It’s a long weekend, so let’s do something easy. Blubs come to mind. Please feel free to post your buy links as well.
Here is mine from Miss Featherton’s Christmas Prince, the last book in The Marriage Game for a while.
Ella Quinn’s wealthy, titled bachelors think they’re immune to romantic notions. Yet no matter how they try to evade it, love somehow finds a way…
In the two seasons since her triumphant debut, Meg Featherton’s heart has been tested to its limits. Her first suitor: a criminal. The second, a cur. For her third act, Meg vows to leave love completely out of the marriage equation. She has set her sights on a newly made viscount whom she could take or leave. However, now she must avoid his handsome, roguish, irresistible best friend like the plague. It’s no easy feat, as they are all attending the same house party…
Damon, Marquis of Hawksworth, cannot imagine why Miss Featherton seems so damn disinterested—or why he cares so terribly much. Certainly Meg is a fine wifely prospect for a man in his position, but more than that, he finds he longs for her as he has never done for another woman. She may be determined to protect her heart, but Damon is equally set on winning her over, one delicious kiss at a time…
Buy links: Amazon ~ Apple ~ B&N ~ Google ~ Kobo
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Ella Quinn ~ Author 
Thanks, Ella. Perfect timing, since my release date is today. Here’s the blurb for A Widow’s Salvation:
In 1862 America, the Civil War has raged for twelve months. Pepper Fitzpatrick Brown’s heart was broken when her husband died with the first volley at Manassas. Now she’s a widow raising three young boys and plans to honor his sacrifice by volunteering at the army hospital.
When Colonel Elijah Williams can grab a few minutes to nap between his duties as head surgeon at MacDougall Army Hospital in the Bronx, his sleep is invaded with nightmares of the atrocities he’s seen. His life has narrowed to nothing but the bloody war … until he meets Pepper Brown. But her father is concerned Elijah doesn’t have the best intentions, and Pepper is fearful of loving and losing again.
It’s hard to find happiness in a war-torn United States, but these two stand a fighting chance—if they can save what’s left of their hearts.
Buy Link: http://amzn.to/1DZipEE
Congratulations on your release, Becky!!
Thanks, Ella – your book sounds great!
This is the blurb for Midwinter Masquerade (as Romy Gemmell)
Edinburgh 1816: young widow Lady Lenora Fitzallan receives an unexpected invitation that might change her life but will ultimately mean a choice between two men. Accompanied by her elderly godmother, Lady Pettigrew, Lenora sets out to face the man she had never thought to see again.
At Marlings, his Scottish country estate, Laird Edward Montgomery awaits the arrival of the woman he should have married seventeen years before. Has he left it too late? Meanwhile his young niece and ward, Annabelle, begins to fall in love in between getting into scrapes. But is it with the right man?
As they all prepare for the Masquerade Ball on the Winter Solstice in the lead up to Christmas, new arrivals cause uncertainty and reveal past secrets. But who will win Lenora’s love in the end?
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G4DNG7G
Website: http://www.rosemarygemmell.com
Thanks for the opportunity to share Ella! 🙂 If anyone likes contemporaries, I’ve got a new one out, Driving Her Crazy, under my pen name Kira Archer 🙂 But here is the blurb and link for one of my historicals, To Trust a Thief 🙂
Minuette Sinclair thought her biggest problem was getting out of her aunt’s finishing school as a proper Victorian lady. But now she’s pretending to be engaged and her fake fiancé is in debt up to his neck. What’s more, her father is in a Caribbean jail, falsely accused of murder. A legendary lost necklace might be their salvation and Min is determined to find it.
But master thief Bryant Westley is after the necklace too and has every intention of seducing his quirky and beautiful competition. He offers to partner up in the search – even though Min is a distraction he can’t afford.
Min can’t refuse Bryant’s offer either – even when she realizes she’s fallen in love with Bryant. Bryant fears he can’t double cross the young lady he’s come to love. Can they find the necklace together and admit their love before it’s too late?
http://www.amazon.com/Trust-Thief-Michelle-McLean-ebook/dp/B00BFQDH8A/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
This one is mine from “A Touch of Emerald: The Conclusion of The Realm Series” (released August 24, 2015)
Four crazy Balochs. A Gypsy band. An Indian maiden. A cave with a maze of passages. A hero, not yet tested. And a missing emerald.
For nearly two decades, the Realm thwarted the efforts of all Shaheed Mir sent their way, but now the Baloch warlord is in England, and the tribal leader means to reclaim the fist-sized emerald he believes one of the Realm stole during their rescue of a girl upon whom Mir turned his men. Mir means to take his revenge on the Realm and the Indian girl’s child, Lady Sonalí Fowler.
Daniel Kerrington, Viscount Worthing, has loved Lady Sonalí since they were but children. Yet, when his father, the Earl of Linworth, objects to Sonalí’s bloodlines, Worthing thinks never to claim her. However, when danger arrives in the form of the Realm’s old enemy, Kerrington ignores all caution for the woman he loves.
“The first fully original series from Austen pastiche author Jeffers is a knockout.” – Publishers Weekly
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Touch-Emerald-Conclusion-Realm/dp/1516812069/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1441632804&sr=1-2&keywords=a+touch+of+emerald
Thanks, Ella. Thank you for making it easy today. 😉 Here are the blurb and buy link for To Kiss a Rake, the first in the Scandalous Kisses series:
WHEN A LADY IS ABDUCTED BY MISTAKE…
Melinda Starling doesn’t let ladylike behavior get in the way of true love. She’s secretly helping with an elopement, when she’s tossed into the waiting coach and driven away by a notorious rake.
REVENGE REALLY DOESN’T PAY.
Miles Warren, Lord Garrison, comes from a family of libertines, and he’s the worst of them all—or so society believes. When Miles helps a friend to run away with an heiress, it’s an entertaining way to revenge himself on one of the gossips who slandered him.
Except that he drives off with the wrong woman…and as if that wasn’t scandalous enough, he can’t resist stealing a kiss.
http://www.amazon.com/Kiss-Rake-Scandalous-Kisses-ebook/dp/B00ZAY07OK/
Thanks Ella for the opportunity! This blurb is from my Victorian “Great & Unfortunate Desires” –
Great & Unfortunate Desires
Victorian England c. 1870
Operating as a British spy, Tristan St.James, the new Marquis of Wrenworth, barely escapes Afghanistan with his life in the spring of 1869. He plans to seek vengeance against the traitor who exposed him and for the agent he’s forced to kill. Returning to England, as a lord, he must marry. Haunted by guilt from the horrors of war, he avoids love at all costs, but finds himself drawn to the only woman who is disinterested in him.
Lady Evelyn Hurstine has waited over two years for the return of her love, a man who left for war in the East. But during that time, she suffered a brutal assault, resulting in a child and fear of any man touching her except for the man she once knew. The pursuit by the marquis scares her but her excuses against his proposal dwindle.
Their marriage strengthens into love until she discovers her husband isn’t the safety she believed but the one who killed the man she once loved. Caught in a world of intrigue and mayhem, Tristan must prove his love to her before the traitor destroys them both.
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1ERFHZb
Nook: http://bit.ly/1xpB0lQ
iBook: http://bit.ly/1sAsmg9
I love Monday Excerpts, Ella!
This is a snippet from Virtue and Valor (Highland Heather Romancing a Scot series, #2)
Dragging the blanket with her, Isobel sat up. “Ewan, stop it this instant. Nothing happened. If you’d notice, he’s wearing pantaloons.”
She tried to ignore the awkwardness of the demeaning situation. Nonetheless, the men shuffling at the end of the bed and Harcourt’s appraisal strained her composure.
Pointing at the sword, she scowled. “Get that away from Yancy.”
“I warned you, Ramsbury, not to trifle with her affections.” Ewan sent her a glance filled with disappointed accusation. “I expected better from you, Isobel.”
“Aye, it’s shocked I be, lass.” Father’s usually jovial eyes brimmed with disapproval.
Pain welled within her chest, and she stifled a wounded gasp. Clasping the blanket tighter, she dropped her gaze as mortification surged from her bare shoulders to her hairline.
They blame me.
And Ewan had warned Yancy away from her? Tears pooled, but she refused to shed them.
Yancy shifted the tiniest bit, nudging her knee with his. “I suppose you wouldn’t believe me if I told you I’ve every intention of marrying her.”
Nearly letting loose of the blanket, Isobel swung her gaze to him. Had she heard him correctly? “Pardon?”
“Not the most romantic proposal, I know.” A twinkle entered his expressive eyes. “A blade at one’s throat does rather ruin the moment.”
He probably said he intended to marry her to save his skin.
Father and Dugall appeared ready to pummel him. Ewan threatened with the sword tip, and the others’ countenances were no less menacing, except Harcourt who seemed highly amused by the situation.
Her composure and patience at an end, Isobel jerked her head toward the door. “Leave. All of you, so I can rise.”
“Not until we settle the matter.” Legs spread, Father folded his arms, his expression unyielding.
Stubborn oaf.
Dugall mimicked their father’s stance.
If it hadn’t been for the seriousness of the situation, Isobel might have teased him. Instead, she flashed her father as stare meant to scorch his hair and blister his skin.
“Do you think to have this discussion with Isobel unclothed in full view of these men, Sir Hugh?” With a blade at his throat, Yancy dared challenge her father.
A rush of appreciation seized her. She might be able to pretend chagrin wasn’t shattering her, but she wouldn’t be able to continue the ruse much longer. Especially, with the curious and censured glances—and a few appreciative ones as well—covertly directed at her from the clansmen.
Everyone between here and London would know of her ruination within days.
Yancy’s question took Father aback. His dark brown eyes assessed the earl. “Nae. Clear the room. That be includin’ ye, yer lordship.”
Yancy patted Isobel’s leg. “Everything will be all right. I promise.”
As you promised last night?
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http://amzn.com/B00ZPBVG66
Thanks, Ella, for allowing us to share! This is from my historical romance, A REBEL WITHOUT A ROGUE, which is due to release next week.
— Bliss Bennet
A WOMAN STRIVING FOR JUSTICE
Fianna Cameron has devoted her life to avenging the death of her father, hanged as a traitor during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Now, on the eve of her thirtieth birthday, only one last miscreant remains: Major Christopher Pennington, the English army officer who not only oversaw her father’s execution, but falsely maligned his honor. Fianna risks everything to travel to London and confront the man who has haunted her every nightmare. Only after her pistol misfires does she realize her sickening mistake: the Pennington she wounded is far too young to be the man who killed her father.
A MAN WHO WILL PROTECT HIS FAMILY AT ALL COSTS
Rumors of being shot by a spurned mistress might burnish the reputation of a rake, but for Kit Pennington, determined to add to his family’s honor by winning a seat in Parliament, such salacious gossip is nothing but a nightmare. To regain his good name, Kit will have to track down his mysterious attacker and force her to reveal the true motivation behind her unprovoked assault. Accepting an acquaintance’s mistress as an ally in his search is risky enough, but when Kit begins to develop feelings for the icy, ethereal Miss Cameron, more than his political career is in danger. For Kit is beginning to suspect that Fianna Cameron knows far more about the shooting—and the reasons behind it—than she’s willing to reveal.
As their search begins to unearth long-held secrets, Kit and Fianna find themselves caught between duty to family and their beliefs in what’s right. How can you balance the competing demands of loyalty and justice—especially when you add love to the mix?
Thanks, Ella! I love reading everyone’s excerpts 🙂 Here’s the blurb for THE MAGPIE MASQUERADE (a 6-part serial)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00V02GWN6
[Part 1 of 6] Secrets and lies. Everyone who is anyone in London is shocked and titillated by a gossip column reporting the scandalous tidbits of the social season of 1812. But no one suspects “The Magpie” is really Miss Marjorie Teague, the orphaned poor relation who hovers on the outskirts of high society as the companion to her debutante cousin.
Marjorie dons a boy’s disguise and files an anonymous story in order to stop a deadly duel. But when the newspaper offers to pay for regular reports, she realizes she can earn enough money to support herself, and be free of her cruel aunt…as long as her identity as The Magpie remains secret.
When Captain Lord Findlay Drake returns from war to discover he’s inherited an earldom, he plunges into the social whirl as the biggest prize on the Marriage Mart. Reluctantly doing his duty to preserve the family name, Fin’s mission to marry is sidetracked and his curiosity piqued by Miss Teague: a young lady who is totally ineligible…and totally unimpressed…by the new Earl.
When a newspaper publicizes Fin’s imminent duel and sets a Bow Street Runner on his tail, he is determined to put a stop to the scandal-mongering Magpie.
If only he can discover who it is….
[AUTHOR’S NOTE: This is a SERIAL novel, told in installments. Think of it like a mini-series! Rated PG for occasional very mild swearing (e.g. “damn”) Part 1 is approximately 35,000 words. All 6 parts are available now. Enjoy!]
This is from Book One in the Markson Regency Mystery series- The Masked Lady and the Murder.
Blurb-
When Lord Robert Markson, Viscount of Hampshire, is force to return to England to find out who murdered his father and older brother he’s in for a surprise.
It comes in the guise of Lady Kristina Rosewood, daughter to the Earl and Countess of Crossington. To many she’s quartz but to him a multifaceted diamond.
While recovering from an attempt on his life which thrust them closer together they work through emotions for each other while sorting through letters sent to his mother years ago. Slowly, they’re able to discover the one man who could have set the murders in motion. The only problem, he’s been dead for years so who could it be and more importantly why now.
Once all the evidence is compiled the answer is something neither could believe as the threat comes from within the late viscount’s house.
Buy links for The Masked Lady and The Murder
Amazon US-http://tinyurl.com/p7cyraf
Amazon UK-http://tinyurl.com/pyr6dpx
Lots of interesting blurbs here! Going to check these out (and totally hit up the Monday Excerpts once the historical is released). I fear my book budget is about to be busted.
I’m glad you came by, Melanie!! Tell your friends.
Thanks Ella, sorry I am late.
Sharing the blurb for my new release The Duke’s Daughter.
When handsome army officer Avery Fox unexpectedly inherits a fortune, he instantly becomes one of the season’s most eligible bachelors. More accustomed to the battlefield, he has no patience with the naive debutantes who fill the ballrooms of London.
Honest and impetuous Lady Lucy Radley is a breath of fresh air, guiding him through the season and helping him to avoid any traps. So when Avery is left with little option but to marry Lucy, he can’t help but feel he’s been manipulated. Nor can he shake the feeling that a duke’s daughter should be out of his reach.
From the wildly beautiful Scottish Highlands to the elegant soirees of Paris, Avery and Lucy go on a journey that is full of surprises for them both. But will their feelings for each other be strong enough to overcome the circumstances of their marriage and survive the ghosts of Avery’s past?
http://www.sashacottman.com
THE DUKE OF STRATHMORE SERIES:
Letter from a Rake
An Unsuitable Match
The Duke’s Daughter
Buy links
Amazon US http://www.amazon.com/Dukes-Daughter-Destiny-Romance-ebook/dp/B0131WTTLO
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/the-dukes-daughter/id1024399490?mt=11
Kobo https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/the-duke-s-daughter