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Enjoy this guest post from historical romance novelist, Merry Farmer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Somewhere around my senior year of high school, after years of memorizing names and dates, it dawned on me that history actually happened.\u00a0 Hard to believe, I know.\u00a0 All those pictures in history books are so static, so distant.\u00a0 And none of it seems particularly interesting, right?<\/p>\n

It was halfway through a \u201ccurrent events\u201d history class, when our teacher divided the class into newly independent post-Soviet countries and told us to come up with a form of government for our new country, that I realized all that stuff, all those names and dates and stilted pictures with bad perspective, really happened.\u00a0 I was elected the leader of my group\u2019s country, and after no one could agree on anything I declared myself dictator and did whatever I wanted.\u00a0 The teacher promptly informed me that I had just been assassinated by the head of my military.\u00a0 I was irate.\u00a0 It was all very real.<\/p>\n

Then, during the summer after high school, I got a job as an actor at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire.\u00a0 Now it was my job to pretend to be a medieval peasant.\u00a0 I had to convince not only the patrons of the faire that it was all real, I had to buy into it myself.\u00a0 And you know what? \u00a0It was easy.<\/p>\n

I’ve always loved history.\u00a0 I could never understand when people complained about it being nothing but boring names and dates.\u00a0 That\u2019s how it was presented in school, true, but it only took a little digging to bring the whole thing to life.\u00a0 The best place to do that digging is through literature.\u00a0 One of the best college history classes I had, Early Modern Europe, involved us reading books written in the time period we were studying.\u00a0 What textbooks can only talk about, historical literature gives life and color to.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no surprise, then, that I write historical romance.\u00a0 I consider it my mission to convey my love of the past to people who mistakenly think it\u2019s boring.\u00a0 This mission is the reason why I deliberately wrote my Noble Hearts series of medieval romance with anachronistic language, modern-feeling characters, and passions that feel as real today as they did in 12th<\/sup> century England.\u00a0 Because to the people living in those times it was all very modern.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Courageous Heart<\/a><\/em> is a story of betrayal and forgiveness, of selfishness and love.\u00a0 It embodies the very modern idea that when\u00a0we’ve\u00a0been hurt by someone we love we make horrible decisions.\u00a0 Those decisions destroy lives.\u00a0 And those lives have to be rebuilt again.\u00a0 The Courageous Heart<\/em> <\/a>is a modern story of redemption set against what might at first feel like an unfamiliar backdrop.\u00a0 Did medieval people really jilt their lovers?\u00a0 Were people truly thrown into situations where they had to trust someone they knew had hurt them before?\u00a0 Were the choices faced a thousand years ago as painful as the ones we face today? \u00a0Of course they were!<\/p>\n

Betrayal and redemption are not historical concepts.\u00a0 They\u2019re not modern concepts.\u00a0 They are concepts that transcend all of time.\u00a0 They are human concepts.\u00a0 When I set out to write The Courageous Heart<\/em><\/a>, and the rest of the Noble Hearts stories, I wanted to show that it doesn\u2019t matter what age you live in, love will find a way.\u00a0 Sometimes you need a sword to fight for what you know is right and sometimes all you need is a cell phone.<\/p>\n

History is not dull or dry.\u00a0 It is full of all the passion and heroism of the stories we hear on the news every day.\u00a0 Politics were just as vicious back then and love was just as tender.\u00a0 I hope that as you read the Noble Hearts series you get a sense of that.<\/p>\n

More books by Merry:<\/p>\n

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Find out more about Merry here:<\/p>\n

Website: http:\/\/merryfarmer.net\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Twitter:\u00a0https:\/\/twitter.com\/MerryFarmer20<\/a><\/p>\n

Facebook: www.facebook.com\/merryfarmerauthor<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Merry Farmer is an award-winning novelist who lives in suburban Philadelphia with her two cats, Butterfly and Torpedo. She has been writing since she was ten years old and realized one day that she didn’t have to wait for the teacher to assign a creative writing project to write something. It was the best day of her life. She then went on to earn not one but two degrees in History so that she would always having something to write about. Today she is a giant History nerd and a hopeless romantic waiting for her own love story to start. Her first book, The Loyal Heart<\/em>, is a swashbuckling Medieval Historical Romance involving a love triangle that will keep you guessing.\u00a0 Both The Loyal Heart<\/em> and its sequels, The Faithful Heart <\/em>and The Courageous Heart<\/em>, are available wherever eBooks are sold.\u00a0 She has also begun a new Western Historical Romance series set in Montana in 1895.\u00a0 The first of that series, Our Little Secrets<\/em>, is now available.\u00a0 The second, Fool for Love<\/em>, will be released in early 2013.\u00a0 Merry is also passionate about blogging, knitting, and cricket and is working towards becoming an internationally certified cricket scorer.<\/p>\n

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