Title: Once Upon A Scandal
Author: Julie LeMense
Genre: Regency Era Romance
Caught up in a
scandal of her father’s making, Lady Jane Fitzsimmons is now an outcast in the
society that once prized her. So when Lord Benjamin Marworth offers to help
redeem her good name, she leaps at the chance.
Too bad his
plan requires her very public demise.
Marworth,
society’s darling, is actually a spy for crown, and important war communiques
have been stolen. If Jane can carry off her disguise as the mysterious Madame
Lillianne Fauchon, with close ties to Napoleon, she just might tempt the thief
out of hiding.
And tempt
Marworth into something he has always studiously avoided … at chance at love.
Author Bio
A Georgetown
University graduate with a degree in English Literature, I’ve loved the Regency
romance genre since my first deliciously bad Barbara Cartland novel. These
days, I prefer the complex characterizations and plotting of Julie Anne Long,
Sherry Thomas, Meredith Duran, Courtney Milan, and Sarah MacLean. A member of
the Romance Writers Association of America, I am currently working on my next
novel, as the ghosts who live in my haunted, gilded-age home try to sneak their
way into my stories.
Links
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Book Excerpts
“Suffice it to say that in the wrong hands, the missing dispatches could
change the course of the war. But I think you may be uniquely qualified to help
find them.”
Jane pondered Lord Marworth’s statement for a long moment, replaying the
words, hoping she’d misunderstood. But only one conclusion was logical. A dark
one. “You are obviously having a bit of fun at my expense, although I fail to
see the humor in it.”
“I’m quite serious, Miss Fitzsimmons.” He was staring at her intently
now. “It is absolutely vital they be found.”
“And you are ... what?” she mocked. “Some sort of agent for the crown, I
suppose? Sent here to enlist me for service?”
“You
could say that.”
A burst of anger, hot and devastating, surged through her. “It is one
thing, Lord Marworth, to amuse yourself by imagining international intrigue,”
she said, her voice rising. “But it is quite another to involve someone else in
your fantasy. I’m afraid I haven’t the time for it. If you will excuse me … ”
She stood, intent on rushing from the room.
“This
is no fantasy.”
She spun to face him. “You’ll forgive me, of course, for not believing
you. Given your busy schedule of idle amusements and seductions, it’s hard to
imagine you’ve the time for anything substantive. Like saving the country from
Napoleon. That sort of thing.”
“Appearances are not always what they seem, Miss Fitzsimmons … ”
Thanks for posting an excerpt of my newest book. I sincerely appreciate it!
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