Deeanne Gist’s E-Short gives
readers a peek inside the world’s fair. Tempest in the White
City is a digital short story
available from online retailers for 99 cents.
Deeanne Gist fans won’t have to wait until the April 30 release of
It Happened at the Fair to read her latest work!
On March 19, readers will be able to purchase the e-short,
Tempest in the White City, a 40-page short story
prelude to It Happened at the Fair, for 99 cents from
all online retailers. While the characters from the
short story are not carried over into the full-length release, audiences
will get a taste of the awe-inspiring backdrop of the 1893 Chicago
World’s Fair and will be anxious to spend more time exploring the
exhibition.
In true Gist form, Tempest in the White City
combines her trademark humor with romance. Hunter Scott is one
of the elite. A Chicago World’s Fair guard specifically chosen for his
height, physique, character and ability to serve and protect. When
Hunter is overcome with debilitating abdominal pain, he stumbles to an
infirmary in the Fair’s Woman’s Building only to discover the doctor is
female—which he is none too happy about. But even worse, she has the
nerve to diagnose him—the toughest man west of anyplace east—with
constipation.
The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair overflowed with the latest
innovations welcomed by a throng of people from all around the globe.
This setting replete with history, intrigue and wonder caught Gist’s
attention and is sure to draw readers of both releases in as well. “I’m
always drawn to events in our country’s past that are strangely absent
from our history classes. Why the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition has
been left out, I don’t know, especially since it was such a pivotal
event for us,” explains Gist. “We were able to wow the world with our
scientific innovations, and it gave women their first official board
position recognized and approved by an Act of Congress (all before we
had the right to vote). But it was technology which claimed the day as
it nipped at the heels of horses, buggies and man-powered tools.”
More about It Happened at the
Fair:Young inventor Cullen McNamara gambles everything, including
the family farm, in order to make his family proud—and earn his father’s
entry money to the Fair Expo back—by selling his design for an
automatic sprinkler system inspired by his mother’s death in a mill
fire. Struggling with hearing loss from his previous life on the farm,
McNamara finds it difficult to communicate with potential buyers over
the din in the Fair’s Machinery Building. In an act of desperation, he
hires attractive Della Wentworth, a teacher of the deaf, to tutor him in
the art of lip-reading. Much like the newly invented Ferris Wheel,
Cullen is caught in a whirl between his girl back home, his dreams as an
inventor and his unexpected attraction to his new tutor. Can he keep
his feet on the ground or will he be carried away?
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