Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Wordy Wednesday: SKULLDUGGERY




Noun - Underhanded or unscrupulous behavior; trickery

Origin unknown

First known use 1856. I would have thought the first known use would have gone back a lot farther than that. At least back to the 1500s.

Synonyms:
artifice, chicane, chicanery, gamesmanship, hanky-panky, jugglery, legerdemain, subterfuge, trickery, wile, shenanigans


I just like the way this word rolls off the tongue, SKULLDUGGERY. And I want to put an "ARGH, Matey" after it. I mean SKULLDUGGERY and pirates go together.

I found a children's chapter book called SKULLDUGGERY ISLAND from Poptropica in a series for ages 5-8. It looks cute. I might have to check it out from my library just for fun.

I'll try to stay away from any SKULLDUGGERY, but I might toy with a shenanigan or two. =0)



NEW!
THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT ~ A sweet historical romance that will tug at your heart. This is book 1 in the Quilting Circle series.
Washington State, 1893
     When Lily Lexington Bremmer arrives in Kamola with her young son, she’s reluctant to join the social center of her new community, the quilting circle, but the friendly ladies pull her in. She begins piecing a sunshine and shadows quilt because it mirrors her life. She has a secret that lurks in the shadows and hopes it doesn’t come out into the light. Dark places in her past are best forgotten, but her new life is full of sunshine. Will her secrets cast shadows on her bright future?
     Widower Edric Hammond and his father are doing their best to raise his two young daughters. He meets Lily and her son when they arrive in town and helps her find a job and a place to live. Lily resists Edric’s charms at first but finds herself falling in love with this kind, gentle man and his two darling daughters. Lily has stolen his heart with her first warm smile, but he’s cautious about bringing another woman into his girls’ lives due to the harshness of their own mother.
     Can Edric forgive Lily her past to take hold of a promising chance at love?

THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT is now available in ebook and paperback.

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MARY DAVIS is a bestselling, award-winning novelist of over two dozen titles in both historical and contemporary themes. She has five titles releasing in 2018; "Holly & Ivy" in A Bouquet of Brides Collection in January, Courting Her Amish Heart in March, The Widow’s Plight in July, Courting Her Secret Heart September, & “Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure” in MISSAdventure Brides Collection in December. She is a member of ACFW and active in critique groups.
Mary lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband of over thirty-three years and two cats. She has three adult children and one incredibly adorable grandchild. Find her online at:

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