{"id":89,"date":"2020-08-10T12:30:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T12:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vasilasbooks.com\/?page_id=89"},"modified":"2022-05-25T12:28:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T12:28:26","slug":"89-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vasilasbooks.com\/?page_id=89","title":{"rendered":"Spirit of Love."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">A sequel to &#8220;Spirit of the Law&#8221; and prequel to &#8220;Spirit of the Sabre&#8221;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/vasilasbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/alternate-cover-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vasilasbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/alternate-cover-3.jpg 720w, https:\/\/vasilasbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/alternate-cover-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/vasilasbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/alternate-cover-3-676x901.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption><strong><em>Book Cover &#8211; Spirit of Love<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Peggy Harris was a young woman in the 1880s with a unique ability for understanding horses.&nbsp; It had been a little over a year since her beau, Corey Hansen, had been killed.&nbsp; He had been a deputy marshal in Rio Madre, Texas, and died during the take-down of a gang of rustlers.&nbsp; Since then, she had thrown herself into training horses for a special cavalry contract she had won for her father&#8217;s ranch.&nbsp;&nbsp; She wouldn\u2019t accept the idea of letting someone else into her life.&nbsp; Unknown to her, Corey\u2019s spirit was still around.&nbsp; He stayed to keep working with the marshal (he became a great under-cover operative), and he wanted to protect her.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Now, he is trying to convince her to let him go so she can find someone else.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Will her new beau be the son of a neighboring rancher, the young cavalry lieutenant, or, perhaps, someone else.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/vasilasbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Spirit-of-Love-by-Darla-Vasilas-2.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Spirit of Love<\/strong> Book Video Trailer <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/vasilasbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/SOL-Press-Release.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vasilasbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/SOL-Press-Release.jpg 720w, https:\/\/vasilasbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/SOL-Press-Release-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/vasilasbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/SOL-Press-Release-676x901.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Publisher&#8217;s Press Release<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Spirit of Love<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Darla Vasilas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PROLOGUE<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It had been a little over a year since Rio Madre\u2019s deputy marshal, Corey Hansen, had died. &nbsp;Peggy Harris had thrown herself into working with her horses.&nbsp; They had known each other since grade school; but hadn\u2019t started seeing each other romantically until it was almost too late.&nbsp; Although her romance with Corey had been brief, she knew that deep inside she had loved him very much.&nbsp; There had been something about him\u2026something pure and honest.&nbsp; She couldn\u2019t stop thinking about him.&nbsp; Actually, there were times that she could almost feel him with her, especially when she was working with Sunny, his palomino horse.&nbsp; Corey\u2019s last request had been to make sure that Sunny be given to her, and that she be told how \u2018special\u2019 she was to him.&nbsp; At the time, Corey hadn\u2019t known that although his physical body would be buried in the town cemetery, his \u2018spirit\u2019 would remain in Rio Madre.&nbsp; He was Bill Raines\u2019 deputy, and he intended to keep his job, which included bringing down the leader of the band of rustlers responsible for his demise.&nbsp; Bill\u2019s new deputy, Danny Wilde, was good at the job; but Corey was always there when they needed him.&nbsp; Danny had been a part of the rustler band.&nbsp; Then, when Marshal Raines and the posse caught up with the band, he surrendered immediately.&nbsp; Later, while in jail, he saved the Marshal\u2019s life &#8211; twice. &nbsp;He was given a one-year \u2018suspended\u2019 sentence and paroled into Bill\u2019s custody.&nbsp; Bill decided that the best way to keep an eye on him was to make him a deputy.&nbsp; And with Corey still there, he had a pretty great team. &nbsp;Besides, who could be a better \u2018undercover\u2019 operator than a ghost?&nbsp; So far, they were the only people that could actually \u2018see\u2019 him, other than Bill\u2019s wife, Sally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Corey now divided his time between the town and the Harris Ranch, especially when Peggy was working with the horses.&nbsp; Although she didn\u2019t know he was there, he couldn\u2019t help watching out for her from the far side of the barn.&nbsp; He didn\u2019t want the other horses to sense his presence and spook; but, Sunny knew when he was there, and would always stand beside him relishing receiving the familiar scratches behind his ear.&nbsp; \u201cI always knew she seemed to \u2018understand\u2019 horses, Sunny; but what she has been doing lately\u2026it\u2019s beyond me.\u201d&nbsp; Sunny softly nickered and bobbed his head.&nbsp; \u201cSo, I guess you have known it all along?\u201d&nbsp; Again, Sunny bobbed his head as Corey smiled and gave the horse\u2019s neck a big hug.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sequel to &#8220;Spirit of the Law&#8221; and prequel to &#8220;Spirit of the Sabre&#8221; Peggy Harris was a young woman in the 1880s with a unique ability for understanding horses.&nbsp; It had been a little over a year since her beau, Corey Hansen, had been killed.&nbsp; He had been a deputy marshal in Rio Madre, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-89","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PgJz3y-1r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasilasbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasilasbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasilasbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasilasbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vasilasbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/vasilasbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/vasilasbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vasilasbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}