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Marry Me and Die

by Meribel Blanchard


Copyright ©1999
ISBN: 0-87714-423-0 eBook edition
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This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

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THE AUTHOR

Meribel Blanchard, a native Missourian, has resided in several U.S. states and visited most of the rest. She traveled extensively and lived on Okinawa and in Germany. She enjoys exploring roads to see where they go.

A freelance writer and newspaper columnist, Meribel has been stringer, proofreader, editor and publisher. She owned and managed two bookstores in the Washington, D.C. area, which she considers an excellent way to lose money.

The writing bug bit at age seven, with her first sale to a children's magazine. At ten, while enrolled in Horace Mann Elementary School in New York City, she wrote, directed and produced a play, a veritable "Broadway Production." Since then, her short stories and articles have appeared in a variety of publications.

For many years Meribel attended the Star Island Writers' Conference, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with one tenure as Director of that group. She led the writers' workshops at Southeast UU Summer Institute in Virginia for two summers, She participated in Writers' Roundtables in Massachusetts, Maryland and Florida and is currently active in three critique groups.

Meribel swims whenever possible, fishes if her lines are untangled, and cooks when the mood or necessity strike. She wields a hammer for Habitat for Humanity, likes the theater, music and walking, She adores auctions, poking through second hand shops and yard sales. She is the sole support of two voracious cats.

Meribel returns to her native Missouri and takes her readers along in her book, "Marry Me and Die."

Acknowledgements...

This book is dedicated with love to Dale and Linda, daughters extraordinaire. And with special thanks to my three pushy critique groups, the Paint Branch Writers Roundtable, Emily Nutku, Margery Donn and Stan Baer: Kathy's Kitchen Gang, Kathy Eagle, Penny Guinta, Marilyn Robbins, Judy Sullivan, Mary Anne O'Neill, Jane Bierce and Polly Bolack: The Pines Writers: Keller, Hilda, Helga, Hilary, Maurea and Angela.

THE BOOK

Marry Me and Die moves from the hills to the city in mid-America, and finally to the rugged coast of Maine. We read about women like Ozarka Jane Pomeroy in the newspapers. These modern day Lucrezia Borgias' outrageous behavior should send them to prison, if not to death row. Instead, juries find them not guilty, free to marry again. Are they wrongly accused, or did they do the deed? Why are they allowed to get away with murder?

What is it like to be inside the mind and body of Zarka Jane, a young Missouri woman, as she becomes a widow, again and again. Is it her foolish decisions, bad luck, or the shadowy person stalking her, that prevent her from achieving happiness forever after?

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