Someday Belongs to Us

Seventy-two-year-old romance novelist Kate Caldwell embarks on a Panama Canal cruise to overcome writer’s block. Her mysterious collaborator Captain Edward Peregrine reappears, and two intriguing passengers pursue her. Swept into a thrilling time-bending adventure, Kate must choose between desire and tranquility—or finally discover the true love she’s always written about.

About

As a 72-year-old author of more than thirty successful romance novels, Kate Caldwell had all but given up on finding her perfect love connection. To offset her loneliness, she spends her time writing and visiting with her granddaughter, Ellie, who lives near Kate’s Texas Hill Country home. While the first two books of her newest Passion series had been best-sellers, partly because of the help of her secret collaborator, Captain Edward Peregrine, Kate now faces a creative shut-down as she tries to start the third book. Her publisher is pressuring her to put more explicit love-making scenes in her novels, which goes against Kate’s principles. She believes love was more than just sex. At the same time, Edward seems to have abandoned her. Frustrated, Kate and Ellie embark on a two-week cruise to the Panama Canal in hopes that it will get Kate’s creative juices flowing again.

Edward returns to Kate on the first night of the cruise. They settle their past differences and begin collaborating on the third book—The Fiery Passion of a Thousand Burning Suns. After Edward’s visit, Kate is finally making progress with her book and is well into the first draft after a few days. At her dinner table aboard the cruise ship, she meets two attractive and available men, David Mitchell, a professor traveling partly on business and partly for pleasure, and Marco Antonini, traveling with his sister. Both men offer Kate the love possibilities that she so desired, and they open up feelings that she had long suppressed. Little did Kate know that troubled waters lay ahead or that she was in for the adventure of her life as a merging of the time continuum brings forth conflicts and desires that upsets the tranquility of her life, yet brings her closer to realizing her dream of true love.

Details

Category: Romance

Publication Date: June 22, 2022

ISBN (paper): 978-1-7368390-7-2

ISBN (ebook): 978-1-7368390-8-9

Pages: 224

Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5

Reviews
Lise Olsen, Author of CODE OF SILENCE

“A fun and lively read about romance, and the real and imagined adventures of a woman writer cruising through her senior years. Once again, Margie Seaman proves age is no obstacle in this swashbuckling debut novel.”

Storeybook Reviews

"This debut author sure knows how to weave a tale! There is so much included in this book, from love to a little intrigue, humor, and new friendships."

About the Author

Margie Seaman

Margie Seaman is an older writer who finally completed the novel she was always going to write: Someday Belongs to Us. She also writes a Texas travel blog, The Graytripper, mostly aimed at seniors who like to travel. She is also a web designer and SEO specialist and serves as president of Citation Solutions, Margie brought to her position at Citation, almost forty years of experience in marketing and sales promotion. She has been a member of Citation Solutions for fifteen years and became President in 2008. Before accepting the position with Citation, Margie was with Foley's, a senior division of May Department Stores, in Houston, Texas where she developed training programs for all stores' new hires and executives. Margie actively participated in the successful opening of 43 new Foley's retail stores throughout Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Colorado and Oklahoma. Along with training development, Margie joined the May Department Stores corporate team working to develop new standardized POS terminal transactions. Margie's expertise at coding POS applications was a perfect fit for designing websites. Citation designs sites from a marketing viewpoint rather than a strictly technological one. Margie's philosophy is that "a website is really a store front on the internet and the goal of any site that offers products or services is to get sales." "At Citation, we are interested in helping our clients build sales and grow successful businesses."

However, Margie's dream had always been to write a book and after reaching her eightieth birthday, she decided that if it were ever to be accomplished, she had better get started. Being an avid "cruiser," she drew from her experiences of cruising to the Panama Canal to use as an environmental background for her first book. Much of the action takes place on a cruise ship and the ports and excursions mentioned are very real. Margie explained that "having a book published at age 85 is a little surreal. I am beyond thrilled that this has happened and being a very optimistic person, I planned this book as the first in a trilogy and have hopes of being able to accomplish that goal."

Margie is a native Houstonian and has a BA degree from the University of Houston. She loves traveling, camping, and hiking. She is a mother of three, grandmother of seven, and great-grandmother of four. She also believes that life should be lived to fullest until the last minute and that older people still have a lot to offer and dreams can be realized at any age.

Reviews

Lise Olsen, Author of CODE OF SILENCE

“A fun and lively read about romance, and the real and imagined adventures of a woman writer cruising through her senior years. Once again, Margie Seaman proves age is no obstacle in this swashbuckling debut novel.”

Storeybook Reviews

"This debut author sure knows how to weave a tale! There is so much included in this book, from love to a little intrigue, humor, and new friendships."