🔥A scandalous mistake…or a wicked way to happiness?🔥 As Long As You're Mine a Historical Romance by Author Jenna Jaxon ➱ Book Tour with Guest Post & Giveaway
AS LONG AS YOU'RE MINE
by Jenna Jaxon
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GENRE: Historical Romance
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BLURB:
A scandalous mistake…or a wicked way to happiness?
Hoping to compromise herself, Lady Amantha Easton sneaks into the bedroom of her would-be suitor only to find a total stranger there—a totally handsome, charming stranger to be sure—but not at all the man she plans to marry. She leaves his room with her reputation intact—barely—only to fall victim to the gentleman’s charms in a public place. Now Amantha must face the fate she’s tried to avoid—marriage to a man who will never love her.
All Rafael Beauregard wanted was a warm bed and a good night’s sleep…but what he got was an unexpected romp with a beautiful vixen and a fiery kiss that left him wanting more. An excellent trade, except now he’s got to marry Lady Amantha, one of the most willful women he’s ever met. So Rafe’s challenge is to persuade her that marriage to him might be the best thing for them both…once he convinces himself.
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EXCERPT
“What is it, love? What’s wrong?”
“Father,” was all she could get out at first.
“You went to see him? He didn’t agree to grant your request?”
Amantha nodded and sniffed. Rafe reached into his breast pocket and produced a handkerchief. “He g…gave me a choice. Marry you or…or be put in p…prison.”
“Prison!” What kind of monster would threaten his own daughter with prison? And what kind of power did such a man wield? “He’s going to send you to Newgate? On whose authority?”
“His own authority.” She wiped her eyes and nose then clenched the square of linen in her fist. “And not Newgate. Not a real prison. But he will turn his northernmost property, Woolston Lodge in Northumberland, into a prison. He will send me there tomorrow, with no clothes and no friends, just a jailor and armed guards for the rest of my life.” Tears threatened again and Rafe pulled her head back to his shoulder.
“Shh, love. Don’t think about it. We won’t let that happen, will we?” She shook her head and nestled deeper. The small movement of acquiescence shot straight to his heart. He could fix this. “I am afraid, though, that I’m going to have to change my mind about our marriage.”
She sat bolt upright, terror widening her eyes as she stared at him.
Damn. He hadn’t meant to frighten her even more. His own fault for drinking that second brandy.
“Shhh.” He ran a gentle thumb down her delicate jaw line, cupping her chin and pulling her face close enough that she had to look into his eyes. “Amantha, I just meant I now want to marry you more than anything in the world.”
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Guest Post
Exploring As Long As You’re Mine– a post about the setting/era of your book
As Long As You’re Mine is an oddity as far as most of my novels go because it’s the only one to date that takes place in both England and America. Many of my works have dual settings—my very first romance, Time Enough to Love, was set in England and France and I’ve had others set in England and Scotland. But although several books have had characters who’d just come from America, none of the books have had the States as an actual setting. And this was a lot of fun for me.
The novel begins in England, but as the hero is from America, the couple eventually ends up across the pond, in Virginia in 1892. This was a researcher’s dream as far as I was concerned. I set the America portion in Richmond, Virginia as I am from Virginia and the area I would be describing was very familiar to me. The hero’s house, in fact, is a house that I’ve visited many times as it belongs to a friend of my husband’s. I thought it was a wonderful house and sort of built this part of the novel around the house.
As it was 1892, the hero and heroine also get to experience sea travel on one of the big luxury liners of the time (think a precursor to Titanic without the tragedy). I was elated to find a website devoted to documenting these early cruise ships and I used it to full advantage when it came to putting in the details. There were both sketches and photographs of these ships, so I could be as authentic as possible when describing the decks, the stateroom, the dining room. Even the games the passengers played on deck in my book were real games and past times. Again, that was the really fun part for me as the historical researcher.
If this book turns into a series (I’m still not sure at this point that it will) the subsequent books will certainly have both settings as well. It’s just too much fun to tie all these places together to resist!
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Jenna Jaxon is a best-selling author of historical romance, writing in a variety of time periods because she believes that passion is timeless. She has been reading and writing historical romance since she was a teenager. A romantic herself, Jenna has always loved a dark side to the genre, a twist, suspense, a surprise. She tries to incorporate all these elements into her own stories.
She lives in Virginia with her family and a small menagerie of pets--including Olive, an almost silent cat, Earl Grey, a very curious bunny, and a Shar-pei mix dog named Frenchie.
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GIVEAWAY
Jenna Jaxon will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner.
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