Guest post by Heather Snow + Giveaway

I am very happy to welcome back to BLI one of my favourite new historical romance authors, the wonderful Heather Snow, author of the Veiled Seduction series, a very exciting and emotional historical romance and mystery series! And I couldn’t be happier because Book #3 Sweet Madness was released recently, and let me tell you, it was worth the wait! It is full of heartache, passion and love, I enjoyed it a lot and I’m sure you will too! Read on to hear more about the story and the writing of it and you could even win a copy of Sweet Enemy or Sweet Deception, the 1st or 2nd book in the series!

Thank you so much for having me back at Book Lovers Inc. I’m thrilled to be here to celebrate the release of Sweet Madness, the third …

Review: Sweet Madness by Heather Snow

Format read: ebook copy provided by publisher through NetGalley
Series: Book #3 in the Veiled Seduction series
Release Date: 1 April 2013
Publisher: Signet Eclipse
Number of pages: 384 pages
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Kindle,  Book Depository, Read an excerpt

Blurb:

There’s a fine line between love and insanity.

An Untamed Mind

Ever since her husband’s sudden and tragic death, Lady Penelope Bridgeman has committed herself to studying the maladies of the mind, particularly treating traumatized soldiers of the Napoleonic Wars. It is this expertise that brings the Marquess of Bromwich’s family to her door.

Gabriel Devereaux’s unexpected and unpredictable episodes are unlike any Penelope has studied. The once proud soldier has been left shaken and withdrawn, but she manages to build a fragile trust between them. Strangely, Gabriel seems completely lucid when not in the grips of his mania, and in the calm between bouts, she is surprised …

Romance and Me: Healing the Mad Hero

Hi Everyone!

In the past week I have come across and read two historical romances featuring “mad” heroes which made me consider this, in my opinion, not too frequently explored trope.

In classic literature having a crazy wife/madwoman as a secondary character is quite common (like in Jane Eyre), but to have your hero or heroine suffering from a mental illness is quite difficult and challenging to pull off and not have them come off as unstable, crazy or plain scary.

But it seems that nowadays more and more historical romances explore the possibility of the hero producing some symptoms and episodes making him fear he is suffering from a mental illness, which is incapacitating him; and the heroine not giving up and trying to find a cure and heal him. I wasn’t aware that this was a recurring theme until I’ve read

Review: Sweet Deception by Heather Snow

Format read: ebook provided by publisher through NetGalley
Series: Book #2 in the Veiled Seduction series
Release Date: 7 August 2012
Number of pages: 384 pages
Publisher: Signet
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Kindle store, Barnes and Noble, Book Depository, Read an excerpt

Blurb:

In the dark, the greatest lover can become the most dangerous conspirator…

Lady criminologist, Miss Emma Wallingford, unknowingly finds herself tangled in the dangerous mission of Lord Derick Aveline, a spy who also happens to be her long lost first love.

But when deception is the name of the game, no one can be trusted. And every love–and every life–is at risk.

My Thoughts: I LOVED Sweet Enemy, Heather Snow’s debut novel and the first book in her Veiled Seduction trilogy, so much that it immediately became one of my favourite books read …

Guest post by Heather Snow + Giveaway

I am very happy to welcome back to BLI one of my favourite new historical romance authors, the wonderful Heather Snow, author of the Veiled Seduction series, a very exciting historical romance and mystery series! As Book #2 Sweet Deception hit the shelves this week Heather stops by to tell us more about the characters, the story and writing them. Please give her a warm welcome and you could even win a copy of Sweet Enemy, the 1st book in the series (which I LOVED)!

Where our Hero learns his mission won’t be as easy as he’d hoped…

Lady criminologist, Miss Emma Wallingford, unknowingly finds herself tangled in the dangerous final mission of Lord Derick Aveline, a spy who also happens to be her long lost first love. But when deception, however sweet, is the name of the game, no one can be trusted. And every …