tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485938624419295539.post8261110809715819916..comments2024-03-19T21:14:20.411-05:00Comments on Lauren Smith- Timeless Romance: Contract Offer and New Years ResolutionsLaurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07986129906420811246noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485938624419295539.post-48664061875489689952012-12-31T18:38:29.798-06:002012-12-31T18:38:29.798-06:00This has been a great year for me as well. I have ...This has been a great year for me as well. I have a three book contract with Kensington. All of them will be out in 2013. Here is an excerpt of Lord Beaumont's Bride.<br /><br />She was gone when he reached the top of the hill. Beaumont looked out over the valley. A horse and rider were in the north. How had she got that far so quickly? Disgruntled, he turned and rode home. After throwing his reins to a groom, he strode through the doors into the main hall and called to his housekeeper, “Norry!”<br />She came out from a parlor. “I’m here, my lord. There’s no reason to shout.”<br />“Who lives to the north?”<br />“Well, my lord,” she muttered, “if you were here more often, you’d know. It’s a widow lady. I can’t remember her name right off my head. Why?”<br />Ignoring Norry’s all too familiar complaint, he pressed for more information. “Does she have any children?”<br />The housekeeper narrowed her eyes. “I heard all her children are grown. She moved here after her son married. Now, if you’ll excuse me, my lord, I have work to do.”<br />“Norry, let me know if you remember. Especially if it concerns an auburn-haired female.”<br />“Master Robert,” she began in a censorious tone, “we’ll have none of your carrying on up here. You leave it in London.” She nodded her head curtly and left.<br />Beaumont clenched his jaw and stormed off to his study, cursing the fact that so many of his servants had been with him since childhood, and never let him forget it.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com