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Valentine countdown Day 12

Mea culpa, I missed a day--so I'll do a double today to make up.

Miss Hartwell's Dilemma: After her father's disgrace, Amaryllis Hartwell runs a school for young ladies, with the aid of her one-time governess and her aunt. A neighbouring landowner, Lord Daniel, a reclusive widower, brings his young daughter to the school. Another newly arrived pupil turns out to  be the mischievous niece of an old beau, Lord Pomeroy, who turns up to visit. Amaryllis finds both men attractive--and attracted. Her heart pulls her one way, her common sense the other.


http://www.amazon.com/Miss-Hartwells-Dilemma-Carola-Dunn-ebook/dp/B0047O2RJC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1423786185&sr=8-1&keywords=miss+hartwell%27s+dilemma


I hate to give anything away, but Lord Pomeroy ended up in need of a new love. He finds her in Two Corinthians. Nothing biblical about the title; in Regency terms, a Corinthian was a gentleman who was good at sport and at leading a fashionable life.

Two Corinthians: Claire and Lizzie are sisters, both badly treated by their parents. Claire, a shy young lady, has a little money of her own. She takes Lizzie to London to find a husband for her. Soon the two are hotly pursued by a couple of highly eligible rivals, Lord Pomeroy and Lord Winterborne. The only question is: Who is in love with whom?
The third is the large print cover--rather startling to me as my copy is pink and green and pale yellow, not red and black and orange!

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=two+corinthians+carola+dunn&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Atwo+corinthians+carola+dunn

Day 10 Valentine's countdown

The Actress and the Rake-- If you've been following the countdown, you know I wrote a Time Travel Regency. Did you know I wrote a GHOST story? The original publisher changed the title to The Lady and the Rake, which kind of negates the whole point. When I asked why, I was told the art dept. said mine was too long. By 3 letters? Come on!! They could have done it if they'd tried.









The ghost is Sir Barnabas. His daughter ran away with an actor and his granddaughter, Nerissa, was brought up in the theatre. Sir Barnabas is convinced all actresses are "fallen women." His godson, Miles, is reputed to be a rake. Sir Barnabas makes a will designed to test their virtue and, determined to be proved right, returns as a ghost to do his best to push them into indiscretion. He's aided, unknowingly, by the rest of his family, all spongers, who will inherit the lot if Nerissa and Miles fail.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Actress-Rake-Carola-Dunn-ebook/dp/B00408AN32/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top/178-3295166-1332937

My other blog: Sex v. Romance

http://bloodredpencil.blogspot.com/2015/02/sex-v-romance.html#comment-form

Day 9: Countdown to Valentine's Day

The Tudor Signet-- this was originally published as The Tudor Secret--Art department's error--which makes no sense as there's no Tudor secret in it, just a Tudor signet ring. Ah well....







 Mariette and her feckless cousin Ralph have grown up in the isolated moorland house of their uncle, an eccentric sculptor. Mariette, used to saving Ralph from his scrapes, is horrified when he asks her to retrieve his heirloom signet ring, lost in a card game. She decides to hold up the carriage of the man who won it, with extremely painful results. Lord Malcolm, for his part, is horrified to find he's shot a woman (in an unmentionable part of her anatomy). He's supposed to be looking for French spies, not an adorable, gauche, maddening young lady...

Valentine Countdown Day 8

A little something for readers who don't have time right now to dive into a full-length novel, and those who like a heroine who's past her teen and 20-something years.


A Second Spring--4 Regency novellas in which widows and spinsters find love at last:

The Dower House - widowed mother and widowed daughter find themselves falling for distant relatives and, with a little help from 7 year old twins, realise that new love is possible.

A Conformable Wife - All quiet, well-behaved Benedict wants is a quiet, well-behaved wife, but his sister's plans for him include her friend Nell, who is anything but conventional.

The Aunt and the Ancient Mariner - Aunt Chloe is begged to rescue her niece from an arranged marriage, but the situation is rather different from what she had been led to believe.

Pirate Pendragon - Childhood friends, parted for years by disapproving families, find each other again. Can a lost love be resurrected?

http://www.amazon.com/A-Second-Spring-Carola-Dunn-ebook/dp/B0047T7EA4/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8

February 07th, 2015

Lord Iverbrook's Heir: Hugh Iverbrook, after a lengthy sojourn on his West Indies estate, comes home determined to fight to abolish slavery in the Indies. In the meantime, his younger brother and sister-in-law have died, leaving their small son to the guardianship of her sister, Selena.Offended, Hugh is sure no female can cope with such a burden. He rushes to relieve her, only to find his nephew in very good hands. Selena is no simpering miss. She's an active farmer and fully capable of bringing up the boy. And she has no intention of letting Hugh take him away to live with his languid, complaining mother in the country, while he spends his time politicking in London. http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Iverbrooks-Heir-Carola-Dunn-ebook/dp/B00405R61M/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top/187-5289212-5375028

Valentine's Countdown 6

Did you know I wrote a Time Travel Regency? I had read a biography of Ada Byron Lovelace and wanted to tell her story, but most of her life was after the Regency. So I sent a modern (1990s) young woman back in time (accident in a physics lab--don't ask!). She wants to rescue baby Ada and return her to the modern world where her genius will be appreciated.   Jodie is a Rhodes Scholar, studying Regency history, so she has some idea what she's getting into. Giles, the experimental physicist who travels back with her knows nothing about the period, but he does have ancestors on whom they can call for help. However he does not approve of Jodie's plan to kidnap Ada Byron.          

http://www.amazon.com/Byrons-Child-Carola-Dunn-ebook/dp/B0044UHWLM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1423267750&sr=8-1&keywords=Byron%27s+Child+carola+dunn

(A couple of characters in this book are borrowed from Current Confusion, by Kitty Grey, another Walker Regency Time Travel)

February 06th, 2015

Did you know I wrote a Time Travel Regency? I had read a biography of Ada Byron Lovelace and wanted to tell her story, but most of her life was after the Regency. So I sent a modern (1990s) young woman back in time (accident in a physics lab--don't ask!). She wants to rescue baby Ada and return her to the modern world where her genius will be appreciated.   Jodie is a Rhodes Scholar, studying Regency history, so she has some idea what she's getting into. Giles, the experimental physicist who travels back with her knows nothing about the period, but he does have ancestors on whom they can call for help. However he does not approve of Jodie's plan to kidnap Ada Byron.          

http://www.amazon.com/Byrons-Child-Carola-Dunn-ebook/dp/B0044UHWLM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1423267750&sr=8-1&keywords=Byron%27s+Child+carola+dunn

(A couple of characters in this book are borrowed from Current Confusion, by Kitty Grey, another Walker Regency Time Travel)

Valentine countdown 5

A Lord for Miss Larkin (and sequels). Alison Larkin, growing up poor with her three eccentric aunts, fantasizes about having a lord kneel at her feet and beg to marry her. When another aunt, this one rich, offers her a Season in the Fashionable World, it seems her dream may come true. The trouble is, none of the lords she meets measure up to a certain plain Mr.--yes, the dogs--3 Westies and a Newfie--play a large part in the story Sequels (written because I had someone left over who needed a story of their own): The Road to Gretna; Thea's Marquis. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=series_rw_dp_labf?_encoding=UTF8&field-collection=Valiant+Hearts+Trilogy&url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text

Day 4 of the Valentine's countdown

 The Frog Earl--I was asked to write a Regency based on a fairytale (without the magic element) and I chose the Frog Prince. I had a lot of fun following the story using details appropriate to the period and throwing in a lot of watery, froggy stuff.

For instance, I had to have a Princess and the available real ones were all unsuitable, so my heroine, Mimi, is the Anglo-Indian granddaughter of a Maharajah. Having lived in purdah in India, she has a terrible time learning the boundaries of proper behaviour in England. Like the minx in the fairytale, she reneges on her promise to kiss the man who retrieves her gold bracelet from the water.

He, of course, is the frog of the title. Simon is heir to a marquis after his elder brother's death, but having been in the Navy he doesn't have the fashionable manners to go with the title. Both Society and his father make him feel like a lout--or a frog. He's determined at least to learn how to run the estate he will inherit. Acting as apprentice bailiff, he meets Mimi...and she owes him a kiss.

http://www.amazon.com/Frog-Earl-Carola-Dunn-ebook/dp/B00405R5MC/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1423090174&sr=1-1&keywords=the+frog+earl