How Many Is Too Many?
May 01, 2024 12:37 pm
Dear Readers,
Happy May! I love May because I love spring (and May is spring where I live). As I was driving home from dropping the eldest kiddo off at school this morning, I felt like I was driving into the Kiera Knightly Pride and Prejudice--all lush greenery and dramatic blue skies, a low hanging, light fog. I chose to take the scenic route home to prolong the atmospheric vibes.
And then when I got home, I worked that scenery into my current work in progress--the colors, the smells, the feeling of unlimited possibility and potential. It's important for the two characters I'm writing currently. Liam Fletcher, Viscount Norton is an optimist, and his wife Cora is a pessimist, and while he looks around sees that potential heavy in the morning air, she does not. BUT, as he awakens sparks of hope in her, she begins to see it, too, creeping in like that fog, saturating every corner of her mind and heart.
Enough sappiness. I have a very important question for all of you...
How many abduction scenes is too many in a single book? 😬🤣
I mean, one is clearly enough, two would be pushing it, but three... well that's just absurd. Isn't it... ?
I can't leave you guys on the first of May without pointing out that the Brazen Belle has struck again!
Another month, another rake to rake over the coals! And Courtney McCaskill has a delightful story for you! I'm just about to dig into One Fine May, and the reviews so far are FABULOUS. We are all about to laugh our collective arses off. 🤣
Discover a new book!
Check out Tamara Gill's Duke Around and Find Out. I LOVE that title! And it's currently in Kindle Unlimited!
Also check out Sherry Ewing's Knight of Chaos! Also currently in Kindle Unlimited
In my neck of the woods, spring has sprung! Have you read any of these? This collection features a mixture of books in Kindle Unlimited and at other retailers like Barnes and Noble and Kobo!
Finally, I've got a re-release of a book! Dukes, Diamonds, and Other Desires, book 2.5 in the Art of Love series has moved out of the Dukes and Diamonds multi-author anthology, has a new cover, and is in Kindle Unlimited.
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He wants her in nothing but his diamonds.
Archer Halston, Duke of Crestmore doesn’t care what the world thinks. He’s loved the talented and loyal Miss Posey Frampton for years, and he’s finally ready to propose. Society’s censure, his mother’s pessimism, Posey's own position in society—nothing will stop him. Except Posey herself, who disappears as soon as he shows her the Halston bridal parure.
She knows she can never have him.
Posey has been in love with the roguishly handsome and cheerfully charming Duke of Crestmore since childhood. But she can never be with him. He’s a duke, and she’s a jeweler’s daughter. More damning than that, her sister is an art forger. She'll ignore her heart's call for Archer to save him from her own tainted association.
Diamonds are formed under Pressure. So is their love.
When Archer shows Posey his bridal parure, she panics: Those jewels are nothing but paste. The man she loves is in possession of a fake crafted by her sister’s hands, and she'll do anything to get the real jewels back. Including embarking on a journey to find the real jewels. Alone.
Arher's Posey on the roads alone? Never. The chase is on, and he won’t let her escape this time. He’ll catch up with her. And catch her heart.
Whatever your weather and season in your corner of the world, I hope you feel a bit of spring gladness in your heart! And I hope you have an amazing book in your hand.
Happy reading!
Charlie Lane
*All of the books pictured above in the Art of Love series are in Kindle Unlimited.
