Guest Post with Author Lorraine Heath and Giveaway

Today I would like to welcome back to RFTC author Lorraine Heath. Lorraine is celebrating the release of Lord of Wicked Intentions, book 3 in her Lost Lords of Pembrook series and has stopped by to share an interview with Lord Rafe Easton. Please give Lorraine and Lord Easton a warm welcome. 

New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath always dreamed of being a writer. After graduating from the University of Texas, she wrote training manuals, press releases for a publicist, articles, and computer code, but something was always missing. In 1990, she read a romance novel and became not only hooked on the genre, but quickly realized what her writing lacked: rebels, scoundrels, and rogues. She's been writing about them ever since.

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An Interview with Lord Rafe Easton

It’s such a pleasure to be here today. Thank you, Danielle, for inviting me.

I thought today I would interview Lord Rafe Easton, the youngest of the Easton brothers, and the hero in the last book of the Lost Lords of Pembrook series. It’s nearly midnight, and we’re in his office in his gambling house. Globes adorn shelves but little else is in the room other than a desk and two chairs. He’s lounging behind his desk, sipping whiskey, watching me through heavy-lidded eyes as though he doesn’t quite trust me.

LH: Rafe, it’s so nice for you take time out of your busy schedule to talk with us. Why do you collect globes?

Rafe: I don’t “collect” them.

LH: But you have so many.

He shrugs.

LH: All right then. Let’s go to a simpler question. You were only ten when your uncle locked you and your brothers in the Pembrook tower. How did you feel about that?

Rafe: That’s a rather idiotic question. How the bloody hell do you think I felt? He wanted to kill us. I was terrified, but also hungry and cold. I wanted out. I did a bit of blubbering, which shames me now to think about. I wish I had been as brave as Sebastian and Tristan, but as you say, I was only ten. A spoiled lad, really. No one had ever hurt me before. It was quite inconceivable that uncle would—but why else would he lock us away?

LH: You all managed to escape, but your brothers left you at a workhouse. How did that make you feel?

Rafe: Why all these questions about my feelings? I don’t discuss my feelings. Let me ask you—if you were abandoned, how would you feel?

LH: Abandoned. An interesting word choice. Wasn’t it more dangerous for you all to stay together?

Rafe: We were brothers. We should have stayed together.

LH: Life in the workhouse must have been hard.

Rafe: It was hell.

LH: Care to elaborate?

Rafe: No.

LH: Very well. Let’s move on. You eventually made your way to London where you became a gaming hell owner. How did that come about?

Silence.

LH: Rafe?

Rafe: Just give me a moment to decide how much to tell you. It’s not a pretty story, but the long and short of it is that I worked for the previous owner, a bloke named Dimmick. Not a nice person. Eventually, with a little manipulation, I took over.

LH: Which gave you wealth and power. What did you think the first time that you set eyes on Miss Evelyn Chambers?

Rafe: I didn’t think at all. She stole my breath, my thoughts, my reason. Why else would I have stupidly claimed her?

LH: You thought you’d made a mistake?

Rafe: Absolutely. Now I was responsible for her. I had to provide for her, see that she was taken care of.

LH: You wanted to make her your mistress. Why not make her your wife?

Rafe: I don’t believe in permanence. I had lost everything I’d ever cared about. Eventually she would want to leave—would leave. Best not to care.

LH: You thought there was a chance you would come to care for her?

Rafe: Of course not, but she was a complication. I don’t like complications.

LH: You did come to care for her, though, didn’t you?

Rafe: Have you not yet deciphered that I don’t discuss my feelings?

LH: I don’t think you are as callus as you appear.

Rafe: Little you know.

LH: As I’m the writer I know a great deal.

Rafe: I believe this interview is over.

LH: Not quite yet. You need to answer questions from our visitors. One lucky poster will receive an autographed set of the first two books in the Lost Lords of Pembrook series.

Rafe: But not my book? Once again, I am an afterthought.

LH: We can’t have you feeling that way, now can we? All right then. One lucky poster will receive an autographed set of all the stories in the Lost Lords of Pembrook series. Questions?

Lord Rafe Eason may be of noble blood, but survival taught him to rely only on himself and to love no one. Yet when he sets his eyes on Miss Evelyn Chambers, and earl's illegitimate daughter, he is determined to have her, if only as his mistress.

After her father's death, Evelyn Chambers never imagined she would be sold to the highest bidder, yet circumstances give her little choice except to accept the lord's indecent proposal. Rafe is wealthy, as well as ruthless. Yet his coldness belies deep passion and deeper secrets. If she must be his, Evelyn intends to lay bare everything the Lord of Pembrook is hiding. But dark discoveries threaten to destroy them both until unexpected love guides the last lost lord home.

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