New novel release: Frontier Highlanders

With the Covid contagion on the loose, my writing came to a screeching halt starting in February 2020. But how could I leave Gregory and David stranded on the road to Pennsylvania Colony? They have a much longer road to travel. 

At last I can announce the publication of the third novel of my series “The Renegade and the Runaway.”

I’m especially pleased with the secondary characters, as riveting in their own way as the two protagonists.

GREGORY MAC GREGOR is a “scowly and growly” Highland Scot. With his partner David, he tries to conquer the wilderness of a New World before it can conquer him.

DAVID ADAMSON is a Quaker-trained young man who, in this final novel of a series, finally comes of age in many interesting ways.

SKY is a young Tuscarora Native American who accompanies Gregory and David on part of their journey. He’s also the co-hero of my last novel Owl & Sky.

JOHN, a native Senegalese, is a pivotal character in both this book and in the spinoff Owl & Sky. Once a slave, he shows far more humanity than many of the humans he encounters.

DANIEL BOONE is…well, he’s Daniel Boone—a famous man with an embarrassing secret. His final gift to David is a Kentucky long rifle…an odd gift to a pacifist Quaker-do-gooder.

HOOD: There’s another character, a mysterious man who appears in the first and last chapters, and in a few “Interludes” as the novel progresses. I leave it up to the reader to decide whether he’s the antagonist—or whether the greed and inhumanity of their fellow men are the real villains of this historical romance

Frontier Highlanders and its two companion novels really tell a love story. You’ll find explicit sex, adventure, humor, and a smattering of history—but above all you’ll unravel a love story.

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SeaToSky: https://bit.ly/3aWwxTO
Smashwords: https://bit.ly/38OHZhK

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Owl and Sky: “new-adult” novel to debut

Illegitimacy, slavery, and pedophilia…for new adults?

“New adult” is that modern literary term given to stories that appeal to teens, those who are just beginning to explore their emotions and sexuality. The heat level is around a PG-13, and the subject matter usually steers away from controversial or edgy subjects.

For this year’s National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo), I undertook a kind of sequel to an adult, erotic series called “The Renegade and the Runaway.” This latest writing follows  the life of one of  the series characters, Grant Fletcher, a 12-year-old who’s infatuated with a young Native American called Sky.

I venture into illegitimacy, slavery, and pedophilia, but in a way that should not alienate audiences of any age. More important, the overarching theme of the quiet spiritual life is one that I hope will resonate with most readers.

Here’s a storyboard, and the intro to Owl and Sky:

Owl…it’s the name given to Grant Fletcher by his close friends and allies, the Tuscarora Indians of North Carolina’s Ocracoke Island. His best friend is Sky, a native son.

When Grant is forced to leave the island—when his family comes to “rescue” him from the only home he’s ever known—he must also leave Sky. He finds himself in the tall dark city of Edinburgh, center of enlightenment, and of sinister shadows too. When the story opens, he’s twelve and Sky is fifteen. But reality has a way of making boys into men, very fast.

For his part, Sky is a native of an emerging country…America…an indigenous segment of the New World that its new settlers are trying to eradicate, to marginalize, or to enslave—whichever is more profitable. What happens when this young Indian strikes a fateful bargain with a colonial icon named Daniel Boone? When he teams up with an African man held in an iron collar?

How can two young men reunite across the divide of ocean and the tide of history? Expect the unexpected from best-selling m/m author Erin O’Quinn.

I expect to publish the new novel early next year. Watch for it!

Those who enjoy an erotic, historical adventure series may like to try Unkilted and its sequel Unbroken, a two-novel series that spawned this current work. They are among my top favorites of my own work.

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Unbroken is about to break…

Hello, readers of Erin O’Quinn! Now’s your chance to grab a copy of my latest novel Unkilted, a week before its conclusion arrives in the heart-rattling sequel, Unbroken.

Here’s the new novel’s introduction…

The sequel to Unkilted finds a young Quaker-trained man and a bitter Highland outlaw together again, and not by their own design. They meet again on a Dutch trader sailing to the king’s young American colonies—uncharted land even more wild than Scotland’s daunting Highlands.

David is on a mission to the British-occupied colonies to find his true father, a well-known frontiersman. Grier is searching for his aunt, abducted twelve years earlier, held somewhere on the coast of North Carolina. Back in Edinburgh, Iain spins his quiet web to reunite with his beloved wife.

More than seeking family members, the two younger men are searching for something they may find only when they finally understand themselves, and each other.

Can a naive, scholarly youth become a force against a killer, and even a desperate pirate? Will a deeply angry man ever forget that the man he most desires bears the name of his sworn enemy? 

✅Slow Burn Romance

✅Slow Reveal

✅Family Secrets

Oh, I loved writing this one. The characters are fresh, the action is ‘way out of mainstream, and the action is told again from three points of view, just to add some depth to the story.

This is one image for the Facebook promo I’ll be running,

The links to the first novel, Unkilted:

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Kindle US  https://amzn.to/2BVJ5rj  

Kindle UK   https://amzn.to/2R22EJ3

SeaToSky (epub or pdf)  https://bit.ly/2R5wDzB

Smashwords (pdf)  https://bit.ly/2StIFzn

QRI: all links, excerpts, reviews, more  https://bit.ly/2VmGWhr

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