Please check out the three options and then use the Rafflecopter below to vote for your favorite. As a thank-you for helping me out, I’m giving away a few cool prizes (listed below the covers). But first, you want to see Prudence and Alex, right? The only difference is the color of the font…

I’m eager to hear what you think! And as a thank you, the prizes are:

1) First place gets a tote bag that says “She is too fond of books and it has addled her brain” + a $20 gift card to your favorite book store + an advance copy of The Earl Who Played With Fire (when available – likely September/October)

2) Second place gets $10 gift card to your favorite book store + an advance copy of The Earl Who Played With Fire (when available – likely September/October)

3) Three third-places each get an advance copy of The Earl Who Played With Fire (when available – likely September/October)

The sweepstakes is open to US residents 18 and over – sorry, international friends, I have no desire to get sued :( Thanks for your help! And now, vote here:

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If you’d like to win a signed copy of WHAT HAPPENS IN SCOTLAND, please enter via the Rafflecopter below (click the Rafflecopter for full terms and conditions; giveaways limited to 18+ and US only so that I don’t go to jail). And make sure you check back next week for a new video review/giveaway. Happy reading!

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Her very first video review is ALMOST A SCANDAL by Elizabeth Essex. You can check it out here:

Now that you’ve watched the video, you’re as excited to read it as Cerise was, right? If you’d like to win a signed copy of ALMOST A SCANDAL, enter via the Rafflecopter below (click the Rafflecopter for full terms and conditions; giveaways limited to 18+ and US only so that I don’t go to jail). And make sure you check back next week for a new video review/giveaway. Happy reading!

Note: giveaway over! Winner to be selected in the next day or so :)

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If you want a free preview before downloading a free book, you can check out the first two chapters here. But really, you should just download the book before it goes back up to full price. Or buy someone else’s book if you aren’t inclined to read this one :) Happy reading!

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Also, CAVEAT: anything posted here is subject to change. I change major plot points up until the very final draft, and minor characters’ names can change on a whim. So, don’t get too wedded to anything I post here, since it may never show up in the final draft.

Now that I’ve caveated you to death, here’s a snippet of something I’m playing around with – a (potentially serialized) first-person Regency starring Lady Christabel Claiborne, who was a secondary character in THE MARQUESS WHO LOVED ME. Enjoy!

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Before I begin, I want you to know…I never thought to make a scandal of myself. Never even dreamt of it, all those years I spent in my mother’s house. I was immured like a nun, counting the hours between breakfast, supper, and bed as regularly as one might arrange the prayers in a cathedral.

But when I met Sebastian Staunton, I was lost.

I suppose, dear Reader, that you wouldn’t understand my fascination with Mr. Staunton. He was a middling sort of man, possessed of middling brown hair, middling brown eyes, and the middling fortune expected of a second son. I’d heard the rumors of his reputation, of course — the only thing that wasn’t middling about him. Still, even with that warning I failed to notice the hidden spark in his eyes. I failed to notice the powerful body he hid under his proper evening suit. I failed to notice the keen way in which he observed me, as though I were a potential threat and not a middling sort of woman myself.

I, like everyone else in his life, underestimated him. I saw the rake he intended for me to see. But if I may be allowed to defend my former naivete, I wasn’t looking for seduction. I didn’t anticipate that he presented any danger to me at all.

If I had known, that night in my sister-in-law’s ballroom, just where Sebastian Staunton would take me — or the methods he would use to deliver me there — perhaps I would have succumbed to a fit of vapors. That’s a lie, of course. I’ve never been ladylike enough for vapors. But perhaps — perhaps I would have reconsidered. Perhaps I would have stayed away from him, stayed safe in Sussex until my skin turned to paper and my bones brittled, until all hope of another life was just a wisp of fog in my age-dulled mind.

Perhaps.

That night, though, Sebastian Staunton interested me greatly, and for only one reason.

Mr. Staunton possessed a ship. And I would do anything, promise anything, become anything, for the chance to run away on it.

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I have no idea when the books will be available in the Russian market, but I’m super excited. I lived in Ukraine for a year when I was twelve (which is not Russia, I know; someone would shank me if I claimed they were the same country), and I studied a lot of Russian history in college, so Slavic culture is near and dear to my (slightly dark) heart. It seems so fitting that the first translations rights would be sold in Russia. And my friends have already feted me with vodka and other Russian delights, so the celebration has begun.

I’ll post the covers when/if I ever see them. Fingers crossed that these books will be available in more markets soon!

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- Buy the Kindle version
- Buy the Nook version
- Buy the Apple iBookstore version
- Buy the Google Play version
- Buy the AllRomance version
- Buy the paperback version

The fourth book in the Muses of Mayfair series will be The Earl Who Played With Fire, and will star Miss Prudence Etchingham. Look for it by the end of 2013; I’ll have a more specific timeframe in the next two or three months.

Thanks so much for your support, and I hope you enjoy The Marquess Who Loved Me!

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I’m running a Rafflecopter giveaway until 11:59pm EST Tuesday, January 29, linked on my homepage. However, Rafflecopter has been wonky. So, if you can’t get Rafflecopter to work, or if you want another chance to enter, leave a comment on this post saying whether you prefer the red cover, the blue cover, or you like both equally. I’ll draw TWO winners straight from this comment section using random.org and will post the winner on Wednesday, January 30. The other five giveaways will still go to Rafflecopter entrants, so try again sometime if you aren’t able to get it to work on your first attempt.

Good luck! If you want to read a draft of the first two chapters (subject to minor change), click here. And here are the covers again for reference:

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I was in the third action, which I assure you was remarkably severe, I was stationed on the quarter deck, which place was one continued scene of slaughter, not having less than ten men killed or wounded; I fortunately escaped unhurt. I say fortunately for I was of some service that day.

Way to make your mum feel better, John Palmer!

By the way, Palmer’s rise to greatness was swift, but he had a penchant for fathering children (his wife, rumored to be an Anglo-Indian, was five months pregnant when they married and went on to have more than a dozen kids), a dangerous combo of innate generosity and bad character judgment, and an extreme willingness to take in houseguests (for example, a penniless orphan was sent to him from England, looking for a husband, and she lived with them at least four years with no success even in the sausage fest that was British society in Calcutta – there must be a story there). In 1830, his bad decisions and horde of mooching children caught up with him, and his downfall caused a Lehman Brothers-esque domino collapse of the Calcutta financial houses. If only he had been nicer to his mother…karma’s a b*tch.

[source: THE RICHEST EAST INDIA MERCHANT: JOHN PALMER OF CALCUTTA, 1767-1836, by Anthony Webster. I checked my copy out from Stanford Library, but you can find it on Amazon here. It's probably not worth $80 unless you're hardcore into the East India Company, but if you can find it in a library, it makes for some interesting insight into the financial companies and private traders that operated despite the EIC's 'monopoly' even before 1813]

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