Guest Post with Author Heather Snow and Giveaway

Today I am happy to welcome back to the blog, author Heather Snow. Heather is all sorts of nice and I just love her books! Heather is celebrating the release of Sweet Deception, the second book in her Veiled Seduction series and has stopped by to share some behind the scenes info. But before I give the floor over to Heather, lets get to know her some.

Heather Snow is a historical romance writer with a degree in Chemistry who found she much preferred creating chemistry on the page, rather than in the lab! She is forever trying to wrangle her left and right brain to work together (some days with more success than others!), but if her two sides had to duke it out, left would win every time--which can be a creative challenge. Luckily, she loves challenges...she just goes about solving them analytically.

She lives with her husband and two sons in the Midwest and truly hopes you find her stories have just the right chemistry...

Places to find Heather:

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Pesky Characters…

Hello! Heather Snow here and I am thrilled to be continuing my blog tour for Sweet Deception here at Ramblings From This Chick. Thank you, Danielle, for having me! What I am doing for this tour is pulling back the curtain of Sweet Deception a bit, sharing a few of my favorite passages from the book each day while letting you in on the thoughts behind them. You can keep up with the stops (or go back and read ones you missed) either on my website (www.HeatherSnowBooks.com) or my Facebook page (www.facebook.com/AuthorHeatherSnow).

Yesterday, I talked a bit about how I had planned Sweet Deception as a heroine-centric story centered mostly around my feisty and brilliant lady criminologist, but how Derick (a fan favorite from Sweet Enemy) swooped into my opening lines and changed my mind. By the time I neared the end of the first chapter, I knew Derick was going to play a much different role than I had intended. But imagine my surprise when this is what came out next…

Emma lifted her chin in challenge. “I hadn’t thought you would—”

“Wish to help?” Derick returned her challenge, raising a brow. Damn. Her assumption irked. And the fact that he’d been stung by it irked more. He’d long ago grown accustomed to not caring what anyone thought. “Feel responsible for a member of my household?”

Emma blinked. “Your household?” She sputtered. “You haven’t been to Derbyshire in fourteen—”

“No, but I am human, Miss Wallingford.” Derick stepped closer, bringing his other arm around and planting it on the door behind her, trapping her. Only so that she would listen to him, of course. Not at all because of her tantalizing scent, a heady mix of lavender and . . . something he couldn’t quite place. “I may not agree with your assumptions, but it is clear you strongly believe the maid is in danger. If there is a chance you are correct, I would like to do what I can.”

A huff of exasperation escaped her lips, a gesture Derick took to mean she didn’t think too highly of him or his offer. He allowed a half-cynical smile to curve his lips. What did he care if Miss Emma Wallingford disapproved of one of his many alter egos? It wasn’t him, after all.

Besides, he doubted she’d like him any better if she knew his true purpose in Derbyshire.

To investigate her brother for treason.


What??? The original idea for this story centered on a missing maid that led to the discovery of other missing women. It featured Emma as an early geographical profiler hunting a serial killer. However, as characters are sometimes wont to do, Derick showed up on the page and insisted that this was his story as much as it was Emma’s, and that he was a traitor hunter, thank you very much. (See Sweet Enemy) He hadn’t spent fourteen years behind enemy lines just to show up at his family home and get drawn into someone else’s murder investigation. He wanted to be there for his own reasons. He was all fine and good with letting Emma work out most of the crime, but he fully intended on bringing his expertise to bear, as well. Therefore, they would be hunting a traitor—end of story.

Pesky characters.

Still, I was able to put most of the research I had already done to use. I just had to come up with a different set of bodies for them to find—rather than missing women, they were now looking for missing couriers and War Department agents, etc., and my killer was killing for a much different reason. But I am completely jazzed about how it all turned out in the end. I hope you are, too!

I’ll be happy to give away a copy of my debut, SWEET ENEMY, the first book in this series. Please look out for SWEET DECEPTION, which came out in bookstores yesterday! To enter, simply leave me a comment and answer the question: What’s the last thing that surprised you? Did it turn out to be a good surprise, or a bad surprise?

In the dark, the greatest lover can become the most dangerous conspirator...

Footsteps In The Fog

Lord Frederick Aveline, otherwise known as Derick, has successfully kept up appearances as an English nobleman. What no one knows is that he's a full-blooded Frenchman—a double agent for the British against the French. But there is something else no one knows about Derick. Deciding to leave behind his days of espionage, he's arrived home in Derbyshire to finish one final order of business: to find and expose a dangerous traitor in their midst.

But Aveline Castle holds its own share of secrets—including murder—and an unexpected lure in the brilliant and fiesty Emma Wallingford. Emma's loyalty lies with acting as the town's magistrate, and she doesn't welcome an unanticipated, though appealing, intrusion like Derick's. As the two of them are drawn closer, the sordid past of Derick's family comes to light, as does the true nature of his arrival. But when deception, however sweet, is the name of the game, no one can be trusted. And every love— and every life—is at risk.

Check out the first chapter here.

Places to Purchase:

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1 lucky commenter (International Shipping Available) will win a copy of  Sweet Enemy.

To Enter:

• Leave a comment answering Heather's question: What’s the last thing that surprised you? Did it turn out to be a good surprise, or a bad surprise?
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