Happy Book Birthday to Her Heart’s Choice

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Today, the final book in my Choices Series, Her Heart’s Choice, goes live.  All those preorders will be filled and (hopefully) new orders will be placed so that many people can enjoy Anne’s journey to happily ever after.

I know that many of you have read snippets of the book while in its rough state as Music Monday posts. — Thank you for that! —  I plan to re-share those posts on my FB page. They can also be found grouped together under the menu item Music Mondays on the left, or I have pinned them to a board on Pinterest.

I thought I would end this announcement post with the back of the book blurb and a link to the Amazon preview. (It includes the Prologue, Chapter 1 and part of Chapter 2 — a substantial amount of preview!)

About the book:

Miss de Bourgh wishes to inform those Christian gentlemen of good reputation and having in their possession a title as well as solvent and accurate financial reports that she is willing to accept correspondence and calls with the intent of reaching a marriage arrangement.

Alexander Madoch is delighted to read Anne’s announcement in the paper.  Six years earlier, she had soundly refused his offer, claiming she was not yet ready to marry, and he was not good enough.  Although he has every intention of marrying Anne,  he has no intention of telling her of his improvement in standing or his financial state.  He is determined that both should be kept a secret so that should she choose him, it will be for love.

To Anne, it had seemed simple enough.  Place an advertisement in the paper, interview the gentlemen who responded, and select the best husband.  But nothing is as easy as it seems.  Indeed, many things are quite the opposite of how they appear.  How is a lady to find a safe and secure marriage when her ideals are turned on their head especially when her heart yearns for a man who is wholly unsuitable?

Link to the preview: Her Heart’s Choice

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Music Monday and a Giveaway

JaimeR90. “Under The Greenwood Tree/It Is You (I Have Loved).” YouTube. YouTube, 23 Apr. 2009.

THE LINK BETWEEN MUSIC AND STORY:

There’s no more mystery
It is finally clear to me
You’re the home
My heart searched for so long
And it is you I have loved all along
~*~
It is you I have loved all along

On Friday of this week, Her Heart’s Choice, book 4 in the Choices series, will be available for purchase.  This story completes the Choices series, and, I believe, the hero and heroine of each story could sing this song.  However, when you read Anne’s story in this final book, I think you will agree that, more than the others, this song is hers, for her story is one of searching and discovery.  She is searching for what she thinks she needs for safety and security in marriage only to discover that what (or who) she needs has been there all along.

THE GIVEAWAY:

To mark the completion of this series and the release of this book, I am having

A Book Birthday Giveaway

(click the link to go to the giveaway)

on my Facebook page.  Up for grabs are a Kindle copy of Her Heart’s Choice and a $15 Amazon gift card (so you can buy the other books in the series if you need to or something else if you don’t).  The giveaway runs until Wednesday turns to Thursday (midnight) eastern time.  I will announce the winner of the contest during an Author Chat Event on Austen Authors.  This event will be held on Thursday, May 26, 2016 from 6 pm – 10 pm.  I have not yet been assigned my time slot, so I can’t be any more specific than that. I will post the exact time on Twitter and Facebook once I have it.

Her Heart's Choice
See Books Page for links to e-tailers.  Click the picture to be taken to the book page.