Genre: Regency
Romance

Publisher:
Carina Press

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Press http://bit.ly/TA6VOg Amazon.com
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Length: 83,000
words

Heat Rating:
Steamy

Tagline: A sparkling
Regency in which a marquess finds his destiny in an impecunious siren with a beautiful
voice and a scorching pen.

Blurb:

Leah Elliott
and her sister Bethany remove to the south coast, where Leah makes a living by picking
up tidbits of gossip for a scandal sheet about the local family of consequence,
the Forsters. She erroneously reports that the marquess, Hal Forster, is about to
marry a local lady. To make up for her mistake, Leah offers to act as Hal’s paramour.
In return he agrees to educate her in matters of romantic love, acting out scenes
from Fanny Hill, a book which they have both read.

Leah discovers
that Hal has a young Frenchman hidden on his boat, which makes her suspicious. During
a grand ball at Forster Hall, the Frenchman kidnaps Leah, using her to lure Hal
into a trap. Using her wits, Leah manages to warn the man she has fallen in love
with that he’s in deadly peril. Managing to overcome his foes, Hal concentrates
on discovering the truth behind the fire that killed Leah’s father and supposedly
destroyed the rare books he so treasured. His efforts lead them both into more danger
when they have a deadly confrontation with a scoundrel at an inn in the backstreets
of London.

Has Leah led
the man she loves into a trap from which he’s unable to escape.

What are
your main characters’ names, ages and occupations?

My Hero, Hal
Forster, is Marquess of Denby. Aged thirty, he not only carries out covert assignments
for the government but also has responsibility for his three younger siblings.

At 21 Leah Elliott
must support herself and her sister by whatever means she can. If that means writing
gossip for a scurrilous scandal sheet then so be it.

How did you
get your start in the industry?

I owe that to
the wonderful British Romantic Novelists’ Association. I joined when I started writing
seriously and thanks to their New Writer’s Scheme was able to find a home for my
first five regencies with a small London publisher.

If you could
change something about your first book, what would it be?

Just about everything!
I think I made the mistake common to new writers and way overwrote the thing. Far
too many adjectives and ‘telling not showing’. I couldn’t see it at the time, of
course, but when I came to re-release the book with an e-publisher, I was able to
put that right.

How do you
cope with stress as an author?

Wine helps –
a lot! So too does chocolate and going for long solitary walks with my dog to clear
my head and make sense of life.

Which statement
is more like you?

“I am
a vacation spa because I am laid back and relaxed.”

“I am a
ten-countries in ten-days tour vacation, because I do things as fast as possible.”

I love pizza
with wine.

I’m always ready
for wine.

When I’m alone
I drink wine.

You’d never
be able to tell, but I love wine.

If I had a halo
it would be tipsy.

If I could fly
I could avoid airports for the rest of my life.

I can never
relax because I’ve always got stories waiting to be told.

Lady Hartley’s
Inheritance

Duty’s Destiny

The Social Outcast

The Carstairs’
Conspiracy

A Bittersweet
Proposal

A Reason to
Rebel

Of Dukes and
Deceptions

A Scandalous
Proposition

The Perfect
Impostor

A Class Apart

Shalimar

Silver Lining

The Name of
the Game

Downsizing

Topspin

Unfinished Business

Risky Business

The Forsters
# 2 – Beguiling the Barrister – Carina Press June 2013

The Forsters
# 3 – Finessing the Contessa

Lethal Business
– Carina Press – March 2013

I’m giving away
a copy of Compromising the Marquess. Just leave a comment here, along with your
contact details, telling me why you enjoy Regency romances. Good luck!

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