Historical Romance Writer
Sherry Shindelar
Click here for my monthly newsletter and a free short story set in the 1850’s on the Western frontier.
Click here for my monthly newsletter and a free short story set in the 1850’s on the Western frontier.
Sherry’s love for history and romance along with her faith flow through her writing .
I have been in love with stories since I was a child. I’d swing for hours on my swing set, pumping my legs back and forth, dreaming up stories in my head. Even then I had a flair for romance: creating new love interests and episodes for Star Trek’s Captain Kirk, before moving onto plotting original romantic dramas and adventures in distant lands.
My favorite possession at age nine was a set of author playing cards (a matching game with the photos of famous women authors). I wanted to be an author when I grew up and bring stories to life on the written page, stories that would impact my readers.
A visit to a historic home in the Shenandoah Valley, when my husband and I were newly married, spurred my love for history and planted the seed for the story of my heart. A few years later, I wrote the novel, then buried it in box in my closet.
Twenty years ago, I read a captive narrative that broke my heart. Cynthia Ann Parker was taken at age nine and spent twenty-four years with the Comanche, married, and had a family. Then, she was torn away from them by Texas Rangers and U.S. Cavalry. Cynthia Ann ended up dying of a broken heart.
The story haunted me for two decades, until I decided to put my pen to paper and write my own fictional captive story, with a much different ending.
This is the story of Eyes-Like-Sky.
Texas Forsaken, set in 1860 Texas, debuted May 2024 and is now available .
The man who killed her husband is the only one who can save her baby. His pledge to protect her and the child could cost him everything.
Texas 1860. Seven years ago, Maggie Logan (Eyes-Like-Sky) lost everything she knew when a raid on a wagon train tore her from her family. But she survived and adapted, married a Comanche warrior and had a baby. English and her past life are vague shadows. In one terrible battle, the U.S. Cavalry destroys her world. She is taken captive again, this time by those who call themselves her people but who are not. Forced into a world, she wants nothing to do with, Eyes-Like-Sky fights to keep her child. Her only hope is an engagement with the man who killed her husband.
Captain Garret Ramsey enrolled in West Point to escape his overbearing father. Assigned to the Texas frontier, Garret finds himself caught up in an Indian war in which both sides commit atrocities. Plagued by guilt for his own role, he seeks redemption by taking responsibility for Eyes-Like-Sky and her baby. He is determined to do whatever it takes to protect them. But will he really risk everything for a woman whose heart is buried in a grave?
“Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions….10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.” Psalms 51: 1, 10
“Therefore we will not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea” Psalm 46: 2