BOOK TOUR & GIVEAWAY: Red Kingdom by Rachel L. Demeter

Posted on June 3, 2024 by JessicaS

Fairy Tale Retellings, Book Two (standalone)

Historical Romance (Medieval)

Date Published: 04-10-2024

Little Red Riding Hood reimagined with a dark and realistic twist.

Princess Blanchette’s world shatters when the Black Wolf tears apart
her castle and everything she holds dear. All she clings to is the vow she
made to her grandmother on her deathbed.

Hailed as the people’s champion, Sir Rowan Dietrich liberates the
capital in a quest for vengeance. He takes Winslowe Castle with an army at
his back and his wolf, Smoke, at his side.

United by a shared cause and powerful attraction, Rowan and Blanchette
embark on a journey of self-discovery and redemption—a path filled
with loss, transformation, and ultimately, the healing power of love.

Can Norland’s resplendent princess, with her captivating beauty and
spirit, tame the fabled Black Wolf?

Inspired by the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood, Red Kingdom is a
passionate historical romance about the enduring quest for love and the
longing for a world at harmony.

*Red Kingdom is a standalone installment in a series of reimagined classic
fairy tales. Due to adult content and themes, it is not intended for readers
under the age of 18.

What you can expect from Red Kingdom…

Dark, Medieval Setting

Enemies to Lovers

Slow Burn

Broken Alpha Hero

Strong Heroine

Wolf Companion

He Falls First

Redemption

Warring Kingdoms

Excerpt

Death at her feet. Death in her home. Death in the air.

Death screamed in every corner of her mind.

Then she saw him.

Rowan Dietrich, the fabled Black Wolf of Norland, strode through her castle like a waking nightmare. His armor was crudely made, black as the surrounding night, the helm’s dark metal twisted into the shape of a wolf’s snarling head. But the most striking thing about him was his height. He towered above the other fighters and battled with a chilling methodicalness. How he moved and fought frightened Blanchette the greatest.

He looked collected. Even mildly amused. As if this were nothing more than a game. Blood soaked his sword as the blade whirled, whipped, slashed, and claimed lives in a macabre dance of death. And that wolf clung to his heels, its muzzle wet with blood, snarling and leaping at any man who dared come close to its master.

Monster. Demons.

The Black Wolf of Norland had always had a mist of legend around him. She remembered the stories her mother and governess had often whispered after the feasts and in the dark of the night.

“To me,” the Black Wolf called to a soldier a few yards away, his deep voice effortlessly carrying above the tumult. He didn’t need to yell, not even over the mayhem. The force of his tone was enough.

One of her father’s guards raised his blade, but too slowly. Rowan Dietrich’s longsword cut his head off, then came flashing back in a terrible two-handed slash that took another soldier in the leg.

With quivering anger, she realized that this man—this wolf, this beast—was the reason the sky was falling on her family. She clutched the dagger, wishing she could stand a chance against him. How good and right it would feel to plunge the blade deep into his heart and avenge what would likely be the end of her family’s dynasty.

Of course, she’d never survive him or his demon wolf. And if she was ever to avenge her family, if she was to keep her promise, survival meant everything.

About the Author

I live in Sunny California with my dashing husband, who inspires my romance
novels every day!

Writing has always been an integral part of my identity. Before I
physically learned how to write, I’d narrate stories to my mom, and she’d
record them for me.

I graduated from Chapman’s film school, where I often received the
feedback on my scripts, “Your stories and characters are great, but
this reads like a novel!” That’s when I realized my true
calling.

In my free time, I frequent reptile expos, lift double my body’s
weight, and indulge in dinosaur trivia.

I’m passionate about writing stories that explore what it means to be human
and to be loved. My books focus on hope, courage, and redemption in the face
of adversity.

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NEW RELEASE BLAST: A Spark of Romance by Paullett Golden

Posted on April 4, 2024 by JessicaS

Romantic Encounters, Book Three

Historical Romance

Date Published: March 25, 2024

Behind every hero is a dreamer.

Isobel Lambeth lives in a world of fanciful romance where the hero wins
every duel, and the maiden is never locked in the castle’s tower long before
the daring rescue. Dream becomes reality when a Gothic-inspired mystery
involving hauntings and abductions entangles her.

Alistair Trowbridge is preparing to write a new chapter in his life with
this ladylove. What he had not planned was his father’s perceived villainy,
instigating Isobel’s descent into flights of fancy–or is it madness?

Join Isobel and Alistair in this lighthearted Gothic satire as they
discover the skeletons behind the locked door, turning adventure into
romance.

From second chance romances to mistaken identities, experience
a”spark”of romance in this collection of one short novel and
twelve bonus flash fiction stories.

Books in the Romantic Encounters Series

A Dash of Romance

Romantic Encounters, Book 1

A Touch of Romance

Romantic Encounters, Book 2

A Spark of Romance

Romantic Encounters, Book Three

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About the Author

Paullett Golden writes character-driven, closed-door historical romance.
Her novels star characters loved for their imperfections and idiosyncrasies.
The writing aims for historical immersion into the social mores and nuances
of Georgian England. Her plots explore the human psyche, mental and physical
trauma, and personal convictions. Her stories show love overcoming
adversity. Whatever our self-doubts, love will out. Paullett has served as a
university professor for three decades but made a career change to novelist
after surviving her battle with ovarian cancer. Now, she enjoys an active
life, anything to challenge her physically, mentally, and emotionally. Her
greatest writing inspirations are Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and
Elizabeth Gaskell.

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BOOK BLITZ & GIVEAWAY: Viscount Overboard by Misty Urban #HistoricalRomance

Posted on January 23, 2024 by JessicaS

Viscount Overboard
Misty Urban
(Ladies Least Likely, #1)
Published by: Oliver Heber Books
Publication date: December 5th 2023
Genres: Adult, Historical Romance, Romance

When the war-scarred Viscount Penrydd washes up in 1799 Newport minus his memory, Gwenllian ap Ewyas decides not to tell him he owns, and threatened to sell, the property she’s made a refuge for her and other lost souls.

Gwen found healing from her haunted past by making St. Sefin’s into a sanctuary for the hurt and abandoned, and she’ll do anything to preserve the place—including lie to the English lord who owns it until she can win him to her cause. But making Penrydd her stableboy is a dangerous game, especially when he’s a target for an outside menace moving into Newport. Even more unsettling for Gwen, under the scars and arrogance is a man she can admire and possibly love. But as shadows from both their pasts appear at St. Sefin’s, Gwen risks losing her livelihood, her home, and her heart when Penrydd learns just how far she’s gone to deceive him.

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In which Gwen approaches the viscount to offer to buy his property, and he thinks she’s soliciting something else.

“Lord Penrydd?”

Pen’s boots hit the floor as he sat up. Speaking of pleasure. His capricious God had consented to smile on him for once. The most exquisite female-shaped creature he had ever beheld stood at the parlor door.

She wasn’t dressed like a lady of the night. Her petticoat was clean and white, over it a gown of buttermilk muslin trailing vines of red flowers. It was a quaint style, quite outdated, but one that followed a woman’s curves. A delicate lace crossed her bodice, tied at her back. He wanted to unwrap her, like a present.

An absurd cap of lace and silk roses covered curls of a dusty brown, the color of the paths at his favorite hunting property when they had baked in the sunlight on a summer afternoon. Her face was extraordinary. She didn’t have the pasty complexion of a woman who never went about in the sun, rather a healthy glow and the tiniest dusting of freckles along a nose that suggested a personality both strong and pert. Independently the wide thick-lashed eyes, high cheekbones, lush lips, and arrowed jaw were pleasing yet unremarkable, but put together, the effect was mesmerizing.

“Fifty pounds,” Pen blurted.

Her eyes rounded in surprise. They were some shifting, undefined color, the grey-green of the sea on a cloudy morning. Was she worth more? “A night,” he added. He’d pay anything. He wasn’t even going to pretend to negotiate.

His secretary, Ross, raised his thick brows. Pen ignored him, as usual.

“A night?” Her voice rang clear and fine, trained, the voice of a singer. But her tone held dismay. The lace over her bosom fluttered as she put a hand there. Long, delicate fingers, a fine-boned wrist with an elegant turn. He stared at her hands and imagined them trailing over his skin.

His rough, scarred, contemptible skin. “Not enough? Name your price.”

“I hadn’t arrived at a number, actually. I suppose I ought to have asked Mr. Barlow.”

Who was Barlow? Her flesh broker? Her go between? Pen envied the man who had any hold over her. But she had a proud tilt to her head, that of an independent woman who answered to no one. He’d make her forget Barlow. He’d make her forget everything but her name. What was her name?

“In truth, I’m not certain what the going rate for such things is,” she said.

Pen’s head reeled with a grand, desperate notion. She wasn’t a hedge whore or a public ledger, open to all comers. But a lady of easy virtue nonetheless, perhaps a high flyer or a quality courtesan. Pen wiped his sweating palms on his breeches. He couldn’t afford her. Look at her skin; she wasn’t starving or diseased, nor beaten into submission. Her eyes were clear and steady, if her expression was somewhat baffled, and she smelled like spring. A field of bluebells filled his mind, kissed by a warm sun.

Ah, God. For the first time he understood why a man would go to the trouble of keeping a mistress. So he could have sole access whenever he wished and keep her hidden from the outside world. He swallowed. How could he manage to keep her? Most of the letters on Ross’s blasted table were bills and accounts of some sort, reminders of funds his rotter of a brother had died owing.

“I’m certain we can come to an agreement.” Pen’s voice scratched his throat. Where was the boy with the rum? The tremor was starting again, but the need this time was not for alcohol. He couldn’t remember the last time he had wanted anything that had to do with another person. Wanted closeness. Affection. Approval.

Ah, yes. He’d wanted affection from his mother, approval from his father, company and camaraderie from his brother. And the evil-minded universe had laughed in his face and stretched him out upon the rack. Pen sweated underneath his neckcloth and worked with a finger to loosen it. This woman wouldn’t be withholding, mocking, or cruel. She was warm and soft all over, inside and out.

She blew out a stream of air and Pen stared, arrested by the shape of her anemone-red lips. They would purse in exactly that fashion when he kissed her.

“I don’t suppose you would consider simply giving it to me,” she said. “Out of charity, you know.”

Giving her—oh, he’d any number of notions of what he could give her. Starting with certain attentive parts of his body. Then the rest, all of him, for eternity.

Author Bio:

Misty Urban is a medieval scholar, freelance editor, and college professor who likes to write stories about misbehaving women who find adventure and romance. She holds an MFA and Ph.D. from Cornell University and lives in the Midwest in a little town on a big river.

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BOOK TOUR & GIVEAWAY: The Rock at the Bottom by Cynthia Hilston #HistoricalFiction #Romance @RABTBookTours

Posted on April 17, 2023 by JessicaS

Lorna & Tristan #3

20th Century Historical Fiction / Romance

Date Published: 03-21-2023

Stephen feels he is marked from day one to lose the ones he loves. His
mother dies giving birth to him, and his alcoholic father makes sure Stephen
never forgets it. To block out his father’s hate, fists, and belt,
young Stephen loses himself in his imagination. Stories become his closest
companions and barricades against a family that never wanted him. Once he
can look his father in the eye, Stephen swears he will never be the monster
his old man is. He vows he will become a published author, if for no other
reason than to prove his father wrong.

While his dreams of being a bestselling novelist and falling in love come
true, Stephen has much to prove to himself before he can write his own happy
ending. Set against the backdrop of Prohibition-era Cleveland, Stephen
fights the same alcoholic demons that plagued his father as he tries to
begin a life free from his family. He meets equally headstrong Julie and is
smitten, but their marriage is as fractured as his career is solid. He can
find ten ways to write about being in love, but he has a hard time
translating love on the page to love in real life. Julie slips between his
fingers like sand, and Stephen sees his father staring back when he looks in
the mirror.

Try as he might to rewrite his life, even going so far as to change his
name, he has to wonder if he is the author or the killer of love.

Excerpt

At eighteen, I stood taller than my father. No one had come to my graduation ceremony—no big surprise. Afterward, I returned to my house. We’d moved out of the rundown dump along the Cuyahoga River, for with the passing years, Dear Daddy had climbed the career ladder. With the twenties well underway by that point, the auto industry was booming. Mr. George Richardson, Sr. could turn on the charm when needed, and he used it at his job to great effect. That he could devote himself to his work proved he could have devoted himself to his family…to me.

But no matter where I laid my head, no matter which of the three houses I’d been forced to live in while growing up, none had been my home.

We weren’t so wealthy as to live in one of the leftover mansions from Millionaires’ Row along Euclid Avenue or in the esteemed residences of Bratenahl just east of downtown Cleveland along the lakeshore. The Fifth City, as Cleveland was called back then, was changing. The wealthy had shifted east to the so-called “Heights.” Our dilapidated first city home had new construction beside it. Towers that seemed to touch the sky were underway. My pal Ben and I were leaning toward making a buck working with such projects.

The old man and I inhabited an oversized brick home along Liberty Boulevard. He feigned at making a better name for himself to the outside world. A different woman would come over every weekend. He even threw parties with some of his buddies from work, but I knew him better. His parties were as empty as Jay Gatsby’s. I’d read Fitzgerald’s work shortly after its release the previous year and found it mirrored the current times and trends well. As for how I saw my father in that fiction, I guessed from his vacant stares into the bottom of a bottle, where he thought he could somehow erase my mother’s absence.

So, it was no surprise when I entered the living room that second Saturday in June to find my father in his easy chair, a cigarette in one hand and a beer in the other.

“Where’d you get this round of giggle juice?” I motioned toward his empty bottle.

My father scowled, the heavy creases framing his mouth deepening. He dropped the dead soldier, and it rolled until it stopped at my foot. I picked up the bottle, shook my head, and tossed it aside. It gave a satisfying shatter.

Prohibition hadn’t stopped the old guy from getting zozzled whenever the urge hit.

“What d’you want?” He got to his feet.

I stepped up to him, and he recoiled.

“I’m leaving,” I said.

“Then what’re you waitin’ for? Get outta here!” He pointed with a quivering finger toward the front door.

“I have a few things to say first.”

My father gazed up at me and seemed to shrink more. “Well, out with it.”

“I’m a writer. I’ve been writing stories since I was a little kid, and you won’t stop me.”

He snorted. “What do I care about those rags?”

“I thought you’d like to know, Father, that you inspired me.”

He squinted, then raised his eyebrows. “Huh? What’s that?”

“Your hatred inspired me to imagine a life better than this hellhole, and you”—I poked his chest, hard—“are the villain.”

He raised his fist, but I caught it before he struck. As I pushed back with the force of a stronger, younger man, his legs buckled, forcing him into his chair.

“You come to gloat, boy?” His words were the only weapon he had left.

“I came to tell you the truth. I pity you, Father. You’re pathetic.”

His gaze dropped to his lap. The man reached into his pocket and fumbled for another cigarette, then lit it with shuddering hands. Letting out a long plume of smoke, he said, “Maybe, but the fruit don’t fall from the tree.” He jabbed the cigarette at me.

I shook my head. “I’ll never be like you.”

A hollow laugh filled the room. He laughed until coughs overtook him. Then he went quiet, until a sob escaped. “No matter what you think, boy, you can’t change who you are. You were born a killer. No fancy dreamin’ will take away your reality. You think I haven’t tried?”

I turned and took a few steps until I stood on the threshold to the outside. Glancing back at my father, I knew that would be the last time I saw him. “Maybe you should’ve tried harder.”

Maybe you should’ve loved me.

About the Author

Cynthia Hilston is a stay-at-home mom of three young kids, happily married,
and lives in the Cleveland, Ohio, area. Writing has always been like another
child to her. After twenty years of waltzing in the world of fan fiction,
she stepped away to do her debut dance with original works of fiction,
although she still dabbles in fan fiction.

In her spare time – what spare time? – she devours books,
shamelessly watches Hallmark movies and When Calls the Heart, pets her
orange and black kitties, looks at the stars, drinks wine or coffee with
good friends, and dreams of what other stories she wishes to tell.

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Posted on March 21, 2023 by JessicaS

Lorna & Tristan #3

20th Century Historical Fiction / Romance

Date Published: 03-21-2023

Try as he might to rewrite his life, even going so far as to change his
name, he has to wonder if he is the author or the killer of love.

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RELEASE BLITZ: Captain of Second Chances #HistoricalRomance #regency @RABTBookTours

Posted on January 26, 2023 by JessicaS

Historical Romance, Regency Romance, Clean & Wholesome

Date Published: January 26, 2023

In this sweet Regency romance by USA Today bestselling author Jennifer
Monroe, a young woman fights for a second chance with a former captain who
is haunted by his past.

A Captain lost at sea

After a devastating shipwreck kills several of his crewmen, Captain Luke
Bannerman has sworn off all aspects of his former life—including Miss
Ruth Lockhart, the flaming-haired beauty he once loved. Now working for the
Bow Street Runners, Luke is sent to the small village of Chatsworth to
investigate a decades-old murder in-volving the headmistress of the very
school Ruth attends. Although he has a duty to fulfill, the old feelings he
has shut away resurface, mak-ing him reconsider what he has cast
off…

Her love will bring him home

Miss Ruth Lockhart once dreamed of marrying Captain Bannermann and sailing
the high seas. But a heartbreaking letter brought that dream to a crashing
end. When the handsome Luke unexpectantly reappears, Ruth finds the strong
and gentle man gone, replaced by one who is broken and lost. Although her
heart yearns for a second chance, Ruth knows the cost of having her captain
returned to her may prove to be more than she can pay.

Only the truth will calm a storm of secrets…

Suspecting a second chance is on the horizon, Ruth aids Luke in the search
for the truth. But as the investigation unfolds, Ruth realizes her own
secrets may be the very thing that will keep them apart.

As for Luke, he must decide which man he wants to be—the brave
captain Ruth once knew or the Bow Street Runner who uncovers an unsettling
truth that could ruin their chance at happiness…

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#3 Marquess of Magic

#4 Earl of Deception

#5 Knight of Destiny

#6 Captain of Second Chances

About the Author

USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Monroe writes Regency romances you
can’t resist. Her stories are filled with first loves and second
chances, dashing dukes, and strong heroines. Each turn of the page promises
an adventure in love and many late nights of reading.

With over twenty books published, her nine-part series, The Secrets of
Scarlett Hall, which tells the stories of the Lambert Children, remain a
favorite with her readers.

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RELEASE BLITZ: Flames of Winter by Bree Wolf #HistoricalRomance #Regency @RABTBookTours

Posted on January 12, 2023 by JessicaS

Flames of Winter Series, Book One

Historical Romance, Regency Romance, Historical Fiction

Date Published: January 12, 2022

In this Regency romance by USA Today bestselling author BREE WOLF, a young
miss succeeds in escaping an unwanted marriage, only to end up finding
love.

A kidnapped young miss.

A protective Scotsman.

And a cabin in the woods in the deep of winter.

England 1804: SARAH MORTENSEN, daughter to BARON HARTMORE, is
desperate…desperate to escape yet another horrible match her parents
arranged for her. Once, she saw it as her duty to save her family from ruin,
to sacrifice herself in order to repay her father’s gambling
debts.

But enough is enough.

Determined to escape her latest fiancé, Sarah places her trust in
the Dowager Countess of Whickerton, known far and wide as Grandma Edie.
After all, no one is as shrewd as the dowager countess…or as daring.
Her plan is outrageous. Her intentions, however, are pure.

And so, Sarah agrees…to a feigned kidnapping…hoping to win
her freedom.

KEIR MACKINNEAR, second son to the chief of CLAN MACKINNEAR in the Scottish
Highlands, questions his own sanity when he finds himself kidnapping a shy,
wide-eyed English lass from her London home in the middle of the night. He
ought never have gone along with the Dowager Countess of Whickerton’s
ludicrous plan! Yet here they are, hiding out in a cabin in the woods in the
middle of winter!

Only the two of them!

Not counting two horses, an old goat, a handful of chickens and a haughty
feline by the name of Loki.

What could go wrong?

After all, the dowager countess is not known to be wrong. Ever.

Yet what slips Keir’s mind is that Grandma Edie loves nothing more
than to play matchmaker. And while she is certainly determined to save Sarah
from her vile fiancé, she might just have an ulterior motive.

Why not hit two birds with one stone?

Some stories can be told in one book. Others cannot. This is one of those
stories.

About the Author

USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of the LOVE’S SECOND CHANCE
SERIES. Bree Wolf has always been a language enthusiast (though not a
grammarian!) and is rarely found without a book in her hand or her fingers
glued to a keyboard. Trying to find her way, she has taught English as a
second language, traveled abroad and worked at a translation agency as well
as a law firm in Ireland. She also spent loooong years obtaining a BA in
English and Education and a MA in Specialized Translation while wishing she
could simply be a writer. Although there is nothing simple about being a
writer, her dreams have finally come true.

“A big thanks to my fairy godmother!“

Currently, Bree has found her new home in the historical romance genre,
writing Regency novels and novellas. Enjoying the mix of fact and fiction,
she occasionally feels like a puppet master, forcing her characters into
ever-new situations that will put their strength, their beliefs, their love
to the test, hoping that in the end they will triumph and get the
happily-ever-after we are all looking for.

If you’re an avid reader, sign up for Bree’s newsletter at http://www.breewolf.com
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also receive the prequel to the bestselling ‘Love’s Second Chance Series:
Tales of Lords & Ladies’ for FREE. Find out about freebies, giveaways as
well as occasional advance reader copies and read before the book is even on
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RELEASE BLITZ: The Ghost in Her by Anika Savoy #PNR #historicalromance @RABTBookTours @AkinaSavoy

Posted on January 3, 2023 by JessicaS

Paranormal Historical Romance

Date Published: 01.03.2023

Publisher: Inkspell Publishing

Narration Publisher: Voquent/Linda Quinn

Seeing ghosts is literally in her blood.

Life is hard enough without having to deal with ghosts following you around
every day. Maggie O’Connor wishes that she did not have psychic gifts
but coming from a long line of Irish female seers, she never had a
choice.

Faced with having to care for her departed sister’s orphaned baby,
Maggie struggles to pay the rent while working for pennies at a local Bowery
sweatshop. Her life goes from bad to worse when a wicked neighbor steals the
baby.

Things look up when the handsome son of Maggie’s employer falls for
her. Gershom understands that having psychic gifts does not necessarily make
a woman crazy. If only the local judge agreed. When Maggie ends up at the
New York City Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island, she must find a
way to escape and return to Gershom’s loving arms.

Will Maggie be stuck in a madhouse forever? Even if she escapes, can she
and Gershom rescue the lost baby? The obstacles seem insurmountable, but
anything is possible with the assistance of ghostly helpers and Andrew
Carnegie, one of America’s richest men.

Fairy Tales can come true- but not without suffering.

Love the Gilded Age but want more magic? Grab a copy of THE GHOST IN HER,
the first book in the new Ungilded series featuring magic among the Bowery
Streets. THE GHOST IN HER is a perfect match for fans of Harper Lin’s
Southern Sleuth Series or Christina Skye’s Draycott Abbey series.

“The first book of Anika Savoy’s Ungilded series, The Ghost in
Her is a dark, immersive fairy tale, dusted with Gothic whimsy. It is a
story for the romantic and the history buff, a rich page-turner that forces
us to consider the ongoing social ills that, to this day, continue to haunt
us.”—Bestselling author- Mike Robinson.

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COVER REVEAL: The Captain’s Woman by Holly Bush #CoverReveal #historicalromance @hollybushbooks

Posted on December 1, 2022 by JessicaS

The Captain’s Woman

by Holly Bush

Meet the Thompsons of Locust Street, an unconventional family taking Philadelphia high society by storm…

1870 ~ Muireall Thompson has taken her duties seriously since her parents died on the family’s crossing from Scotland to America in 1854. As the eldest sibling, their death made her responsible for her family and left little time for a life of her own. But now her brothers and sisters are adults; even the youngest is nearly ready to face the world on his own. What will she do when she is alone, other than care for an elderly aunt and volunteer at the Sisters of Charity orphanage? Has the chance for a husband and children of her own passed her by?

Widower Anthony Marcus, formerly a captain in the Union Army, is a man scraping the bottom of his dignity and hanging on to his honor by the barest thread. Reduced to doing odd jobs to keep a roof over his dear daughter Ann’s head, he often leaves her with the Sisters of Charity while he is out seeking steady work with a decent salary that will allow him to move from their single-room living quarters.

After an initial meeting that finds Muireall and Anthony at odds, a tentative friendship forms as they bond over their mutual affection for Ann. As friendship leads to passion, can a wealthy spinster and a poor soldier overcome their differences in station to forge a future together? Just as Muireall finds the courage to reach for her own happiness, Anthony’s past rises up between them and an old enemy reemerges to bring the Thompson family down once and for all. Will the divide between them be insurmountable, or can they put aside pride and doubt for a love worth fighting for?

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RELEASE BLITZ: Daring Done Right by Charlie Lane #SteamyRomance #Regency #HistoricalRomance @RABTBookTours

Posted on November 24, 2022 by JessicaS

Historical Romance, Regency Romance, Steamy Romance

Date Published: November 24, 2022

In this enemies-to-lovers Regency romance by USA Today bestselling author
Charlie Lane, a lady who dares too much and a brute who dares too little
engage in a battle of wits.

Lady Sarah Hampton would rather sew up a wound than tend to her own heart.
Or matrimonial prospects. When the small hospital she’s been
volunteering at faces financial peril, she seeks to save them the best way
she knows how—one dare, one wager, and one foolish rake at a time. No
matter the risk to herself. If her friend’s irritatingly handsome and
brutish brother doesn’t stand in her way.

Xavier Evans, Viscount Flint may be known as the Dare King to his old
chums, but to Lady Sarah, he’s the King of Brutes. He’d take
offense if he weren’t so busy trying to be a better man, the type who
rises above insult, never gives it, and protects his family. But when his
sister’s happiness hinges on her friend’s safety, he’ll
have to figure out how to keep the sharp-tongued and beautiful Lady
Sarah—who hates him—safe, too.

Sarah is willing to risk it all, and Xavier will do what it takes to stop
her. As the game of dares draws them closer, it reveals a hidden threat, and
these enemies must work together or hurt those they love… including
each other.

The Debutante Dares Series

#1 Daring the Duke

#2 A Dare too Far

#3 Kiss or Dare

#4 Don’t You Dare, My Dear

#5 Only Rakes Would Dare

#6 Daring Done Right

About the Author

USA Today bestselling author Charlie Lane traded in academic databases and
scholarly journals for writing steamy Regency romcoms like the ones
she’s always loved to read. Her favorite authors are Jane Austen (who
else?), Toni Morrison, William Blake, Julia Quinn, and Maya Rodale.

Charlie writes unique stories with unconventional characters who push
against the rigid restrictions of their society. Officially, Charlie has a
Ph.D. in literature with a focus on the nineteenth-century novel and
children’s literature and answers to Professor. Unofficially,
she’s a high-flying circus-obsessed acrobat, with an emphasis on
two-tail silks and answers to Muscles Magee. She lives with her own Colonel
Brandon, two little dudes, and a furry fella in East Tennessee.

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