Loreen Augeri – an Author Spotlight and Book Feature
I am so excited you could join me today for an author feature, Loreen! Let’s get to it 
What is something readers would be surprised to learn about you?
I have a blue parakeet that doesn’t know how to land. He circles the room a couple times then flies into a wall. I don’t let him out of his cage anymore because I am afraid he is going to injure himself.
Ha!!! I used to have a parakeet. I never let him out of his cage, though, so I’m not sure if knew how to land or not… If you had to choose between living in a restored farmhouse surrounded by pasture land, a cottage in the English countryside, or a villa in Italy with grape vines as far as the eye could see, what would you choose?
A cottage in the English countryside. From the research I have done for my novels, books I have read, and pictures I have seen the English countryside is beautiful.
*Sigh* I would love to live in a cottage in the English countryside! Pretend I’m an alien who has just appeared on your doorstep. What would you say to me and what would your reaction be?
I would be terrified, and after I stopped screaming, I would ask where you came from.
That seems like the most logical question after you stopped screaming! For sure, you wouldn’t want to ask about his death laser! What if someone showed up on your front step (Publishers Clearing House style) with a check for $5 million…what would be the first thing you’d buy?
I would like to visit Europe and I love cruises, so I would go on an European cruise. I would also buy houses for my two daughters.
I think the first thing I would do is travel, too. If someone were to tell you that you could never write again, but you could be anything else you wanted to be (and money was no object) what would you do with the rest of your life?
I love dancing and would like to be a dancer. But I would also have to be a few years younger.
Being a dancer would be so fun! If you had to describe your writing in one tagline, what would it be?
Historical romances filled with emotion and desire. A happy ending a must.
Can you tell us where we can find Lost Honor?
Lost Honor can be found in paperback and e-book at The Wild Rose Press, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble online.
Amazon e-book:
Amazon paperback:
The Wild Rose Press e-book
http://www.thewildrosepress.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=195&products_id=5133
The Wild Rose Press paperback
http://www.thewildrosepress.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=191&products_id=5144
Barnes and Noble e-book
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lost-honor-loreen-augeri/1114793304?ean=2940016266534
Buy links can also be found on my website www.loreenaugeri.com.
Would you please share with us a blurb and/or excerpt?
LOST HONOR
Captain Morgan Danvers sets sail to rescue his brother, kidnapped by pirates. Fearing he will become like his father who abandoned him, he has cut himself off from his emotions. Then a willful stowaway crashes into his life, awakening dormant feelings and firing his lust. 
Soon he finds his all-important honor threatened, for even though he is betrothed to another, he is drawn to her against his will.
Arianna Pemberton hides in a barrel she thinks will be loaded on her brother’s ship but lands on Morgan’s brig. Her father has forbidden her to sail, and this is her only course of action. Unwilling to allow a man to control her, she is determined to make her way as a seaman, a profession she knows and loves. But when Captain Danvers discovers her deception, he refuses to permit her to prove herself. As she struggles to convince him, unwanted passion emerges, jeopardizing her plans for independence.
Can Morgan and Arianna stifle their feelings and successfully accomplish their goals?
EXCERPT
Shoved by powerful hands, she fell to her knees before booted feet. “Found her in the hold, Cap’n. Thought she was a boy at first, her wearin’ pants and a cap, but she has tits.”
“I can see that, Jurgens.”
Arianna followed the shiny boots up to tight-fitting, brown breeches hugging muscular thighs, and slim hips. A loose, white shirt covering broad shoulders next met her gaze, then a corded neck, square jaw, stern lips, crooked nose, and cold, dark eyes that stared down at her. “Where’s my brother? Who are you?”
“I will be asking the questions. Who are you, and why are you on my ship?” The deep voice thundered through the cabin.
Her stomach flip-flopped. Dizziness swamped her. Swallowing convulsively, she battled to contain the contents of her queasy stomach. Hiding in that empty molasses barrel hadn’t been the brightest idea of her twenty-one years. “I’m not talking to anyone but my brother.”
Jurgens’s forceful hands yanked her to a standing position. “You answer the cap’n.”
The abrupt movement snapped the fragile control she clung to. Spasms seized her throat. Arianna struggled to turn away, but the fingers digging into her arms held her in place. The contents of her stomach erupted.
All over Captain Danvers’s boots.
Her captor released her and jumped back in horror.
LOREEN’S BIO
Loreen lives in Massachusetts with her husband of thirty-one years and two daughters. She is a member of RWA, Hearts Through History, and the New England Chapter. When she is not writing or working in the town library, she enjoys reading, walking, and spending time at the beach.
