Guest Post with Author Heather Snow and Giveaway

Today I would like to welcome back to RFTC, one of my favorite people author Heather Snow. Heather is gearing up for the release of the third book Sweet Madness and has stopped by to chat. Please give Heather a warm welcome.

Heather Snow is an award winning historical romance author with a degree in Chemistry who discovered she preferred creating chemistry on the page rather than in the lab. The final book in her Veiled Seduction series, SWEET MADNESS, hits shelves April 2, 2013. RT Book Reviews Magazine gives it 4 ½ stars, saying “In this emotional, compassionate romance...the powerful love story will sweep readers away." RT also gave her hero a K.I.S.S. designation, saying he “makes you weak in the knees as he accepts the healing power of love.” Book Obsessed Chicks gave it 5 stars, saying, “Heather Snow is cutting edge…a master storyteller. Sweet Madness is a magnificent story.” And Night Owl Reviews chose it as a top pick, saying, “Fresh and unique…sweet and heart-wrenching, with characters so complex, flawed, and emotionally scarred that they feel flesh and blood real.”

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The Healing Power of Love

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; No disease that enough love will not heal; No door that enough love will not open; No gulf that enough love will not bridge; No wall that enough love will not throw down; No sin that enough love will not redeem…

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, How hopeless the outlook, How muddled the fangle, How great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all…
- Emmet Fox

My upcoming novel SWEET MADNESS is a love story—one of romantic love, yes, but also one about the healing power of love.

When I first envisioned Gabriel Devereaux, I knew he was broken. After suffering terrible trauma during the Napoleonic Wars, he’d returned to London a changed man, but one with hope for his future. Two years later, however, he was in the depths of despair, locked away in a private sanatorium, fearing only a future of madness awaited him.

You might wonder how on earth my hero could overcome all of that and find his way to happily ever after. Believe me, I wondered! But I had an answer. You see, I believe in the power of love. To heal. To make whole. And I believed I could create a heroine who would be able to give him that love.

In fact, I’d already created her, I thought: sweet, lovely Penelope, a favorite secondary character from my debut novel, SWEET ENEMY. As a sidekick to that book’s heroine, I’d written Penelope as intuitive, accepting of others, compassionate and kind. Just the type of heroine who could help a wounded soldier find his way back to the light. I had it all worked out in my little mind and was excited to get started.

But as I began writing the story with my cheerful, sunny heroine—all ready to bring light back to our hero’s life—I realized how naïve I’d been. While I still thought Penelope’s love could heal Gabriel, I also realized that to go to the dark places she needed to go to bring Gabriel back, Penelope needed understand those places herself.

And so I accepted that poor Pen would have to suffer between where we left her in book one and where we pick her back up again in book three. I did some truly terrible things to her, things it pained me to do, but once it was done, SWEET MADNESS took on a whole new life. It became a story not just of a man who needed the healing power of love, but of two broken people meant to heal each other—making their love all the more powerful for it. I hope you enjoy their love story.

Just as important as love is the power of hope. My hero, Gabriel, is a fictional war hero but there are many real life heroes and their families suffering today. Therefore, my husband and I have decided to donate a portion of all royalties earned from the sale of SWEET MADNESS to Hope For the Warriors®, an organization dedicated to restoring a sense of self, restoring the family unit, and restoring hope for our service members and our military families. You can learn more about this fabulous charity at http://www.hopeforthewarriors.org/ .

Do you believe in the healing power of love? I’ll be happy to give away winner’s choice of either of my first two novels in the Veiled Seduction series, SWEET ENEMY or SWEET DECEPTION, blurbs of which can be found here.

AN UNTAMED MIND

Ever since her husband’s sudden and tragic death, Lady Penelope Bridgeman has committed herself to studying the maladies of the mind, particularly treating traumatized soldiers of the Napoleonic Wars. It is this expertise that brings the Marquess of Bromwich’s family to her door.

Gabriel Devereaux’s unexpected and unpredictable episodes are unlike any Penelope has studied. The once proud soldier has been left shaken and withdrawn, but she manages to build a fragile trust between them. Strangely, Gabriel seems completely lucid when not in the grips of his mania, and in the calm between bouts, she is surprised by how much she is drawn to him.

Despite his own growing feelings, Gabriel knows that he is fit for no one, and is determined to keep Penelope away from his descent into madness. But even though she knows firsthand the folly of loving a broken man, Penelope cannot stop herself from trying to save him, no matter the cost.

Read the Prologue and First Chapter HERE...

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Up For Grabs:

• 1 lucky winner will win their choice of either SWEET ENEMY or SWEET DECEPTION

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• Please answer this question: Do you believe in the healing power of love?
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