Grace Burrowes has been reading historical romances for nearly forty years, so choosing a Favorite Couple was nearly impossible, but a lot of fun. She writes Regency, Georgian and Scottish Victorian love stories, when she's not reading same.Find Grace at:
My favorite couple is Justine and Hawker from Joanna Bourne's The Black Hawk, the fourth book in her Spymaster series. Their story spans nearly twenty years, puts them on opposite sides of the Napoleonic wars, and has been deftly sketched through the three previous books. Their situation is desperate, wrapped in hopeless, sprinkled with doomed, and yet, they do find their happily ever after. Scrumptious prose, terrific sexual tension, and impossible odds--what could be better!
He is her enemy.
He is her lover.
He is her only hope.
Someone is stalking French agent Justine DeCabrillac through London's gray streets. Under cover of the rain, the assassin strikes--and Justine staggers to the door of the one man who can save her. The man she once loved. The man she hated. Adrian Hawkhurst.
Adrian wanted the treacherous beauty known as "Owl" back in his bed, but not wounded and clinging to life. Now, as he helps her heal, the two must learn to trust each other to confront the hidden menace that's trying to kill them--and survive long enough to explore the passion simmering between them once again.
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Captured and tortured by the French, Christian Severn, Duke of Mercia, survives by vowing to take revenge on his tormentors. Before the duke can pursue his version of justice, Gillian, Countess of Greendale, reminds him that his small daughter has suffered much in his absence, and needs her papa desperately.
Gilly endured her difficult marriage by avoiding confrontation and keeping peace at any cost. Christian's devotion to his daughter and his kindness toward Gilly give her hope that she could enjoy a future with him, for surely he of all men shares her loathing for violence in any form. Little does Gilly know, the battle for Christian's heart is only beginning.
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I inhaled this book a few years ago when it was up for a RITA. Just stunning! Whoever wins will be happy :)
ReplyDeleteI think we all inhaled it. Never was a RITA more of a foregone conclusion for me. Can't wait for Rogue Spy to come out in November!
DeleteI have just gotten into historical spy stories and find them fascinating. would love to win this.....
ReplyDeleteBarbara, you will LOVE Jo Bourne's books. They set a high standard for stories of any genre. I consider them romantic literature.
DeleteHi Grace! Just wanted to say that I love your books and I can't wait to get a chance to read some more!
ReplyDeleteI love writing them, Sandra! Win-Win!
Deletethis is a great prize with two wonderful books!
ReplyDeleteA reader of distinction, you!
DeleteHow do you find time to write with everything else you have going in your life?
ReplyDeleteWell... my housekeeping is very casual, I have no kiddies underfoot, I do not watch TV, and I had about twenty manuscripts stockpiled before publication. Things will slow down in 2016, I promise.
DeleteI wasn't complaining.... keeps those books coming! I am up to date with you releases and waiting on the next one! ;o)
DeleteI love Joanna Bourne !
ReplyDeleteThat would look nice on a T-shirt, I think, along with the cover to Black Hawk.
DeleteIs that a new series from Grace Burrowes? *SQEEE!*
ReplyDeleteI really like the Windham series
Linda, The Captive Hearts is a summer-ish trilogy, and you'll be pleased to see the 1814 version of Devlin St. Just in the first book, not very imaginatively titled (by me) "The Captive."
DeleteThanks for this post! I always love seeing what books/series authors love.
ReplyDeleteMe too--Rhett and Scarlett just don't do it for me when there's competition like Hawker and Justine around.
DeleteGrace, I have very much enjoyed all of your books and eagerly look forward to the next. I am also a recent convert to Joanna Bourne. I loved ALL of the Spymaster books.
ReplyDeleteThen you'll want to pre-order The Rogue Spy. http://amzn.to/1eeQILc It's Pax's story, and maybe EVEN better than Black Hawk.
DeleteI love spy stories! A classic by Grace and a new one coming too - perfect!
ReplyDeleteSometimes I feel like Cruella De'Vil ranting about furs, furs, I live for furs! Except for me it's books, books, I live for books!
DeleteCongrats to Grace on the newest release! Love her books :) I haven't read any of JB's books yet. Definitely going to have to check them out! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteErin, if you like historicals, you MUST read Jo Bourne. Start with The Spymaster's Lady and prepare to be impressed. Prose doesn't get much better than this.
DeleteI love Grace's books. I highly recommend them.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lori. I feel the same way about anything Jo Bourne writes. And she's only one of a number of historical romance author who I think do first rate work.
DeleteI thought I had all your books, Grace, but I don't have Trenton! And I definitely have to search out Joanna Bourne's books. This cover looks to be of an older generation of romances that I used to read as they have that "special" recognizable look about them. But I note in Amazon that it was written in 2011. I'm wondering how that can be since I haven't heard about Joanna in recent years...a mystery I need to solve. I do love intrigue and action and dashing heroes and heroines in romances, so this latest Captive Heart series sounds absolutely fantastic to me...and I can't wait to delve into it. I definitely give thanks for this post today! jdh2690@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteJanice, Trenton is my debut self-published novel, and getting pre-order capability for a self published title is tricky. You upload on a half dozen (or more vendor sites), you wait, one goes live, then another... right now, we're timing contractions for the iBookstore.
DeleteJoanna Bourne is a fairly addition to the historical romance pantheon, and a most excellent one.
I love that you have new series for us to LOVE! Gosh, I NEED Trenton! And THE CAPTIVE looks wonderful. What a pretty cover!
ReplyDeleteThe Captive is sporting a cover by Jon Paul, whose work to me is the equivalent of Court Dress for a historical romance. Dude knows of what he covers.
DeleteGrace, you led me to the Joanna Bourne books, and they are great. I would be delighted to win her book, since I have done my reading of her series through the library. And of course, another "Lord" book is a great plus. Already have the entire 'Captive Hearts' trilogy pre-ordered. Will get Trenton when it is available ( a self-publish, right??)
ReplyDeleteWish I could get a copy of one of Jo's books to every historical reader (and author). She's that good, her books are that much of a joy to read. Also wish she'd write faster, but genius cannot be rushed (or so my brother used to say).
DeleteI remember you leading me toward Joanna Bourne as well! She's been in my "to read" pile ever since. I check every day to see when I can buy Trenton - I'm chomping at the bit to get more than the chapters on your web page!
ReplyDeleteAny day now, we'll have all of Trenton to chomp on--or the parts Ellie's not occupied with. He's waited a while for his HEA, and I think his story is one that blends light and dark nicely.
DeleteI loved "Black Hawk" but I love your books best Miss Grace:)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Gail!
DeleteI also love Hawker and Justine from "The Black Hawk." My other favorites include Beth Armitage and Lucien de Vaux from Jo Beverley's "An Unwilling Bride" and Sara Fielding and Derek Craven from Lisa Kleypas' "Dreaming of You."
ReplyDeleteI think Derek Craven is about the best hero name ever, from any sub-genre, and both Jo and Lisa are well represented on my keeper shelf.
DeleteHi Grace!
ReplyDeleteI've been reading your books since you first started writing them but I've always wondered if before you started writing your own stories if there was one author that made an impact on you by the way they presented the stories they wrote to their readers that made them unique.
I've always felt that it isn't just the stories you write that are so wonderful but how you also make your readers feel a connection to the characters and that keeps them coming back for more!
Judith Ivory, hands down, is the author I found the most accomplished at her trade. She's no longer writing, but she anticiapted nearly ever major development in romance by about ten years. She wrote Edwardian and Victorian before they were popular, dealt with addiction and divorce in a historical context, expanded her characters to include the less than Upper Ten Thousand, used prose so sophisticated it leaves a lot of literary authors in the dust... Some of the genre conventions have changed since she was published, but great writing endures. Start with The Proposition if you aren't familiar with her work.
DeleteI loved reading her books and for those who weren't as fortunate as I was to read them when they were first released I hope they know that several of her stories are still available on Amazon even if they are no longer available at bookstores!
DeleteI agree with you that her books included a lot of situations that other historical romances didn't at the time and I also send kudos to whoever her publisher was to recognize the wisdom that she was able to give them by giving them stories that the general populations was looking for!
Both sound great! Even if I don't win, they will be on my Kindle soon. But Trenton isn't on amazon...?
ReplyDeleteGive him a few days, Heather. He's a self-published title, and therefore not available for pre-order. Worth Kettering (May), and Hadrian Bothwell (June) will go on sale in the same fashion.
DeleteGrace, I don't know what took me so long to discover your books. I saw Mary Balogh recommend them on her blog, and I'm so glad she did! How many more books will be in the series you are writing now?
ReplyDeleteGretchen, I haven't been published that long--about three years. The Lonely Lords series will have six more books at least, including Trenton. The Scottish Victorians are due for a fourth book in October, "What A Lady Wants for Christmas," and the Captive Hearts Trilogy this summer has three books which will be published July, August, and September.
DeleteI discovered Joanna Bourne at the same time Sherry Thomas did her first book. I felt I had struck gold. I was working at a new and used bookstore at the time. They are both fabulous authors. In fact my favorite romance couple comes from Sherry Thomas's first book- Private Arrangements. I have so enjoyed every one of your books and am eagerly awaiting Trenton. I haven't found it on Amazon when I have checked each day. When will it be out?
ReplyDeleteOn Amazon, tomorrow or Thursday. I agree about Sherry Thomas--the woman is a genius with prose, and English isn't even her native language. She's also somebody who branched out into other historical periods before it was popular, and did it soooooo well.
DeleteThank you for bringing "The Black Hawk" to my attention. And your own, of course. Both books sound absolutely amazing. I'm a sucker for tormented heroes turned lovers so I know I'm going to love your book
ReplyDeleteThe Black Hawk is about as tormented you can get--lovers on opposite sides of a war that took TWENTY YEARS to conclude? And they were enemies the whole time, often armed enemies. When people endure that much trauma, you wonder if they'll find the courage to reach for an HEA when it does become available to them.
DeleteI am a huge fan of Grace's. I can't wait to read the new series coming out this year. I have not read Joanna Bourne. Thanks for the post and now I have to go to Amazon to check out her books. Thanks
ReplyDeleteSheryl, yes you do. Right now. You owe it to yourself to order The Spymaster's Lady and start reading it even before it's out of the box. Summer's coming--time get in shape for power reading!
DeleteI lobe the Lords!! :-)
ReplyDeleteI do too, which is why you'll get stories for Trenton, Hadrian and Worth this spring, and for Thomas, Matthew and Axel (Belmont) next spring. Still not sure what to do with Daniel Banks, though. Ima hafta think on that one.
DeleteHi Grace. I love your books! I've never read Joanna Bourne. I'll check into her. I have been reading some great historical spy romances lately, like Shana Galen's series.
ReplyDeleteMarcy Shuler
Shana writes a terrific book and has some fun covers too. I especially like how she can refer to modern themes without once breaking period stride. THAT is an art.
DeleteHave another book to add to my TBR pile!
ReplyDeleteFour books in the Spymaster series, and another one coming out in November. An embarrassment of riches.
DeleteI haven't thought about this book in a while but I absolutely loved it!
ReplyDeleteI love the whole series, and that scene between Hawker and Justine in the mud and rain? Her trust in him? THE BEST.
DeleteOMG I love all of your books! Although my favorites are still the Windhams (yes, all of them)
ReplyDeleteYou'll like catching a glimpse of St. Just in The Captive then, before Waterloo took such a toll on him.
DeleteGrace, you have no idea how thrilled I am to hear about all your books and ideas for books in the works!! My tired little brain went off track to hear that Devlin St. Just is in "The Captive"! (Although I will admit the Windham's appearance in "The MacGregor's Lady" was bittersweet - I know a great deal of time has passed, but still....
ReplyDeleteGlenda, I know. It was one thing to go back in novella fashion and see Percy and Esther as young people, and yet, turning the clock forward wasn't as easy. Many readers are now asking for Windham cousin stories--Rose, Winnie, Vim and Sophie's boys--and I'm reluctant because of the very feelings you allude to. I'll probably overcome the reluctance, because I want to know those stories too.
DeleteBeautiful book covers and very interesting descriptions of the stories.
ReplyDeleteYour favorite couple is unknown to me - for now.
ReplyDeleteI've enjoyed reading Joanna Bourne's series, especially Hawker & Justine's book.
ReplyDeleteI have all of joanna's books and all of yours. Loved each and every one of them -- all for different reasons.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read any of Joanna's books but The Black Hawk sounds amazing.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance to win!
I haven't read Black Hawk, but it sounds really good. I'm looking forward to reading it and all your upcoming books.
ReplyDeleteJoanna Bourne's books are like chocolate. Once you have a taste you can't read just one. The Black Hawk is one of the great romances and Adrian is a wonderful hero. I enjoyed him in every one of her books, even the early one, Her Ladyship's Companion.
ReplyDeleteI have both of these, so no need to enter me
Another great book by another great author for me to read :)
ReplyDeleteSpymaster series sounds interesting
ReplyDeleteI haven't read any of your books yet Grace, but you have been highly recommend to me by sister so I have to add you to my TBR list. After reading some reviews I must agree with her.
ReplyDeleteI am in love with the cover of the Captive!!!!
ReplyDeleteoh the new books look really amazing! Great selection thought I never read that one.
ReplyDeleteHi Grace! Your books sound amazing!
ReplyDeleteHi Grace, I love your books and am looking forward to the new series.
ReplyDeleteHi Grace! I guess I have been hiding underneath a rock because I haven't read any of your books or Joanna's yet. Will have to remedy that situation. Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI love your books and can't wait for the new one to be released!
ReplyDeleteI love your books! I like JB too. Love how strong her heroine is.
ReplyDeleteLove all your books! Especially the Windhams :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance to win. I haven't read these books yet.
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