title: The Bright Shawl: Colors of Tender Whispers
author:  Phyllis H. Moore 
description: Phyllis H. Moore is an emerging author. She has a Masters Degree in Social Work, and is currently retired from the field after thirty years. Following retirement, she owned and operated a bed and breakfast with her husband in a small, historic community in south Texas. Her combined careers, gave her inspiration for several fiction stories, and the writing began. Phyllis has been published in online literary journals, Fiction Southeast, and the Yellow Chair Review. She currently has five novels in publication, The Sabine Trilogy, Sabine, Josephines Journals and Secrets of Dunn House, Phyllis also has two stand-alone novels, Opals Story and Tangled, a Southern Gothic Yarn and an anthology of spooky short stories inspired by real places and events, The Bridge on Jackson Road. She has authored one nonfiction book, Retirement, Now What? She blogs on her web site http://www.phyllishmoore.com. Follow her on Pinterest and Facebook. Phyllis lives on a small ranch in south Texas with her husband and their adopted terrier, Ollie Bubba. She enjoys reading writing, travel, gardening and spending time in her second home on Galveston Island, Texas, visiting her adult children, Phillip, Sarah and Walter.
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  “WILL YOU NOT CALL ME ADAM?” HE ASKED SOFTLY.
  
  His fingers left her ear, only to brush down her cheek for a fraction of a
  second.
  
  Startled, Helena met his eyes, very close still, although he was no longer
  touching her. Adam’s gaze, under long, dark lashes, was the dark navy of the
  jacket he was wearing. The intensity of the look took her breath away, and she
  could only stammer, “But, m-my lord, we…”
  
  “If you are going to tell me that we have not been properly introduced, I
  shall have no patience with you, Helena! Come, I thought you had more spirit
  than to be cowed by the conventions. Who is there to hear us?”
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Francesca Shaw is not one but two authors, working together under the same
  name. Both are librarians by profession, working in Hertfordshire but living
  virtually side by side in a village in Bedfordshire. They first began writing
  under a tree in a Burgundian vineyard, and although they have published other
  romances, they thoroughly enjoy writing histori