Virtue and Valor – Romance Lives Forever

This quick interview includes info about the author, and
introduces the story.

About the Author

Bestselling,
award-winning author, Collette Cameron, has a Bachelor of Science in Liberal
Studies and a Master’s in Teaching. Author of the Castle Brides Series, Highland
Heather Romancing a Scot Series, and Conundrums
of the Misses Culpepper Series, Collette writes Regency and Scottish
historicals and makes her home in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and
five mini-dachshunds. Mother to three and a self-proclaimed Cadbury Chocolate
chocoholic, Collette loves a good joke, inspirational quotes, flowers, trivia,
and all things shabby chic or cobalt blue. You’ll always find dogs, birds,
quirky—sometimes naughty—humor, and a dash of inspiration in her novels.

Her
motto for life? You can’t have too much chocolate, too many hugs, too many
flowers, or too many books. She’s thinking about adding shoes to that list.

Interview with Collette Cameron

Why did you write
this book?

Virtue and Valor is the second book
in my six-book Highland Heather Romancing a Scot Series. The hero and heroine,
Yancy, the Earl of Ramsbury and Isobel Ferguson, were first introduced in my
Castle Brides series. I adored them as secondary characters and knew they both
needed their own stories. Actually, the demanded I write their stories. My
characters can be rather bossy.

It wasn’t until I was writing the
first book in the series, Triumph and Treasure, that I suddenly realized the
two of them were meant for each other. Naturally, I had to throw in a bunch of
conflict, danger and intrigue. I wouldn’t want to make it too easy for them to
have their happily-ever-after.

What is your favorite
genre to read?

I love historical romances of just about any kind, but
especially those set in Europe. Romance
and history; how could I go wrong reading that?

Who is your favorite
character from fiction (not including your own)?

Just one?

I have three male crushes right
now. Jamie Fraiser (it’s the kilt!), the musketeer Aramis (the man’s just
yummy) and The Count of Monte Crist (dark, brooding, vengeful).

What are you working on at the
moment, and will see from you in coming months?

I’m just finishing up Heartache and
Honor, the third book in the Highland Heather Romancing a Scot Series.

I have three novella’s to complete for projects with other authors,
and one of those stories is Bradford Kingsley’s. He was introduced in A Kiss for Miss Kingsley
and was so widely popular with my readers, I decided to give him his own story.

When I’ve finished the
novella’s, I’ll jump right into the
second book in my Conundrums of the Misses Culpepper series, Schemes Gone
Amiss. Readers have been dying to read Blythe and Leventhorpe’s story.

Please tell us about
your latest book.

Bartholomew Yancy never expected to
inherit an English earldom and had no intention of marrying. Now, the Earl of
Ramsbury and last in his line, he’s obligated to resign his position as
England’s War Secretary, find a wife, and produce an heir. Only one woman holds
the least appeal: Isobel Ferguson, an exquisite Scotswoman. Brought to Scotland
to mediate between feuding clans, he doggedly woos her.

Disillusioned
with men pursuing her for her attractiveness, rather than her unusual
intellect, Isobel has all but abandoned any hope of finding a husband in the
Highlands. Not only does she believe Yancy no different than her other suitors,
he’s a notorious rake. She’s been told he’s practically betrothed. Therefore,
his interest in her cannot possibly be honorable, and so she shuns his
attentions.

When
Isobel is mistakenly abducted by a band of rogue Scots, Yancy risks his life to
rescues her. To salvage her compromised reputation, her brother and father
insist she marry him. Yancy readily agrees, but Isobel—knowing full well she’s
fated for spinsterhood by refusing his offer— won’t be coerced into
marriage.

Can love unite a reluctant earl and
a disenchanted beauty?