Spotlight Tour & Giveaway: A Desperate Fortune by Susanna Kearsley

For nearly three hundred years, the cryptic journal of Mary Dundas has lain unread. Now, amateur code breaker Sara Thomas has been sent to Paris to crack the cipher.

Jacobite exile Mary Dundas is filled with longing - for freedom, for adventure, for the family she lost. When fate opens the door, Mary dares to set her foot on a path far more surprising and dangerous than she ever could have dreamed.

As Mary's gripping tale is revealed, Sara is faced with challenges that will require letting go of everything she thought she knew - about herself, about loyalty, and especially about love. Though divided by centuries, these two women will be united in a quest to discover the limits of trust and the coincidences of fate.

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New York Times and USA Today bestelling author Susanna Kearsley is known for her meticulous research and exotic settings from Russia to Italy to Cornwall, which not only entertain her readers but give her a great reason to travel. Her lush writing has been compared to Mary Stewart, Daphne du Maurier and Diana Gabaldon. She hit the bestseller lists in the U.S. with the FIrebird (a RITA winner) as well as, The Winter Sea and The Rose Garden (both RITA finalists and winners of RT Reviewers' Choice Awards). Other honors include National Readers' Choice Awards, the prestigious Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize, and finaling for the UK's Romantic Novel of the Year Award. Her popular and critically acclaimed books are available in translation in more than 20 countries and as audiobooks. She lives in Canada, near the shores of Lake Ontario.
 

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Spotlight Tour & Giveaway: Kiss the Earl by Gina Lamm

A modern girl’s guide to seducing Mr. Darcy

When Ella Briley asked her lucky-in-love friends to set her up for an office party, she was expecting a blind date. Instead, she’s pulled through a magic mirror and into the past…straight into the arms of her very own Mr. Darcy.

Patrick Meadowfair, earl of Fairhaven, is too noble for his own good. To save a female friend from what is sure to be a loveless marriage, he’s agreed to whisk her off to wed the man she truly wants. But all goes awry when Patrick mistakes Ella for the would-be bride and kidnaps her instead.

Centuries away from everything she knows, Ella’s finally found a man who heats her blood and leaves her breathless. Too bad he’s such a perfect gentleman. Yet the reluctant rake may just find this modern girl far too tempting for even the noblest of men to resist…

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Gina Lamm, a bellydancing, wisecracking, marshmallow-addicted geek, loves nothing more than penning funny, emotional tales of love, lust, and entertaining mishaps. Married to a superhero, she lives with her beloved family in North Carolina, surrounded by tobacco farms, possums, and the occasional hurricane. She also writes erotic romance for Ellora's Cave under the pen name Regina Cole. Visit www.ginalamm.net

Today we are pleased to sit down with author Gina Lamm, whose title, Kiss the Earl, is out April 7^th. To celebrate the release of this fun time-slip novel Gina’s here to share a snippet from the book with a time-travel tip for aspiring adventurers!

“It was tangled and wild, frizzing everywhere. She tried to comb it with her fingers, but there wasn’t a whole lot she could do. She settled for tying it into a low ponytail at the base of her neck with a little bit of ribbon she found hanging over the screen. It wasn’t going to be beautiful, but at least it was out of her face.”

#8 – Gina’s Time Travel Tip – Your usual beauty regimen will most likely prove impossible no matter what time period you land in. If you can, lean on others for tips on how to maintain your hygiene. Otherwise? Just do the best you can. Hopefully, when you get home, modern dentistry, seven or eight showers in a row, and an extremely competent wax technician can help restore you to your former glory.

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Spotlight Blitz, Excerpt & Giveaway: Just in Time for a Highlander (Sirens of the Scottish Borderlands #1) by Gwyn Cready

For Duncan MacHarg, things just got real…

Battle reenactor and financier Duncan MacHarg thinks he has it made—until he lands in the middle of a real Clan Kerr battle and comes face to face with their beautiful, spirited leader. Out of time and out of place, Duncan must use every skill he can muster to earn his position among the clansmen and in the heart of the devastatingly intriguing woman to whom he must pledge his oath.

Abby needs a hero and she needs him now

When Abigail Ailich Kerr sees a handsome, mysterious stranger materialize in the midst of her clan’s skirmish with the English, she’s stunned to discover he’s the strong arm she’s been praying for. Instead of a tested fighter, the fierce young chieftess has been given a man with no measurable battle skills and a damnably distracting smile. And the only way to get rid of him is to turn him into a Scots warrior herself—one demanding and intimate lesson at a time.

 

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“Undine, do you see what your magic has wrought?” Abby stabbed a finger in Duncan’s direction.


The woman gave him a full look and her eyes widened. “Oh. Oh, dear.”


“What magic?” Duncan demanded.


Undine regarded him thoughtfully. “He’s handsome, at least. And tall. That could be useful. But that hair…”


“If I wanted handsome, Rosston would certainly do. He at least wields a real sword.” She took 

Undine by the elbow and turned her away from Duncan. “The poor man appears to have no skills beyond his fists,” she said in a lowered voice. “And I think he’s addled in his head—like Hal the sheep shearer.”


“What were you thinking?” Undine demanded.


“What was I thinking?! ’Twas your herbs.”


“I mean when you opened the paper.”


“I didn’t open the paper. It was shot out of my hand.”


“All of it?!” Undine paled.


“Except for the part that flew in my mouth.” Abby wiped the back of her hand across her tongue and made a sharp sound of disgust. “It tasted like burnt groats.”


Duncan had had enough of being ignored. “What herbs? What magic? What are you talking about? 
Did you bring me here?”


Undine considered. “You could try to make do with him.”


“Make do?!” Abby cried. “You make do with him! Can’t you see this is the last thing I need with the clans right now?” She pulled herself onto the horse. “You need to get rid of him.”


The “get rid of him” made Duncan’s stomach tighten. “No. Wait—”


“Abby?” a voice called from beyond the trees. “Abby, are you there?”


“Oh, God help us, it’s Rosston.” Abby gave Duncan a warning look. “Don’t say another word.”


“No!” Duncan grabbed her pommel. “I want to go home! Send me home! I don’t know what you two witches have done.”


“Silence, you fool.” She jerked the reins in an effort to keep the beast from lurching. The arrow fell from her bow.


A kilted clansman crested the rise.


“You, there!” Duncan called to the man. “Help me. These women have—”


Duncan felt a thwack on the head, and the world went dark.

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