All About Wicked Affairs Four: WICKED SECRETS
I had a blog comment asking about the next in the Wicked Affairs series and promised a post regarding the plot.
For those of you who have read Book Three, Wicked Lord, you'll remember that Edward Chase, Lord Redding, has a sister Alizabet Standifer, Lady Archer. She has been married less than a year to Charles, but alas, there marriage is not made in heaven.
So here is the blurb with which I enticed my publisher, Ellora's Cave. The title is WICKED SECRETS.
The Earl of Archer, Charles Standifer’s infatuation with his wife has turned into the cold reality of marriage misery. Vows are not so easily broken but when he gives into temptation all the secrets of the past threaten to destroy them and their marriage. He would give anything to have his wife, but she will have none of him.
The reserved and compassionate Alizabet, Lady Archer knows she will never please her husband in ways that matter to men yet she cannot deny the love she has for him in spite of the heartbreaking betrayal.
He has never doubted her affection for him, but that has done nothing to assuage his sexual need. When Charles discovers the revelation of Alizabet’s shocking past, can he be the man and husband she needs? Or will he forever be denied his rights to the alluring yet unattainable woman he calls wife?
So I must warn you now, if you didn't pick it up in the above blurb: There is an affair - a no excuses, out in the open affair. We all now this happens but the real trick is the attempt to redeem the hero. I know some readers think that this is very unheroic to portray such an event but for those who have read the Wicked Affairs series you know that all of the books involve the troubles of marriage. And we know that institution is far from perfect.
What do you think? Is it impossible to write a true, fulfilling romance when an affair is a large part of the story?
For those of you who have read Book Three, Wicked Lord, you'll remember that Edward Chase, Lord Redding, has a sister Alizabet Standifer, Lady Archer. She has been married less than a year to Charles, but alas, there marriage is not made in heaven.
So here is the blurb with which I enticed my publisher, Ellora's Cave. The title is WICKED SECRETS.
The Earl of Archer, Charles Standifer’s infatuation with his wife has turned into the cold reality of marriage misery. Vows are not so easily broken but when he gives into temptation all the secrets of the past threaten to destroy them and their marriage. He would give anything to have his wife, but she will have none of him.
The reserved and compassionate Alizabet, Lady Archer knows she will never please her husband in ways that matter to men yet she cannot deny the love she has for him in spite of the heartbreaking betrayal.
He has never doubted her affection for him, but that has done nothing to assuage his sexual need. When Charles discovers the revelation of Alizabet’s shocking past, can he be the man and husband she needs? Or will he forever be denied his rights to the alluring yet unattainable woman he calls wife?
So I must warn you now, if you didn't pick it up in the above blurb: There is an affair - a no excuses, out in the open affair. We all now this happens but the real trick is the attempt to redeem the hero. I know some readers think that this is very unheroic to portray such an event but for those who have read the Wicked Affairs series you know that all of the books involve the troubles of marriage. And we know that institution is far from perfect.
What do you think? Is it impossible to write a true, fulfilling romance when an affair is a large part of the story?
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Thanks Eta:soon. I hope I 've done the story justice. Yes I will def post the release date. E.
That's a tough one. I can't wait to see how you handle this, and how successfully you pull it off in the end. Regardless, I'm sure that it will be as well-written and hot as your others.
It's odd that I should check now for any upcoming books from you and see this post. For some odd reason, I recently thought of a really old Harlequin book, The Perfect Marriage. I think that book semi-haunts me to this day because I couldn't quite buy the reconciliation.
Please post when you know the date for publication?
Thank you and good writing!