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Goodbye to Yesterday
An American historical saga rich with romance, family, history, change and conflict, set against the backdrop of the founding of a new nation. This is Jenny and Austin’s love story from Williamsburg, through the American Revolution and after.
Jenny is a cooper’s daughter who marries Austin, a wealthy planter, lawyer and Burgess. Her new life isn’t a life of leisure, but one of challenge. A jilted suiter, ghosts of the past, secrets, the war for independence with her husband in battle, the founding of a new country, creates a new way of life.
The years march on, while they witness the birth of the nation, the growth and love of their family, and the security of home and hearth. Will their love survive?
Jenny is a cooper’s daughter who marries Austin, a wealthy planter, lawyer and Burgess. Her new life isn’t a life of leisure, but one of challenge. A jilted suiter, ghosts of the past, secrets, the war for independence with her husband in battle, the founding of a new country, creates a new way of life.
The years march on, while they witness the birth of the nation, the growth and love of their family, and the security of home and hearth. Will their love survive?
326 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 25, 2024
About the author
Nancy Loyan
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Purveyor of the written word, Nancy Loyan Schuemann has been writing ever since she began composing picture books for fellow students in elementary school.
After graduating with a BSBA degree in marketing from John Carroll University, she pursued a career in sales and marketing. She has incorporated those skills into a professional writing career. She is a freelance writer specializing in construction, design, architecture, histories, profiles, antique safes, dance, travel and special interest in local and national publications. She has taught writing at the prestigious Chautauqua Institution in New York State.
Nancy is a Cleveland, Ohio native who shares her knowledge of the city as author of
Cleveland, Ohio: A Photographic Portrait and On the Threshold of a New Century: The City of South Euclid, 1967-1999. Her love, however, is writing women’s fiction. Her first novel, Paradise Found, a multicultural romance set in the exotic Seychelles Islands was published in 2011 with electronic book publisher, InnerVision Books and, later self-published. She has since contracted with Crimson Romance, an imprint of F&W Media (Writer’s Digest Books, Cup of Comfort among others) for six novels. Three are currently available: Lab Test, Hearts of Steel and Wishes and Tears.
Travel has taken her around the world, including trips to Europe, Great Britain, South America, Egypt and the exotic Seychelles Islands. When she’s not writing, Nancy teaches and performs, Middle Eastern dance as “Nailah” (www.NailahDance.com) She shares her life with her husband, Bill, and her Pointer/Labs, Amber and Topaz. Her web site is www.NLSScribe.com
Purveyor of the written word, Nancy Loyan Schuemann has been writing ever since she began composing picture books for fellow students in elementary school.
After graduating with a BSBA degree in marketing from John Carroll University, she pursued a career in sales and marketing. She has incorporated those skills into a professional writing career. She is a freelance writer specializing in construction, design, architecture, histories, profiles, antique safes, dance, travel and special interest in local and national publications. She has taught writing at the prestigious Chautauqua Institution in New York State.
Nancy is a Cleveland, Ohio native who shares her knowledge of the city as author of
Cleveland, Ohio: A Photographic Portrait and On the Threshold of a New Century: The City of South Euclid, 1967-1999. Her love, however, is writing women’s fiction. Her first novel, Paradise Found, a multicultural romance set in the exotic Seychelles Islands was published in 2011 with electronic book publisher, InnerVision Books and, later self-published. She has since contracted with Crimson Romance, an imprint of F&W Media (Writer’s Digest Books, Cup of Comfort among others) for six novels. Three are currently available: Lab Test, Hearts of Steel and Wishes and Tears.
Travel has taken her around the world, including trips to Europe, Great Britain, South America, Egypt and the exotic Seychelles Islands. When she’s not writing, Nancy teaches and performs, Middle Eastern dance as “Nailah” (www.NailahDance.com) She shares her life with her husband, Bill, and her Pointer/Labs, Amber and Topaz. Her web site is www.NLSScribe.com
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