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Book Blast/Giveaway: Love at Pemberley Series by Reina M. Williams

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Please join Reina M. Williams on her Love at Pemberley Series Book Blast from May 12-June 13.

About Most Truly

01_Most TrulyPublication Date: December 15, 2013
Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
eBook; 88 pages

Heat level: Sweet

Colonel James Fitzwilliam is home. The war has left him weary, battle-scarred—and a free man of fortune ready to find a wife. He travels to Pemberley, his second home. There he meets Kitty Bennet. Her unexpected charms soon have him questioning his familial duty and his expectations. A fight looms on the horizon when his aunt—Lady Catherine de Bourgh—and his parents arrive with their own plans for his future.

Kitty Bennet has found happiness. At Pemberley, she has improved herself and formed true friendships with her sister Lizzy and Georgiana Darcy. Kitty is captivated by the gentlemanly Colonel Fitzwilliam. But she will not be silly over a redcoat again, and she will not risk her happiness—or his family’s displeasure—for his attentions. Colonel Fitzwilliam, Darcy, Lizzy, and Georgiana have their say, and Kitty learns a new lesson—love will find you at Pemberley.

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Giveaway: Daughter of the Gods by Stephanie Thornton

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In ancient Egypt, Hatshepsut will become on it’s most notorious rulers. Egypt will prosper under her reign, but at what cost to her personal life?

Her whole life she dreamed of being free and able to make her own choices but a tragic accident changes her life forever. 

Thanks to the HFVBT and the Publisher, I am ecstatic to be able to offer a copy of Daughter of the Gods by Stephanie Thornton for your enjoyment! Giveaway is for one paperback copy.

Giveaway runs 5/15/14 to 5/22/14

Winners will be announced 5/23/14.

(how to enter)

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Review: Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt by Stephanie Thornton

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Author Stephanie Thornton has an affinity for lost women in ancient history. I had the pleasure or reading her first book about Empress Theodora last year and absolutely loved it.

I was thrilled when I heard about her latest novel, Daughter of the Gods, about one of Egypt’s most notorious female pharaoh, Hatshepsut. 

This time we venture into ancient Egypt where the country has known peace for quite some time. Thutmose reigns and with one surviving son, Thut and two daughters Neferubity and Hatshepsut. 

Neferubity is to marry Thut to ensure the pure blood lines, while Hatshepsut is free to be as wild as her patron goddess, Sekhmet, is. The goddess of war is a fierce as the lion she embodies and Hatshepsut  worships her. 

Hatshepsut  is a skilled hunter and loves racing her chariot through the streets. With few responsibilities, she is free to love as she chooses and do what she likes as it is Neferubity who has the responsibility of carrying on the blood line. 

But when Neferubity dies suddenly, Hatshepsut’s life changes forever. 

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Review: Long Live the King (Love & Inheritance Trilogy #2) by Fay Weldon

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Like many fans of the show, Downton Abbey, I am constantly on the look out for upstairs/downstairs inspired books to tide me over until the next season of Downton comes out!

I stumbled upon Fay Weldon’s latest novel in the Love and Inheritance series, Long Live the King and was thrilled to learn that Weldon was actually the writer of the original series Upstairs Downstairs.

This novel is full of Edwardian era intrigue, not to mention a healthy dose of occultist practices such as seances and communicating with the dead.

Queen Victoria is dead and along with her, the restrictive lifestyle that had defined her reign. Her son, Bertie is to take the throne and London is buzzing with excitement about the upcoming coronation.

It’s to be the historic and  social event of the new century!

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Cover Reveal: First Impressions by Charlie Lovett

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I’m very excited to share with you the beautiful cover of Charlie Lovett’s upcoming novel, FIRST IMPRESSIONS, which will be published by Viking this October. This charming book is sure to appeal to the same readers who loved his novel The Bookman’s Tale, and will be especially exciting for Jane Austen fans (maybe the title rings a Pride and Prejudice bell?).

First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen (Viking; October 16, 2014; 978-0-525-42724-7)

Book lover and Austen enthusiast Sophie Collingwood has recently taken a job at an antiquarian bookshop in London when two different customers request a copy of the same obscure book: the second edition of Little Book of Allegories by Richard Mansfield. Their queries draw Sophie into a mystery that will cast doubt on the trueauthorship of Pride and Prejudice—and ultimately threaten Sophie’s life.

In a dual narrative that alternates between Sophie’s quest to uncover the truth—while choosing between two suitors—and a young Jane Austen’s touching friendship with the aging cleric Richard Mansfield, Lovett weaves a romantic, suspenseful, and utterly compelling novel about love in all its forms and the joys of a life lived in books.