On #Thursday13 we'll find The Long Way Home led by @Jessica Cale

#MFRWauthor Jessica Cale is the award-winning author of the historical romance series, The Southwark Saga. Originally from Minnesota, she lived in Wales for several years where she earned a BA in History and an MFA in Creative Writing while climbing castles and photographing mines for history magazines. She kidnapped (“married”) her very own British prince (close enough) and is enjoying her happily ever after with him in North Carolina. She is the editor of Dirty, Sexy History.

                                    The Long Way Home

Genre: Historical, Adventure, Suspense
Publisher: Liquid Silver Publishing
 
 Blurb
After saving the life of the glamorous Marquise de Harfleur, painfully shy barmaid Alice Henshawe is employed as the lady’s companion and whisked away to Versailles. There, she catches King Louis’ eye and quickly becomes a court favorite as the muse for Charles Perrault’s Cinderella. The palace appears to be heaven itself, but there is danger hidden beneath the façade and Alice soon finds herself thrust into a world of intrigue, murder, and Satanism at the heart of the French court.

Having left his apprenticeship to serve King Charles as a spy, Jack Sharpe is given a mission that may just kill him. In the midst of the Franco-Dutch war, he is to investigate rumors of a poison plot by posing as a courtier, but he has a mission of his own. His childhood friend Alice Henshawe is missing and he will stop at nothing to see her safe. When he finds her in the company of the very people he is meant to be investigating, Jack begins to wonder if the sweet girl he grew up with has a dark side.

When a careless lie finds them accidentally married, Alice and Jack must rely on one another to survive the intrigues of the court. As old affection gives way to new passion, suspicion lingers. Can they trust each other, or is the real danger closer than they suspect?

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Thirteen of Jessica's  favorite novels:

1. Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
2. The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave
3. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
4. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery
5. Vice by Rosanna Leo
6. Remembrance by Jude Deveraux
7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
8. The Oracle Glass by Judith Merkle Riley
9. Locked Box by Eve Dangerfield
10. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
11. Watchmen by Alan Moore
12. Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore
13. Lady Anne's Lover by Maggie Robinson 

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Virtue's Lady on #Thursday13 with #MFRWauthor @JessicaCale

MFRW Author Jessica Cale hosts today's #Thursday 13 and reveals to us her latest release

                                             Virtue's Lady

Jessica Cale is a historical romance author and journalist based in North Carolina. Originally from Minnesota, she lived in Wales for several years where she earned a BA in History and an MFA in Creative Writing while climbing castles and photographing mines for history magazines. She kidnapped (“married”) her very own British prince (close enough) and is enjoying her happily ever after with him in a place where no one understands his accent.

 

Publisher Liquid Silver Books

Genre Historical, Comedy

  

Blurb

Lady Jane Ramsey is young, beautiful, and ruined.

Rescued from kidnapping by a handsome highwayman, she returns home to find her prospects drastically reduced. Her father expects her to marry, but Jane has other plans. She is determined to find her highwayman again.

After years of robbing coaches and surviving on his wits, Mark Virtue knows it’s time to hang up his pistol. As a carpenter struggling to find work in the aftermath of The Fire, Jane is unfathomably far beyond his reach, and there’s no use wishing for the impossible.

When Jane turns up in Southwark, Mark is furious. In spite of his feelings for her, Southwark is no place for a lady. Jane must set aside her lessons to learn a new set of rules if she is to survive the crime-ridden slum and prove to Mark—and to herself—that there’s more to her than meets the eye.

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 She shares 13 sentences from her book:

He shook his head, his eyes settling on her lips. “I don’t want you to get hurt,” he confessed.

She resisted the urge to lean into him with some difficulty. “I’ve done fine this far.”

“Have you?” He took her hand, turning her palm upwards to examine the damage: pinpricks, swollen fingertips, the ghosts of calluses forming where she grasped the shears.

She tugged her hand away from him but he didn’t let go. He held her gaze, his eyes searching hers, and she was struck again by their extraordinary color. Deep blue, green, and grey, shifted across his irises in restless, churning waves, the color of a storm on the river. They darkened as he raised her hand to his mouth and kissed the palm, the touch of his lips like a balm on her sore skin.

Jane held her breath, waiting to drown.

He smiled his crooked smile, a touch of condescension in the corners. “If all you wanted was another night, you didn’t have to go to such trouble.”

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