Hello, gentle
reader, and welcome to the second annual British Blooms and Books giveaway!
This week, we’d like to celebrate the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea FlowerShow. After
enjoying this post, please visit each of the other five authors’ blog posts
(links provided below) and, after a bit of reading fun, follow one simple
instruction and then leave a comment on each blog. You’ll be entered to win a
fabulous, British Blooms and Books prize. (US winners only, please, due to
shipping the petit fours.) Enjoy, and thank you for stopping by!
Here is an excerpt from my newest romance in my Regency
series, A Viscount’s Proposal:
One glance down at her splinted arm reminded Leorah that Lord
Withinghall had acquitted himself well the day before, on the whole, showing
great courage, generosity, and even compassion toward her—which was difficult
to assimilate with how much animosity had existed between them.
Leorah dressed quickly with Becky’s help, being careful of
her wrist, surprised that she hardly felt any pain in it, and hurried down to
breakfast. After a hearty plate of her favorite breakfast foods, she wandered
outside and headed for the rose garden.
The bushes were mostly bare, but one had a few stray roses.
Leorah picked a dark-pink one and held it against her cheek. The soft coolness
of the petals against her skin made her close her eyes and sigh. How good it
was to feel safe and to know her mother, brother, and sister-in-law were inside
the house just behind her, relieved to have her home, her mother and Julia even
crying a few tears of joy when they’d hugged her. They would never force her to
marry Lord Withinghall simply out of fear of a ruined reputation.
But would she be harming them if she did not marry him?
To think of becoming Lord Withinghall’s wife . . . to
endure his glowering looks, his irritation and control, his opinions of what a
proper wife should do and be and think . . . He’d probably force her
to read Hannah More’s treatises on proper religion and morality and forbid any
sort of fiction reading.
She pressed the flower against her lips, breathing in its
soothing scent and exhaling all her fear.
“Lord, help the woman, whoever she
turns out to be.”
I
hope you enjoyed this excerpt from A Viscount’s Proposal and will read the book to find out if Leorah ends up
changing her mind about the viscount, Lord Withinghall.
Now,
to be entered in the drawing, please leave a comment on this blog and either sign up to receive my newsletter at the top
right of this blog, OR click Like on my Facebook author page.
Giveaway Rules:
One grand prize winner
who comments on each of the six authors’ blogs and agrees to the one boldfaced condition posted at the
end of each post will win a signed copy of each of the books plus delivery of six English hat petit
fours to enjoy while you read! Name will be drawn via random.org
Photo from Divine Delights
Finished? Well done!
Please visit these other fabulous authors of England-set historicals to see
what flowers mean to them and their heroines.
LINKS TO PARTICIPANTS:
Melanie Dickerson’s Post [You are Here]
Melanie Dobson’s Post link
Julie Klassen’s Post link
Carrie Turansky’s Post link
Roseanna White’s Post link
Sanda Byrd’s Post link
