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Emily Micklen is proud, passionate – and left with no option after the death of her loving fiancé, Jack, but to marry the scarred, taciturn, soldier who needs to secure a well-connected wife.
Major Angus McCartney hopes that marriage to the unobtainable beauty whose confident gaze about the ballroom once failed to register his presence will offer both of them a chance to put the past to rest.
Emily’s determination to be faithful to Jack’s memory is matched only by Angus’s desire to win her with honour and action. Sent toFrance
Emily Micklen is proud, passionate – and left with no option after the death of her loving fiancé, Jack, but to marry the scarred, taciturn, soldier who needs to secure a well-connected wife.
Major Angus McCartney hopes that marriage to the unobtainable beauty whose confident gaze about the ballroom once failed to register his presence will offer both of them a chance to put the past to rest.
Emily’s determination to be faithful to Jack’s memory is matched only by Angus’s desire to win her with honour and action. Sent to
Teaser Excerpt:
‘It’s not a sin, unless you
get caught.’
The gentle breeze seemed to
whisper Jack’s teasing challenge, its soft, silken fingers tugging at Emily’s
ingrained obedience. She put down her basket and stared with longing at the
waters below, sweat prickling her scalp beneath her poke bonnet as desire
warred with fear of the consequences.
‘Where’s your sense of
adventure, Em?’
Still resisting, Emily
closed her eyes, but the wind’s wicked suggestiveness was like the caress of
Jack’s breath against her heated cheek; daring Emily to shrug aside a lifetime
of dutiful subservience – again – and peel off her clothes, this time to plunge
into the inviting stream beneath the willows.
She imagined Jack’s warm
brown eyes glinting with wickedness. Taunting her like the burr that had worked
its way into the heel of her woollen stockings during her walk.
Exhaling on a sigh, Emily
opened her eyes and admitted defeat as she succumbed to the pull of the
reed-fringed
waters.
Desire had won, justified by
practicality. If she had to remove one stocking to dislodge the burr she might
as well remove both.
Scrambling down the
embankment, she lowered herself onto a rock by the water’s edge. Her father
would never know. If he glanced from his study in the tower room, where he was
doubtless gloating over his balance sheet, he’d assume she was a village lass
making her way along the track. Emily had never seen him interest himself in
the poor except …
Like most unpleasant
memories, she tried to cast this one out with a toss of her head, still glad
her father had never
discovered what she’d
witnessed from her bedroom window one evening five years ago: the curious sight
of Bartholomew
Micklen ushering the beggar
girl who’d arrived on his doorstep into his carriage.
Then climbing in after her
before it rumbled down the driveway and out of sight.
Now was just another of
those moments when Emily was glad her father remained in ignorance. Her
insurance, should she need it, was that she knew a few of her father’s secrets
the excise men might just want to know.
By the time the first
stocking had followed Emily’s boots onto the grassy bank she was bursting with
anticipation for her swim.
What did one more sin matter
when she’d be Mrs Jack Noble in less than a week?
Giveaway Information: Beverley will award a $20 Amazon/BN GC to one randomly drawn commenter during the tour. Please leave a comment for the author in order to be entered in this contest. Then follow the tour and leave more comments; the more you comment, the better thechances of winning.
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About the Author
Beverley Eikli is the author of eight historical romances
published by Pan Macmillan Momentum, Robert Hale, Ellora's Cave and
Total-e-Bound. Recently she won UK Women's Fiction publisher Choc-Lit's Search
for an Australian Star competition with her suspenseful, spy-based Regency
Romance The Reluctant Bride.
She's been shortlisted twice for a Romance Readers of Australia
Award in the Favourite Historical category — in 2011 for A Little
Deception, and in 2012 for her racy Regency Romp, Rake's Honour,
written under her Beverley Oakley pseudonym.
Beverley wrote her first romance when she was seventeen.
However, drowning the heroine on the last page was, she discovered, not in the
spirit of the genre so her romance-writing career ground to a halt and she
became a journalist.
After throwing in her job on South Australia's metropolitan
daily The Advertiser to manage a luxury safari lodge in the Okavango
Delta, in Botswana, Beverley discovered a new world of romance and adventure in
a thatched cottage in the middle of a mopane forest with the handsome Norwegian
bush pilot she met around a camp fire.
Eighteen years later, after exploring the world in the back of
Cessna 404s and CASA 212s as an airborne geophysical survey operator during
low-level sorties over the French Guyanese jungle and Greenland's ice cap,
Beverley is back in Australia teaching in the Department of Professional
Writing & Editing at Victoria University, as well as teaching Short
Courses for the Centre of Adult Education and Macedon Ranges Further
Education.
She writes
Regency Historical Intrigue as Beverley Eikli and erotic historicals as
Beverley Oakley.
Beverley won the Choc Lit Search for an Australian Star competition with
The Reluctant Bride.
Shortlisted for the 2012 Australian Romance Readers Award for her novel
Rake's Honour
Finalist in the 2011
Australian Romance Readers Awards for her novel A Little Deception.
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8 comments:
Thank you so much for having me here today, Dawn. I'm stuck in bed today with some awful bug which is doing the rounds so it cheered me up to see my pretty new cover gracing your website :)
Hope you are feeling better soon. It is a lovely cover.
marypres(AT)gmail(DOT)com
Thanks, Mary:) I'm rallying, but off to bed soon. I have a busy teaching day tomorrow - if I can make it. And I have to be well for my official release day. Lots of champagne planned for the 15th!
Hope you feel better very soon. I love the sound of the book.
Kit3247(at)aol(dot)com
Sorry you don't feel well. I hope the fact that I know this book is going to be a best seller makes you feel better.
Nice excerpt
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Thanks for sharing the teaser and the giveaway. Sounds like a great book. evamillien at gmail dot com
Nice excerpt. Thanks for sharing The Reluctant Bride and the giveaway. This book sounds interesting!
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