SNEAK PEEK: Road Trip With a Rogue
I'm starting to get excited about the upcoming release of Road Trip With A Rogue! It's out in less than three weeks - July 29th and I can't wait for you to fall in love with Daisy and Lucien.
So much steamy tension and banter!
Here's a SNEAK PEEK at the opening lines:
Hampstead Heath, London, April 1817.
Daisy Hamilton had been looking forward to her first highway robbery, but someone had beaten her to it. Several someones, in fact.
Bloody Hell.
The three men blocking the moonlit road had obviously identified this wood-lined stretch as the perfect place for an ambush¬—just as she had—but while their decision to hold up this particular coach was presumably random, the crest painted on the door singled it out as her specific target.
She had the worst luck.
Daisy slid silently from her horse, tied the reins to a branch, and crept forward for a better view, careful to stay within the cover of the trees.
A broken log had been dragged across the lane to force the coach to stop, and the burly coachman up on the box was cursing as he tried to control the plunging horses. Two highwaymen had positioned themselves in the middle of the track with pistols drawn, while the third had circled around to the rear of the carriage.
“Stand and deliver!” The foremost robber bellowed.
The coachman paid him no heed. The horses reared, pawing the air, as he fought with the reins. When he finally managed to control them, he shouted, “Move aside, damn you!”
Daisy raised her brows at his tone. He sounded more annoyed than intimidated. Perhaps he’d encountered thieves on this route before? Or perhaps he was an ex-soldier, a veteran, no stranger to threats of violence. Even so, his bravado was unwise, considering the odds of three to one.
She doubted he’d be getting any help from inside the coach. Spoiled eighteen-year-old heiress Violet Brand and nineteen-year-old Peregrine ‘Perry’ Hughes were in the process of eloping. Being set upon by highwaymen could hardly have featured in their plans. Violet was probably having a fit of the vapors in there, and a pampered youth like Peregrine had probably never fired a pistol in his life.
Daisy’s lips twitched in dark amusement. The idiots deserved to be robbed. Who went out into the world so unprepared? She felt naked without at least two blades on her person at any given time. Even in a ballroom.
Still, she cursed her own hubris for telling Ellie and Tess that she could catch the runaways on her own. Her fellow investigators would have been most welcome right now, since she was obviously going to have to intervene in this farcical scene.
She was bloody well going to double her fee when she sent Violet’s father the bill from King & Co.
Want to read more? Add it to your TBR pile here>>>
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
And you can preorder here: https://books2read.com/RoadTripWithAR...
Amazon: https://amzn.to/4ddU8Me
Apple: https://books.apple.com/us/book/road-...
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So much steamy tension and banter!
Here's a SNEAK PEEK at the opening lines:
Hampstead Heath, London, April 1817.
Daisy Hamilton had been looking forward to her first highway robbery, but someone had beaten her to it. Several someones, in fact.
Bloody Hell.
The three men blocking the moonlit road had obviously identified this wood-lined stretch as the perfect place for an ambush¬—just as she had—but while their decision to hold up this particular coach was presumably random, the crest painted on the door singled it out as her specific target.
She had the worst luck.
Daisy slid silently from her horse, tied the reins to a branch, and crept forward for a better view, careful to stay within the cover of the trees.
A broken log had been dragged across the lane to force the coach to stop, and the burly coachman up on the box was cursing as he tried to control the plunging horses. Two highwaymen had positioned themselves in the middle of the track with pistols drawn, while the third had circled around to the rear of the carriage.
“Stand and deliver!” The foremost robber bellowed.
The coachman paid him no heed. The horses reared, pawing the air, as he fought with the reins. When he finally managed to control them, he shouted, “Move aside, damn you!”
Daisy raised her brows at his tone. He sounded more annoyed than intimidated. Perhaps he’d encountered thieves on this route before? Or perhaps he was an ex-soldier, a veteran, no stranger to threats of violence. Even so, his bravado was unwise, considering the odds of three to one.
She doubted he’d be getting any help from inside the coach. Spoiled eighteen-year-old heiress Violet Brand and nineteen-year-old Peregrine ‘Perry’ Hughes were in the process of eloping. Being set upon by highwaymen could hardly have featured in their plans. Violet was probably having a fit of the vapors in there, and a pampered youth like Peregrine had probably never fired a pistol in his life.
Daisy’s lips twitched in dark amusement. The idiots deserved to be robbed. Who went out into the world so unprepared? She felt naked without at least two blades on her person at any given time. Even in a ballroom.
Still, she cursed her own hubris for telling Ellie and Tess that she could catch the runaways on her own. Her fellow investigators would have been most welcome right now, since she was obviously going to have to intervene in this farcical scene.
She was bloody well going to double her fee when she sent Violet’s father the bill from King & Co.
Want to read more? Add it to your TBR pile here>>>
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
And you can preorder here: https://books2read.com/RoadTripWithAR...
Amazon: https://amzn.to/4ddU8Me
Apple: https://books.apple.com/us/book/road-...
B&N: https://bit.ly/RoadTripWithARogueBN
Google Play: https://bit.ly/RoadTripWIthARogueGPA
Kobo: https://bit.ly/RoadTripWithARogueKoboA
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