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Philippe and Magalie’s honeymoon?

Chachic sent me a photo from a friend who has taken The Chocolate Kiss to the Maldives, just to make me want to run away and join it. Philippe and Magalie on their honeymoon?

Trust Me out at midnight!

You first met Lina and Jake in ALL FOR YOU and CHASE ME. Tonight at midnight, you can finally read their story!


 


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Crown of Bitter Orange in stores!

I hope you are enjoying A CROWN OF BITTER ORANGE!

A big thank you to all the bloggers and readers reviewing. If it can make you happy, that makes me happy!

Also, a welcome to the blogging world to Scoundrels and Seduction, who launched their blog with their review of A CROWN OF BITTER ORANGE! May you have many happy reading and blogging days ahead.

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Tristan Rosier captures my heart! – Scoundrels and Seduction

Sweet and evocative and utterly gorgeous.– SBTB (Smart B*, Trashy Books)

Adorable! – Smexy Books

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Happy Reading!

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Paris Nights Book 3 Reveal: Trust Me

I know we are only 10 days away from the release of A CROWN OF BITTER ORANGE (yay!), but I have a surprise for you today.

The cover and blurb for TRUST ME, book 3 in the Paris Nights series. It’s coming out in April! And there is a sneak peek in the back of A CROWN OF BITTER ORANGE, so be sure to check that out!

It’s already available for pre-order on Amazon and pre-orders will be available everywhere else soon, but I knew some of you alert readers were going to spot it and ask me, so I am going ahead and posting now.

Hope you enjoy the glimpse of what it’s about!

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TRUST ME

She’s nobody’s damsel in distress…

Top Parisian pastry chef Lina Farah is used to fighting for her success. But when a violent attack shatters her security, she needs a new tactic to battle her dragons. What better way to banish the monsters under her bed than by inviting a sexy SEAL to tangle the sheets?

He’s a professional dragon slayer…

Elite operative Jake Adams has never stayed in one place long enough to form a lasting relationship. Lina’s fire and beauty tempt him to give her the hot affair she craves. But her spirit and courage make him long for more. Can he convince a woman seeking forgetfulness to dream of ever after…with him?

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Happy weekend, everyone!

Sale on Once Upon a Rose

Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you were able to spend good holidays with your people (or survive the holidays, those for whom they are tough), and that 2017 is getting off to a good start!


 


To celebrate the upcoming release of the third book in the Vie en Roses series, the first book, ONCE UPON A ROSE, is on sale. This week only, for $0.99, for the ebook.


 


Please share with anyone you think might like this series!


 


May 2017 be filled with many good books! Happy reading! And Happy New Year!


 


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Cover Reveal! A Crown of Bitter Orange

Coming January 24, 2017!

(For an early copy, check out the giveaway on Facebook.)

I hope you enjoy!

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Childhood friends.

Tristan Rosier might have asked Malorie Monsard to marry him when he was five years old, but things had only gone downhill from there. She’d spent the rest of their lives ignoring him, abandoning him, and destroying his perfumes. Now she was back, to wreak who knew what havoc on his life.

Lifelong enemies.

Tristan might choose to dismiss the generations-long enmity between their two families, but Malorie didn’t have that privilege. Like all the other privileges wealthy, gorgeous Tristan took for granted that she couldn’t. But if she was going to restore her family company to glory, she might just need his help.

Or the perfect match?

They’d known each other all their lives. Could these childhood friends and lifelong enemies ever uncross their stars and find happily ever after?

Available January 24, 2017! Pre-order here:

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EXCERPT

© Laura Florand, 2016

 

Well, look at that. Prince Charming. Malorie should have known she’d stumble over him the instant she set foot back in his kingdom. The man was the bane of her existence even when she was halfway around the world.

She put her hands on her hips and looked down at him, so peacefully dozing out in the open that he hadn’t even stirred at the sound of her feet in the great white pebbles by the river.

Tristan Rosier asleep looked exactly how Malorie had always imagined. Gorgeous. Insouciant. Not vulnerable in the least, except to being over-kissed by the sun. A wicked little smile curving his mouth as if that sun was a woman and he was quite used to this kind of treatment.

Shirtless and completely ripped, the definition of his muscles visible even relaxed in sleep. He’d probably just come down from that beautiful limestone cliff face rising on the other side of the gorge and his muscles were still pumped from it. One hand held a half-eaten apple, the other a small white paperback—Giono’s Hussard sur le toit—and they had both slumped to his torso when he dozed off. In full sun.

She sighed. It would serve Tristan right to have his nose peeling for a week, but then forty years from now, if he got skin cancer, it would be all her fault, and the last thing a Monsard needed was more lives on her conscience.

Plus, knowing Tristan, a peeling nose would probably improve his ability to flirt with hot actresses, not weaken it—he always managed flips like that. And his ability to flirt with hot actresses was already freaking annoying.

Fine. She dipped her hands in the milky green river, high from the recently melted snow in the peaks, limestone giving it that beautiful color. She carried the water back across the round white pebbles, tightened herself and double-checked her buttons to make sure her clothes weren’t going to melt off as soon as he winked at her, and then tossed the icy water over his bare torso.

Muscles flicked like a cat’s—powerful, lean, surging awake—and he opened his eyes, blinking sleepily at her as if she was all shadow in too much light. “Malorie Monsard,” he said, with a sensual, lazy pleasure, as if he’d just woken up on a Sunday morning and was quite happy to see that she was the woman draped in his bathrobe bringing him coffee in the hopes he would ask her to stay.

She had to dive fast into irony to protect herself, as she always did with him.

“You make a good Sleeping Beauty, Tristan.” She used the masculine beau au bois dormant. “Or should I say Snow White?” A nod to the half-eaten apple resting against his washboard abs.

Tristan sat up, blinking, his eyes clearing. “Malorie Monsard.” His voice flattened. He shifted to sit on the rock against which his head had been resting, cushioned by his backpack. “Trust you to replace the kiss in the story with ice water on a man’s skin.”

Yeah. Tristan had been as friendly to her as to any other female on the planet when they were in high school, but when they met again in New York, it had not gone well. For him.

Supple, expressive eyebrows that could lilt up subtly in amusement, invite a woman in with laughter, tease her wickedly, did what they always did when she was around. They drew together. “Malorie,” he said for the third time, looking around them at the limestone cliffs and the rushing spring river as if finally processing it. “What the hell are you doing here?”

Available January 24, 2017! Pre-order here:

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And you can add the book on Goodreads here.

A WISH UPON JASMINE new cover

Almost at the cover reveal for Book 3! Have you read Damien’s book yet? Here’s his new cover, and I have to say, I am particularly happy with it.

A little quote from A WISH UPON JASMINE:

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“It was as if I was a falling star. And she caught me.”

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Poor ruthless Damien, who, in the end, turns out to be not nearly as ruthless as he thought…

I hope you enjoy the new look!

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Once Upon a Rose New Cover

Have you read Matt’s book yet? We’re doing a new cover look for Book 3 and so had to go back and redesign the covers for Matt and Damien.

I have a very particular vision for growly Matt and curly-haired Layla that I couldn’t find any photos to match, but here’s the new cover. I’ll show you Damien’s Monday and we’re announcing the cover for Book 3 Wednesday!

Here’s a little quote from Matt and Layla in ONCE UPON A ROSE:

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“You behave.” His voice was a grumble of warning. Or a plea for mercy?

She grinned. “It’s okay. I understand. I have a shy side, too.”

“I’m not shy,” he said, outraged.

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“Overflowing with wise humor, family dynamics, and vivid descriptions, this story is as sexy and flirtatious as it is poignant and caring. Roses, music, and Provence—it doesn’t get much better than that…”

— Library Journal STARRED REVIEW and Best Book of the Year

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Happy weekend, all! More news coming soon.

Flash Giveaway! Fortune Favors the Wicked

FLASH GIVEAWAY! Friend Theresa Romain came to visit and gave me a signed copy of FORTUNE FAVORS THE WICKED to give to you!

As you all know, I’m a big fan of Theresa’s writing, and FORTUNE FAVORS THE WICKED is the first in her latest series. One bored, silver-tongued Navy lieutenant and one very smart courtesan find themselves unlikely allies in a treasure hunt through England.

To enter, tell me: Where would you most like to do a treasure hunt? And who would you like to have as your “unlikely ally”?

I’ll announce the winner Thursday morning.

More on the book here.

 

Your secret favorites?

I was re-reading my “Gift of the Magi” story last night (TURNING UP THE HEAT). My husband drove off with my iPad in his car and I discovered that I had some books loaded on my phone but they were all mine, so I started re-reading this one.

I always thought the motto of this story is this O Henry quote:

“And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house.”

Only now it is ten years later, and they have been doing that for ten years, sacrificing who they are to be who they think the other person needs them to be. And they need a re-set.

I just love this clueless, determined, love-filled couple so much. It’s one of my favorite stories of mine, but in that odd way that sometimes happens to writers, where it’s like a little secret we have among the “bigger” (and longer!) books that have been more popular with readers. One of those stories that don’t work for everybody, but it works just right for you.

Do you have that, as readers? A favorite book by an author that is like your secret favorite, when all your reader friends prefer her other books? Or as an author, a secret favorite?

Here’s the ending of the O Henry quote, which is important, too, but in my story with some nuance:

“But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.”

Happy start of the Holidays to all of you celebrating! We did our local Santa Train last night and are ready for the season! How about you?

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