SECRET LIFE OF VIOLET GRANT Winner

And the winner of the advance copy of Beatriz Williams’s The Secret Life of Violet Grant is… Jessica C! (Of Comment #41.) Congrats, Jessica! If you email me with your info, I’ll pop the book in the mail to you. Next Monday? A paperback copy of Karen White’s The Time Between…. On an entirely unrelated…

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Teaser Tuesday: THAT SUMMER in Pictures

Since today is April 1, I was tempted to do an April Fools… but that seemed unkind. So, instead, I’m kicking off a series of posts about my upcoming stand alone novel, That Summer. (Coming to a bookstore near you on June 3, 2014!) That Summer goes back and forth between 2009, when my modern…

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Monday Give Away: THE SECRET LIFE OF VIOLET GRANT

Courtesy of the lovely Beatriz Williams, for today’s Monday Give Away, we have an advance copy of… The Secret Life of Violet Grant! Here’s the official blurb: Manhattan, 1964. Vivian Schuyler, newly graduated from Bryn Mawr College, has recently defied the privilege of her storied old Fifth Avenue family to do the unthinkable for a…

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Only two days more…

… to enter to win an Advance Reader’s Copy of That Summer! Here’s the official blurb: 2009: When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt, she assumes it’s a joke. She hasn’t been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was…

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Happy News!

I’ll be doing my first ever event in San Antonio this summer! (See? I do listen to those “why don’t you ever come here?” emails.) I’m very happy to announce that I’ll be appearing at Twig Book Shop on Sunday, July 27, from 3:00 to 5:00. Here are my upcoming events so far: — April…

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RIVER OF NO RETURN Winner

And the winner of the paperback copy of Bee Ridgway’s The River of No Return is… Ellen! (Of Comment #10.) Congrats, Ellen! If you email me with your info, I’ll pop your book in the mail to you. Coming up next Monday… an advance copy of Beatriz Williams’s The Secret Life of Violet Grant.

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ASHFORD: the "Lost" Chapter Twenty-Nine

As promised, here is the excised chapter of The Ashford Affair that has been added as an extra to the back of the paperback, along with a short history of how it came to be cut. If you haven’t read the book yet, stop! Stop here! There are major spoilers below….

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ASHFORD in Paperback– Today!

Book release days always feel like birthdays and Christmases and Valentine’s Day all rolled up into one– the heavy lifting is all done and there’s just the joy of seeing the finished book make it out into the world. Today is one of those days! The Ashford Affair paperback makes its official appearance in stores…

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Monday Give Away: THE RIVER OF NO RETURN

This Monday, we have a special treat: a paperback copy of Bee Ridgway’s The River of No Return. Here’s the official blurb: Devon, 1815. The charming Lord Nicholas Davenant and the beguiling Julia Percy should make a perfect match. But before their love has a chance to grow, Nicholas is presumed dead in the Napoleonic…

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Book Release Season Begins!

This is a three book year for me: the paperback of The Ashford Affair this Tuesday; my next stand alone novel, That Summer, in June; and then, last but not least, Pink XII, aka The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla in August. Let the rollercoaster of releases begin! Here’s the schedule: — March 25, The…

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