Spotlight on Griffin Brady, author of The Heart of a Hussar (The Winged Warrior Series, Book 1)

 

Poland is at war. He must choose between his lifelong ambition and his heart.

Exploiting Muscovy’s Time of Troubles, Poland has invaded the chaotic country. Twenty-two-year-old Jacek Dąbrowski is an honorable, ferocious warrior in a company of winged hussars—an unrivaled, lethal cavalry. When his lieutenant dies in battle, Jacek is promoted to replace him, against the wishes of his superior, Mateusz, who now has more reason to eliminate him.

Jacek dedicates his life to gaining the king’s recognition and manor lands of his own. Consequently, he closely guards his heart, avoiding lasting romantic entanglements. Unscathed on the battlefield, undefeated in tournaments, and adored by women eager to share his bed, Jacek has never lost at anything he sets out to conquer. So when he charges toward his goals, he believes nothing stands in his way.

Upon his return from battle, Jacek deviates from his ordinarily unemotional mindset and rescues enemy siblings, fifteen-year-old Oliwia and her younger brother, Filip, from their devastated Muscovite village. His act of mercy sets into motion unstoppable consequences that ripple through his well-ordered life for years to come—and causes him to irretrievably lose his heart.

Oliwia has her own single-minded drive: to protect her young brother. Her determination and self-sacrifice lead her to adopt a new country, a new religion, and a new way of life. But it’s not the first time the resilient beauty has had to remake herself, for she is not what she appears to be.

As Jacek battles the Muscovites and Tatars threatening Poland’s borders for months at a time, Oliwia is groomed for a purpose concealed from her. All the while, Mateusz’s treachery and a mysterious enemy looming on the horizon threaten to destroy everything Jacek holds dear.

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Griffin Brady

Fun Facts

(Stuff you may or may not already know!)

I was born in Japan and grew up in Southeast Asia. When I was three, my family moved from Okinawa to Saigon, and my parents put me in a French nursery school as an experiment. From there, I went on to attend French elementary school, where French was the only language spoken (it was Vietnam’s national language at the time). I only spoke English at home with my family. One time, my mother woke me up to get ready for school, and in my groggy state, I could only speak to her in French—I couldn’t recall my English words! Needless to say, she became a little panicky until my brain finally came fully on-line and I got out the words she could understand.

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For the past fifteen years, I’ve worked as a real estate professional in Colorado. Besides representing clients, I have flipped over a hundred houses. Each one had its own quirks and surprises—such as hidden saddles in attics—but none of the flips were as easy or quick as they are on TV!

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Before turning seventeen, I spent very little time in the States. My goal is to see all fifty states (I have nineteen to go) and to visit the only continent besides Antarctica I’ve never been to, which is South America.

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I lived in Oregon when I was in my twenties. A girlfriend and I played hooky one day from work to go skiing at Mt. Bachelor in Bend. I took a tumble and had to be taken down the slope in a rescue toboggan, which didn’t glide nearly as smoothly as one would think, though I was extremely grateful for the team that got me off the mountain. When I got to the hospital, I discovered I had torn three ligaments in my right knee. I never skied again.

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I moved out right after graduating from high school and got a job and an apartment in San Francisco, where I lived with a girl I had briefly met through work. We got along, but she lost her job and started bringing home some scary characters. I eventually got my own place, and after I moved in, I noticed different people watching my new apartment. I thought I was being paranoid until my sister, who was helping me decorate the place, made a comment. The surveillance finally stopped, and the mystery was solved about six months later when I read in the paper that my ex-roommate had been arrested for armed robbery. Apparently, she had started her new “career” while she and I still roomed together, and detectives were watching to see if I was involved. I later got a letter from her from Terminal Island where she was serving time. 

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Griffin Brady

Griffin Brady is a historical fiction author with a keen interest in the Polish Winged Hussars of the 16^th and 17^th centuries. She is a member of the Historical Novel Society and Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. The Heart of a Hussar took third place in the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ 2018 Colorado Gold Contest and was a finalist in the Northern Colorado Writers’ 2017 Top of the Mountain Award.

The proud mother of three grown sons, she lives in Colorado with her husband. She is also an award-winning, Amazon bestselling romance author who writes under the pen name G.K. Brady.

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