Hello Romance Readers,
Here in the US Thanksgiving is right around the corner.
My daughter is a thanksgiving baby, she shares her birthday with thanksgiving every 6-10 years. This year she will become a teenager. Time truly does fly and I'm really thankful that she has grown into this amazing strong, brave, beautiful teen especially in this day and age.
I want to thank each and every one of you for opening my newsletters and hitting reply each time to share a little about you and your lives with me.
I'm grateful for this wonderful opportunity to write stories and share characters that constantly talk to me. I hope you have enjoyed a few this year.
Please hit reply and let me know which of my characters was your favorite and which character you would love to see get their own book.
Book News
Loving a Dowager is now available and now that the Hadfields series is complete... I think.
Progress Update on the Ladies of Risk series.
Book 1 - An Earl Unmasked has been submitted Dragonblade Publishing for editing and after the holidays, I'm diving in to write book 2 - The Duke of Aces.
Stories to look forward to:
As you know, card games feature in many of my books.
I will be writing a novella titled Gambling on a Gentleman to be released in this fantastic anthology The Wedding Wager with 14 other amazing Historical Romance Authors.
The Boast—pride goeth before the fall…
After facilitating the match of the season, Lady Pandora "Pansy" Osbourne, has boasted that she is the best matchmaker The Ton has ever seen. Always willing to bring her cousin down a peg or two, her cousin, Lady Octavia Sewell insists that was no feat of matchmaking at all, as the couple involved were clearly destined for one another despite Pansy’s meddling. A bitter argument ensues and a dreadful challenge is issued. Pansy must do more than say it… she must prove it.
The terms of the wager are set!
Pansy must produce no less than one match per month between people who have been notoriously unmarriageable—spinsters, bluestockings, rakes and fortune hunters, oh my! But there’s more riding on this than simply her pride! If Pansy loses, she will have to give up her most prized possession—a tiara that belonged to their grandmother will be forfeited into Octavia’s grasping hands.
The Ends Justify the Means… or do they?
Desperate to make these matches, prove her claims of matchmaking prowess to be true and make Octavia eat crow in a very public fashion, Pansy resorts to the greatest weapon in any matchmaker’s arsenal—the house party. Not just one, but a series of them. For two weeks out of every month, she will open her home to an assortment of victims…er, guests. At the end of each party, one couple will emerge either betrothed or wed, by fair means or foul.
Giveaway News
November Giveaway for NL subscribers only:
To win signed paperback copies of all three books in the Hadfield series and author swag - Hit reply and tell me the name of Henrietta's oldest son?
Something special for 2022 -
I've organized something special for my newsletter subscribers for 2022.
I asked eleven fantastic Historical Romance writers if they would be so kind as to offer a free book for each month of 2022... and they said YES. Each month, starting in 2022 you will receive a special link to download your copy of a free book. Have a friend who might be interested? Tell them to sign-up for my NL here: https://sendfox.com/rachelannsmith
I'll be announcing the authors in December's News Letter so stay tuned...
Recommended Reading
Revenge is in her future. But falling for her enemy’s son is one fate this spiritualist could never have envisioned.
Playwright Maxwell Millerson would rather spend his days dreaming up stories than cleaning up his father’s messes. But a trendy renovation has the family’s gaming club on the brink of ruin, and not even Max’s imagination can conjure a way out. Desperate, he turns to the multi-talented—and alluringly audacious—Madame Xyla to help him spin gold from straw.
Lydia Weaver, professionally known as spiritualist Madame Xyla, has long sought revenge on the man responsible for her cousin’s imprisonment. When her enemy’s son visits her seance room seeking advice, Lydia leaps at the opportunity for vengeance—until Max’s easy charm and poetic words threaten to turn her plans upside-down.
As their friendship grows and they give way to their mutual attraction, Lydia and Max must weigh family duty with their hearts’ desires. And only when they confront old wounds and new feelings can a happy ending be in the cards.
A princess in disguise. A charming lord. A quest for true love.
Half-Indian, orphaned and abandoned...
...Penelope Reid is done waiting for love.
Masquerading as a boy, she ventures to London to search for the man she’s loved her entire life: her elusive guardian, who’s all but forgotten she even exists. But proving her mettle in the bewildering world of men turns out to be a challenge. Lost and out of her depths, she prowls the streets of London, until she crashes headlong into a charming dandy whose sleepy grey eyes are more perceptive than she thinks.
Lord Archibald Alworth takes Pen under his wing and derives great amusement from introducing her to the glittering life of the Regency bachelor. As Pen falls from one muddle into another, he is prepared to haul her out of gaming hells and duels. Becoming increasingly irked that she will neither trust nor confide in him, he questions his self-imposed role as guide and protector. For there is something about the spirited beauty that grabs him and won’t let go.
Pen’s world crashes when she discovers the shocking truth about her guardian. When a mysterious patron steps forward to sponsor her for a season on the condition that she transforms herself back to a lady, Pen finds herself in a pickle. For she’s not only lost herself and her heritage...
...she no longer knows the truth of her own heart.
Can the lady Penelope find the love that the lad Pen couldn’t?
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This is a sweet and clean romance. It is the story about a girl’s fierce loyalty, her quest for identity and true love—that isn’t always where you think it is.
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Penelope and the Wicked Duke is a standalone and book 4 of the Wishing Well Series, which can be read in any order.
The Wishing Well Series:
- Lucy and the Duke of Secrets
- Arabella and the Reluctant Duke
- Birdie and the Beastly Duke
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Happy Reading!
Rachel Ann
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