Welcome to
my stop on the Book Blast, presented by Great Escapes Virtual Book Tours, for Searching for
Gertrude by D.E. Haggerty. Please leave
a comment or question for D.E. to let her know you stopped by. You may enter her tour wide giveaway by
filling out the Rafflecopter form below.
You may follow all of the stops on the tour by clicking on the banner
above. The more stops you visit, the
better your odds of winning. Good Luck!
Searching for Gertrude
Historical Romance
Self Published
January 22, 2018
Print Length: 278 pages
ASIN: B077P28WDK
Self Published
January 22, 2018
Print Length: 278 pages
ASIN: B077P28WDK
Purchase Links: Amazon Smashwords Barnesand Noble Kobo
While
growing up in Germany in the 1930s, Rudolf falls in love with the girl next
door, Gertrude. He doesn’t care what religion Gertrude practices, but the Nazis
do. When the first anti-Semitic laws are enacted by the Nazi government,
Gertrude’s father loses his job at the local university. Unable to find
employment in Germany, he accepts a position at Istanbul University and moves
the family to Turkey.
Rudolf,
desperate to follow Gertrude, takes a position as a consulate worker in
Istanbul with the very government which caused her exile. With Rudolf finally
living in the same city as Gertrude, their reunion should be inevitable, but he
can’t find her.
During his
search for Gertrude, he stumbles upon Rosalyn, an American Jew working as a
nanny in the city. Upon hearing his heartbreaking story, she immediately agrees
to help him search for his lost love. Willing to do anything in their search
for Gertrude, they agree to work for a British intelligence officer who
promises his assistance, but his demands endanger Rudolf and Rosalyn.
As the
danger increases and the search for Gertrude stretches on, Rudolf and Rosalyn
grow close, but Rudolf gave his heart away long ago.
I grew up
reading everything I could get my grubby hands on, from my mom's Harlequin
romances, to Nancy Drew, to Little Women. When I wasn't flipping pages in a
library book, I was penning horrendous poems, writing songs no one should ever
sing, or drafting stories which have thankfully been destroyed.
College and
a stint in the U.S. Army came along, robbing me of free time to write and read,
although on the odd occasion I did manage to sneak a book into my rucksack
between rolled up socks, MRIs, t-shirts, and cold weather gear. After surviving
the army experience, I went back to school and got my law degree. I jumped ship
and joined the hubby in the Netherlands before the graduation ceremony could
even begin.
A few years
into my legal career, I was exhausted, fed up, and just plain done. I quit my
job and sat down to write a manuscript, which I promptly hid in the attic after
returning to the law. But being a lawyer really wasn’t my thing, so I quit
(again!) and went off to Germany to start a B&B. Turns out being a
B&B owner wasn’t my thing either.
I polished
off that manuscript languishing in the attic before following the husband to
Istanbul where I decided to give the whole writer-thing a go. But ten years was
too many to stay away from my adopted home. I packed up again and moved to The
Hague where I’m currently working on my next book. I hope I’ll always be
working on my next book. Searching
for Gertrude is my twelfth book.
Website: - Blog: - Facebook: - Twitter: - Instagram: - Goodreads: Amazon
author page - Newsletter
signup - Google+ - Pinterest
Thanks for hosting Searching for Gertrude's book blast on your blog. Unfortunately, I was struck down by a chest cold last week and am only now back at my computer and able to thank my lovely supporters.
ReplyDelete