Release Day Blast & Giveaway: My Lady Gloriana by Sylvia Halliday
My Lady Gloriana
By: Sylvia Halliday
Releasing November 24th, 2015
Diversion
In
this twist on the Pygmalion story, a duke makes a wager that he can
bed the uncouth Lady Gloriana. But the bet takes on a life of its
own...
The
year is 1725. Lady Gloriana Baniard is a beautiful fish out of water.
Brought up on the mean streets of London, she is a brash, blunt,
obscene force of nature. But thanks to a brief marriage to a
disgraced aristocrat, she is forced to live with his noble family and
endure the humiliating process of learning to be a lady. Rebelling,
she runs away to Yorkshire, where she intends to be a blacksmith, a
skill at which she excels. She knows she’ll need a manservant to
front for her. When John Thorne appears, she hires him, stirred as
much by his irresistible attraction as by his strength.
John
Haviland, Duke of Thorneleigh, is an arrogant, indolent gambler and
womanizer. Having seen Gloriana just once, he yearns to make her his
own. When he learns she has run away from her family, he makes a wild
bet with his wastrel companions―he will find the lady and bed her.
Disguised as a humble servant, he becomes her assistant, learning the
blacksmith trade. The clash of wills between these two proud people
creates more sparks than a blacksmith’s anvil, as Gloriana learns
to be a lady, Thorne learns humility―and desire deepens to love.
Award-winning author Sylvia Halliday’s first historical novel, written as Ena Halliday, was chosen by Pocket Books to launch their Tapestry line. She subsequently wrote for Popular Library/Warner and Harlequin Historicals under the pen name of Louisa Rawlings, the name of her maternal great-grandmother. She has written for Kensington/Zebra under the pseudonym of Sylvia Halliday. She has published 14 historical romances. Her FOREVER WILD earned 5 stars from RT Book Reviews and Affaire de Coeur, and was a RITA finalist for the Romance Writers of America. Her latest offerings, published by Diversion Books, are MARIELLE (The French Maiden Series, #1), LYSETTE (The French Maiden Series, #2), DELPHINE (The French Maiden Series, #3), DREAMS SO FLEETING, GOLD AS THE MORNING SUN, THE RING, and SUMMER DARKNESS, WINTER LIGHT. FOREVER WILD, STOLEN SPRING, and PROMISE OF SUMMER, written by her as Louisa Rawlings, are available from Samhain Publishing.
Pretty cover! I've never read her.
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