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My book club for The Ladies’ Essential Guide to the Art of Seduction launches today at Ream!
Beginning today, this series will be published at Ream in two installments per week. You’ll get one chapter each Monday and one each Thursday, beginning with The Christmas Conquest. We’ll work our way through the three existing books, then The Hellion’s Heart (and the rest of the series) will be available first at Ream. Subscribers will also have access to a community forum to discuss the books as well as be able to read all four books in the Brides of North Barrows series (set in the same fictional realm) at leisure.
This subscription costs $5 US per month.
Sign up for the Ladies’ Essential Guide Book Club on my Claire Delacroix Ream page.
Today’s the day for a 99¢ historical romance book blast! There are So Many Titles included in this promotion, all discounted to 99¢ for one day only. (The original plan was to have 100 books, but I think there are a lot more.)
Each book should be discounted to .99 in US, UK, AU, CA, NZ and EU.
You’ll find The Christmas Conquest among the included titles.
Through December 8, The Christmas Conquest, book 1 of The Ladies’ Essential Guide to the Art of Seduction series of Regency romances, is discounted to 99 cents! This is a Regency romance and a Christmas story, a second chance romance featuring a marriage on the rocks and a matchmaking courtesan in disguise. It’s set in the same world as The Brides of North Barrows and some characters reappear.
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?
The ebook now includes the bonus epilogue, Upon a Midnight Clear.
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Buy The Christmas Conquest in mass market paperback.
This edition includes Upon a Midnight Clear.
Today, our second Regency romance Christmas anthology, Twelve Lords for Yuletide, is on sale for just 99 cents!
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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