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Time to get cozy!

 



Okay . . . summer's almost just a memory at this point, while autumn in New England is underway -- chilly mornings, early sunsets.  Time to break out the logs and start those fires going.  And favorite fall recipes are being pulled out of the bookcase or recipe boxes -- does anyone keep a recipe box anymore, I wonder?  I tend to dog-ear my cookbooks or shove a post-it note on favorite pages.  

Anyway, as I write this, I've got a butternut squash soup going in the crock pot and hope to get several lunches for work and when home and working on my next novel.

What's the next one?  "Romancing a Rogue", which will be the #3 Regency romance in my "School for Sophistication" series, featuring Marcus Burton, a reformed rogue who's just returned to England after a 2-year exile in India for his disruptive rogue-ish ways that offended family and friends.  But he finds himself attracted to his business partner's younger sister, Lady Catherine Wesley.  However, since he values his head to stay attached to his body, he refuses to succumb to his attraction, knowing that Lord Wesley (aka the brother) would not like to see his sister de-flowered.  

But Catherine has other ideas . . . and has no intentions of staying the sweet spinster forever.  Naturally, she turns to Lady Caro and the dowager Lady Rutherford for lessons in seduction -- and so, the fun begins!

If you haven't already read book #1, The Viscount and the Virgin, or #2, Wicked Wagers, please take a moment and click on these links.  After all, the novels are only 99 cents!   If you have time, please leave a review -- good, bad or indifferent -- as indie authors rely heavily on reader reviews, especially on sites such as Amazon.  But, hey -- no pressure . . . !



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 Until my next post, stay safe and happy reading!   Claire H.

 

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

Rumi

 


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