A Garden Can Be Fun If You Don't Have One

That was my mother's credo. My father had slightly different ideas.

New This Week at Book View Café

Book View Café is pleased to present A Dangerous Compromise by Shannon Donnelly.

"Delicious, delightful, and devilishly good reading..." -- Emily Hendrickson, author of The Rake's Revenge

Convinced by her godmother that reformed rakes make the best husbands, the beautiful and willful Clarissa Derhurst is on the hunt for just such a man. Only a rake can give her the passion she needs to keep from becoming a vain, unhappy woman like her mother. But finding the right rake is no easy task. When she meets Lord Wolviston, the 'lone wolf', she starts to believe he
might be able to give her the passion she craves. No other man makes her heart beat so fast. But can she reform his wicked ways - and is she even certain he is all that wicked?

After his father's crippling accident, Evan Fortesque became burdened by family responsibilities. Now that his father has passed on, and as the new Lord Wolviston, he's come to London to sow a few belated wild oats. When he overhears that a spoilt beauty won't look twice at a respectable gentleman such as himself, he decides she needs a lesson-and this is just the lark he
wanted. He'll pretend to be a rake she won't be able to reform. But instead of finding a vain, silly girl, he starts to glimpse the passionate woman underneath Clarissa's defenses. And then Clarissa attracts a real rake to her side. Now Wolviston must keep Clarissa from being compromised. But how can he do that when he's starting to want to seduce her himself?

Shannon Donnelly's writing has won numerous awards, including a RITA nomination for Best Regency, the Grand Prize in the "Minute Maid Sensational Romance Writer" contest, judged by Nora Roberts, RWA's Golden Heart, the Laurel Wreath, the Winter Rose, the Bookseller's Best, and multiple finalists in the Holt Medallion, the Colorado ACE, the Golden Quill, and others. Her work has repeatedly earned 4½ Star Top Pick reviews from Romantic Times magazine, as well as praise from Booklist and other reviewers, who note: "simply superb"..."wonderfully uplifting"... and "beautifully written."

In addition to her Regency romances, she has had novellas published in several anthologies, has had young adult horror stories published and is the author of several computer games. Currently, she is a member of several chapters of RWA, and she is a past-president of the Beau Monde, Regency Chapter of RWA. She has spoken at past writer conferences, including RWA's national conference, and regularly gives workshops online. Her abiding passions include--besides writing--her dogs, reading, gardening, painting, belly dancing, and the ever present horses in her life. She can be found online at sd-writer.com, facebook.com/sdwriter and twitter.com/sdwriter.

October 4, 2011 $2.99
ISBN: 978-0-9831423-6-2

Miss Tolerance Can Be Had...for a Price

Oh look! Oh look! It's a book!

I'm almost embarrassed to be as gleeful about Miss Tolerance's return as I am...but I am. If you want to see the Book Page on the Plus One site, here it is. If you you want to order The Sleeping Partner, you'll go here.

I'm beginning to feel astonishingly like it's going to happen. Official pub date is 10/31. There will be books at World Fantasy. Let the swashing of bucklers begin. Whoop!