Guest Post with Author Bronwen Evans and Giveaway

Meet Bronwen Evans, author of A Kiss of Lies.

Bronwen Evans grew up loving books. She has always indulged her love of storytelling and is constantly gobbling up movies, books, and theater. Is it any wonder she’s a proud romance writer? Evans is a two-time winner of the RomCon Readers’ Crown and has been nominated for an RT Reviewers’ Choice Award. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

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The Earl of Markham has a Problem

I’m excited to introduce you to my latest hero, Christian Trent, Earl of Markham, from my new historical romance release, A KISS OF LIES, book #1 in my Disgraced Lords series. Christian has popped along to talk with me (and you) this afternoon because he needs advice on women, one woman in particular, heroine, Sarah Cooper.

Christian: Good afternoon, ladies. Thank you for inviting me to partake of afternoon tea. I have a problem of a delicate nature and I’m hoping you’ll offer sound feminine advice.

Bron: That sounds intriguing. I’m sure we’ll listen with sympathy and try to help you. What’s the nature of the problem, trouble in the boudoir?

Christian: (seductive smile with a laugh) I’ve never had any complaints in that department. No, the problem is Sarah’s fear of matrimony. I want to make her my wife.

Bron: You’ve asked her? Down on bended knee and all that?

Christian: Well, I did ask passionately, but I may not have been on bended knee. Would that matter?

Bron: Not really. Wow, she turned you down—an Earl. Did she give you a reason?

Christian: (nodding vigorously) Yes. She won’t risk being owned by any man again. You see she’s a widow and her husband was a brute of a man. Now she’s a bit skittish at the idea of putting herself under another man’s control.

Bron: Well, I can perfectly understand that. You’ll simply have to be patient and earn her trust.

Christian: I would if we had time, but she’s my wards governess and it is unseemly to carry on our affair now that we are back in England, and living under the same roof. I’ve run out of time.

Bron: I see. You met in Canada where you have been living since the terrible incident with the Duke of Barforte. Is that where you feel in love? What has Sarah suggested?

Christian: I first met Sarah when I employed her as Lily’s governess, in York, Canada. Then we sailed home via Jamaica. We stopped there for a few days and that’s where we fell in love. It was very romantic, the beaches, the warm weather... But now she wants to end the affair. She is thinking of my ward, Lily and me. I’ve been falsely accused of a terrible crime and Sarah doesn’t wish any further scandal to set the Ton against me. Plus, it would ruin Lily’s chances of a place in Society. But I don’t care about all that. Since I was badly burned at Waterloo, Sarah is the first woman who has looked at me with passion filled eyes. She loves me. I know it. I wish she wouldn’t be so noble. I don’t care that she’s a governess. I love her (beats his chest).

Bron: I knew there was a reason the Duke shanghaied you to Canada. You love her, oh, that’s so sweet. You are indeed in a bit of a pickle. Could you not offer her a financial settlement that would be put in trust for her should she feel the need to escape? It would prove you’d let her go if she wanted to?

Christian: (rubs forehead) I hadn’t thought of that. It could work. I wish I could understand what her husband did to her. That way I could try to show her I’m nothing like him.

Bron: Sorry, I can’t think of any other way to reassure her, except by being good to her and that all takes time.

Christian: Perhaps one of your readers could offer a solution. Ladies, what should I do?

Bron: I’ll throw the question to the readers; come on ladies, Christian needs some advice.

Thanks for sharing with us today, Christian. I hope you get your Happy Ever After with Sarah. One way for readers to find out is to read your story in A KISS OF LIES. Enjoy!

In Bronwen Evans’s Loveswept debut, a pair of damaged souls ignite each other’s deepest passions—even as they tempt fate by deceiving the world.

Desperate to escape her abusive past, Sarah Cooper disguises herself as a governess in the employ of Christian Trent, Earl of Markham, the man who, long ago, she fantasized about marrying. Despite the battle scars that mar his face, Sarah finds being near Christian rekindles her infatuation. A governess, however, has no business in the arms of an earl, and as she accompanies Christian on his voyage home, Sarah must resist her intense desires—or risk revealing her dangerous secrets.

One of the renowned Libertine Scholars, Christian Trent once enjoyed the company of any woman he chose. But that was before the horrors of Waterloo, his wrongful conviction of a hideous crime, and his forcible removal from England. Far from home and the resources he once had, Christian believes the life he knew—and any chance of happiness—is over . . . until his ward’s governess sparks his heart back to life, and makes him remember the man he used to be. Now Christian is determined to return to England, regain his honor, and win the heart of the woman he has come to love.

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