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IN PURSUIT OF GREAT ROMANCE

Early History of my fictional town, Radley's Hollow

1/12/2017

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Long before Jamison Donovan Radley settled in the area that eventually became Radley’s Hollow, California, the Pomo Indians lived there. The Pomo built their villages along the Russian River in fertile valleys thick with oak and madrone forests. They hunted elk, bears and mountain lions. Despite exploration of California's coasts by European sailing vessels, from the 1500's to the early 1800's the Russian River Valley and its inhabitants remained unchanged.
In the early 1840s, Jamison Donovan Radley, heir to a wealthy East Coast family, set up mining and logging operations in what will eventually become west Sonoma County. In 1847, he founds Radley’s Hollow, but not without tragedy. His beautiful second wife, Madison, is mysteriously murdered. Her ghost will haunt the town for the next three hundred years.
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Known as a place of dangerous visions and unstable power, the Pomo treated the hollow Radley’s Hollow is named for as a sacred place. They warn JD Radley that settling near it will lead to catastrophe. Undaunted, JD is drawn to the hollow and to the secret buried underneath it. It’s thanks to that secret that JD becomes an extremely wealthy man and launches an empire. Losing his wife is just the beginning of the price he and his descendants will pay for treading where no human should go.
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    writes romance at the crossroads of the paranormal, science fiction, and fantasy. She lives with her wonderfully eccentric husband in an equally quirky Victorian in the San Francisco Bay Area. An avid cat lover in search of her next cat, Tess is a huge fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Doctor Who. She’s an accountant by day, a novelist by night, and an artist at heart 24/7.

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