We have books that are steampunk, so they have a very much a fantasy aspect to them. You have everything from the very traditional romances that you would expect, and then there’s mystery, there’s suspense. SE: One of the incredible things about the proper romance genre is that there's a huge variety in the stories that are offered. If you were speaking to someone who may not have read a proper romance novel, why might you suggest they give it a try? But the story itself, and the characters all remained very, very close to what I initially wrote.ĮA: That is pretty inspiring.

SE: It went through the standard editing process there was a lot of tightening up the writing, just improving the actual craft, because I was pretty new. How much revision did the book go through from when you first wrote it? You can visit her at That first book you wrote on the dare was The Kiss of a Stranger, which became a USA Today bestseller. Eden is an award-winning author of short stories and was a Whitney Award Finalist for her novel Seeking Persephone (2008).

Fascinated by the Regency era in English history, Eden became a regular in the Regency section of the reference department at her local library, painstakingly researching this extraordinary chapter in history. Eden read her first Jane Austen novel in elementary school and has been an Austen addict ever since. But their hopes are dashed when forces conspire to split asunder what fate has granted, and as a battle of wits escalates into a life-threatening confrontation, will it be possible for Crispin and Catherine to Live happily ever after?Ībout the Author Sarah M. Their unfolding relationship reveals encouraging surprises for both of them, and privately, each of them wonders if theirs may become a true marriage of the heart.

Trapped between an unwanted marriage and a hasty annulment, which would leave his reputation tainted and Catherine's utterly ruined, Crispin begins guiding his wife's transformation from a socially petrified country girl to a lady of society. The dismayed young lord has no choice but to marry Miss Catherine Thorndale, who lacks both money and refinement and assumes all men are as vicious as her guardian uncle. But he couldn't be more mistaken- the maid is not only a lady of birth, she's the niece of a very large, exceptionally angry gentleman, who claims Crispin has compromised his niece beyond redemption. When Crispin, Lord Cavratt, thoroughly and scandalously kisses a serving woman in the garden of a country inn, he assumes the encounter will be of no consequence.

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