RRR presents... The Book Lovers by Victoria Connelly - REVIEW!

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Welcome back to Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers.

Today, we're joining Rachel's Random Resources as we help kick off a blog tour celebrating a FOUR BOOK series that you're gonna want to make room on your virtual shelf for.  Seriously guys, it really GETS readers, and book lovers, and just, EVERYTHIN!  But I digress...time for you to be properly introduced and since social distancing is the thing nowadays (and virtual book smelling isn't possible), catch a whiff of today's book of choice and blog tour guest...

The Book Lovers

The Book Lovers series, Book 1

by

Victoria Connelly

About the book...

Author Callie Logan never expected to swap her life in London for one in rural Suffolk but, after the breakdown of her marriage, she decides that a fresh start is just what she needs. Finding Owl Cottage in the tiny village of Newton St Clare, Callie determines to give up on love and throw herself into her work. But fate seems to have other ideas and she soon has two very different men vying for her attention.

First there's Leo who likes to live on the wild side which usually means taking his dates foraging in the local woods for their supper. Then there's Sam Nightingale, owner of Nightingale’s bookshop. Sam, recovering from a divorce, has also vowed to embrace the single life. That is, until he meets Callie.

But is Callie willing to risk her heart again and, if she is, will she make the right choice?

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So, not only is the cover BEAUTIFUL, but so is the story!

We have two (well, three technically) lonely hearts that have been badly bruised.  Both are looking for something else in their lives and love is nowhere on the Table of Contents...but sometimes you find the darndest things when you weren't even really looking for them.

If asked who my most recent book boyfriend was, I'd have to say Sam Nightingale.  I mean... *sigh*.  He's everything a bookish girl could want....looks, heart, love of family, kindness, humor, a dream career, and a true love of the written word.  How he ever got tangled up with the misguided ex of his, we'll never truly understand, but thank goodness he's rid of her...sort of.  Same goes for our gal Callie.  She is the sweetest, creative soul you'll ever meet with a true appreciation for the simple things in life and a desire to please.  She simply had a bad go of things and while feeling mortally wounded, you just knew things would somehow work out in the end.  Don't get me wrong, Leo was an interesting character as well, and while a potential love interest for our leading lady, I was still rooting for Sam.  How did things turn out?  Guess you'll have to find out for yourself...in the mean time, I'm getting ready to read the next book in the series and can't wait to see what life and potentially love have in store for Polly Nightingale!

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About the author...

Victoria Connelly is the bestselling author of The Rose Girls and The Book Lovers series.

With over one million sales, her books have been translated into a dozen languages. The first, Flights of Angels, was made into a film in Germany. Victoria flew to Berlin to see it being made and even played a cameo role in it.

A Weekend with Mr Darcy, the first in her popular Austen Addicts series about fans of Jane Austen has sold over 100,000 copies. She is also the author of several romantic comedies including The Runaway Actress which was nominated for the Romantic Novelists' Association's Best Romantic Comedy of the Year.

Victoria was brought up in Norfolk, England before moving to Yorkshire where she got married in a medieval castle. After 11 years in London, she moved to rural Suffolk where she lives in a Georgian cottage with her artist husband, a Springer spaniel and her ex-battery hens.

She's written about her experience of country life in three volumes of autobiography: Escape to Mulberry Cottage, A Year at Mulberry Cottage and Summer at Mulberry Cottage

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Special thanks to Rachel at Rachel's Random Resources for the chance to bring this tour to you. (THANKS!) For more information on this title, the author, this promotion, or those on the horizon, feel free to click through the links provided above. This title is available now, so click on over to your favorite online retailer to snag your copy today and be sure to check out the rest of the tour for more bookish fun!

Until next time, remember...if it looks good, READ IT!

RRR presents... A TRAIN FROM PENZANCE TO PARIS by Laura Briggs - EXCERPT!

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Welcome back to Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers.

Today, we're popping up with a spotlight on a new title via Rachel's Random Resources.  The tour features several excerpts of a title from Laura Briggs that you'll definitely want to follow along with the really wet your reading whistle!  Ready, set, let's read all about today's title in the spotlight...

A Train from Penzance to Paris

by

Laura Briggs

About the book...

When Maisie accepts a celebrated author’s invitation to mentor her, she finds herself leaving Cornwall behind on train tracks bound for the glitter city of Paris. Instead of making beds and serving coffee at the Penmarrow hotel in Cornwall, she’s making notes on her manuscript while sitting in a French cafe, meeting famous writers at private dinner parties, and trying to ferret the secrets behind the author’s unfinished future novel.

It’s glamorous, it’s breathtaking … but it’s also an ocean channel away from the place that she loves, and, more importantly, the person to whom she just recently confessed her deepest feelings. Separated from Sidney by distance and circumstances, Maisie fears that their connection will be lost despite her words to him – and maybe because of those words, and the ones she didn’t allow him to say in return.

Meanwhile, there are plenty of things in her new life trying to distract her – the professional editor hired to critique her novel, the eager young literary agent who sees pie-in-the-sky potential for Maisie’s talent, but Maisie finds solace in the eclectic group of amateur writers into whose midst she finds herself by accident. Their critique and advice is fast becoming as important as the editors – maybe even more important than the published author Maisie believed held the keys to refining her skill.

But it’s missing Sidney that fills Maisie’s thoughts the most, along with her life back in Port Hewer, and she can’t stop wondering whether his feelings are the same as her own. His unspoken answer has become one of the most important pieces of her life, even as she struggles to match the pace of her new life and keep her dreams in sight. And when she unwittingly becomes privy to a seeming literary conspiracy, she must decide what to do in light of its truth – and decide what’s most important in her quest to become a professional writer.

Join Maisie in a whirlwind tour across two of the world’s greatest cities, filled with questions, dreams, and a chance for fame that she believed far beyond her grasp, as she discovers herself as a writer, and how to embrace an unexpected future on her own terms.

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...from A Train from Penzance to Paris

Thank you so much to Gina for letting me share an extract from my latest book! It is the 5th installment in my Cornish romance series about aspiring author Maisie. The scene below finds Maisie enroute to Paris with her favorite author, who is also her writing mentor. But as the letter she’s composing reveals, Maisie’s thoughts are still back in Cornwall, with the charming local groundskeeper, Sidney Daniels.

I paused, tapping my pencil as I gazed at a distant cathedral, the points of its grand towers rising above the village like a crown. Across from me, Alli paged through her little Chinese silk notebook, jotting down something that I could only hope belonged to her long-overdue fourth novel. The one devoted fans like me had been dying to read and had been denied for the past six years.

The villages we pass seem to beg me to visit them, wander down little lanes and look for cottages draped in red ivy, sprawling oaks let to live in cobblestone main squares. I have a thing for villages now, thanks to Port Hewer. I'll never pass one without wondering what kind of life happens there, and knowing it's never as small as I used to imagine, with everyone a quaint clone from an episode of 'Cranford.' 

I'll feel a little homesick if I visit one, even though the place I'll be missing isn't technically my home. Just the sight of somebody riding a sky-blue bicycle might leave me with the need to curl up with comforting chocolates and a cup of tea, incapable of writing a single word of my manuscript's revisions for the rest of the day.

The train announcement for the Paris arrival time caught my ear, snatches of dual-language nouns. That was good, because I almost closed my eyes and pictured myself cycling down the hill with Sidney, me waving at those scornfully-staring neighbors who knew all the rumors about his dubious past long before I did. Because of that picture, I felt my heart squeezed tighter in the grip of that longing.

I could write something else here.  Am I crazy? Crazy to get on a train to Paris with a stranger, who promises that I'll brush shoulders with movers and shakers any novelist would be dying to meet? Or would I have been crazier to stay behind and clean rugs and clear tables as a hotel maid, my fingers crossed while my manuscript lay in some publisher's 'to review' heap? 

I think everything I've done may have been certifiable, since the day Wallace Scott told me I'd been turned down for the mentorship program. And I mean that down to the moment I said the words 'I love you' and then boarded this train twenty-four hours later, like I was running away from the one person who had kept me and my dream from growing stale and dusty, and getting hopelessly lost in that world.

My pen didn't write those words down in reality, but these were the questions my mind had turned over multiple times since leaving. Never in a million years would Sidney have let me make another choice, we both knew. But I watched it cut him deeply, knowing there was nothing we could do. It had always been coming, I tried to tell myself. One of us was always going to leave, as we both knew. But it didn't help one bit.

"We're coming into the station shortly," Alli said, shoving her little notebook into her leather satchel. "Don't forget to collect all your suitcases from the upper compartment. Silly me, I once fell asleep on the line from Reading to Bristol after an all-night sing and carouse in a pub near the old playhouse — I bolted off the train just before the doors closed, only to remember I'd left my handbag underneath me on the seat. Twenty perfectly good quid lost, which was all my worldly possession at the time."

In keeping with most of the stories she'd told me, it rambled on its own path and left gaping holes. I was curious to know just when and where any of this fit in the unusual past of the celebrated writer. 

"Fortunately, I travel light," I answered, since all my worldly goods were tucked in the suitcase above, including my stuffed carnival prize giraffe Mr. Bubbles and my scant souvenirs from life in Port Hewer. Everything except my red cloche hat, which lay on my lap beneath my open journal.

My pen returned to the page. The clouds traveling past on the horizon couldn't move more quickly than my thoughts, and even the scenery is slow compared to my revolving question. I ask myself every hour if I'm truly ready for this, for what it means to take this leap as a writer. 

A wise friend once told me I could never know the answer without trying — that no one but me will ever know if I'm ready; or, for that matter, what I should do when the time comes. So I won't trust Alistair's word, or anybody else's, more than I trust my own judgment in this process. That's a promise. 

Write me a letter soon and tell me how you are. Tell me how things are in the village, and what Mrs. Graves and the vicar are doing, and of Dean battling his nurses. If you see anybody from the hotel, Molly or Brigette or Riley, or even Norm in his grumpiest mood, then tell them hello from me. 

I miss you, Sidney.

Love, Maisie

The train's speed becomes a mechanical crawl as it eases into the Gare du Nord station, and I feel as if a breath of steam is about to be released by the train, a mist that will part in dramatic revelation.  Of what, I ask myself? A postcard city? The stage for my dream's first act? Or maybe an experience I truly can't face as a twentysomething year-old former waitress, whom only a year ago was wearing a sequined Mexican hostess dress while taking taco orders. Here I am now, in the company of one of the world's most critically-acclaimed writers, about to take the streets of Paris — and my first manuscript's revision stage — by storm.

I am excited, terrified, and exhilarated. I have no clue if this is how destiny feels.

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About the author...

Laura Briggs is the author of several feel-good romance reads, including the Top 100 Amazon UK seller 'A Wedding in Cornwall'. She has a fondness for vintage style dresses (especially ones with polka dots), and reads everything from Jane Austen to modern day mysteries. When she's not writing, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, caring for her pets, gardening, and seeing the occasional movie or play.

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Special thanks to Rachel at Rachel's Random Resources for the chance to bring this tour to you. (THANKS!) For more information on this title, the author, this promotion, or those on the horizon, feel free to click through the links provided above. Be sure to check out the rest of tour for more bookish fun!

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Rockstar Book Tours presents... A SPECTACLE OF SOULS by Jessica Julien - COVER REVEAL + GIVEAWAY!

Today Jessica Julien, Bleeding Ink Publishing, and Rockstar Book Tours are revealing the cover for A SPECTACLE OF SOULS, the first book in her New Adult Paranormal Series, which releases July 7, 2020! Check out the awesome cover and enter to win a $5 Amazon GC!

On to the reveal!

Title: A SPECTACLE OF SOULS (Circus of the Stolen Book 1)

Author: Jessica Julien

Pub. Date: July 7, 2020

Publisher: Bleeding Ink Publishing

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon,  Kobo

Caitlyn always thought she was just your average small-town waitress, but she’s anything but average. Suffering from frequent headaches and vivid daydreams, her oddities mask a secret hidden deep within her mind—one that could defeat even the cleverest of psychics.

When a mysterious circus arrives in town, Caitlyn is immediately drawn to it. While visiting the hypnotic show, she meets a seer who warns her of a gruesome future and urges her to stay away. But soon, Caitlyn finds herself ensnared in the show and the Ringmaster himself.

Recognizing Caitlyn’s powers for what they are, and believing they are the ones he has been searching for, the Ringmaster is determined to claim them as his own. Trapped within the circus and the Ringmaster’s devious grip, Caitlyn realizes that to escape the seer’s foretold fate, her only choice is to fight. Banding together with Bevier, an imprisoned psychic, Meg, an eccentric seamstress, and Daniel, a handsome magician, Caitlyn falls into the Psychic Realm to thwart the Ringmaster and stop the show before they succumb to his control and are trapped forever in his spectacle of souls.

About Jessica:

Born in the picturesque state of Washington, Jessica Julien is the marketing director of a boutique publishing company, a stay at home mom, wife, and wanderluster. When not drafting marketing plans or doing laundry, she spends her time writing young adult and new adult novels focused on the paranormal and supernatural inspired by her love of all things dark and twisty. With her vivacious imagination, witty personality, and ability to bring sarcasm to a new level Jessica creates unique worlds and characters that readers can't help but hate to love and love to hate.

In her free time, Jessica can be found enjoying a cup of dark roasted coffee while snuggling under a blanket with a good book. When the weather is right she hops in the car with her husband, son, and dogs to road trip across the country where she delights in eating red vines, drinking iced lattes, and singing loudly in the passenger seat.

P.S She loves pumpkins, her dogs, the rain, eating food, being snarky, and staying away from all people if possible...but she won’t tell you that because her bio is already TOO LONG so find her on social media to learn more...

P.S.S Jessica Julien loves coffee so much she mentioned it twice, it does not mean she has a problem. She can stop anytime she wants (*whispers) she doesn’t want to!

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Silver Dagger Book Tours presents... YET TODAY by Anthony Caplan - SPOTLIGHT + GIVEAWAY!

Yet Today 

by Anthony Caplan 

Genre: Contemporary Family Thriller 

School's out for summer, and that's when Gillum Kaosky heads for the exits. Poised somewhere between neediness and nothingness, Kaosky sets out for summer adventures.

Gillum is a Spanish teacher. He's been married for twenty years and has three children with his wife Sibyl. They have raised their family on a farm in central New Hampshire. But this summer, Gillum lands a job that will change everything: wire-tapping the Dominican crime families responsible for bringing heroin and fentanyl into northern New England. Meanwhile, his son, Jonah breaks into the Department of Defense in a hack attempt that lands him in jail. Nothing remains the same, and love does not always conquer all in Yet Today, a thrilling, contemporary family saga from Anthony Caplan. 

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Anthony Caplan is an independent writer, teacher and homesteader in northern New England. He has worked at various times as a shrimp fisherman, environmental activist, journalist, taxi-driver, builder, window-washer, and telemarketer, (the last for only a month, but one week he did win a four tape set of the greatest hits of George Jones for selling the most copies of Time-Life’s The Loggers.) Currently, Caplan is working on restoring a 150 year old farmstead where he and his family tend sheep and chickens, grow most of their own vegetables, and have started a small apple orchard from scratch His road novels, BIRDMAN and FRENCH POND ROAD, trace the meanderings of one Billy Kagan, a footloose soul striving after sanity and love in the last years of the last century. His latest fiction effort, LATITUDES – A Story of Coming Home, to be released on Kindle, Nook and Smashwords and paperback in the summer of 2012, is a young boy’s transformative journey overcoming dysfunction, dislocation and distance. 

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RRR presents... A QUESTION OF COUNTRY by Sue Parritt - SPOTLIGHT!

Hi there!

Welcome back to Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers.

Today, we're joining Rachel's Random Resources to bring the bookish spotlight to a title now making its may through the blogosphere.  It's a book that will have you questioning whether the real world is indeed better than living in a fantasy.  Ready or not, here comes today's title in the spotlight...

A Question of Country

by

Sue Parritt

About the book...

On Christmas Eve 1969, a letter from Australia House, London, brings welcome news for newly-weds Anna and Joseph Fletcher.

Young and idealistic, Anna falls passionately in love with their adopted land. Seven months later, an unexpected event causes their life to take a stressful turn.

Years pass, and Anna retreats to a fictional world she has created. But when a different challenge presents itself, does she have the courage to take the risk… or will she take refuge in fantasy?

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About the author...

Originally from England, Sue worked in university libraries until taking early retirement in 2008 to concentrate on creative writing. Since then she has written short stories, articles, poetry, a short TV drama script and seven novels: 

Sannah and the Pilgrim, first in a trilogy of a future dystopian Australia focusing on climate change and the harsh treatment of refugees from drowned Pacific islands. Odyssey Books, 2014. Commended in the FAW Christina Stead Award, 2014.  Pia and the Skyman, Odyssey Books, 2016.  Commended in the FAW Christina Stead Award, 2016. The Sky Lines Alliance, Odyssey Books, 2016.

 

Chrysalis, the story of a perceptive girl growing up in a Quaker family in swinging sixties’ Britain. Morning Star Press, 2017 

Re-Navigation recounts a life turned upside down when forty-year old Julia journeys from the sanctuary of middle-class Australian suburbia to undertake a retreat at a college located on an isolated Welsh island. Creativia Publishing, 2019.

Feed Thy Enemy, based on Sue’s father’s experiences, is an account of courage and compassion in the face of trauma as a British airman embarks on a plan that risks all to feed a starving, war-stricken family. Creativia Publishing, 2019.

A Question of Country explores the migrant experience through the protagonist’s lifelong search for meaningful identity. Next Chapter (formerly Creativia Publishing), 2020. 

Sue’s current project, working title: Twenty-eight Days, first in The Doorkeeper series, is set in Southern Australia in 2100. It deals with overpopulation and extended life expectancy in an increasingly climate-challenged world and the inhumane solutions adopted by a government determined to rid Australia of unproductive citizens. 

Passionate about peace and social justice issues, Sue’s goal as a fiction writer is to continue writing novels that address topics such as climate change, the effects of war, the treatment of refugees, feminism and racism.  Sue intends to keep on writing for as long as possible, believing the extensive life experiences of older writers can be employed to engage readers of all ages.

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Special thanks to Rachel at Rachel's Random Resources for the chance to bring this tour to you. (THANKS!) For more information on this title, the author, this promotion, or those on the horizon, feel free to click through the links provided above. Be sure to check out the rest of tour for more bookish fun!

Until next time, remember...if it looks good, READ IT!

PRE BOOK BIRTHDAY BUZZ: Feels Like Falling by Kristy Woodson Harvey!

HI there!

Welcome back to Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers.

Post number two of the day, and it sees us spreading a bit of pre book birthday BUZZ for the latest release from author Kristy Woodson Harvey!  Now, I had another of her titles on my "to read" list, but I never had a chance to actually indulge (yet).  When I saw this upcoming release land in my inbox, I knew I couldn't pass it up.  It just called to me, between the cover, and the synopsis, and having flicked the final epage on my eARC just yesterday, I can honestly say I'm SO GLAD it did!  Ready or not, here comes today's title in the spotlight...

Feels Like Falling

by

Kristy Woodson Harvey

9781982117702

Gallery Books

RELEASE DATE:  April 28th, 2020

About the book...

It’s summertime on the North Carolina coast and the livin’ is easy.

Unless, that is, you’ve just lost your mother to cancer, your sister to her extremist husband, and your husband to his executive assistant. Meet Gray Howard. Right when Gray could use a serious infusion of good karma in her life, she inadvertently gets a stranger, Diana Harrington, fired from her job at the local pharmacy.

Diana Harrington’s summer isn’t off to the greatest start either: Hours before losing her job, she broke up with her boyfriend and moved out of their shared house with only a worn-out Impala for a bed. Lucky for her, Gray has an empty guest house and a very guilty conscience.

With Gray’s kindness, Diana’s tide begins to turn. But when her first love returns, every secret from her past seems to resurface all at once. And, as Gray begins to blaze a new trail, she discovers, with Diana’s help, that what she envisioned as her perfect life may not be what she wants at all.

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Having not read this author's work before, I wasn't entirely sure what I was stepping into, but boy, oh boy, did I enjoy my time on the North Carolina coast!

The dual story line between Gray and Diana keeps you captivated with every flick of the page.  You can't help but fall in love with them both, cringe at their missteps, cheer at their successes, and be humbled by the hardships they've each faced.  They are not the same, and yet they share the same experience...the HUMAN experience.  The kindness they show each other, the friendship that grows, the hard times they tackle together, and the dreams they can't believe may turn into realities, endear them to you even more.  

I loved Gray for her tenacity in business, yet innocence in love.  I loved the fact that she would fight tooth and nail to keep her business HER business, as well as for the presence of her son in her life.  My heart felt full when she had another chance at love (OMG...Andrew...I never thought I'd find their connection appealing with the younger man, slightly older woman couple, but he was definitely a keeper!), but her hesitation kept it at arm's length, leaving the HEA uncertain to say the least (FYI...there IS a HEA, but it may not be exactly as you suspect!).  I loved Diana for her present self, grown from a past that was life changing to say the very least.  I loved how once she made up her mind, she stuck to whatever path she decided, but wasn't so hardheaded that she wouldn't listen to friend founded wisdom when necessary.  She kept chasing her tightly held dreams even when all looked lost and wasn't above employing a little subterfuge if the situation was dire.  She was a good egg, and a wonderful friend to boot....and honestly they were both just what the other needed at this massive junction in their lives.

All in all, a FABULOUS read that I couldn't recommend more!  It'll make the perfect add to your summer reading list, and a great way to escape self-quarantine and then some!

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About the author...

Kristy Woodson Harvey is the bestselling author of six novels, including The Southern Side of Paradise, Slightly South of Simple, and the forthcoming Feels Like Falling. A Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s school of journalism, her writing has appeared in numerous online and print publications including Southern Living, Traditional Home, USA TODAY, Domino, and O. Henry Magazine. Kristy is the winner of the Lucy Bramlette Patterson Award for Excellence in Creative Writing and a finalist for the Southern Book Prize. Her work has been optioned for film, and her books have received numerous accolades including Southern Living’s Most Anticipated Beach Reads, Parade’s Big Fiction Reads, and Entertainment Weekly’s Spring Reading Picks. She blogs with her mom Beth Woodson on Design Chic, and loves connecting with fans on KristyWoodsonHarvey.com. She lives on the North Carolina coast with her husband and son where she is working on her next novel.

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Special thanks to Bianca at Gallery Books for the eARC for review (THANKS!).  For more information on this title, the author, or the publisher, feel free to click through the links provided above.  This title is set to release April 28th, 2020 via Gallery Books, so mark your calendar or pre order your copy today!

Until next time, remember...if it looks good, READ IT!

RRR presents... REDEEMING THE RECLUSIVE EARL by Virginia Heath - REVIEW + GIVEAWAY!

HI there!
Welcome back to Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers.

Today, we're joining ranks with Rachel's Random Resources to shine a light on the latest release from author Virginia Heath.  I gotta say, she is one of my FAVORITE Historical Fiction authors, as her stories are more than just "John, Susan" endeavors.  They have stories beyond the potential romance, they have characters that you want to know, and they have witty banter you can't help but smile through, laugh at, or read aloud simply to share the humor infused situation or gem of phrase.  So, bookmarks up to you, Virginia Heath, for always providing us with new titles we can count on to entertain, enchant, and be fabulous recommendations!  Speaking of which, let me get back to today's title in the spotlight and book of choice...

Redeeming the Reclusive Earl

by

Virginia Heath

Mills & Boon

About the book...

His heart is a fortress… And she’s trespassing!

After losing all he holds dear in a horrific fire, Max Aldersley, Earl of Rivenhall, shuns the world—until he catches Effie Nithercott digging holes on his estate! He banishes the intrepid archaeologist and the unsettled feelings she rouses within him. But she returns even more determined and infuriatingly desirable than before! He wonders just how deep she’s prepared to dig—so far she’ll reach the man beneath his scars?

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Oh me, oh my...how I do LOVE a good Historical Romance, and my experience with this author's work remains the same.  You can dive right into the story, get to know the characters and their "charms" (or lack thereof...hello Mr. Grouchy Earl!), me captivated by the events unfolding, all while holding your breath (as best you can in between the giggle and guffaws!) as to whether they will or won't see the potentially fabulous duo they could be!

Effie was such a treat!  A woman who know her own mind, takes the things seen as drawbacks to others and embraces them, while not shying away from what she wants, what she desires, what she needs...and yes, all that can be taken anyway you want...at least as the story progresses.  Mr. Grouchy Earl that I referred to previously is the new man about Rivenhall and a grousier man you've never met.  However, if you look a little closer, you'll see that he wears his pain on his sleeve.  He carries his guilt like a well loved friend...but this friend left its mark on him in ways he never wished, and can never escape...or can he?  It seems a certain precocious woman unafraid to speak her mind has gotten beneath his skin and despite his best efforts, he's been unable to forget her.  *sighs*  It's not a love at first meet romance, but that unusual meet cute definitely lays the groundwork for something more, whether they like it or not!

Do yourself a favor and jump on board the fandom train behind this author's work...you'll be OH so glad you did, and this latest release is just another example of the fabulousity that awaits you!

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About the author...

When Virginia Heath was a little girl it took her ages to fall asleep, so she made up stories in her head to help pass the time while she was staring at the ceiling. As she got older, the stories became more complicated, sometimes taking weeks to get to the happy ending. Then one day, she decided to embrace the insomnia and start writing them down. Despite that, it still takes her forever to fall asleep.

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1 of 2 x e-copies of Redeeming the Reclusive Earl 

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Special thanks to Rachel at Rachel's Random Resources for the chance to bring this tour to you as well as the ebook for review. (THANKS!) For more information on this title, the author, this tour, or those on the horizon, feel free to click through the links provided above. This title is available now, so click on over to your favorite online retailer to snag your copy today! Be sure to check out the rest of the tour for more bookish fun.

Until next time, remember...if it looks good, READ IT!