DIANTHA BY ZINA ABBOTT

My name is Robyn Echols. Zina Abbott is the pen I use for my historical novels. I’m a member of Women Writing the West and Western Writers of America. I currently live with my husband in California’s central valley near the “Gateway to Yosemite.”


I love to read, quilt, work with digital images on my photo editing program, and work on my own family history.


I am a blogger. In addition to my own blog, I blog for several group blogs including the Sweet Americana Sweethearts blog, which I started and administer.

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The daughter of a Georgia plantation owner, Diantha Ames was raised and educated to be a lady. Surviving the Civil War as a child, her family, in a desperate, but ultimately
unsuccessful bid to save the property of both her father and her uncle, arranges a marriage between her and her first cousin. Although not a love match, she and Eugene were amiable. As information about her husband comes to light after his death in the Gold King Mine disaster that took so many lives in Wildcat Ridge, she is left with her husband’s hotel and postmaster position to fill—and a lot of questions.

With Diantha’s former laundress gone, she hires Hilaina Dowd, whose family hails from the
mountains of Appalachia. Hilaina loyally stays with her mother who wishes to live out her life in Wildcat Ridge and be buried next to her husband who died in the mine disaster.

Henry “Hank” Cauley is branded a failure after refusing to be part of his father’s Salt Lake
City brick-making business and then losing his stationary and book store business. To bury him far away, his brother and conniving sister-on-law use their political influence with the territorial Congressional representative to award him the postmaster position in Wildcat Ridge. He arrives in town to take over the position starting the first of September only to discover the postmistress, Diantha, knows nothing about the change, and is not relieved she no longer is obligated to fill this position originally awarded to her deceased
husband. Finding himself surrounded by those loyal to the soft-spoken, Southern
lady, is he destined to also be a failure in Wildcat Ridge?

Buckley “Buck” Kramer, wrangler on the Grassy Fork Ranch in Colorado, has not been totally satisfied with his lot ever since the trip he took to Wildcat Ridge earlier in
the summer with his boss and best friend now he sees the happiness of family life the two men enjoy after they brought back wives. When two trail-worn young brothers stumble onto the ranch looking for a meal and permanent jobs, but are told with winter coming on there is only room for one, Buck insists on leaving in order to keep the brothers together. Is Buck really dissatisfied with his job on the ranch, or is this an excuse to return to Wildcat Ridge and the woman he has not been able to get out of his mind?

  

Diantha, Book 14, is a stand-alone novel. However, you might enjoy it best by reading all the books in the series, The Widows of Wildcat Ridge. Also, my other book in the
series, Nissa, Book 3, was written to be a duet with Diantha—a series
within a series. You might also enjoy reading Nissa if you have not already done so.

  

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Top Ten List:

10 Fun Facts About Myself

1. I’m not a fun person—I tend to be serious.

2. I’ll go to an organizational meeting with a speaker or class before I’ll go to a social party.

3. I’m analytical and sometimes suffer from “analysis paralysis.”

4. I like to quilt rather than sew garments because l like doing the math to create new block designs.

5. The other fun part of quilting for me is to put together colors and fabric patterns I don’t think will look good together – but in the end, they do!

6. I like photography, but I’m not a professional. Thank goodness for digital cameras and photo-editing programs.

7. I love to create digital memes, banners and blog post headers. 

8. I belong to my county genealogical society.

9. My idea of camping is staying in a fifth wheel or a trailer—with internet access.

10. I’d rather be reading.

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What a great deal we have for readers! Amelia Adams is heading a posse of 29 authors who offer readers a Western Romance Extravaganza of over 50 discounted books for 99 cents each! The two books I have on offer are WINTER BRIDE, which is part of the Stone Mountain TX series, and JOSEPHINE, book one of the Bride Brigade. Click the link to Amelia’s website for the page listing each of the books  http://www.ameliacadams.com/p/western-romance-extravaganza.html 
This sale is September 1- 4.

After you take advantage of that value-packed deal, mosey on over to my re-release of MURDOCH’S BRIDE. This book was one of Debra Holland’s Montana Sky Series for Kindle World. Thankfully, when Amazon deleted that program, the rights reverted to me. I’m happy to say MURDOCH’S BRIDE is now available again, this time in e-book and print and is also in KU.

This was a fun book to write. 

Take a man who hasn’t let a woman other than his cook set foot in his house for twenty years, a woman who doesn’t trust men and can’t stop complaining about everything, the man’s two sons, the woman’s niece/companion, and a young widow. Cast the women into the snow after a train wreck and have them taken to the men’s ranch home an hour from town, where another blizzard further isolates them. When the temperature drops and the hired hands move into the house… well, things get crowded and controversial. I love this book. I hope if you haven’t yet read MURDOCH’S BRIDE, you will and that you will love it, too. http://mybook.to/Murdochbook3

I’ve just finished writing and am editing BLESSING, the name of a young woman who prefers to be called Buster because she feels the nickname is more suited to a rancher. This is book 2 of the Widows of Wildcat Ridge Series. PRISCILLA, by Charlene Raddon, is book 1 of the series. Both books are on preorder. PRISCILLA releases September 15 and BLESSING releases October 1. NISSA by Zina Abbott, is book 3 and will release October 15. You may have guessed, books in the series will release approximately every two weeks through spring—with the exception of December. Here’s the link for BLESSING: http://Getbook.at/blessingWOWR

Have a great Labor Day weekend! I hope you spend at least part of the weekend reading.