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Book Blast/Giveaway: Love at Pemberley Series by Reina M. Williams
Please join Reina M. Williams on her Love at Pemberley Series Book Blast from May 12-June 13. About Most Truly Publication 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…
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Giveaway: Daughter of the Gods by Stephanie Thornton
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) On this blog you must leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway. Your comment MUST include your email so I can…
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Review: Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt by Stephanie Thornton
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…
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Review: Long Live the King (Love & Inheritance Trilogy #2) by Fay Weldon
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…
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Review: The Imposter Bride by Nancy Richler
In post WWII Montreal, Lily Azerov arrives to meet her betrothed for the first time. But this stranger harbors a secret. In Eastern Europe she stumbles upon a dead woman and assumes her identity. After fleeing Eastern Europe for Palestine, as a new woman, she becomes engaged via mail order to a Canadian names Sol Kramer. After arriving in Montreal, Sol refuses to marry her rather quickly after the meeting. Luckily for Lily, his brother Nathan steps in and marries her. At the wedding, a couple of uninvited guests of the groom arrive. Ida has heard from her cousin, Sonya, in Tel Aviv that a woman has been there pretending to…
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Review: Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole
What do you do with a married woman besides leave her alone? David Graham is stuck in quite the predicament! His letters and heart have been laid before a woman half way around the world, now it’s up to her to decide if she will erase him from her life completely or risk a correspondence. A forbidden love story written entirely in letters spanning two world wars? Be still my heart! This is the book I’ve been looking for! I am a real romantic at heart and to me there is nothing more romantic than a love letter. But that’s not exactly how this story starts out. Elspeth Dunn is…
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Book Blast: Puritan Witch: The Redemption of Rebecca Eames by Peni Jo Renner
Please join Peni Jo Renner as she tours the blogosphere for Puritan Witch: The Redemption of Rebecca Eames from April 28-May 30. Publication Date: September 17, 2013 iUniverse Formats: Ebook, Hardcover, Paperback On a cold night in 1692, two young girls are caught up in the divining games of a slave woman-and then begin to act very strangely when the game goes wrong. Suddenly, Salem Village is turned upside down as everyone fears that witches may be involved. Six months later, as news of the girls’ strange behavior becomes known, fear and suspicion overwhelm a nearby farming community, pitting neighbors against neighbors and turning friends into enemies. When Rebecca Eames…
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Review: A Little Folly by Jude Morgan
Valentine and Louisa Carnell have lived under the overly cautious eye of their father for their entire lives. They have scarcely been allowed to leave their country estate in Devonshire nor have they been allowed visitors. Their father has purposefully alienated them from their deceased mother’s family so it’s mostly been just the three of them for years. Then suddenly, their father dies leaving them a comfortable fortune and the forbidden freedom they have been craving. Valentine and Louisa have received a condolence letter from their estranged cousins who happen to be visiting a few towns away and plan on heading home via Devonshire. The siblings agree that their first…
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Book Blast and Giveaway: 1066: What Fates Impose by E.K. Holloway
Publication Date: March 4, 2013 Matador Publishing King William then utters the following words to the room: ‘I appoint no one as my heir to the Crown of England, but leave it to the disposal of the Eternal Creator, whose I am and who orders all things. For I did not attain that high honour by hereditary right, but wrested it from the perjured King Harold in a desperate bloody battle.’ England is in crisis. King Edward has no heir and promises never to produce one. There are no obvious successors available to replace him, but quite a few claimants are eager to take the crown. While power struggles break…
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Review: Savage Girl by Jean Zimmerman
Hugo Delegate sits in jail for a series of murders he may or may not of committed. He is passionately in love with Bronwyn, the young wild girl who was raised by wolves. Hugo is from a wealthy family, and after leaving Harvard he joins his family on a railroad trip to the western United States. It is here that he meets Bronwyn and his family agrees to adopt her. Upon returning to the East Coast, the Delegate family takes it upon themselves to educate her and present her to high society. Surprisingly, Bronwyn takes well to her new life, but she does have her own set of motives. Bronwyn…