New WIP Excerpt

I’m about to tear my hair out. I forgot to blog for over a week and now I have blog-block. On the other hand, many of my friends have been posting wonderful blogs and I’ve been madly dashing from one to the other leaving comments or trying to. That’s whole other issue, Blogger wanted cookies and for some reason didn’t ask for them, so I was unable to leave comments for over a week.

Because I’m unable to come up with anything particularly witty or provocative, in an intellectual way, I’ve posted the first paragraph from my WIP, Lady Caro’s Accidental Marriage. I hope you enjoy it, even if it is a first draft. 

Early October, 1816, Padua, Italy

Gervais, Earl of Huntley, followed Lady Caroline Martindale up the narrow stairs of an inn in Padua, Italy. He was enjoying the view of her lush derrière when she glanced back over her shoulder and glared. He gave her the most innocent look he possessed and she stopped, causing him to almost, but not quite, make contact with the object in question.

Lady Caro closed her eyes briefly and clenched her jaw. “My lord, perhaps I should follow you up the stairs.”

He started to bow then realized that if he did, he’d be so close he could kiss her derrière. She must have had the same thought as she hastily backed against the wall, thus removing the tempting sight.  He stifled a sigh and climbed past her. “Thank you, my lady.”

She inclined her head stiffly. “My lord.”

Huntley directed her to the room at the end of the hall, he took another chamber at the head of the stairs. If the Duca di Venier or his grandson came looking, he’d be there to greet them.  Her maid and his valet had the chambers between Lady Caro’s and his. Huntley didn’t think he’d be returning to England so soon after he’d left on his tour of Europe. But all was not well when he arrived at his aunt’s house in Venice a few weeks ago.