Spotlight on Oliver & Jack: In Axminster Workhouse by Christina E. Pilz

Publication Date: September 27, 2015
Blue Rain Press
eBook & Paperback; 406 Pages

Genre: Historical/Gay Romance


In Victorian England, 1846, an ex-apprentice and his street-thief companion are confined inside a workhouse to await trial for a crime they did not commit.


After the seaside interlude in Lyme Regis, Oliver and Jack are arrested and sent to Axminster Workhouse to await trial for the theft of books that they only meant to borrow.

They are put in the less-than-tender care of Workmaster Chalenheim, who controls the quotas they must fill, the amount of food they are allowed to eat, and the punishments they must endure upon breaking the rules, however arbitrary.

Oliver struggles with the shame of being in a place he thought he’d left behind him long ago, and also with the contrast between the life he once enjoyed and the hunger and degradation inside the workhouse walls. Meanwhile, Jack is confronted by a predator who tests the limits of Jack’s endurance and the strength of his love for Oliver.

Together they must find a way to escape the workhouse before they succumb to the harsh conditions or are separated by the hangman’s noose, whichever comes first.

 

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About the Author

 

 

Christina was born in Waco, Texas in 1962. After living on a variety of air force bases, in 1972 her Dad retired and the family moved to Boulder, Colorado. There amidst the clear, dry air of the high plains, as the moss started to grow beneath her feet, her love for historical fiction began with a classroom reading of Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

She attended a variety of community colleges (Tacoma Community College) and state universities

(UNC-Greeley, CU-Boulder, CU-Denver), and finally found her career in technical writing, which, between layoffs, she has been doing for 18 years. During that time, her love for historical fiction and old-fashioned objects, ideas, and eras has never waned.

In addition to writing, her interests include road trips around the U.S. and frequent flights to England, where she eats fish and chips, drinks hard cider, and listens to the voices in the pub around her. She also loves coffee shops, mountain sunsets, prairie storms, and the smell of lavender. She is a staunch supporter of the Oxford comma.

Learn more about Christina on her website and blog and connect with her on Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads and Pinterest.

 

Oliver and Jack: In Axminster Workhouse Blog Tour Schedule

Thursday, February 25

Spotlight & Giveaway at Teddy Rose Book Reviews Plus More

Friday, February 26

Guest Post at What Is That Book About

Tuesday, March 1

Review at Raven Haired Girl

Wednesday, March 2

Review at Book Nerd

Thursday, March 3

Interview at Dianne Ascroft Blog

Friday, March 4

Review at Svetlana’s Reads or Views

Monday, March 7

Guest Post at She is Too Fond of Books

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Review at In a Minute
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Wednesday, March 9

Spotlight at A Literary Vacation

Friday, March 11

Spotlight & Giveaway at Passages to the Past

Monday, March 14

Review & Giveaway at History Undressed

Wednesday, March 16

Spotlight at Historical Fiction Addicts

Friday, March 18

Interview at Layered Pages