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Stories set in the past.
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Read the #1 Bestseller Miss Hastings’ Excellent London Adventure by Cheryl Bolen #RegencyRomance #RLFblog
Please welcome author Cheryl Bolen as a special guest on Romance Lives Forever. Her book is an Amazon Bestseller in Regency Romance.Miss Hastings’ Excellent London Adventure (Brazen Brides #4)
Author Cheryl Bolen
Genre Regency Romance
Series Brazen Brides
Having never left Upper Barrington in her twenty years, orphan Miss Emma Hastings is overjoyed when the uncle she’s never met invites her to come live with him in London. Everything about living in the Capital lures her. She doesn’t even mind sharing her seat in the mail coach with a gargantuan man whose belly rests on his lap. Even when her uncle fails to meet her at the posting inn in London, she’s too exhilarated over the city’s sights and sounds to be worried. After many hours pass and her uncle does not collect her, she determines to lug her trunk behind her as she struggles through London’s streets at night to find her uncle’s home.
Spurned by his mistress and vowing to never love again, Adam Birmingham, whose family is the richest in Britain, decides to get very drunk. As he’s staggering home, he takes pity on a very small young lady who’s lugging a very large trunk behind her. In the rain. Her destination is the home of his next-door neighbor, but no one answers the bell. Adam is compelled to ask the young woman to spend the night at his home. Promptly after showing her the chamber in which she’ll sleep, Adam passes out on her chaise. It’s not until the following morning he remembers that the lady’s uncle has died.
When Adam learns that Emma cannot return to Upper Barrington and that she has nowhere to go, he offers marriage to the hysterical lady. His heart is so shattered, he will never love again. Why not make this helpless orphan happy? Soon after they wed, they become convinced that someone has forged her uncle’s will–and likely murdered her uncle. Their resolve to bring the murderer to justice jeopardizes Emma’s life. Knowing she’s in danger brings out Adam’s protective instincts–and something far deeper, something he’d thought to never feel again…
Where to buy Miss Hastings’ Excellent London Adventure
Amazon https://amzn.to/3hY0tz2
About Cheryl Bolen
Cheryl Bolen is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of more than three dozen romances. She’s also an Amazon All Star author. She’s written for Harlequin Historical, Kensington Books, Montlake, and Love Inspired Historical, and has published independently through her Harper & Appleton imprint. Many of her books have placed in contests, including the Daphne du Maurier (romantic suspense) and have been translated into nine languages. She was Notable New Author in 1999. In 2006 she won the Holt Medallion, Best Historical, and in 2012 she won Best Historical in the International Digital Awards, a competition in which she’s had five other titles become finalists in Best Historical categories. Her 2011 Christmas novella was named Best Novella in the Romance Through the Ages contest.
A former journalist and teacher, Bolen adores reading about dead Englishwomen. She is married to the retired professor who captured her teenage heart when they were undergraduates. Their favorite pastimes include watching college sports and traveling, especially to England-often accompanied by their grown sons.
She invites readers to www.CherylBolen.com, or her blog, www.cherylsregencyramblings.wordpress.co or Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cheryl-Bolen-Books/146842652076424. Super fans can join her Facebook readers’ group, Lady Cheryl’s Ladies of the Ton at https://www.facebook.com/groups/817160475466386/
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Read the historical Keeping Faith by Beverley Oakley @BeverleyOakley #RLFblog #HistoricalRomance
Beverley Oakley, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about your book.Keeping Faith by Beverley Oakley
Genre Historical Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): Mature Audience
“My beautiful Revenge.”
Four years ago, Faith’s mysterious benefactress falsely accused her of stealing and deposited her in Madame Chambon’s exclusive brothel.
There, Faith was to learn how to entrance London’s noble gentlemen with her learning in philosophy, politics and art.
Her body was to be saved for the greatest enticement of all: revenge.
Faith doesn’t care what she has to do. She lives only to fulfil a bargain that will set her free.
But when Faith is recruited as the muse of a talented, sensitive painter whose victory in a prestigious art competition turns them both into celebrities overnight, she discovers the reasons behind her mission are very different from what she’d been led to believe.
Now she is complicit in something dark and dangerous while riches, adulation and freedom are hers for the taking.
But what value are these if her heart has become a slave to the man she is required to destroy?Where to buy Keeping Faith
Amazon https://amzn.to/2Dg70UP
Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/keeping-faith-beverley-oakley/1129773466
iBooks https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/keeping-faith/id1439994712
Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/keeping-faith-41Beverley Oakley Social Media
Beverley Oakley was seventeen when she bundled up her first her 500+ page romance and sent it to a publisher. Unfortunately drowning her heroine on the last page was apparently not in line with the expectations of romance readers so Beverley became a journalist.
Twenty-six years later Beverley was delighted to receive her first publishing contract from Robert Hale (UK) for a romance in which she ensured her heroine was saved from drowning in the icy North Sea.
Since 2009 Beverley has written more than thirteen historical romances, mostly set in England during the early nineteenth century. Mystery, intrigue and adventure spill from their pages and if she can pull off a thrilling race to save someone’s honour – or a worthy damsel from the noose – it’s time to celebrate with a good single malt Scotch.
Beverley lives with her husband, two daughters and a Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy the size of a pony opposite a picturesque nineteenth-century lunatic asylum. She also writes Africa-set adventure-filled romances tarring handsome bush pilot heroes, and historical romances with less steam and more sexual tension, as Beverley Eikli.
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Read the new Highland Scandal by Mageela Troche @MageelaTroche #RLFblog #HistoricalRomance
Mageela Troche, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about Highland Scandal.Highland Scandal by Mageela Troche
Genre Historical Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): PG-13
How long does happily ever after take?
They call her banshee. The taunt has pursued strong-willed Rowen Mackenzie through the glorious Scottish highlands. One man sees beyond the superstition–Lachlan Gordon. This brave highlander is the man she loves but duty requires her to wed another.
Wickedly charming, Lachlan Gordon has loved Rowen Mackenzie since his first glimpse of the ethereal beauty. As bastard of Chief Gordon, Lachlan can never claim her as his own. When his father, Laird Gordon, is murdered, Lachlan becomes the clan chief…too late to marry the woman he loves.
Years later, Rowen is now a widow and mother and her son is in danger. She jeopardizes her life and most importantly, her heart to protect her son. Lachlan is the only man who can help her. For a second chance at love, he must risk all—his clan, his life and his love to win even as secrets threaten their happiness and their very lives.
Will Rowen and Lachlan have their own happily ever after?
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Do you write more than one genre? If so, what are they?
I now just write historical romance. I have a few ideas for a contemporary bouncing about my head.
How do you come up with ideas?
Each time, it is different. It might be a picture, a line I read, or a character enters my head. Highland Scandal came out about instantly. I just had to sit down and write.
What is the single most important part of writing for you?
I love revising a novel that when I can make it better and get deeper than when I write my first draft.
When did you write your first book?
I was about five. It was three pages long and printed in pink crayon. As an adult my first was a chick-lit that is buried in the deep recesses of my drive and that was about 2004.
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Leather or lace? Leather
Black or red? Black
Satin sheets or smooth cotton? Smooth cotton
Ocean or mountains? Ocean
City life or country life? City life
Party life or evening at home? Evening at home.
Dogs or cats? Both
Where to buy Highland Scandal
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KQLLPQY/
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An Air Force brat, Mageela Troche has lived throughout the world then landed in New York City. She wanted to leave the same day she arrived. Yet, with her stubbornness, Mageela learned to like the place and the libraries were the main reason. Since she was a little girl, Mageela wanted to be an author and an actress, however, once in college, she changed her life plan in the pursuit of money. After all, college loans must be repaid.
With life’s twists and turns, she returned to writing and focused on the romance genre. Mageela Troche’s first break came when she sold a short story to a magazine. She sold two more before the publication of her historical romance novel, The Marriage Alliance. She has gone on to write four more novels and a novella.
Mageela is currently writing in the cramped corner of her Big Apple apartment. She is the proud owner of a Black-masked lovebird named Boobula. She loves to hear from her readers and can be found online at MageelaTroche.com
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Read The Rancher’s Baby Proposal by Barbara White Daille @BarbaraWDaille #RLFblog #contemporaryromance #western
Read The Rancher’s Baby Proposal. Barbara White Daille shares a western romance novel with a baby, a rancher, and a proposal. What’s not to love about that?
The Rancher’s Baby Proposal
Ally Martinez has always been known as a fun and flirty kind of gal. But deep down she’s never forgotten the cowboy who left town. When her crush Reagan Chase comes home after a five-year absence, Ally knows this is her big chance. The guy I’ve always wanted. Only Reagan has something different in mind.
Still reeling from his last relationship, Reagan needs a babysitter for his month-old son. With Ally’s help, he can get his family’s ranch ready for sale and get out of Cowboy Creek. The problem? Ally is one seriously cute distraction. But Reagan will do whatever it takes to keep his heart safe. Even if it means losing the only place–and the only woman–he can call home.
Genre Contemporary romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): PG13
Publisher Harlequin http://www.harlequin.com/storeitem.html?iid=70354
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Ranchers-Baby-Proposal-Hitching-Hotel-ebook/dp/B01LLPCDXY/
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IndieBound http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780373757596
Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-rancher-s-baby-proposalBarbara White Daille Social Media
Barbara lives with her husband in the sunny Southwest. Though they love the warm winters and the lizards in their front yard, they haven’t gotten used to the scorpions in the bathroom. Barbara also loves writing, reading, and chocolate. Come to think of it, she enjoys writing about those subjects, too!
Barbara wrote her first short story at the age of nine, then typed “The End” to her first novel many years later…in the eighth grade. Now she’s writing contemporary romance on a daily basis, with an ongoing series from Harlequin Western Romance (The Hitching Post Hotel), a brand-new series from Entangled Bliss (Snowflake Valley), and many more books in progress.
She would love to have you stop by her website and blog and to look for her the next time you’re on Facebook and Twitter.Website http://www.barbarawhitedaille.com
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Know the Hero from Tanner by Cheryl St John @_cherylstjohn_ #RLFblog #westernromance #kindleunlimited
Tanner, by Cheryl St John, introduces you to a determined Southern belle and a no-nonsense ex-Union army captain making peace to save a baby they both love.
Cheryl, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! We’re excited to find out more about your hero, but first, tell us about the book.Tanner by Cheryl St John
Genre historical western
Book heat level PG:
He’s focused on the future…
The past is all she knows…
Together they’re forced to face today…
His months in Salisbury prison taught Union Captain Tanner Bell to detest a southern drawl, and Widow Cranford’s exaggerated Dixie twang has him gritting his teeth. His plans for a ranch are threatened when his orphaned newborn niece is delivered to him, and he desperately needs the landlady’s help.
Raylene Cranford survived a Georgia winter living on acorns and scrawny rabbits before traveling sixteen-hundred miles to carve out a life in Colorado. She lost everything–except her dignity and hope. Her feminine Southern graces are her armor, but maintaining appearances could cost her love.
Can a Southern belle and a Union soldier change deeply-ingrained misconceptions about themselves for the sake of a child?
Know the Hero from Tanner
Here are some fun questions to help us know your hero.
It’s late, he’s bored. What does he do?
Tanner is seldom bored, but when his animals are cared for, the baby is sleeping and he has time to himself, he enjoys reading.
What kind of food would he impulse buy if hungry?
He’s a meat and potatoes guy, but if he needed to eat on the road, he would probably buy sandwiches.
Describe the kind of clothes he prefers to wear.
Tanner is usually found working in his trousers or denims and a loose cotton shirt. He likes nice clothing, however, and wears a white shirt, vest and tie to church. He adds a coat when weather permits.
Does he know how to fix things?
He knows how to do everything from shoeing horses to putting up fences and repairing porch floors and stairs.
He tried to do something and it went badly. Tell us about it.
His attempts to do nice things for his landlady are rebuffed, and he’s puzzled. She doesn’t want his help. He attempted to supply wood for the stove and fireplaces, but Raylene assured him she could take care of it herself. He fixed her front porch and she was offended that one of her tenants was working on her property.
How does he act around children he doesn’t know?
When his sister died and left him with a newborn, he didn’t know what to do, but he asked for help and figured it out. Feeling out of his element swiftly transitioned to adoring his infant niece and planning a future with her.
What is he like first thing in the morning?
He’s an early riser, waking to care for his infant niece, and then go feed and water horses at his livery. He enjoys coffee with his breakfast. He cooked simple meals for himself or ate at the hotel restaurant until moving into Raylene Cranford’s boarding house and enjoying her cooking.
How does he handle things when in a “proper” social situation?
Tanner was a captain in the Union Army, and early in the war, he attended dinners and parties at the commanding officer’s homes. He’s well-schooled in social graces.
Valet or takes care of himself?
In 1868 American west, he takes care of himself.
Sleeves buttoned or rolled up?
Or no shirt when the sun is radiating and he’s working iron on the forge.
Carriage or horseback?
This hero owns and operates a livery, so he’s around horses all day every day. He has a favorite strawberry roan he rides, but for taking others on outings, he outfits a buggy.
Thanks for helping us get to know your hero!
Where to buy Tanner
Publisher: Alexandrite Press
Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/ya3r25kt
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Cheryl is the author of more than fifty historical and contemporary romances. Her stories have earned numerous RITA nominations, Romantic Times awards and are published in over a dozen languages. In describing her stories of second chances and redemption, readers and reviewers use words like, “emotional punch, hometown feel, core values, believable characters and real-life situations.” Her bestselling non-fiction books, Writing With Emotion, Tension & Conflict and Write Smart, Write Happy by Writers Digest Books are available in print and digital.
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Discover fast fun facts about Juli D Revezzo author of Engaging the Heiress (Camden Girls #2) @julidrevezzo #RLFblog #historicalromance
Juli D Revezzo, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about Engaging the Heiress (Camden Girls, book 2).Engaging the Heiress (Camden Girls, book 2) by Juli D Revezzo
Genre: historical romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): G
Mr. Edwin Hetherington needs a fiancée he will never have to marry.
Years ago, his family lost everything to an unscrupulous landlord. Now, the Irishman offers to reinstate Edwin’s title so long as he weds Miss Jera Camden. As far as Jera is concerned, so long as she manages to avoid an unwanted suitor of her mother’s choosing, the bluestocking is happy to play the part of Edwin’s blushing bride-to-be.
Can Edwin and Jera dupe the crafty landlord into making good on his promise before the wedding date arrives…or will their best-laid plans result in disaster?
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What’s your favorite book?…
Oh boy! How much time do you have? J There’s a list. But my favorite romances are Nora Roberts Three sisters series, Tessa Dare’s Wanton Dairymaid Series, anything by Suzanne G. Rogers or Michael Moorcock.
What’s a genre you want to write?…
I’ve dabbled in just about everything. But I’d like to write a true historical fiction, someday, I think.
Best writing advice you ever heard?…
That’s changed, over the years. Now, I’d say, learn the basics, but still, write the book you want to write.
What’s the title and genre of your first book, and where can we find it?
The title of the first book in the Camden Girls series is Courting the Stationmaster’s Daughter, and it too is available on Amazon.
Easy
Coffee or tea? both
Sit down dinner or drive through? both
Fold laundry immediately or let it sit? I fold it immediately, if I can.
Unload dishwasher right away or use dishes from it? I have to admit, I’ve used dishes from the dishwasher before.
Driving for pleasure or avoid driving anywhere? Avoid driving.
Talk or text? Both. Most of the time, I prefer to talk, though.
Emoji or smilie? Smile
Where to buy Engaging the Heiress (Camden Girls, book 2)
Publisher: Raven Queen Publications
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08BBKD6PV
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