Today's special guest is Amber
Lin. Amber writes edgy romance with damaged hearts, redemptive love, and a steamy ever
after. Her debut novel, Giving It Up, received The Romance Review’s Top Pick,
Night Owl Top Pick, and 5 Blue Ribbons from Romance Junkies. RT Book Reviews
called it “truly extraordinary.” Since then, she has gone on to write erotic,
contemporary, and historical romances.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Can she be more than a mistress?
With a tarnished reputation, Mercy Lyndhurst expected to become
the Earl of Rochford's mistress, not his wife. Immediately abandoned by her
husband after their wedding, Mercy transformed herself from commoner to
countess, vowing to protect the lands and people her husband was forced to
leave.
Over the past six years, William has restored the family fortune
all the while tortured by his memories of Mercy…and the dark night he killed a
man. When a threat draws him home, William learns just how much has
changed—including his wife. While the passion still flares between them, he
fears he has wounded her too badly to regain her trust. But as the danger grows
they must unite to save the estate…and possibly their marriage.
AN EXCERPT
William stopped beside his horse,
staring into the gray hills.
“Back there,” Beck said. “My lord,
it was murder.”
His heart squeezed tight. Murder.
“He was going to hurt her. You saw it.”
“He was drunk and unarmed but for a
piece of glass. You came to the house with a pistol. It will look like revenge.
There are limits to what the law will accept, even for a peer.”
William paused, swallowed. “No.
There aren’t.”
A part of him wished Beck was right,
that someone would punish William for what he had done, that someone would
protect this young woman from his misuse. But that part of him was very small
and William spoke the truth. That was the problem with being an earl, even a
poor one—there was no one to stop him.
The young woman crossed the marshy
grass in her thin nightgown—already halfway to translucence in the rain. She
faced him with a blankness he recognized in himself. Shock at what had
happened. Acceptance of what was to come.
Sweet little Mercy Lyndhurst, and
here he was to defile her.
The last time he’d seen her she’d
been a waif of a girl. Now she was all woman. And why shouldn’t he take her? He
could have her and help her at the same time.
A poor excuse.
He examined her, struggling for
detachment. Already the rain was clearing some of the fog from his mind,
allowing rays of sanity to peek through. The thought of going home alone to the
empty cavern of a house chilled him. He might as well be a stranger in his own
lands for all that he knew anyone here.
He was selfish to take her this way,
but concern whispered, too.
What would she do here? Jasper may
have been a poor excuse for a caretaker, but a young woman with no means could
starve in the next cruel winter. She deserved better than him for a rescuer,
but he was all she had.
Another excuse. The simple truth
was, he couldn’t quite bring himself to leave her here, in a place that reeked
of death.
“Did you send the note?” he asked
suddenly. He didn’t know where the idea had come from, but he knew the answer
even before she nodded.
She’d sent the note, because she
knew there was trouble. She’d used code from their childhood, so that he would
understand. And that was as good a reason to take her as any—there were very
few people he could trust.
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