Sins of Liberty
Ron Seybold
Type: ARC
Genre: Historical fiction
Word count: 117,000
In 1901, Anna comes to Michigan to live in equality. A rectory housekeeper, she falls in love with a young priest. When their toddler contracts a deadly fever, Joe returns to priesthood in his bargain with God. Anna starts anew, reborn into suffrage campaigns. Joe’s bishop pursues the secret of her son’s father, trying to smash her work for liberty.
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Anna’s plan of retreat doesn’t include romance, but love comes calling in 1901 Raisinville. The immigrant brings a secret to the Michigan parish where she works as a rectory housekeeper—her abortion to escape a cad’s broken promises. In that rectory refuge after sacrificing her child, she falls for Joe, a new priest listening with love in his voice. He’s exiled from priesthood for the affair—then their love delivers a child. Married in secret, a fresh start calls them to Toledo, a hub of prospects for progress.
Their child’s scarlet fever shatters Anna’s dream, so they hunt for a cure. Joe returns to priesthood in his bargain with God. Anna starts anew, fighting for suffage, while Joe’s bishop pursues proof of her secret: the true father of her son. Her sin from the past would smash her suffrage work. She must learn to trust allies. Liberty is at stake.
Ron Seybold is the author of the novels Sins of Liberty and Viral Times, as well as his fatherhood+baseball memoir Stealing Home. He is director of Austin’s Writer’s Workshop, an interviewer for Austin Liti Limits, as well as a Community Member of the Writers’ League of Texas. A graduate of the University of Texas journalism program and a US Army veteran, he leads authors to develop their stories for publication. With his wife, the yoga teacher Abby Lentz, he lives and writes in Austin, an oasis where the family poodle Ella campaigns for walks and fetches with a smile.
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