Listen to Daring Done Right at a Reduced Price
May 23, 2026 1:31 pm
Lovely readers, hello!
I have one for the audiobook lovers! The audiobook of book 6 in my Daring Debutants series, Daring Done Right is 60% off right now!
This series is a standalone, so you can pick up here and not be lost!
Here's a little excerpt from chapter one:
Finally, Lord Richard stood, pointing toward the very end of Rotten Row.
“The Dare King. He’s here.” Pronounced with the finality of a death sentence.
Doom circulated in the air, thickened it. Excitement, too, like the crackle of electricity across a gray sky before a storm. It danced across her skin. Perhaps she was suffering apoplexy.
“How do you know it’s him?” Sarah popped up on tiptoe to see the rider moving slow as summer toward them. His form bulked large atop a huge horse. Even at a distance she could tell he was a sizeable man.
“He said so,” Lord Richard replied.
“Of course he did.” Georgiana snorted. “And of course you believed him.” Then, under her breath. “I never a met a more gullible lot.”
Abigail swatted their friend’s arm. “Do be nice.”
All the while, the rider approach, growing larger and larger, a blight on the rising sun.
Sarah’s chest rose and fell more quickly the closer he came. He certainly did not hurry. He moved as if the entire world waited at his leisure. She could see details of his person now. Large, yes. Clothes fine, fitting him to perfection beneath the many-caped great coat. A beaver hat pulled low, shadowing his face.
Then he was upon them, forcing her to crane her head back to peer up at him. An awkward angle, a disadvantageous one. Something about him made her shiver, anticipating… what?
The rider flung himself to the ground in one fluid movement, tilting his face down and tugging his hat lower, obscuring his features. Nothing could disguise the agility in his form, the grace of his movements.
My, but the morning heat had sizzled up quickly. Odd the fog still held them all in its grip.
“I’ve heard there’s racing to be had this morning.” His voice low and powerful shook the earth Sarah stood on.
His voice…
No.
No, no, no, no, no. No. It could not be.
Xavier Evans, Viscount Flint. The Brute.
The Dare King?
Whether he actually claimed that title, he walked through the gathered men like he did, imperious, cutting straight toward her, not sparing the gents a single glance as he parted their line like butter.
He meant to intimidate her. He always did.
She never let him.
He stopped before her and swept his hat off, revealing dusky black hair, thick and fashionably yet practically trimmed, a hint of curl at the nape and in the wave of it away from his forehead. A shadow of a beard lined his sharp jaw as if he’d not chanced to shave before bolting out the door. Expressly to annoy her no doubt. He had a craggy cliff of a disapproving face, but his hazel eyes reflected the foggy park—gray shrouded greens and blues, soft, yet… hard. And knowing.
Worry danced a line of fear up her spine.
She pulled up to her full height. “You.”
“You.” He set the word like a blade between them, a challenge tossed at her feet. He knew her through the mask and wig. He saw through it all straight to her core—deficient and lacking and destined to always be alone.
She scoffed, arched her neck to look around him at Lord Clarington and the others. “He’s the Dare King? Ha. I do not believe it.”
And there's one more week until the release of Jealous Rakes and June Mistakes! Remmy and Tessa are at the mercy of their meddling families! How far will they go to escape their good (or bad) intentions?
ALSO, this book has one of my favorite thrown punches in any book I've written. 😍
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Book 3 of the Alchemy of Desire series, The Duchess Curse, is in the hands of beta readers. And I've printed the whole thing out to do a thorough line edit. I love the line editing stage because I love sentences, the rhythm of them, how I can bring an emotion to life by changing or cutting a single word. It probably started before I even remember it, and is connected to my love of poetry, but I suspect, it heightened when I read The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope. I remember talking in class about how the language--use of words with Fs and hard C sounds gave the impression of fairies flying about. That definitely stuck with me, and I think a lot, as I'm writing and line editing of how I produce the exact impression of the ideas on the page with the quality of the language.
Happy reading,
Charlie Lane
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