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
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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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