Guest Post with Author Maggie Robinson and Giveaway

Today I am happy to once again welcome back to RFTC author, Maggie Robinson  Maggie is celebrating the recent release of her book In the Arms of the Heiress and has stopped by to chat. Please give her a warm welcome.

Maggie Robinson is a former teacher, library clerk and mother of four who woke up in the middle of the night, absolutely compelled to create the perfect man and use as many adverbs as possible doing so. A transplanted New Yorker, she lives with her not-quite perfect husband in Maine, where the cold winters are ideal for staying inside and writing hot historical romances.

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Thanks so much for having me back! I have two books out this month, which is kind of exiting, and I realized that though I wrote them two years and a century apart, they have some similarities. I thought I’d do a fun comparison:

In the Arms of the Heiress (7/2)	Lady Anne’s Lover (7/30)
First in the Ladies Unlaced series	Last in the London List series
Mass market paperback	Trade paperback
Winter 1903	Winter 1820
Edwardian	Regency
Opulence	Bleak squalor
Heiress heroine who blows up cars	Heiress heroine who blows up stoves
Wounded hero	Wounded Hero
Someone's out to get him	Someone is out to get her

Both Louisa Stratton from In the Arms of the Heiress and Lady Anne from Lady Anne’s Lover are anxious to escape their pasts and their families. They haven’t always made the wisest decisions, which seems to be a theme for my heroines. I love women who make mistakes, learn from them, forgive themselves and move on.

Both Captain Charles Cooper and Major Gareth Ripton-Jones have had distinguished army careers but can’t find their footing in peacetime. It isn’t until their heroines invade their lives that they rediscover their honor and love.

But seriously, these are not the same book, LOL. You can compare the backcover blurbs:

It’s all fun and games until someone falls in love…

Independent heiress Louisa Stratton is going home to Rosemont for the holidays, and at the family’s request, she’s bringing her new husband—Maximillian Norwich, art connoisseur and artful lover, the man she’s written of so glowingly. There’s one hitch—he doesn’t exist. Louisa needs a fake husband, and fast, to make the proper impression.

Charles Cooper, captain of the Boer War and far from silver spoons or gilded cages, is so hard up that even this crazy scheme appeals to him. It’s only thirty days, not till death do them part. What’s so difficult about impersonating a husband, even if he doesn’t know a Rembrandt from a Rousseau?

The true difficulty is keeping his hands off Louisa once there’s nobody around to see their ruse. And then there’s the small problem of someone at Rosemont trying to kill him. Keeping his wits about him and protecting Louisa brings out the honor he thought he’d left on the battlefield. But when Louisa tries to protect him, Charles knows he’s found a way to face his future—in the arms of his heiress.

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Lady Imaculata Anne Egremont has appeared in the scandalous pages of the London List often enough. The reading public is so bored with her nonsense, she couldn’t make news now unless she took a vow of chastity. But behind her naughty hijinks is a terrible fear. It’s time the List helped her. With a quick scan through its job postings and a few whacks at her ridiculous name, she’s off to keep house for a bachelor veteran as plain Anne Mont.

Major Gareth Ripton-Jones is dangerously young and handsome on the face of it, but after losing his love and his arm in short order, he is also too deep in his cups to notice that his suspiciously young housekeeper is suspiciously terrible at keeping house. Until, that is, her sharp tongue and her burnt coffee penetrate even his misery—and the charm underneath surprises them both. Trust the worst cook in Wales to propose a most unexpected solution to his troubles…

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