If you’re like me, you’re busy busy busy. I love to visit blogs, but it seems I never have time to get by in a timely fashion…and never in time to win anything! Well, no worries about that here. The Historical Reader Salon will be open all month long and you can come by anytime during the month to join the conversation and enter to win! No rush, no hurry…just a nice relaxing visit (or three) at your leisure. Each month, I’ll throw out a topic for discussion as well as ways for you to win. We’ll keep the conversation going in the comments section and just see how our Reader Salon grows. Hopefully it will develop into a thriving community centered around what we all love—historical romance!

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Day 2: A Season For Surrender by Theresa Romain


 
 
Welcome to the second day of March SWEET Madness—a month long party to celebrate the upcoming release of my novel, SWEET MADNESS, available April 2, 2013.

 

I am thrilled to continue this fun event with another favorite new author of mine. I just learned that she lives less than three hours from me, which is so exciting! I’m seeing a road trip in my future…


A Season for Surrender is the second in Theresa’s The Season Quartet series, and I can’t wait to give it away to a lucky winner!

 

Here is what the book is about:

 

HONOR AMONG ROGUES

Alexander Edgware, Lord Xavier, has quite a reputation—for daring, wagering, and wickedness in all its delightful forms. But the wager before him is hardly his preferred sport: Xavier must persuade a proper young lady to attend his famously naughty Christmas house party—and stay the full, ruinous two weeks. Worse, the lady is Louisa Oliver, a doe-eyed bookworm Xavier finds quite charming. Yet to refuse the challenge is impossible—he will simply have to appoint himself Miss Oliver’s protector…


MISCHIEF AMONG MISSES

Louisa knows her chance for a husband has passed. But she has no desire to retire into spinsterhood without enjoying a few grand adventures first. When Lord Xavier’s invitation arrives, Louisa is more intrigued than insulted. And once inside the rogues’ gallery, she just may have a thing or two to teach her gentlemen friends about daring…


 


 

And now for the fun part—your chance to win! Just fill out the rafflecopter form below. Contest will be open for 2 weeks—US & CANADA only, please).
a Rafflecopter giveaway
 

If you don’t win (or just can’t wait to start reading!), here’s where you can get the book!


 

And to find out more about Theresa, you can visit her website at:

 


 

I am also giving away a copy of either my debut, SWEET ENEMY or SWEET DECEPTION (winner’s choice) EVERY DAY of March SWEET Madness! (you will need to enter this contest separately every day for a new chance to win! OPEN INTERNATIONALLY)

Sweet Enemy

 

Beakers and ball gowns don't mix, so when lady chemist, Miss Liliana Claremont, goes undercover as a husband-hunter to investigate Lord Geoffrey Wentworth, the earl whose family she suspects murdered her father, romance isn't part of her formula. But it only takes one kiss to start a reaction she can't control...

Read the Prologue and First Chapter HERE...

Sweet Deception


Lady criminologist, Miss Emma Wallingford, unknowingly finds herself tangled up in the dangerous final mission of Lord Derick Aveline, a spy who also happens to be her long-lost first love. But when deception, however sweet, is the name of the game, no one can be trusted. And every love--and every life--is at risk.

Read the First Chapter HERE.
 
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And don’t forget SWEET MADNESS, coming April 2, 2013!

 

There’s a fine line between love and insanity…

Ever since her husband’s sudden and tragic death, Lady Penelope Bridgeman has committed herself to studying the maladies of the mind, particularly treating traumatized soldiers of the Napoleonic Wars. It is this expertise that brings the Marquess of Bromwich’s family to her door.

Gabriel Devereaux’s unexpected and unpredictable episodes are unlike any Penelope has studied. The once proud soldier has been left shaken and withdrawn, but she manages to build a fragile trust between them. Strangely, Gabriel seems completely lucid when not in the grips of his mania, and in the calm between bouts, she is surprised by how much she is drawn to him.

Despite his own growing feelings, Gabriel knows that he is fit for no one, and is determined to keep Penelope away from his descent into madness. But even though she knows firsthand the folly of loving a broken man, Penelope cannot stop herself from trying to save him, no matter the cost.

Read the Prologue and First Chapter HERE...

"In this emotional, compassionate romance...the powerful love story will sweep readers away."
~RT BookReviews, 4 1/2 stars

“The brilliance of Sweet Madness shines strongly and completely. Heather Snow is cutting edge…a master storyteller. Sweet Madness is a magnificent story.”
~Book Obsessed Chicks 5 stars

See you tomorrow, where our featured author is Sophie Jordan!!!


And don’t forget, giveaways are open for TWO weeks, so if you’ve missed any of the fabulous authors featured, visit the archives section and enter!

36 comments:

  1. I don't have a specific bucket list, but mostly I want to travel a lot and read heaps and heaps of good books (and possibly have my own library one day!).

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    1. Can't beat that! Travel and reading also happen to be two of MY favorite things! (a library would be nice, too)

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  2. Hi ms.snow I have lots of books on my bucket list and mostly it contains historical romance. I love historical romance so much cheers Aretha. Ps: I fill the rafflecppter as Aretha zhen :) arethababyATGmaildotcom

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  3. Great contest! Love it! I'd have to say my grand adventure would be seeing either the sunset or sunrise at the Great Pyramid of Giza. Ever since I was a little girl, I have wanted to go.

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  4. Bonjour Heather on this 2nd day!
    One day! I will visit Beautiful Scotland! I read so many historical romances and Highlands stories, that mentions those two places.Great blog, it's so much fun. I feel like I'm coming to take my coffee in your salon..I would love to win Sweet Enneny! Enjoy your day!

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  5. I always want to go to Hawaii, beautiful beach :)

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  6. My DH and my grand adventure is to buy an RV and travel all over the country when we retire =)

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  7. Grand adventures??? Too long a list....But one we are planning right now is going to Italy. Last year, we checked several things off the list on one trip. Driving the florida keys bridge, snorkeling on a barrier reef, out in the ocean where I could see no land, swimming and playing with dolphins, parasailing....Loved it all.....lisakhutson(at)cox(dot)net

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  8. I will be traveling through the American NorthWest later this year.... a dream of mine for many years!!

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  9. I would like to travel to Scotland and visit castles and smell the heather growing. Also, I like to see highlanders in their kilts. Yeah!!

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  10. Thanks for the giveaway! Visiting Paris is at the top of my bucket list. I'd also love to spend more time in Japan and see Scotland.

    jenalang(at)live(dot)com

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  11. Hi, Heather--thanks so much for featuring me today! I grin every time I say "March Sweet Madness"; what a cool event.

    I'd love to travel, but I have TERRIBLE travel luck. If you want your flight canceled, just ask me to travel with you. But if a Star Trek-style transporter is ever invented, I want to go see the Sphinx and Pyramids.

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  12. I don't have a bucket list, but I'd like to travel to some famous historical spots in Virginia and Washington, DC.

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  13. I took a cruise over 35 years ago and I would love to take another one!

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  14. No specific bucket list... but would love to see Hawaii and travel around the world before I die..

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  15. I would love to travel. That's my grand adventure and on my bucket list. I'd love to go to Scotland and Ireland, and probably Greece. I find them all quite fascinating!

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  16. to travel around the world

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  17. Good question! lol My bucket list would include things that scare me.. so perhaps scaling up a mountain (Not Everest or K2 though - I'm not that gung ho).. or speaking in front of a crowd of 1000s. :D

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  18. I want to travel to Greece and see al the ruins! Their so pretty and interesting and just great all around. I also want to go skydiving or something else really crazy.

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  19. Visiting New Zealand is at the top of my bucket list.

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  20. My grand adventures to come include the New Zealand trip, as well as trips to Scotland, Ireland, and Australia.

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  21. Would love to travel the USA and make it to Paris, London, and see the Lichtenstein castle.

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  22. My husband & I have always wanted to see the National Parks. Hopefully before we are too old to walk around them! LOL!

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  23. So much on the bucket list but traveling would have to be number one. To have the time and means to travel the world with people I love. :D

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  24. My family is traveling to Germany this summer. I can't wait!!

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  25. I wish to travel all over the world. Most definitely Europe, but then Australia and New Zealand, parts of Asia, South America. I haven't even visited most of the States here, so maybe that too.

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  26. I would love to travel over seas :)

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  27. I'd love to do more traveling but living on a fixed income is a bit prohibitive for expensive trips for exotic places. But I would like to do more traveling here in the good old USA!

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  28. I would love to do some traveling. I want to see Scotland, Ireland, Egypt, and england.

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  29. I'd love to visit Scotland, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and Wales.

    kscathy@yahoo.com

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  30. I'd love to visit all of our country's national parks. We had a great time at Zion and the Grand Canyon last August. The scenery was absolutely gorgeous and so drastically different.

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  31. My grad adventure would be just to be able to travel anywhere, oh if only I had any money... lol!

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  32. My grand adventure would be to take my husband to Egypt to see the pyramids. He comes from a long line of stone and brick masons and is a master at the craft. His one dream has always been to visit Egypt and see the work done by the true masters of the craft that built the pyramids without the tools of the trade available today.

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  33. Read lots of good books and maybe someday I'll go to Chicago and shop and visit museums.

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