Diversity Rules Magazine

16 Diversity Rules Magazine February 2017 Helen Dunn is prob- ably best known due to her novel "Untamed Women of Yesteryear", published by L-Books, receiving honorable mention by the Golden Crown Literary Society, as well as being nomi- nated for Favorite Les- bian Fiction Historical - by the Lesbian Fiction Readers Choice Awards group for 2011. A small town with dirty, little secrets. Illicit loves, insanity, at- tempted murder and more occur in the dangerous undercurrents of the small town of Weather's Mill in the 1800's. Veronica Rush is in love with her brother's bride, and Veronica isn't the only lesbian in Weather's Mill. Dr. Elijah Miller has ugly secrets, that if known, would ruin the community standing he finds so important. Rev. Graham Merriman is a hyp- ocrite involved in a secret affair which leads to ominous circum- stances. EXCERPT: ere was no one about on the streets of Weather's Mill at that hour and only the rare house showed so much as a light. All was quiet, except for the oc- casional dog bark, meow from a nocturnal cat, and the clip clop of the horse's hooves combined with the creak of the gig's wheels. It was only a short distance to the house of the town's doctor and they soon reached it. DeLash pulled the horse and gig over to the curb and climbed down. Bid- ding Veronica to wait there and mind the horse, he went stealthily alongside the house to the back shed where the ladder awaited. A lone church bell tolled the midnight hour, the last hour that would be rung before morning, and Veronica waited tensely, torn between tears and rage. Kate Mill- er likewise waited tensely beside the window, which she had opened. It was not long before she saw a dark form moving about on the grounds below and then the sound of the ladder scraping against the house as it was put up to reach the window. Could she do it? Could she really make herself climb out that window and run away with DeLash Rush and become his wife? For a moment Kate was not at all cer- tain she could. As she stood hesitating, DeLash called up to her softly. "Kate? Kate? Are you there?" "Yes, I'm here." Kate called back keeping her voice lowered. She flung her belongings down onto the lawn below. Not sure where they would be spending the rest of the night or the next several days, she had packed a few essentials to take with her. "Do you need me to climb up?" DeLash asked, placing a foot upon a rung. "No." Kate replied, although lift- ing and managing the voluminous skirt of her dress almost sent her plunging from the window sill. "I only need you to hold the ladder steady." Regaining her balance, and now with both feet on the ladder, she was able to descend and did so rather quickly, relieved when she felt the lawn beneath her shoes. ere was a brief discussion on Dunn - Con't on page 19 Weather's Mill A Book by Helen Dunn http://amzn.to/1l0l5WC

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