon realized that no one could explain it. I even went to a psychic who told me I had a muse that helped me write. If that is the case, my muse never lets me know it's there.Frustrated, I began to run six to eight miles a day and found that during my run if I focused my mind I could get the dreams to play and I could actually dream the stories along as if I were asleep. It took getting used to and soon I had written three novels and started seven others. I found that if I read science fiction then I worked in science fiction. If I watched romance movies, then I wrote romance novels. It was after the birth of my daughters, that I had honed my talent into the ability that I still use today. The several dreams I have at night I no longer need to write down right away. They will be there when I sit in front of the computer to actually write the novels. As long as I've dreamed the stories, the books can be produced. If I haven't dreamed the books yet, the story abruptly stops and I am forced to switch to another story that I have dreamed about and work that one until I run out of information.Most of the time, I'm just an observer in the stories I write. Watching the scene like an innocent bystander, but other times I am the characters themselves; their faces, their feelings, their lives. It was terrifying as a child to look into a mirror in your dream and see someone else's face and hair where your reflection should have been. Now, I find it fascinating and realize that I grew up in an unusual way but am pleased that the ability has inspired the novels that so many of you enjoy today.I hope you enjoy what my mind creates and understand a bit of what it takes for me to write these novels. So enjoy the dreams and I wish you all the best!! Veronica Stone