The Hellion’s Heart in Portuguese

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Deborah Cooke

My Regency romance, The Hellion’s Heart, is now available in a Portuguese edition!

O Coração de uma Diabrete is the Portuguese edition of The Hellion's Heart, a Regency romance by Claire Delacroix

Helena Emerson anseia por romance e aventura, e sonha em se casar com um duque por amor. Ela sabe que nunca conseguiria suportar um casamento com o sério Visconde de Addersley, não importa o quão bonito ele seja. Consumido pela lógica e pelo bom senso, o homem poderia muito bem ser uma estátua. Ele nem dança! Ela recusa o pedido de casamento, para grande indignação da família, determinada a se casar feliz ou nem se casar.

Todavia, Joshua Hargood, o sétimo visconde de Addersley, não é o homem que Helena supõe que ele seja. Ele deixou de lado o comportamento libertino há uma década, culpando-se pelo acidente que ceifou sua noiva. No entanto, ele nunca se viu capaz de resistir a um desafio caso a recompensa fosse digna, e o desafio de minar as suposições de Helena é uma enorme tentação. Ele se disfarça, planejando agir como um apenas com a dama com quem deseja se casar, convencido de que é uma vantagem em decorrência de seu passado escandaloso. Helena fica cativada pelo misterioso pretendente e logo desmascara o disfarce, apenas para descobrir que o visconde perdeu uma noiva anos antes, será que o coração dele está disponível para ser reivindicado?

Assim que Joshua se convence do sucesso de suas investidas, o notório irmão dele, que acreditava-se ter sido morto em Waterloo, retorna para exigir o que lhe é devido. Joshua percebe que o irmão amargurado só ficará satisfeito quando a própria Addersley for destruída, junto da felicidade e perspectivas de Joshua. Ele está condenado a ver a tragédia do passado se repetir, ou Joshua conseguirá salvar seu legado e sua amada Helena?

The Widow’s Wager in Spanish

Posted on December 11, 2024 by Deborah Cooke

My Regency romance, The Widow’s Wager, is now available in a Spanish edition!

La apuesta de la viuda is the Spanish edition of The Widow's Wager by Claire Delacroix

Se casó una vez por deber, pero sólo se volverá a casar por amor…

Desde que tiene memoria, el corazón de Eliza North ha estado en posesión del mejor amigo de su hermano mayor, Nicholas Emerson. Pero él siempre ha sido ajeno a ella, y cuando compró una comisión y marchó a la guerra, ella se casó en su lugar. De regreso a casa de su hermano como viuda, se reencuentra con el capitán Emerson y se da cuenta de que ninguno de sus sentimientos había cambiado. Acepta la petición de este de ser la acompañante de su hermana menor, Helena, con la esperanza de poder ganarse su atención, sobre todo con la ayuda de los misteriosos consejos de la señora Oliver y su guía de seducción.

Nicholas Emerson nunca podría aspirar a casarse con la hija de un duque, especialmente con una tan pragmática como Eliza. Que se casara por amor le hace preguntarse hasta qué punto conocía a la joven después de todo. Ella seguía siendo la única mujer que captaba su atención, pero él sabe que sus heridas significan que nunca podrá casarse con ella. Aun así, no puede resistirse a la oportunidad de solicitar la ayuda de Eliza para la segunda temporada de Helena y la oportunidad, gracias a eso, de estar en su compañía.

Ninguno de los dos prevé el comportamiento salvaje de Helena, ni su necesaria alianza para defender su reputación. Eliza confía en el manuscrito de la señora Oliver para seducirlo y, para asombro de Nicholas, pone en prácticas sus consejos. ¿Cómo puede rechazar a la mujer que ama, aun sabiendo que nunca podrá asegurar su felicidad? Atrapado entre el honor y el amor, Nicholas deberá aceptar las consecuencias que le ha dejado la guerra para asegurar su futuro con la mujer que ama; ¿será Eliza la mujer que cure sus heridas para siempre?

BookFunnel Historical Holiday Romance Promotions

Posted on December 4, 2024 by Deborah Cooke

Here’s another chance to load up your e-reader with historical holiday romances. I’m participating in two multi-author promotions at BookFunnel. You’ll find my three sale titles (The Christmas Conquest, The Mercenary’s Bride and The Snow White Bride) among the offerings and many more books, too.

Christmas Historical Romance promotion at BookFunnel

First, the Christmas Historical Romance feature. This is a very full landing page, with over 90 titles featured. Lots of Regencies and all Christmas stories, some in KU and some wide. 🙂 Visit the landing page.

Christmas Historical Romance BookFunnel Promotion

And a second Christmas Historical Romances feature. I see a lot of familiar names on this landing page. Again, the focus is on holiday historical romances, but this promo also allows time travels. Visit the landing page.

Holiday Anthology Sale

Posted on November 28, 2024 by Deborah Cooke

Our multi-author Regency romance holiday anthology, Twelve Lords for Christmas, is discounted through the end of the year to just 99¢! If you don’t have your copy yet, now’s a great chance to dive in!

Twelve Lords for Christmas Regency romance anthology

From sexy earls to holiday ghosts, second chances to false engagements, find your Christmas cheer in these twelve sweet-to-spicy historical romance tales from bestselling and award-winning authors! The lord you’ve been looking for might be just a page-turn away…

A CUP OF CHEER – Deb Marlowe
The Earl of Chester’s wild ways nearly cause a disaster and set him to reevaluating his lifestyle. Paired up with his grandmother’s companion and charged with bringing Christmas to a lonely house, will he come to believe in himself—and love?

THE MISTLETOE TRAP – Eve Pendle
A spicy-hot story of a heroine with a flair for enterprising embroidery and a botanist single father hero. Can a scandal that compromises Amelia’s reputation give their love a second chance?

A MOST INCONVENIENT EARL – Claire Delacroix
When Eurydice Goodenham unexpectedly proposes a marriage of convenience to Sebastian Montgomery, Earl of Rockmorton, the notorious rake is intrigued. Sebastian soon realizes that the unpredictable Eurydice is the perfect match for him – but can he convince his skeptical bride to take a chance on love?

THE LADY’S GUIDE TO MISTLETOE AND MAYHEM – Emmanuelle de Maupassant
On the run until she receives her inheritance, Ursula takes on the identity of an etiquette teacher and heads to Castle Dunrannoch to whip her ‘young charge’ into shape. But the long-lost heir is a whole lot more than she’s bargained for!

A COUNTESS FOR CHRISTMAS – Anthea Lawson
Miss Cecilia Fairfax dreads the upcoming holidays, especially when her brother brings home an unexpected guest. But of all the blessings of the season, sometimes the most unexpected is love.

MISS ISABELLA THAWS A FROSTY LORD – Larissa Lyons
Mistletoe kisses grant a blind heroine and a frosty hero a chance at happiness during a winter house party.

HER ACCIDENTAL GROOM – Nadine Millard
Lady Natalia Soronsky and Lord Benjamin Strafford started out as enemies and ended up as co-conspirators in a faux betrothal. But the longer they continue the ruse, the more they start to wonder just how false their feelings are.

CHRISTMAS SPIRITS – Jane Charles
When Benjamin Storm, Earl of Kenley, is sent to Scotland to procure a missing whisky shipment, he encounters the most unusual smuggler.

JOY TO THE WORLD – Nicole Zoltack
Unbeknownst to Eliza Berkeley, the man she thought she was going to marry was not Stephen Huntington, the Duke of Wyndale. Will a match formed through deceit blossom into love this Christmas?

TO FALL FOR A DUKE BY CHRISTMAS – Sadie Bosque
A reluctant duke and a charming commoner devise a plan to serve their own needs. A false relationship is supposed to be their salvation… Until love intervenes.

WHAT IF I STILL LOVE YOU – Erica Taylor
After a failed elopement ten years earlier, Henry, Earl of Carrington, and Anna, the widowed Viscountess Rycroft, are reunited at his aunt’s Twelfth Night party. Can this star-crossed pair find their way back to each other?

CHRISTMAS PROMISES – Brenda Hiatt
When Lord Vandover leaves for London, he promises his grandmother he will return with a bride. Unfortunately, with each simpering debutante he meets he regrets that promise more—until he encounters the lovely Miss Holly Paxton.

The Duke’s Desire in the EU

Posted on November 15, 2024 by Deborah Cooke

Apple is changing their policies as of February 2025 regarding books published to the EU. The existing Apple link won’t work in the EU after that date. That means orders on the link I created first won’t be delivered to readers in the EU. 😦

I’ve created a new link for The Duke’s Desire for Apple for the EU – that means there are two Apple links, but you’ll only be able to see one of them, wherever you are.

If you are in the EU, please use this Apple link to pre-order The Duke’s Desire.

Apple Link for EU

This means, of course, that my books that don’t have this specific EU link will be unavailable to be purchased new beginning in February in the EU store. I’m building duplicate listings and the other titles in the Ladies’ Essential Guide are up first. I’ll share those links with you when they’re lilve.

The Duke's Desire, book six in The Ladies' Essential Guide to the Art of Seduction Regency romance series by Claire Delacroix

Esmeralda Ballantyne is the most successful courtesan in London, a woman envied by many and a mystery to all. When her past threatens the future of her younger sister, she finds an unexpected champion in the Duke of Haynesdale, a gentleman driven by his honor to intervene on her behalf, despite his disapproval of her trade. Does she dare to trust her newfound protector with her truth, or is the duke—like so many men of her acquaintance—interested in only one kind of compensation from her? As much as she refuses to surrender to any man, Esmeralda fears her impulse will lead her astray…will the price of capitulation be her fiercely defended independence or her heart?

Damien deVries, the Duke of Haynesdale, abandoned his rakehell ways when his father bought his commission, and the injury he sustained is a permanent reminder of his wasteful youth. The youngest of three sons, he never expected to inherit the duchy, and finds himself discontent, burdened by responsibilities and—according to his mother—past due to wed and provide an heir. The difficulty is that the only woman of interest is the forbidden beauty, Miss Ballantyne. There could not be a less inappropriate choice for his duchess, but no other woman tempts him to abandon convention and return to his wicked ways again.

Drawn together by an irresistible desire, duke and courtesan agree to a short affair. But their need for each other proves so insatiable that it cannot be denied. Does Damien dare to surrender his heart to a woman like Esmeralda? Can Esmeralda trust any man fully and give Damien his deepest desire? There is one last secret she holds that will either draw them together or drive them apart forever—when she finally shares it, can they put the betrayals of the past behind and forge a future on their own terms?

Coming in May 2025

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