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Book Trailer - His Royal Decree Duo

I absolutely LOVE this book trailer for my summer Harlequin releases, One Night Heir and Prince of Secrets.  Leave a comment and let me know what you think. 

Buy the bookONE NIGHT HEIRBy His Royal Decree Duo Book 1Harlequin Presents #3155 - July 2013© By Lucy MonroeISBN-10: 0373131615ISBN-13: 978-0373131617
Only a royal wedding...
Bitter life lessons have taught Crown Prince Maksim Yurkovich that duty must come before desire. His country needs an heir, so when he discovers his lover can’t have children, he must sever their ties. Only Maks can’t resist spending one last night in her bed.
...can avert this royal scandal!
Now he faces the biggest diplomatic crisis of his life. Against all odds, Gillian Harris has become pregnant. Maks’s royal reserve masks the heart of a fierce Cossack warrior—one who is not above using their mutual passion to convince a hurt, wary Gillian that she must be his queen!

PRINCE OF SECRETS Pre Order bookBy His Royal Decree Duo Book 2Harlequin Presents - August 2013© By Lucy MonroeISBN-10: 0373131690ISBN-13: 978-0373131693
Prince Demyan Zaretsky does whatever it takes to protect his country. So seducing Chanel Tanner will be easy. And marriage? An unfortunate side effect of duty. She unwittingly holds the economic stability of Volyarus in her hands...and he must secure it.
With his royal identity and intent disguised, Demyan sets about a ruthless seduction designed to make Chanle lose her mind with ecstasy. But when he discovers she is a virgin, he uncovers something in himslef—a conscience. Now his plan taks a shocking turn—one this dark-hearted prince had never anticipated!

One Night Heir - Excerpt

Pre Order Today!ONE NIGHT HEIR
By His Royal Decree Duo Book 1
Connected to Prince of Secrets (August 2013)
Harlequin Presents #3155 - July 2013
© By Lucy Monroe
ISBN-10: 0373131615
ISBN-13: 978-0373131617

Excerpt from:
CHAPTER ONE

Fury riding him like a pissed off stallion, Crown Prince Maksim of Volyarus let loose with a punch-cross-hook kick-boxing combo against his cousin and sparring partner.

Demyan blocked, the sound of flesh hitting pads mixed with his grunt of surprise. “Something the matter, your highness?”

Maks hated when his cousin, older by four years and raised as a brother with Maks in their family’s palace, referred to him by his title.

Demyan was well aware, but the older man liked pushing buttons, especially during their workout sessions. He said it made the sparring more intense.

Today would have been sufficiently punishing without the added irritation. Not that Maks warned Demyan of that. His cousin deserved what he got.

“Nothing wiping the smug look off your face won’t take care of.” Maks danced back before driving forward with another fast-paced, grueling combo.

Well-matched in stature and strength, they both kept their six-feet-four-inch frames in top physical condition.

“I thought tonight was the big night with Gillian,” Demyan said, scrambling in a way he rarely did during their sessions. “Don’t tell me you think she’s going to turn you down?”

“If I were going to ask, she’d say yes.” And a day ago that certainty had given Maks a great deal of pleasure.

Now, it just taunted him with what he couldn’t have. Namely, Gillian.

“So, what is the problem?” Demyan demanded as he went on the offensive, forcing Maks to defend against a barrage of punches and kicks.

“Her medical tests came back.”

“She’s not sick is she?” Demyan asked, sounding sincerely concerned.

Coming from the man with a reputation for cold ruthlessness, it would have shocked anyone else.

But Maks knew how much Demyan cared about their family. And for the last eight months, the beautiful, sweet Gillian had been moving closer and closer to joining that group.

“She’s perfectly fine.” If you didn’t count poorly functioning ovaries. “Now.”

“What does that mean?”

“She had appendicitis when she was sixteen.”

“That was ten years ago, what bearing does it have on her health now?”

“Fallopian tubes.”

Demyan stopped and stared at Maks in confusion. “What?”

In no mood to give his cousin a break, Maks took advantage of the other man’s inattention and knocked him on his ass with a well-timed kick.

Demyan jumped to his feet, but he didn’t come back for more like Maks expected. “Knock it off and explain what the hell appendicitis as a teenager has to do with an adult woman’s fallopian tubes.”

Demyan was no idiot. He knew Maks’ interest in Gillian’s reproductive system was of paramount importance to the House of Yurkovich, the royal family of Volyarus.

“She has a poorly functioning reproductive system.” Maks adjusted his thin sparring gloves. “There is less than a thirty percent chance of pregnancy.”

A lot less by some estimations, slightly more by others, according the specialist Maks had consulted.

Demyan shoved hair the same dark color as Maks’ own off his forehead. “With fertility treatment?”

“I have no intention of becoming the next father of sextuplets.”

“Don’t be an ass.”

“I’m not. You know I cannot marry a woman who won’t be able to produce the next heir plus a spare.”

Demyan didn’t reply immediately. They were both too personally aware of the costs associated with those issues.

“You aren’t your father. You don’t have to marry a woman you don’t love in order to provide an heir.”

“I have no intention of doing so. Neither will I marry a woman I like whose only hope of providing that child would be via often painful and not always successful fertility treatments.”

“You could adopt.”

“Like my parents adopted you?”

“They didn’t formally adopt me. I am still a Zaretsky. It was never your father’s intention that I inherit the throne.”

“You were just his spare,” Maks muttered with some bitterness.

Demyan shrugged. “Duty is duty.”

“And my duty precludes asking Gillian Harris to marry me.” His personal sense of honor also dictated he break things off with her as soon as possible.

“You don’t love her?” Demyan asked with only mild curiosity.

“You know better.”

“Love only leads to pain,” Demyan quoted one of Maks’ mother’s favorite refrains.

Maks added the rest, “And a compromise on duty.”

Both men had reason to believe it too.

“What are you going to do?” Demyan asked, dropping back into a sparring stance.

Maks executed a simple forward jab-left hook combo. “What do you think?”

“I’ll miss her.”

Maks didn’t doubt it. One of the reasons he’d decided to ask Gillian to marry him was because despite her mostly small town upbringing, she got along surprisingly well with his family and successfully navigated social situations many would find overwhelming.

The daughter of a renowned world news correspondent, Gillian had had been attending events with the world’s richest and most powerful since a young age.

Demyan blocked Maks’ kick and returned one of his own. “Are you going to tell her tonight?”

“I may not need to.” The lovely blue-eyed blonde would have gotten a copy of the results of her latest physical.

Gillian would know about the reasons behind her irregular menses now as well. She already knew the responsibilities associated with his position. She should be expecting the dissolution of their relationship.

A more practical woman than most, he had hopes there would be no awkward “break-up” scene.

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Throwback Thursday - Moon Craving

Buy the bookMOON CRAVINGby Lucy MonroeISBN-10: 0425233049ISBN-13: 978-0425233047A Children of the Moon Novel #2Paranormal Historical WerewolfBerkley Sensation - February 2010


Save the Date!Warrior's Moon (Book 6 in the series) is out July 2!

Humpday Hottie

What a sexy dad!  Happy Father's day to all the amazing men out there!
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Throwback Thursday - Moon Awakening

Moon Awakening By Lucy MonroeISBN 0-4252-17426-5Book 1 in Children of the Moon SeriesParanormal Historical WerewolfBerkley Sensation - February 2007
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Save the Date!Warrior's Moon (Book 6 in the series) is out July 2!

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Anniversary Giveaway Contest Winner!

Wow! I loved reading your stories about your greatest love.  It warms my heart to think that so many of us have found the love of our lives.  If I had to it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing.  My Hubcap is my greatest blessing. Thank you all for sharing.  
Congratulation to ceblain who was chosen as the contest winner in my special 25th Anniversary Contest!  Please email me your name and address and I will get  your prize in the mail. 
Below is her post:
Dear Lucy: First of all our best wishes for your 25th anniversary and your happiness. The love of my life and I have known one another for over 54 years. We will be celebrating our 50th (yes, #50) the end of November (2013) with our two children and our three beautiful grandchildren. We are as happy now as we were when we met and got married; it has been a marriage made in heaven and we cannot believe that 50 plus years have gone by since we met. We would love another 50 but we know that isn't going to happen, so we are just grateful for what we have had and wish many more people could have the same or even close to it. Sometimes it is what you yourself make of things that makes it work and in our case that was combined with lots of love and understanding and a lot of listening to one another but above all, love. 
The only time that we really KNOW that we have been married almost 50 years is when we look into the mirror; a big big giveaway as to our age. :)!!!!

Scorsolini Baby Scandal ~ Release Day!

SCORSOLINI BABY SCANDAL
Royal Babies Harlequin Special eBook mini-series
Harlequin Presents - June 2013
© By Lucy Monroe
Amazon ASIN: B00CJPYFA0
ISBN-13: 978-1459252141

Out TODAY! - Order it now and start reading. Buy the eBook: B&N Nook ~ Books-a-Million ~ Amazon KindleLucy's eBooks on Harlequin.com
When they meet, both Prinicipe Vittoro Micheli Scorsolini and Kiki Menendez are pretending to be something they are not: normal people.
He’s a prince and heir to the throne of Isole dei Re (from The Scorsolini Marriage Bargain). She’s the daughter of a Spanish billionaire and former supermodel (from Taken: The Spaniard's Virgin). That doesn't stop them falling in love and after a whirlwind courtship, eloping to the Caribbean. Neither of their families is happy with the unexpected wedding, but the royal baby on the way is an even bigger surprise.

Secrets kept by them both are revealed after the wedding, planting seeds of mistrust in two hearts not yet beating in sync as one. This royal couple is going to have to fight inner doubts and family censure to find their way to love for a lifetime.

Throwback Thursday - Unleased

Unleased: Come Moonrise
ISBN 0425212114 ~ Berkley Tradesize
December 2006

An anthology by Rebecca York, Susan Kearney,
Diane Whiteside and Lucy Monroe


Ty MacAnlup has seen the tragedy that a mating between a werewolf and a human can bring and he wants no part of it, no matter how much his body and heart ache for a taste of Frankie's softness. Frankie has loved Ty for years and while she doesn't know he's a werewolf, or even that such things exist...she does know that to her, he's always been more than a mere man. Ty's hidden beast wreaks havoc with his determination to stay away from Frankie when they are trapped together in a small cabin in the snow bound wilderness.

What happens when a woman explores her most forbidden fantasies? When the intoxicating scent of man triggers illicit desire? When passion for the unusual lures lovers into worlds reserved only for the uninhibited...

National bestselling author Rebecca York is Unleashed...As she finds the psychic bond between two lovers on a doomed island paradise.

National bestselling author Susan Kearney is Unleashed... As she explores the mystery of Atlantis in a bold and contemporary new way.

National bestselling author Diane Whiteside is Unleashed...As she bears witness to a tale of vampire love with a wicked twist.

National bestselling author Lucy Monroe is Unleashed...As she explores the limits of animal desire in a seductive story of the beast within.

Four all-new stories that take passion to its limit.

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