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VBT (&Giveaway) – A Marriage of Inconvenience by Christine Young

By Barb Drozdowich 30 Comments

Welcome to Sugarbeat’s Books – The Home of the Romance Novel!

Today we are welcoming Christine Young to the blog! She is the author of A Marriage of Inconvenience and is touring her book with Goddessfish Promotions. She’ll be giving away a $25.00 Gift Card to a commenter from the tour. If you want to increase your chances of winning, click HERE for the list of blog to leave more comments 🙂

I hope you enjoy what Christine is sharing from her book. Be sure to leave a comment in order to win!

A Marriage of Inconvenience

by Christine Young

 

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BLURB:

 

A REGAL BEAUTY

 

When the duchess decides to wed her to a wastrel and a fop, Ravyn Grahm takes matters into her own hands and declares her engagement to another man. Instead of fessing up and telling her great aunt what she has done, she goes through with the pretense. Aric Lakeland is the bastard son of an earl and has a dangerous reputation. But Ravyn is willing to do most anything to keep the duchess from discovering the lie.

 

A DEVIL-MAY-CARE SMUGGLER

 

He’d bought land in America, looking to put down roots and end his life of adventure, but Aric Lakeland got more than he bargained for when he encountered a beautiful heiress who made a promise she didn’t want to keep. But the promise could not be undone and standing between them were more obstacles than either ever dreamed. Aric had made plans to spend the rest of his life in America and that was at odds with Ravyn’s plan of living in England and running her father’s estate. Now, he’ll have to choose between his dreams and the woman he loves more than life.

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EXCERPT:

“Well, I can see that marriage hasn’t trimmed Amorica’s tongue one bit,” Aric said wryly as he undid the saddle cinch. “She can still tear a mean strip when she has a mind to. Only thing she does better than make biscuits.”

 

“Of course,” Damian said, lifting the saddle one-handed from the horse’s back, “the fact that a man knows he has it coming tends to make it sting all the worse.”

 

Aric spun around, ready to vent his frustration, furious with Damian’s calm words, but the other man had already turned away. Saddle balanced on one shoulder, saddlebags and bedroll slung over the other, Damian was walking through the barn door, whistling.

 

Letting out another long breath, Aric made another stab at reining his temper. The whole point of bringing Ravyn to the farm had been to show her how completely unsuited to this lifestyle she was. It had not been to point out what a beast he had been to her. He knew that already. And he felt guilty as hell. He didn’t need Damian to make those feelings grow.

 

Just as he knew his plan to make Ravyn cry annulment was working. Slowly, surely, day-by-day, hour by hour, minute by minute, he was wearing her down. He could hold out longer than she could.

 

I shall not say the word.

 

Yes you will.

 

Every moment brought Ravyn closer to that time when she would have to admit defeat and free both of them from the cruel trap they had entered into that fated day in England. They needed to be free of a marriage that should have never happened, no matter how promising it had seemed at first.

 

Aric hoped Ravyn would give up soon. Each day with her became harder to endure. Her scent, the memories of how she felt in his arms and the knowledge of what they might have had tormented him. He didn’t know how much longer he could go on grinding a beautiful little imp into the dirt. He had never felt another person’s anguish so completely. He would rather suffer a thousand deaths than put Ravyn through this. He would rather be hurt himself than to inflict the pain on Ravyn. Long ago he had learned how to endure pain, how to control it. When he had learned he was a bastard and had suffered insult after insult from the very people who embraced his brother with respect and love, he had learned to hide the anguish and the loneliness.

 

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Born in Medford, Oregon, novelist Christine Young has lived in Oregon all of her life. After graduating from Oregon State University with a BS in science, she spent another year at Southern Oregon State University working on her teaching certificate, and a few years later received her Master’s degree in secondary education and counseling. Now the long, hot days of summer provide the perfect setting for creating romance. She sold her first book, Dakota’s Bride, the summer of 1998 and her second book, My Angel to Kensington. Her teaching and writing careers have intertwined with raising three children.  Christine’s newest venture is the creation of Rogue Phoenix Press. Christine is the founder, editor and co-owner with her husband. They live in Salem, Oregon.

 

http://christineyoung-romancewriter.blogspot.com/

 

 

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Social Media and Wordpress Consultant Barb Drozdowich has taught at University, trained technical personnel in the banking industry and, most recently, used her expertise to help dozens of authors develop the social media platform needed to succeed in today’s fast evolving publishing world. She owns Bakerview Consulting and is the only reviewer on this blog.

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  1. Goddess Fish Promotions

    January 3, 2013 at 2:11 am

    Thank you for hosting today

    Reply
    • Barb Drozdowich

      January 3, 2013 at 7:16 am

      You are welcome!

      Reply
  2. @GoddessFish

    January 3, 2013 at 2:13 am

    Excerpt from the historical romance, “A Marriage of Inconvenience” by Christine Young. Win a $25 Amazon GC @sugarbeatbc http://t.co/FUwQ2Ipp

    Reply
  3. @momswhoblog

    January 3, 2013 at 4:25 am

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    • christine

      January 3, 2013 at 7:44 am

      Thank you so much for hosting A Marriage of Inconvenience today and for all of the comments. I can’t figure out how to read the comments though… sigh… I will keep working on it.

      Reply
      • Barb Drozdowich

        January 3, 2013 at 7:53 am

        Hi Christine,
        The comments that have appeared so far are tweets, no need to respond 🙂

        Reply
  4. @Reading4Relief

    January 3, 2013 at 4:25 am

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    January 3, 2013 at 4:43 am

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  6. Shannon

    January 3, 2013 at 8:58 am

    Thank you so much for sharing the excerpt. It finally makes you really feel for Aric since he really does care about her, he needs to quit driving her away!

    fencingromein at hotmail dot com

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  7. @aobibliophile

    January 3, 2013 at 9:08 am

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  8. momjane

    January 3, 2013 at 9:36 am

    Loved this new excerpt. New insight into his charactor. I think this book is going to be real winner.

    Reply
  9. Rita Wray

    January 3, 2013 at 10:12 am

    Great excerpt, thank you.

    Kit3247(at)aol(dot)com

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  10. @ForgetAboutTV

    January 3, 2013 at 1:58 pm

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  11. martha lawson

    January 3, 2013 at 2:12 pm

    oh this one sounds great! i’m on a historical kick right now, so i’d love to be entered to win. Thanks for the chance.

    Reply
  12. christine

    January 3, 2013 at 3:16 pm

    Thanks to everyone for their wonderful comments. I love writing historical romance and reading it too.

    Reply
  13. @maryinhb

    January 3, 2013 at 3:20 pm

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  14. Catherine

    January 3, 2013 at 6:41 pm

    Aric is being so stubborn. I have a feeling that he won’t be able to drive away Ravyn. Ravyn is such an unusual name. Was it common to the period?
    catherinelee100 at gmail dot com

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    January 3, 2013 at 6:57 pm

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  16. @Eleanor_Anders

    January 4, 2013 at 3:50 am

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  17. Mary Preston

    January 4, 2013 at 4:03 am

    An excerpt to make me crave more. Well done!!

    marypres(AT)gmail(DOT)com

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    January 4, 2013 at 10:00 am

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    January 4, 2013 at 12:46 pm

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    January 5, 2013 at 3:16 am

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    January 5, 2013 at 2:41 pm

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  23. @AlysonLaBarge

    January 5, 2013 at 8:24 pm

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  24. Trix

    January 6, 2013 at 9:18 pm

    I’m not often one for historicals, but this sounds intriguing!

    Reply
  25. @PandoraPoikilos

    January 9, 2013 at 2:25 pm

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  26. Karen H in NC

    January 9, 2013 at 2:46 pm

    Sorry for the late post. I’m playing catch-up here so I’m just popping in to say HI and sorry I missed visiting with you on party day! Hope you all had a good time!

    kareninnc at gmail dot com

    Reply
  27. Jess1

    January 9, 2013 at 8:50 pm

    I really like how this excerpt showed what an honorable man that Aric is.

    strive4bst(At) yahoo(Dot) com

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