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A YEARNING FOR SPRING overwhelms us as we enter March and hope
for April. But while winter chill continues, there's still the
first forsythia flowers--little bursts of sunshine amid the gloom,
the nodding waxy-velvet blooms of hellebore and the first bulbs
peeping through (at least here in North Texas, where we're not
buried in snow!) And just to prove, even to those mired in it,
that snow isn't always a bad thing, check out the
Yearning-For-Spring prize in my newest contest below!
COVER
WATCH! I've had my first glimpse of the cover for the July
2008 release of Hal's story, A MOST UNCONVENTIONAL MATCH.
Rather a fitting title for a gently-born lady who aspires to be an
artist and a Society gentleman who prefers finance to ton fashion.
The preliminary view has our hero gazing over the heroine's
shoulder, behind them a wall displaying some of the Royal Academy's
art collection. As soon as the final version is available,
I'll post it here! Meanwhile, see more on Hal's story below.
YEARNING
FOR SPRING CONTEST! Light, airy and nary a shovel needed!
Just in time for those to whom "snow" has become a 4-letter word,
I'm offering a contest prize that will dramatically improve your
opinion of the substance. Euphorbia "Diamond Frost," though
bred as an annual bedding plant, also flourishes indoors, where it
will wreathe itself for months in a blizzard of ethereal white
blossoms. Another product of the wonderful White Flower Farms
nursery (see all their offerings at
www.whiteflowerfarms.com), "Diamond Frost" is a bit of
snow to admire on your tabletop while you cozy up with a hot cup of
tea and, of course, a good book. (Please note: Diamond
Frost is a relative of the Poinsettia, and like it, has milky sap
that can irritate the skin of especially sensitive individuals.)
Click on the link to enter and enjoy!
 IN
THE MEANTIME, ROGUE’S LADY STILL AVAILABLE!
My
November 2007 Regency historical is still available at your local
bookstore. Daughter of a misalliance between a viscount’s daughter
and an itinerant Italian musician, Allegra Antinori knows she should
marry a paragon of unimpeachable virtue—like handsome returned
soldier Rob Lynton, the family acquaintance she’s always adored. If
only out-and-out rogue Will Tavener weren’t so impossibly
appealing… Click here to read excerpts of
Chapters 1 and 2
or to see the
video trailer.
“With characters you care about, clever
banter, a roguish hero and a captivating heroine, Justiss has
written a charming and sensual love story.” — Joan Hammond,
Romantic Times BOOKreviews Magazine
MORE
ON HAL! Growing up with a demanding society Diamond of a
mother has given Hal Waterman a strong aversion to beautiful women.
So he's always carefully avoided the one beauty to whom he had an
instantaneous, mesmerizing attraction: Elizabeth Wellingford,
sister-in-law of his best friend Nicholas Stanhope (hero of my first
book, THE WEDDING GAMBLE). But
when, seven years after that unforgettable first meeting, the
now-married Elizabeth's husband dies suddenly while all her family
are abroad, Hal knows Nicky would expect him to call on the bereaved
widow and, in Nicky's stead, offer her any assistance she may need.
He expects to perform this duty quickly and resume his tranquil
bachelor's existence. Until he finds the mature Elizabeth even
more alluring than the young beauty...and is struck by her little
boy's desperate need for a man's comforting presence, something Hal
vividly remembers missing when as a young child he lost his own
father.
MORE
WELLINGFORDS TO COME! I've just completed the draft of
"Merry's Christmas Miracle," another Wellingford family story to be
included in the November 2008 Harlequin Historical Christmas
anthology. The "responsible" sister who stayed to manage the
family's country estate and tend her young siblings when Sarah and
Elizabeth married, after the death of her soldier fiancé, Meredyth
resigned herself to spinsterhood. Until the yearly Christmas
gathering at Wellingford brings home not just her family, but Allen
Mansfell, the fascinating older brother of Colton Wellingford's
Oxford friend...
BOOKMARKS
AVAILABLE!
To
receive a bookmark of ROGUE’S LADY or THE UNTAMED HEIRESS,
send an SASE to Julia at 179 County Rd 4112, Daingerfield, TX
75638.
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