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Nothing about Iris Bancroft was typical, especially her birth. It was exotic—and tragic. She was born of missionaries in King Chow, Hupeh Provence, China, on May 26, 1922, a time of great unrest. Her parents were sent there by the Swedish Covenant Church to work with the Chinese converts. Her life comes full circle in one of her historical romances. Love's Burning Flame,.when the heroine spends some time in Imperial China, where savagery, especially to women, was very common.Iris was one and a half when she left that turbulent continent, and her father died shortly thereafter. Her mother brought her to Chicago, where Iris spun youthful dreams of becoming a choir director. "I know now," confessed the romantic Iris, "that at the time I had a crush on the director of the choir at Fourth Presbyterian Church, where I sang."
In the early 1940s, she fell in love with a sailor whose religious background differed from hers. By mutual agreement, they stopped seeing each other before they got too serious. Then came World War II. "I married in 1945, and my husband went into the navy. At the war's end he returned, and we had two sons, William and Walter. I must admit now to not being completely honest in that marriage and in 1961 I asked for a divorce. I left my sons with their father because I felt it would be best for them if I did."
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Nothing about Iris Bancroft was typical, especially her birth. It was exotic—and tragic. She was born of missionaries in King Chow, Hupeh Provence, China, on May 26, 1922, a time of great unrest. Her parents were sent there by the Swedish Covenant Church to work with the Chinese converts. Her life comes full circle in one of her historical romances. Love's Burning Flame,.when the heroine spends some time in Imperial China, where savagery, especially to women, was very common.
As an author for Harlequin Romance, Betty Beaty published nine romance novels. She was also known as Catherine Ross and Betty Smith.
As an author for Harlequin Romance, Betty Beaty published nine romance novels. She was also known as Catherine Ross and Betty Smith.
Date: Tuesday December 06, 2011
Dirty One by Michael Graves
Zipper Mouth by Laurie Weeks
Mangus (2011)
Mangus (2011)
Maybe it’s due to the fact it was a long bit since I read the previous two books in this series, but I found Living Promises to have a great impact on an emotional level; I’m not saying I was crying reading it, but some lonely tear did ran down my check and I end up to really care for these characters, and I don’t mean only Collin and Jeff. In Living Promises, all the men and women who had the chance to previously know, Deacon, Carrick, Mikhail, Shane and many, many others, have an important role, they are Jeff’s family, and as such they have to take care for their own brother/uncle/friend/whatsoever.
Maybe it’s due to the fact it was a long bit since I read the previous two books in this series, but I found Living Promises to have a great impact on an emotional level; I’m not saying I was crying reading it, but some lonely tear did ran down my check and I end up to really care for these characters, and I don’t mean only Collin and Jeff. In Living Promises, all the men and women who had the chance to previously know, Deacon, Carrick, Mikhail, Shane and many, many others, have an important role, they are Jeff’s family, and as such they have to take care for their own brother/uncle/friend/whatsoever.