First Knights on Sale!

From today though the end of December, my digital bundle First Knights is discounted to just $2.99 US. This bundle includes four medieval romance series starters and is a great place to begin reading my books.

First Knights, a digital bundle of four medieval romance series starters by Claire Delacroix

First Knights includes four medieval romance series starters from the Queen of Medieval Romance, Claire Delacroix. Be swept away to a realm of pageantry and chivalry, where each knight competes for his lady’s favor, each lady knows her heart’s desire—and love conquers all. Included in this digital bundle are four first-in-series medieval romances: One Knight Enchanted, The Princess, The Beauty Bride and The Crusader’s Bride.

In One Knight Enchanted—book #1 of the Rogues & Angels series—Annelise seeks refuge at a keep when she is separated from her party and pursued by hungry wolves. The price of admission is marriage to its mysterious lord, and she agrees—only to find herself in a luxurious palace, and seduced by her secretive spouse. Her new husband believes he is doomed, but Annelise knows that love can conquer all. Can she save her husband from the curse placed upon him, or will breaking her promise to him cost any chance to win his wary heart?

In The Princess—book #1 of the Bride Quest series—Brianna is obliged to choose one of three brothers as her husband. Instead, she challenges them, vowing to wed the one who brings her a gift that makes her laugh. She has no intention of laughing at all, but one brother, Luc, declines to follow her whim. Sparks fly between the willful princess and the disillusioned knight after his brothers depart, and from this battle of wills, an unexpected love dawns. When the other knights return, will Luc take up his sword again to defend the maiden who has claimed his heart, or will Brianna be compelled to wed another?

First Knights, a digital bundle of four medieval romance series starters by Claire Delacroix

In The Beauty Bride—book #1 of the Jewels of Kinfairlie series—Madeline flees her arranged marriage to the notorious outlaw Rhys FitzHenry, only to be pursued and seduced by her stubborn betrothed. Is she just a possession to this man who wants a son above all else, or can she capture his love for her own? Why does Rhys tell her so many stories, and what do they reveal about her enigmatic husband’s hidden heart?

In The Crusader’s Bride—book #1 of the Champions of St. Euphemia series—the widow Ysmaine makes a marriage of convenience, accepting the offer of a Templar knight in Jerusalem who is leaving the order to return to France. When their party is attacked, Ysmaine learns that Gaston carries a secret treasure in trust for the Templars, Ysmaine knows that her new husband’s survival may depend upon her assistance—and that this man of honor has stolen her heart. Can she persuade him of the merit of love and trust before it’s too late?

The First Knights digital boxed set includes four thrilling series starters by Claire Delacroix, bursting with medieval romance, adventure, suspense, and love everlasting. Be swept away to Claire’s medieval world in this introduction to four of her medieval romance series today!

Grab This Regency Romance Anthology for 99¢

Today, our second Regency romance Christmas anthology, Twelve Lords for Yuletide, is on sale for just 99 cents!

Twelve Lords for Yuletide, a multi-author collection of Christmas Regency romances

From sweet kisses under the mistletoe to passionate encounters at holiday house parties, secret identities to second chances, find your Christmas cheer in these twelve different historical romance tales from bestselling and award-winning authors! The lord you’ve been looking for might be just a story away…

ONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR(**medium) – Ava Stone
Only a duke will do for Lady Ivy Dallimore. If her unhappily married sisters have taught her anything, it’s that love is fleeting but a title lasts forever, which is all well and good in theory until she finds herself falling for the scandalous third son of a marquess who is bound and determined to make his fortune in trade!

THE VISCOUNT’S TEMPTING MINX (*mild) – Erica Ridley
He’s an unbendable lord. She’s an unstoppable force. When these two clash, their winter nights will never be the same!

THE CHRISTMAS CONQUEST (***hot) – Claire Delacroix
Love was not part of the plan when this marriage was arranged… Can a matchmaking courtesan in disguise save this match before the new year dawns?

LADY, IT’S COLD OUTSIDE (*mild) – Deb Marlowe
Neither Lord Ellesworth nor Miss Glenna Bolton have much Christmas spirit this year. Neither have much desire to travel during the season, either, but a Star in the East, an abandoned child and a quest for holiday cheer might just convince these two that love is the best gift of the Season.

A WINTER WISH (*mild) – Nadine Millard
Mariah Bolton is as headstrong as she is clever, as strong-willed as she is beautiful. She enjoys her life and, apart from a rather snobbish mama, she is happy with her lot. Imagine her consternation then when her world is turned upside down by the brooding and aloof Mr. Brandon Haverton!

LYING BENEATH THE MISTLETOE (***hot) – Sadie Bosque
Matilda needs a miracle. She left Henry, her first and only love, over a decade ago. Now she’s back and determined to piece his heart back together. But she only has one night to do it.

A VERY MERRY VISCOUNT (*mild) – Jane Charles
The thought of spending Christmas at Danby Castle with her matchmaking great-uncle fills Lady Tabitha Storm’s heart with dread, until she spies the handsome horseman from Hyde Park. Would Andrew Delaney, Viscount Straffan, receive more this holiday than he ever dreamed, or would his Irish heritage stand in his way?

THE LADY’S GUIDE TO A HIGHLANDER’S HEART (***hot) – Emmanuelle de Maupassant
Meet a young bride in disguise and a battle-hardened Highland warrior in this passionate ‘enemies to lovers’ medieval romance.

MASKED LOVE (*mild) – Nicole Zoltack
An evening of enchantment has a maid wishing a lord might look past his station this Christmas season.

THE MISTLETOE TEMPTATION (***hot) – Eve Pendle
She deliberately steps on his toes to avoid marriage and he retaliates by proposing a fake engagement. A Regency enemies to friends to lovers romance, with a touch of brother’s best friend, and a whole lot of banter and steamy scenes.

A SNOWLIT CHRISTMAS KISS (**medium) – Larissa Lyons
When a mischievous feline nudges two lonely souls together on a wretched, snowy night, a few Christmas kisses might be all they need. But he’s engaged, and she’s decided to never marry, so in the morning they go their separate ways, leaving pieces of their hearts behind…until a Twelfth Night Ball brings misunderstandings to light and merry tidings to one and all.

A DUKE FOR MIDWINTER (*mild) – Anthea Lawson
After a gentleman rescues her from a winter storm, Miss Selene Banning finds herself snowbound with Sir Jared Kendrick, who is not precisely who he claims to be…

Scoop up the first collection, Twelve Lords for Christmas, for more heartwarming tales of the holidays!

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Bargain Print Books

Every once in a while, Amazon discounts print copies of books. I’m not sure why this happens, but it’s a great opportunity to get a print edition at a good price. Quantities are undoubtedly limited, so once the copies are gone, they’re gone. This morning, I noticed these bargains on my books in the US store – I’ve linked each title to the product page for the book at Amazon.com:

A Most Inconvenient Earl, book four of the Brides of North Barrows series of Regency romance novellas by Claire Delacroix

A Most Inconvenient Earl mass market paperback for $3.30US

Something Wicked This Way Comes mass market paperback for $4.57US

The Temptress trade paperback for $6.43 US

The Heiress trade paperback for $7.48 US

The Beauty trade paperback for $7.34 US

The Crusader's Handfast, book five of the Champions of St. Euphemia series of medieval romances by Claire Delacroix

The Crusader’s Vow trade paperback for $3.71 US

The Crusader’s Heart trade paperback for $5.05 US

The Crusader’s Kiss trade paperback for $3.70 US

The Crusader’s Handfast trade paperback for $3.17 US

Discounted prices might be available in other geos – it looks as if some of them are available in CA, for example – but you’ll need to click through to see.

Edited to add – I hear that the trade paperbacks of The Rogue, The Scoundrel and One Knight Enchanted are also a good deal today. Happy shopping! 🙂

The Princess is 99¢

To support the promotion of The Beauty as a free read this month, I’ve just made The Princess a 99¢ read. The Beauty is book #5 of the Bride Quest, and of course, many people like to start at the beginning of the series.

I didn’t think of this until yesterday, and had difficulties making the price change at both Apple and KOBO. This morning, I made both of those changes, but the KOBO price change won’t take effect until tomorrow.

The Princess is 99¢ in the five major English-language geos – AU, CA, NZ, US and UK – through October 30.

The Princess, #1 of The Princess, #1 of the Bride Quest series of medieval romances by Claire Delacroix

Princess Brianna of Tullymullagh is determined to marry only for love—until her father’s holding is conquered and the king decrees that she must wed one of the victor’s sons. Thinking she can outwit this condition, Brianna issues a challenge: the son who brings her a gift that makes her laugh will win her hand.

Thus begins the Bride Quest of the three brothers Fitzgavin.

Burke and Rowan, knights both, ride out on Brianna’s quest, each intent upon triumph. Only Luc refuses to participate, for he knows that a princess had no place in the life of a battle-weary warrior like himself. Brianna is not inclined to accept his refusal—she tempts him and awakens his slumbering senses with her alluring beauty and her sweet kisses. Luc has sworn to lay down his sword forever—until he is the sole one who can defend the fair maiden who has claimed his shielded heart.


“Claire Delacroix is the queen of medieval romance! Reading The Princess is like sipping vintage wine—delectable!”

Rendezvous

USA Today Bestselling Title


Tropes for The Princess, book one of the Bride Quest series of medieval romances by Claire Delacroix

“Exquisite! A marvelously beautiful tale of love!”

Bell, Book & Candle

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Winner
1998 Best Historical Romance
Colorado Romance Writers’ Award of Excellence


Finalist
1998 Best Historical Romance
Holt Medallion


Finalist
1998 Best Medieval Historical Romance
Romantic Times


“The essence of fairy tale, fable and legend!”

Romantic Times

“Delacroix captured me with the first sentence…and left me wanting more! Her musical style of writing transformed this story into a bard’s tale of knights, quests, mystery and love.”

All About Romance

“[Claire Delacroix] has a magical, lyrical style of writing that captures the reader from the first page. Add mysterious secret treasure, as well as several murders, to this wonderfully passionate romance and you have an exciting medieval that’s not to be missed.”

Old Book Barn Gazette

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Bride Quest 25th anniversary commemorative editions

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the publication of The Princess, I’ve created new editions of the Bride Quest books, all of which will be available at retail portals in November 2023. There’s a new cover illustration for each book in the series, which will appear on the new mass market paperback and the new hardcover edition.

Here’s the pretty new cover illustration of Luc and Brianna:

The Princess, book one of the Bride Quest series of medieval romances, 25th anniversary commemorative edition, new illustration for case laminate and mass market paperback
The Princess mass market paperback

Order the 25th anniversary commemorative mass market paperback of The Princess for November 20 publication:


new hard cover edition of The Princess, book one of the Bride Quest series of medieval romances by Claire Delacroix

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The Beauty Boo-Boos

In the midst of uploading twelve new books with interiors and covers, I made a mistake. I ordered hardcover copies of The Beauty which didn’t have the reader letter.

Oops!

The page for the reader letter in these boo-boo books looks like this:

The Beauty new 25th anniversary Bride Quest commemorative edition, with no reader letter

It should look like this:

The Beauty new 25th anniversary Bride Quest commemorative edition, with printed reader letter

These books are identical to the final hardcover editions otherwise, and it’s a shame to waste such pretty books. I’m having a sale to find them new homes – essentially, I’m selling them at cost.

Each book will be signed and numbered. I’ve printed the reader letter and will tuck it into the book, like this:

The Beauty new 25th anniversary Bride Quest commemorative edition, with inserted reader letter

You’ll also get a set of Bride Quest postcards, bookmarks and some stickers from the Kickstarter campaign.

This book is available for pre-order from the portals for $39.99US for November delivery.

The Beauty Boo-Boos are $40CA (almost exactly $30US), including postage to US addresses – signed, numbered and with swag you won’t get from the portals. Most of that is the postage cost. There’s an additional postage charge for other geos: $10CA for CA, $15CA more for UK or AU addresses.

When they’re gone, they’re gone.

Here’s a video on YouTube showing the book.

If you’d like to claim one of these books, please send me an email. I’ll send you a Paypal invoice. Once it’s paid and I have your details, I’ll sign your book and get it on its way to you.