Matching the Marquess by Darcy Burke - (Win Books)

 

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GENRE: Historical Romance (Regency)

 

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BLURB:

 

Benjamin Nash, Marquess of Creslow, must marry, for he is the last of the family line. Desirous of a business arrangement instead of a love match, he hires a matchmaker, but on the way to the May Day festival where he will meet her, as well as his matches, he encounters an alluring lady who may suit him perfectly...

After her husband's death left her a pauper, Rebecca Sweet relied on family for help and in return guided two of them to successful marriages. Engaged with her first real client, she plans to present him with a gaggle of young ladies eager to wed. But when she realizes the marquess is the same dashing gentleman she met on the way to the festival, the task becomes far more complicated. Attraction simmers between them, however, Nash wants a loveless marriage and Rebecca would only wed again for love. She must find him a bride before she loses her heart forever.

 

 

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EXCERPTS:

 

“Good evening.”

 

Rebecca startled at the sound of the man’s voice and dropped the book on her toe. She gasped and bit back a curse—a terrible habit she’d learned from her husband, the cad—and pulled her foot from under the heavy tome.

 

“My apologies!” The gentleman rushed forward. He bent to retrieve the book from the floor just as she did the same.

 

His fingers met hers upon the leather cover. Then their gazes clashed.

 

Rebecca’s heart vaulted into her throat. She recognized him, for he’d only arrived late that afternoon. The hostess, Lady Philpott, was his cousin, and he was the Marquess of Creslow.

 

A. Bloody. Marquess.

 

He was breathtakingly handsome, with thick, dark coffee-coloured hair, a wide forehead, expressive brows, a patrician nose with a fascinating dimple at the end, lips that were perhaps a touch too wide for a man, and a sculpted jaw and chin that looked as if it belonged on one of the statues in the garden behind the assembly rooms in Marrywell, where she’d grown up. And now that she was this close to him, she could see his eyes were a warm chestnut brown with a smattering of gold flecks near the centre. She could very well lose herself in his stare...

 

“Shall I remove my hand?” he asked softly, almost teasingly.

 

“Unless you were hoping to read this novel?” She presumed he’d come to the library for the same reason she had. They were both wearing nightclothes. She’d donned a thick dressing gown over her night rail, and he sported a dark green velvet banyan over his pantaloons which encased his muscular legs. Overall, he presented an image of unrelenting masculinity that had the effect of somehow making her feel more feminine. Or perhaps more aware of her femininity. She struggled not to fix on the triangle of light sandstone-hued flesh exposed at the base of his throat.

  

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

USA Today Bestselling Author Darcy Burke loves history, her family, and cats (not in that in that order). She’s published over fifty captivating, compelling historical and contemporary romance novels and novellas. It all started with The Magic Swan when she was 11 years old, a happily ever after about a swan addicted to magic and the female swan who loved him—with exceedingly poor illustrations. She still has plenty of ideas and writes (it seems) constantly in between hanging with her family, playing games, listening to the Dave Matthews Band, bingeing period TV shows, and chilling with her seven rescue cats. Join her Reader Club at https://www.darcyburke.com/join.

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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE

 

Darcy Burke will be awarding the first two books in the Wicked Dukes Club series (One Night for Seduction and One Night of Surrender) - US winner's choice of ebook or print, and international winner ebook only, to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

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