Hello lovelies! It gives me
great pleasure today to host Julia Donner and her new book, “The Rake and the
Bishop’s Daughter”! For other stops on
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The Rake and the Bishop’s Daughter
by Julia Donner
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GENRE: Regency Romance
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BLURB:
Society’s
beloved wastrel, Sir Harry Collyns, pushes his popularity past the point of
acceptability when he poses for a statue that creates a social uproar. People
line up for blocks to see Handsome Harry in the nude, sculpted by a female
artist! Bored with the fuss and scandal, Harry hitches up his fastest team,
heads for the country, and a near fatal curricle accident. When the bandages
are removed from his head days later, he discovers the angel-voiced widow who’d
cared for him is neither elderly nor as mild as her tone, but a straight-laced
do-gooder unimpressed with his flamboyant past and dashing good looks.
Head-battered and heading for a broken heart, he falls into love with Widow
Olivia St. Clair, who might be the one woman in England that Harry can’t charm
into loving him back.
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EXCLUSIVE
EXCERPT:
As
they passed under the archway entrance and onto a broad path, she said, “It’s
been so many years since I’ve ridden here.”
“Before
marriage to Reverend St. Clair?” Harry asked.
“The
fall of my coming out, which I heartily disliked.”
“Was
that when Goodfall ingratiated himself with your family?”
She
glanced at him. Harry rarely spoke sarcastically or in a harsh tone. He stated
his likes and dislikes plainly, sometimes even joyfully, which made acrimony
sound foreign when it came out of his mouth.
Veering
away from an uncomfortable subject, she said, “I loved the escape of riding in
the early morning, when there was rarely anyone on Rotten Row. With only a
groom in attendance, I could pretend to be far away from the city. Here, sadly,
there are no rolling pastures to gallop across, no barriers to leap over, but
the fragrance of the moist earth and growing things helped carry me away in my
imagination from the city’s smell and activity.”
Harry
asked, “Where did spend your childhood?”
Olivia
glanced at him out of the corner of her eye. “On one or another of
Grandfather’s estates. I didn’t see much of Mother and Father. Their church
obligations kept them occupied. After I grew beyond the age of having a nurse,
Mrs. Oliphant, a distant relative, was hired by Grandfather as governess. She
later became companion and lived with me at Beechgate. She’s quite elderly, and
I expect will wish to return to a more retiring environment.”
“More
retiring? I can’t imagine Lesser Beardsley as a beehive of frivolity and social
activity.”
Olivia
softly laughed. “No. But I was not an easy child.”
Harry
turned slightly in the saddle to playfully stare at her. “You intrigue me. You
were naughty?”
“No.
Merely headstrong, and on occasion, adventurous. There was some difficulty
convincing me to come down from the trees. I would climb up one every time told
to do something I didn’t wish to do.”
He
flashed one of his heart-stopping smiles. “Such as finish your porridge?”
“Not
at all. I love porridge. It was more on the order of completing my lessons,
especially French and art. I have no female accomplishments.”
He
darkly murmured, “You have other, much more interesting attributes.”
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AUTHOR BIO:
Julia Donner (aka M.L.Rigdon) grew
up in historic Galena, IL, USA, and spent most of her time in the museum of her
aunt, who encouraged her interest in history and understood the need to cherish
a dream. She started writing in secret in her teens and never stopped, merging
it with her mother's encouragement to study theater and music, which led to
performing in the Midwest, California and as far away as Austria.
Donner
never forgot what it was like to write alone as a girl and is a happy member of
Summit City Scribes. Concern for the failing educational system led her to
develop Your Futures in Ink, a panel of local and regional authors, who go into
to schools to encourage students and answer questions about writing.
THE TIGRESSE AND THE RAVEN,
first book in the regency Friendship
Series, is an RWA contest finalist. The ninth book in the series, A ROGUE FOR MISS PRIM and the tenth, AN AMERICAN FOR AGNES, are available
now. A LAIRD’S PROMISE will be
released by Spring 2018.
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I enjoyed getting to know your book; congrats on the tour, I hope it is a fun one for you, and thanks for the chance to win :)
ReplyDeleteThanks again, Lisa.
DeleteThanks for hosting!
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DeleteCongrats on the tour and I appreciate the excerpt and the great giveaway as well. Love the tours, I get to find books and share with my sisters the ones I know they would enjoy reading and they both love to read. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteAlways happy to read your comments & thanks for following along.
DeleteOK, so you write under 2 names and 2 relatively different genres with each name. How do you keep everything straight in your head? It must seem like an awful lot going on in there!
ReplyDeleteYou've got that right. It can get pretty cluttered in there.
DeleteI liked the excerpt.
ReplyDeleteAh, this will be fun!
ReplyDelete--Trix
Thanks, Trix! Harry was a lot of fun to write.
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