Hello lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to host Jenna
Jaxon and her new book, “What a Widow Wants”!
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What a Widow Wants
by Jenna Jaxon
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GENRE: Historical Romance
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BLURB:
Widowed
by the Battle of Waterloo, the ladies of Lyttlefield Park are returning to
London society—with their futures in their own hands…
The
widowed Lady Stephen Tarkington, Fanny to her friends, has finished mourning
her cad of a husband and is ready to enjoy her freedom. The kind of freedom
neither a gently bred miss nor a close-watched wife is permitted: dressing up
as Aphrodite for a masquerade, drawing gentlemen away from the party, and
hinting at late-night assignations with her dance partners. All is going
pleasurably according to plan—until the Roman god Fanny kisses during a
masquerade turns out to be Matthew, Lord Lathbury, whose proposal she refused
years ago…
Lathbury
is charming, passionate, inventive, everything Fanny wants in a lover—but
unfortunately, he’s on the hunt for a wife. He’s more than willing to use all
his wicked skills to persuade her back to the altar, but he can’t wait forever.
And now Fanny’s position is more precarious than she once thought. If the
tongues of the ton set to wagging, it’s possible no offer in the world will
save her from ruin. But does she want to be saved?...
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EXCERPT ONE:
Leaning
into him, she whispered, “We can renew our acquaintance in all ways that
count.”
“So
you’ll agree to bed me but not wed me?”
“For
the moment.” She tapped her fingers lightly on his chest. “Would that be such a
hardship on you?”
Sighing,
he pulled a face. “I suppose not.” A flash of his boyish grin made her stomach
drop. “May I woo you properly, at least?”
“Improperly
would be more to my taste.” Fanny returned his smile with one of her own, as
sultry and seductive as she could make it. “But I suppose some decorous
behavior wouldn’t kill me either.”
“Good.”
He took her hands and raised them to his lips. “I leave for Brighton at the end
of the week. I’d hoped you’d be accompanying me as my wife, but that—”
“As
your wife?” How arrogant of him to think she’d fall into his arms at the snap
of his fingers.
“Well?
Will you meet me in Brighton?” Matthew’s eager voice brought her back to the
dim room now filled with possibilities.
“I
will be happy to journey to Brighton, my lord. If I find you there, I do hope
you will attend me most earnestly.” In a
heart’s beat she slipped her hands from his, pulled his lips down to hers, and
sealed the pact with a kiss so warm and sweet her resolve slipped a notch. “And
now if you’ll excuse me?” Turning swiftly on her toes, Fanny raced for the
door. As she grasped the handle, she glanced back at him.
The
victorious grin on his face sent a shiver down her spine. She pulled the door
open and fled into the corridor before she could change her mind.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Jenna Jaxon is a
multi-published author of historical romance in all time periods because, she
says, “passion is timeless.” She has
been reading and writing historical romance since she was a teenager. A romantic herself, Jenna has always loved a
dark side to the genre, a twist, suspense, a surprise. She tries to incorporate all of these
elements into her own stories. She’s a theatre director when she’s not writing
and lives in Gloucester, Virginia with her family, including two very vocal
cats and one silent one.
Jenna
is a PAN member of Romance Writers of America as well as an active member of
Chesapeake Romance Writers, her local chapter of RWA. She has four series
currently available: The House of Pleasure, set in Georgian England, Handful of
Hearts, set in Regency England, and Time Enough to Love, set in medieval
England and France, and The Widows’ Club series, also set in Regency England
and available from Kensington Publishing in both print and digital.
She
currently writes to support her chocolate habit.
Find
Jenna Jaxon online at the links below.
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GIVEAWAY INFO:
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