Contest Winner & Friday Fiction

Current Read: Delicious by Sherry Thomas

Congratulations to...

Dina

Dina, you are this week's lucky winner. Email me at Tiffany@TiffanyJames.net with your snail mail address and I will get Barbara's book, Scandalous by Night, on its way to you!

Thanks to everyone who joined us this week and an extra special "thank you" to Barbara Pierce for being this week's "Word Wizard". Can't wait for your next book, Barbara!

Please join us next week when we feature Berkley Sensation debut author, Kate Noble.

Here are just a couple of links to excerpts. Check them out and let me know what you think!

Compromised by Kate Noble

"Just what in the hell did you think you were doing?"Well, apparently he wasn't dead. Neither was she for that matter, but Gail was definitely bruised. When she had taken the black beauty’s bridle and swung him about, his rider had been thrown into her, and he took her down in his path. To be fair, he had done his best to soften the blow, embracing her in his arms and twisting about so he cushioned her fall. They had landed in a tangled mass of arms and legs about three feet out into the lake, shallow enough so they wouldn't drown, but enough water to soften the landing. Slightly. If she stood the lake would be about as high as her mid-calf. But they weren't standing. After a few heart-stopping moments below the surface, the man pulled his head out of the water and propped himself up on one elbow. The other arm was wrapped firmly around Gail's waist, and she lying most unladylike across his lap.…

Read more here. And meet Kate right here at Armchair Heroines next week!

Julia Quinn's new book, Mr. Cavendish, I Presume, will be available at the end of September. No excerpt as of yet, but here is the back cover copy.

There went the bride...
Amelia Willoughby has been engaged to the Duke of Wyndham for as long as she can remember. Literally. A mere six months old when the contracts were signed, she has spent the rest of her life waiting. And waiting. And waiting...for Thomas Cavendish, the oh-so-lofty duke, to finally get around to marrying her. But as she watches him from afar, she has a sneaking suspicion that he never thinks about her at all...

It's true. He doesn't. Thomas rather likes having a fiancée—all the better to keep the husband-hunters at bay—and he does intend to marry her...eventually. But just when he begins to realize that his bride might be something more than convenient, Thomas’s world is rocked by the arrival of his long-lost cousin, who may or may not be the true Duke of Wyndham. And if Thomas is not the duke, then he’s not engaged to Amelia. Which is the cruelest joke of all, because this arrogant and illustrious duke has made the mistake of falling in love...with his own fiancée!

Happy Labor Day weekend everyone! See you next week.