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About Deborah Cooke

I write romance novels, including medieval romances as Claire Delacroix, and contemporary and paranormal romances as Deborah Cooke. I also am an avid knitter and sewist.

New Bride Quest Swag

I had some new goodies printed for the Bride Quest Kickstarter campaign and wanted to show you. Right now, they’re only available to the backers of the campaign – you can expect this in future, that advance or exclusive swag will be available at Kickstarter. I have these printed in small quantities, so there aren’t many leftovers.

First, there’s a new bookmark showing the 25th anniversary commemorative mass market editions of all six Bride Quest books. This is a really fat bookmark, almost a postcard.

BIG bookmarks for the Bride Quest 25th anniversary commemoraitve editions

I’ll order more of these in the fall and add them to the swag you can request from me, as part of the launch of the new editions in November.

Next, I did postcards of the six cover illustrations. Backers get a set of all six. The new logo is on the back of each one. When these are gone, they’re gone.

Set of six postcards with the illustrations for the Bride Quest 25th anniversary commemoraitve editions

Then I ran some stickers because they’re just so cute. These are tiny, and again, backers get a set of six, one of each cover illustration. When these are gone, they’re gone.

Set of six mini-stickers with the illustrations for the Bride Quest 25th anniversary commemoraitve editions
Six Bride Quest colouring pages

There also is a set of six colouring pages to download, print and colour. I’ll make those available for download here in November as part of the launch of the new editions.

There are a few sets of postcards and stickers left, but I haven’t decided whether to save them for my next Kickstarter campaign and sell them as add-ons or sell them in sets in November from here. If you have strong thoughts either way, please comment on the post.

Aren’t they pretty, though?

A Most Inconvenient Earl Available in German

The fourth and final Regency romance in my Brides of North Barrows series, A Most Inconvenient Earl, is now available in a German edition. This series is enrolled in Kindle Unlimited.

A Most Inconvenient Earl, a Regency romance novella and book four of the Brides of North Barrows series by Claire Delacroix, German edition

Eurydice Goodenham ist überzeugt, dass eine Vernunftehe mit dem berüchtigten Sebastian Montgomery, Earl of Rockmorton, ideal wäre: Im Austausch für ein Kind kann sie sich zum Schreiben in die Bibliothek seines Landhauses zurückziehen, während er sein skandalöses Leben in London weiterführt. Doch als sie sich in ihren unberechenbaren, verschmitzten und insgeheim ehrenhaften Ehemann verliebt, kann sie da überhaupt noch hoffen, sein Herz zu erobern?

Sebastian ist von den Vergnügungen der Welt gelangweilt, bis ihm das Mündel seines Freundes einen verblüffenden Vorschlag macht. Er kann nicht anders, als Eurydikes Erwartungen infrage zu stellen. Eine wilde Flucht nach Gretna Green überzeugt ihn davon, dass seine unerwartete Braut wie geschaffen für ihn ist – nur dass Eurydike nicht an die Liebe glaubt. Kann Sebastian das widerstrebende Herz des Blaustrumpfs rechtzeitig gewinnen, um ein missglücktes Weihnachtsfest – und eine schief gehende Ehe – zu retten?

Buy Links for Christmas at Tullymullagh

Don’t miss this new story set in the world of the Bride Quest, coming in December!

Christmas at Tullymullagh is a Bride Quest story and #7 in the series of medieval romances by Claire Delacroix

Five years after the end of The Heiress, the brothers Fitzgavin gather at Castle Tullymullagh with their wives and families to celebrate the Yule, and a gentle ghost seizes the opportunity to add to the good fortune of all.

This short story and epilogue to the Bride Quest I is available in ebook on its own, and is included in the new mass market paperback and hard cover editions of The Heiress. Although it actually occurs after events in The Countess, you don’t have to read Eglantine and Duncan’s story before this one.

This story is included in the new 25th Anniversary commemorative hard cover and mass market paperback editions of The Heiress, and will be published on its own in ebook on December 12, 2023.

Pre-order available at some portals.

The Runaway Bride in Italian

My medieval romance, The Runaway Bride, is now available in an Italian edition!

La sposa in fuga is the Italian edition of The Runaway Bride, book two of the Brides of Inverfyre series of medieval romances by Claire Delacroix

Aoife MacNeill è una bellezza, un trofeo da conquistare. Ora che non è più un’ereditiera, vorrebbe sposarsi per amore, ma suo padre ha organizzato il suo matrimonio con Nigel Armstrong, figlio maggiore ed erede del Falco di Inverfyre. Le basta uno sguardo per capire che Nigel non conquisterà mai il suo cuore, ma suo cugino, Ross di Kinfairlie, è tutta un’altra storia.

Aoife sa che non può sfuggire al suo destino, eppure desidera ardentemente tentare la sua ultima carta: fuggire da Inverfyre e sperare che Ross venga mandato al suo inseguimento. Sarà sufficiente un bacio…

Ross di Kinfairlie è un mercenario che mette la sua spada al servizio dei signori, un cavaliere privo dei beni necessari per poter reclamare una sposa. Quando la fidanzata del cugino scappa, corre al suo inseguimento perchè sa di dovere qualcosa al Falco che lo ha addestrato. Ross sospetta che Aoife non sia consapevole dei rischi che corre e infatti l’infido clan dei MacLaren, che cerca da sempre di danneggiare Inverfyre, la fa prigioniera.

Durante il salvataggio, Ross si ritrova affascinato dalla bella e selvaggia fanciulla. Quanto sarà disposto a cedere Ross per garantire la sicurezza di Aoife?

E quanto rischierà Aoife per proteggere l’uomo che ha catturato il suo cuore?

The Masquerade of the Marchioness in Spanish

My Regency romance The Masquerade of the Marchioness is now available in a Spanish edition!

La marquesa enmascarada is the Spanish edition of The Masquerade of the Marchioness, book two of the Ladies' Essential Guide to the Art of Seduction series of Regency romances by Claire Delacroix

No es la mujer con la que él se casó…

Philomena Wright, marquesa de Arlingview, es universalmente admirada por su intelecto, buen sentido y sus esfuerzos caritativos a favor de las viudas y los huérfanos. Una mujer con todas esas virtudes también guarda un oscuro secreto: es, en realidad, la hermana gemela de Philomea, Penelope. Temiendo la soltería, asiste a un baile de máscaras con la esperanza de encontrar un pretendiente antes de admitir la verdad… sólo para encontrarse con un caballero que la conmueve como ningún otro…

Garrett Wright echa de menos tener un propósito, y el peligro, de su trabajo como espía durante la guerra y está aburrido de su disfraz de imprudente libertino. Cuando acepta ayudar a descubrir al ladrón de joyas que se está aprovechando de la sociedad londinense, se ve seducido por una belleza que despierta algo dentro de él, y se muestra decidido a desvelar la verdad, cueste lo que cueste.

Cuando encuentra unas gemas robadas en su poder, Garrett teme que su dama tenga un secreto más peligroso que su propia identidad. Obligado a elegir entre el honor y el inesperado amor, ¿cómo cumplirá con su deber y se asegurará, a la vez, de un futuro feliz con la mujer que ha capturado su corazón?