Nine Lords for Christmas : A Regency Romance Christmas Anthology: Nine Seductive Regency Christmas Stories (Regency Anthologies Book 2) by Arietta Richmond, Cerise DeLand, Sandra Masters, Angelique Armae, Sandy Raven, Victoria Oliveri, Jacki Delecki, Tracy Edingfield, Gina Danna on October 29th 2018
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A seductive selection of Regency Christmas Reading!
This anthology contains:The Duke's Impetuous Darling by Cerise Deland
The Duke's Christmas Promise by Sandra Masters
Prince of Frost by Angelique Armae
A Merry Wicked Christmas by Gina Danna
The Gift of a Christmas Scandal by Arietta Richmond
The Christmas Gift by Sandy Raven
Yours by Yuletide by Victoria Oliveri
A Holiday Code for Love by Jacki Delecki
Doubt Not by Tracy EdingfieldIf you love Christmas and you love your Regency romance with a bit of heat, you'll love these!
Thank you so much to Buried Under Romance for hosting the authors of Nine Lords for Christmas! We are delighted to share excerpts from our novellas with you. Check out our giveaway too.
About the series…
A seductive selection of Regency Christmas Reading!
This anthology contains:
The Duke’s Impetuous Darling by Cerise Deland
The Duke’s Christmas Promise by Sandra Masters
Prince of Frost by Angelique Armae
A Merry Wicked Christmas by Gina Danna
The Gift of a Christmas Scandal by Arietta Richmond
The Christmas Gift by Sandy Raven
Yours by Yuletide by Victoria Oliveri
A Holiday Code for Love by Jacki Delecki
Doubt Not by Tracy Edingfield
If you love Christmas and you love your Regency romance with a bit of heat, you’ll love these!
A Holiday Code for Love by Jacki Delecki
Tis the Season of love and hope, spies and intrigue!
A Christmas house party becomes a covert operation to trap a French spy. Can the Honorable John Bonnington protect his wife from their guest’s murderous intentions? Can Abbie Bonnington protect her husband from his ex-mistress’ intentions to seduce him into revealing Crown secrets? Can Abbie and Jack continue the charade of hosting the perfect holiday party as danger, treachery, and treason swirl in the ballroom?
Enjoy the passionate, suspenseful Regency world of the Code Breakers,where daring lords and ladies decode the path to happily ever amidst their dangerous, heroic fight against Napoleon’s treacherous designs.
The Honorable Jack Bonnington gently steered his wife toward a narrow path in the woods. He had plans for a sensual detour before their meeting with Rathbourne, England’s Spy Master, who had summoned them for an urgent meeting.
Jack worried that he might be sent away from his bride to Dover. He didn’t want to be separated from Abbie. It was frightening how vital she had become to him in the scant two months of their marriage. Despite feasting on every luscious inch of Abbie this morning, he needed more. He had never before understood the power of obsession, never felt its ferocious pull until now.
“Jack, where are we going?” Abbie stopped and looked up at him. Her bright eyes were the same color as her sky-blue pelisse.
Aware of the manner in which his bride dug her heels into the damp path, Jack pulled Abbie into his arms. He knew how to change his stubborn wife’s mind.
He brushed his lips over hers before coaxing her to open his mouth. The taste of Abbie sent his nerves humming his favorite melody.
“Don’t you want to visit our “special place” this morning?” The forester’s hut deep into the woods had become Jack’s favorite place since Abbie’s innocent seduction before their marriage. His Christmas present was to rebuild the dilapidated hut into a secret hide away from his rambunctious brothers and his father who resided with them.
“Jack, in case you haven’t noticed, it’s winter.”
Of course, he and Abbie had made great use of “their special place” during their daily summer journey between estates in St. John’s Woods on the outskirts of London. Not over the terror of Abbie’s kidnapping by a French spy, Jack escorted her every day to Rathbourne estate. He wasn’t sure if he would ever again allow his wife to make the fifteen-minute walk with only Ford as her body guard. Her secret intelligence work put her at great risk. Jack swallowed the acid taste of fear at the thought of losing Abbie. And if he were assigned to Dover, who would protect his wife?
Doubt Not by Tracy Edingfield
A Stuffy Viscount
From the beginning of Viscount Chevers’ journey to London, he is beleaguered. His swollen head is the size of Wellington’s army and pounding as loudly as troops marching. His erstwhile fiancée has proven fickle, inviting him to renew his addresses, but his fellow traveler is a saucy schoolteacher whose smile can cast out the shadows from his life. Their social spheres are worlds apart, but in a sedate English inn he and Miss Rutherford are forced to pose as a married couple. It’s a temporary alliance, so how will Edward convince Ruthanne to make it permanent?
An Irreverent Schoolteacher
Ruthanne Rutherford, respectable schoolteacher, is no rule breaker, but her tender heart cannot ignore the debt of gratitude she owes Lord Chevers. Posing as his wife allows her to nurse his injury, but her heart is foolish enough to want the façade to become real. As a practical girl, she knows their blossoming friendship cannot live outside the Rose & Crown, but that doesn’t prevent her from yearning for Edward’s touch. How far will she carry the pretense of being happily wedded to this viscount?
They remained quiet as they traversed from the inn and through a nearby copse of trees. The long stroll allowed her to regain her composure. When she thought the silence would become unbearable, he gently asked, “What do you want, Ruthanne?”
Her heart’s reply was swift. You. I want you. She couldn’t give that answer—it was laughably presumptuous. Not even her courage was up to jumping that particular fence.
“I don’t know,” she prevaricated.
“Ruthanne? Where have you gone?”
She glanced at him.
“Don’t be sad, my dear.”
“But I am sad.”
At the sound of her broken voice, he pulled her into his arms. “Don’t be. I can bear anything save that.”
Startled, she raised her face to find Edward’s mouth close to hers. Their lips met and Ruthanne could have wept at his tenderness.
After a while, she rested her cheek against his shoulder and whispered, “You asked me what I want, but I can only tell you what I don’t want.”
He hugged her closer. “Fine. What don’t you want?”
“I don’t want to lose your friendship.”
“You won’t.”
Ruthanne stared as if he were mad. “How can you promise that? And don’t you dare laugh!”
Edward grinned.
“Once we reach London, we’ll go our separate ways. I’ll return to teaching at the academy. You’ll be off doing whatever it is that viscounts do.”
He caught her hand, chuckling. “When do you wish to return to Dover?”
“Have you heard nothing I’ve said?”
“More than what you’ve said, Ruthanne, I heard what you didn’t say.”
She snatched her hand away. “You are the most vexatious man I’ve ever met!”
“Yes, dear.”
“Don’t patronize me! It isn’t at all gentlemanly.”
“Yes, dear.”
“And here I thought you were well-mannered.”
“Oh, no. Never that.” He tutted.
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About Angelique Armae
National best-selling author Angelique Armae / J. C. Makk is a native New Yorker who loves all things royal, can trace her Irish roots back to the Scottish Highlands, is half Italian, and is owned by a long-haired Tuxedo feline. As a child her favorite toy was Emerald The Witch, a small doll with green eyes, green hair and purple skin. She spends most days writing, unless her cat deems otherwise.
About Arietta Richmond
Arietta Richmond has been a compulsive reader and writer all her life. Whilst her reading has covered an enormous range of topics, history has always fascinated her, and historical novels have been amongst her favourite reading.
She has written a wide range of work, from business articles and other non-fiction works (published under a pen name) but fiction has always been a major part of her life. Now, her Regency Historical Romance books are finally being released. The Derbyshire Set is comprised of 10 novels (7 released so far). The ‘His Majesty’s Hounds’ series is comprised of 17 novels, with the sixteenth having just been released.
She also has a standalone longer novel shortly to be released, and two other series of novels in development.
She lives in Australia, and when not reading or writing, likes to travel, and to see in person the places where history happened.
About Cerise DeLand
Cerise DeLand loves to cook, hates to dust, lives to travel, read and write! She pens #1 Bestselling Regencies known for their spice, historical accuracy and their eloquence! With awards on her shelves for more than 60 romances, she’s also written for Pocket, St. Martin’s and Kensington. She likes wine at 5 p.m. and tries desperately to persuade herbs and veggies to grow in her south Texas garden!
About Gina Danna
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Gina Danna has spent the better part of her life reading. History has been her love and she spent numerous hours devouring historical romance stories, dreaming of writing one of her own. Years later, after receiving undergraduate and graduate degrees in History, writing academic research papers and writing for museum programs and events, she finally found the time to write her own stories of historical romantic fiction.
Now, under the supervision of her three dogs and three cats, she writes amid a library of research books, with her only true break away is to spend time with her other life long dream – her Arabian horse – with him, her muse can play.
About Jacki Delecki
Jacki Delecki is a bestselling romantic suspense writer. Delecki’s Grayce Walters Series, which chronicles the adventures of a Seattle animal acupuncturist, was an editor’s selection by USA Today. Delecki’s Romantic Regency The Code Breaker Series hit number one on Amazon. Both acclaimed series are available for purchase at http://www.JackiDelecki.com.
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About Sandra Masters
From a humble beginning in Newark, NJ, a short stay at a convent in Morristown, NJ, to the boardrooms of NYC, and a fantastic career for a broadcasting company in Carlsbad, California, to the rural foothills of the Sierras of Yosemite National Park, Sandra Masters has always traveled with pen and notebook. It’s been the journey of ten thousand miles with a few steps left to go. She traded boardrooms for ballrooms, left her corporate world behind and never looked back. Nothing she expected, but everything she dreamed. She lists her occupation as Living The Dream. She is a published author with The Wild Rose Press and has eight books available.
About Sandy Raven
Sandy Raven has a husband who spoils her rotten, and kids that are just a hair’s breadth away from perfect. She’s addicted to House Hunters International and has never missed an episode, though she acknowledges that she could never live in most of those countries because the houses are just too small. She is also addicted to Starbucks’ Chai Latte, and never passes up an opportunity to have one.
Sandy grew up on the Texas Gulf Coast with sand between her toes and perpetually frizzy hair.
Which is why she now lives in the middle-of-nowhere Virginia, in a place with minimal to moderate humidity (for perfect, non-frizzy curls,) rolling hills and farmed forests. The only downside to that is the temperamental satellite internet and the closest Starbucks being a thirty minute drive away.
Home is a renovated old farm house she shares with her hero husband, in the foothills of Blue Ridge Mountains, where she’s owned by more cats, dogs and horses than she cares to admit to. She’s a long-time member of RWA, and is a member of VRW and the Beau Monde. Second to writing is her love for her horses. She practices natural horsemanship, and loves to ride her barefoot Tennessee Walkers on the trails and in the woods around her home.
About Tracy Edingfield
Tracy Edingfield graduated from the University of Kansas, obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology with Distinction. Later she graduated from KU with her Juris-doctorate Degree. Throughout her lengthy legal career, Ms. Edingfield has been a public defender, a prosecutor, a judge, litigator, and mediator. Ms. Edingfield lives near Wichita, Kansas, with her husband and two children. When she’s not reading or writing, she enjoys singing, dancing, and gardening, although she only has a real flair for one of those activities.
About Victoria Oliveri
History has always held a fascination for me. From an early age, I recall asking my grandparents and great-grandparents about their pasts, what it was like in other countries, and found myself enthralled with the old customs they adhered to.
As I grew older, I became a genealogist for my family and traveled abroad to see where my roots started. Pouring over old pictures and documents was like a treasure hunt, keeping my attention down to the finest detail. How events came to pass based on the actions of a few excited me to uncover, and what I found always opened paths to new information.
I also became involved in reenactment groups and found that immersing myself in living history was both intriguing and intrinsic to my love of telling stories of the past. Details are fleshed out for my readers because I know how things feel, how they smell, and how they taste. As if I’d been there, through some amazing portal, and have come back to share what I’ve learned.
My love of world travel also helps round out my stories in ways I can’t imagine. I’ve had in-depth conversations with conservators, on site, about ramparts at an abandoned Irish castle and have felt the stone beneath my fingertips. I’ve walked down the streets of Mayfair, imagining my characters strolling there beside me, and I’ve sat in King Henry’s kitchen at Hampton Court joyfully smelling the meat cooking on the hearth. With each separate occasion, I learn more about history. Being hands-on has made me see beyond what any book could tell me, and all of those moments to come will only help me to write stories that will intrigue and entice you.
I look forward to traveling with all of you very soon!
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