The Wolf & the Witch, book one of my Blood Brothers series of medieval romances, is a free series starter for the month of August!
The Hunter & the Heiress, book two of the series, is also discounted to $2.99 US for the same period.
Now’s the perfect time to meet the sons of the notorious mercenary Jean le Beau!
Today’s the day for another free romance book blast. You’ll find The Beauty Bride and The Christmas Conquest on the landing page, along with many other free books.
The Christmas Conquest, book one of the Ladies’ Essential Guide to the Art of Seduction series of Regency romances, is free through the end of this year.
Although I added the epilogue, Upon a Midnight Clear, into the book file a year and a half ago, it appears that Amazon is still delivering the original file. (People are still downloading the epilogue.) So, if you’d like both book and epilogue in one file, get the copy for your Kindle from my online store.
Love was not part of the plan when this marriage was arranged…
Rhys Bettencourt, Baron Trevelaine, had every intention of avoiding his family’s curse. An arranged marriage to a plain bluestocking of fortune should have ensured the provision of at least one heir. After all, it was beloved Bettencourt wives who always died in childbirth. But practical Catherine undermined her husband’s scheme by stealing his heart. The only way for Rhys to protect her is to deny them both physical satisfaction, against his own desires.
Catherine Carruthers was content to wed for practical considerations and accept an arranged marriage to please her family. Two years later, though, Catherine is certain that her dashing aristocrat of a husband regrets his choice and that her marriage will never be more. She accepts an invitation to Rockmorton Manor for Christmas to decide whether to leave Rhys and return to her father’s house. Upon arrival, though, Catherine discovers pages of sensual advice left in her room—as well as Rhys determined to convince her to stay. Can their marriage be saved?
Armed with information and with little to lose, Catherine embarks upon a campaign of seduction that Rhys is powerless to resist—even as he fears for Catherine’s fate if he surrenders to temptation. Caught between love and the wretched curse, can Rhys find a way to keep his cherished wife safely by his side?
Buy the ebook:
Rhys and Catherine’s story has a bonus epilogue, which was originally available to my newsletter subscribers, called Upon a Midnight Clear. On September 28, 2023, the bonus epilogue was added into the ebook of The Christmas Conquest.
If you bought The Christmas Conquest after that date, you’ll get both.
If you bought The Christmas Conquest before that date, your portal of choice might offer an updated version, or you can download if from BookFunnel using the link below.
If you have the older version or the newsletter signup version, that link should still work.
Buy The Christmas Conquest in mass market paperback.
This edition includes Upon a Midnight Clear.
There are new editions of the Jewels of Kinfairlie available in Italian, and the Italian edition of The Beauty Bride (Un amore da favola) is now a free series starter. Right now, the first three books in the series are available in their new editions – the Italian edition of The Ballad of Rosamunde and of The Renegade’s Heart will be published in new editions in May. The reviews from the previous editions aren’t showing up on these new ones so far, so if you reviewed any of these books in the past, it would be lovely if you could post your review again. 🙂
Più preziosi dell’oro sono i Gioielli di Kinfairlie, e solo l’uomo più degno può combattere per ottenere il loro amore…Il Laird di Kinfairlie ha cinque sorelle nubili, ognuna a suo modo una gemma. E lui non ha altra scelta se non quella di trovare loro un marito il più presto possibile.
Il cuore di lady Madeline non è in vendita… Soprattutto per un famigerato fuorilegge come Rhys FitzHenry. Eppure, la sua mano è stata venduta esattamente a quest’uomo, un guerriero stanco di combattere e con una taglia sulla testa. Una fanciulla più docile avrebbe obbedito alla volontà del Laird e accettato in silenzio il proprio destino. Solo che Madeline, che non è mai stata obbediente, decide di scappare, senza neanche immaginare che Rhys possa inseguirla.
Lei non si aspetta che quell’uomo taciturno la corteggi raccontandole storie stravaganti, ognuna delle quali rivelerà le cicatrici che circondano la sua anima. E nemmeno si aspetta che Rhys, pur celando gelosamente i propri sentimenti, possa mettere in pericolo il suo cuore.
Quando il passato di Rhys arriva a minacciare il suo futuro, Madeline decide di credere alla sua innocenza, rischiando la sua stessa vita per abbandonarsi ad una passione più preziosa persino della gemma più rara.
“Un entusiasmante romanzo medievale!”—Publishers Weekly
“Un amore da favola è un romance storico con una buona dose di avventura, ricco di storie e leggende, un viaggio di una coppia frizzante e appassionata che inizia a conoscersi.”—Maika Medici
“Delizioso ed avvincente, questo romanzo scorre facilmente e ci appassiona con tutti i protagonisti, che per non spoilerare troppo ho preferito non nominare. Ognuno di loro gioca un bel ruolo, come dinanzi ad una scacchiera, e vengono mossi i fili giusti per una romantica e magica storia che porta la firma di una delle più brave scrittrici di romanzi storici e fantasy. Rhys, comunque, resta il mio preferito: come racconta le storie lui… nessuno!“—Il Libro Sel Como’ du Meg
Yesterday, I participated in a multi-author promotion for free romances, and for the first time, I included download links for my online store. These promotions offer readers links to the various retail portals, but I added Hazel & Honeysuckle Press to my links – since my books are free there, too. (And some of the portals don’t offer my books free in some territories.)
I noticed last night that not everyone who “bought” a free book actually downloaded it. Let’s take a look at the delivery process at Hazel & Honeysuckle Press. I use BookFunnel for delivery.
When you buy a book in my store, regardless of the price, you need to check out. On that page, you provide an email address.
After your purchase is completed, you’ll get an email from the store. It comes from Hazel & Honeysuckle Press, and the subject line is: Your Hazel & Honeysuckle Press order has been received!
When you open the email, it looks like this:
You will then get an email from BookFunnel. It comes from the address: help@bookfunnel.com
For this transaction, the BF email literally came 1 minute after the H&H one.
If you don’t see the BF email within five minutes, look in your spam folder. Once you’ve whitelisted their email (i.e. marked it as not-spam) all future emails from them will be delivered directly to your box.
The subject line on the BF email is the book title. For this sale, it said: Here’s “Just Trouble – Alternate Cover” by Deborah Cooke
When you open the email, it looks like this:
I’ve put some yellow blocks over personal details. Three of them are the download code for this book for this transaction. The second one is the email address I used for the purchase.
So you can click that top link to be taken to the download page, which looks like this.
When you click GET MY BOOK, a pop-up window opens:
Choose your reader, then follow the directions to get the ebook onto your reading device of choice. It’s very straightforward, though it’s not as instant as buying from the same portal all the time. BF doesn’t know what device you have, so it presents all the options.
The other nice thing about BF is that it creates a BF library for all of your books obtained through BF – provided you always use the same email address. This means your books are available all the time (forever!) for you to move one to another device or reader. You have a back-up this way.
Why am I telling you all of this? Because a high percentage of people who “buy” books through my online store, even free downloads, don’t download their books. (I can check on the back end of BookFunnel that books have been downloaded.) So, I suspect that a lot of people either ignore that delivery email from BookFunnel, or their mailbox filters are sending it to the spam folder.
You have fourteen days to download your ebook before the link expires. BookFunnel will send you a reminder email just before it does expire.
The best way to fix this is to “buy” a free book from my online store and hunt down that BookFunnel email. You’ll only have to do it the once.
Claire Delacroix 