Guest Post with Author Cathy Maxwell and Giveaway

Today I am super excited to welcome author Cathy Maxwell back to RFTC. Cathy is celebrating the release of her newest book The Devil's Heart and has stopped by to chat. Please everyone give Cathy a warm welcome.

Born in Olathe, Kansas, Cathy Maxwell’s family roots go back to the Mayflower and the Revolutionary War. She has long called Virginia home, noting she is “a Virginian by choice, but a Kansan by nature.” She worked in television news as a broadcaster before spending six years in the Navy. She attended Air Force intelligence school, worked in the Pentagon and did a tour with Naval Intelligence.

Cathy began her writing career in 1991 while her children were still small. “It wasn’t easy,” she says. “I worked full time, my husband travelled, we had three kids, I volunteered and I was writing from four until seven every morning.” Now, twenty years later, she is the author of seventeen national bestsellers and her novels appear regularly on The New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. A rarity in the book world, Cathy has published every one of her novels with the same publisher, Harper Collins/Avon Books.

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Cathy Maxwell, THE DEVIL’S HEART, and Scottish Magic

Hawaiians believe ohana (family) is guided by an ‘aumakua – an ancestor who serves as a guardian. ‘Aumakua often take the form of a manō (shark), Pohaku (rock) and pueo (owl). Even as a Haole (foreigner), I feel this presence as I hike around the island. It is the same feeling I had when I explored the Highlands. Sigh. Scotland.

Cathy Maxwell delivers Scottish magic, and even a Hawaiian ‘aumakua, in her series The Chattan Curse. In LYON’S BRIDE, Book One, readers learned about the curse from an angry witch whose daughter was jilted by the Chattan heir in the 17th century:

When a Chattan male falls in love, strike his heart with fire from above . . .

Two hundred years later, Neal Chattan seeks a bride he cannot love. Yet he falls in love with his matchmaker, realizing that love is worth the risk. Neal’s decision inspires his brother, Colonel Harry Chattan, to break the curse in THE SCOTTISH WITCH, Book Two. Instead, he finds love with the woman posing as the witch. As both Neal and Harry face the consequences, their sister Lady Margaret Chattan travels into the heart of the Highlands to challenge the witch in THE DEVIL’S HEART. Along the way, she is guided by a cat nicknamed Owl for her folded ears. Owl seems to understand the evil spirits that challenge Margaret at every step.

Lady Margret Chattan, one of the most desirable women in all of England, has no interest whatsoever in marriage. When her brother’s lives are put in danger, she travels to the Scottish Highlands, intent on saving them. There she meets Heath Macnachtan, who is trying to find out who murdered his own brother. Together, they team up to investigate the powerful curse that is behind the deaths, but instead find themselves falling in love.

Exceptionally entertaining and charming, The Devil’s Heart mixes a well-crafted love story with complex characters and pulse-pounding adventure.

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Up For Grabs:

• 1 lucky winner will win a copy of The Devil's Heart

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