Mellie has a plan Mellie Smithson is trapped in the country with no suitors and no prospects on the horizon except, perhaps, the exasperating—although admittedly handsome—guest of her father. She's looking for any excuse to go to London to meet more eligible men.
Trevor has a problem Trevor Anaedsley's grandfather has cut off his funds until such time as he gets engaged. Trevor escapes to the country—ostensibly to visit his old tutor Mr. Smithson but actually to duck his creditors—where he meets Smithson's lovely daughter Mellie. The obvious solution is suddenly before him—but the lady has ideas of her own, and Trevor's going to have to measure up...
Happy B-day, Happy Release Day & Happy Cinco de Mayo! (Colleen Conklin 1:12pm May 5, 2015)
I've just learned a very close friend is going to be married. (Deb Philippon 1:31pm May 5, 2015)
Happy Birthday Jade, You are a year younger than me and you DO NOT look your age. I don't either, my kids only admit that I am 21 so that I pay the bar tab when we leave. With this being CINCO DE MAYO, being in AZ it is celebrated WILDLY. So I will have the Margarita, Tequila Kamikaze, and the nachos party for you tonight. I may even make the fish tacos (don't like them but you may)for you. STAY YOUNG, ENJOY YOUR DAY, AND HAVE SOMEONE SERVE YOU DINNER TONIGHT!!!!! (Tina Ullrich 3:24pm May 5, 2015)
I almost forgot... shame on me.. the TEQUILA JELLO SHOTS.. (Tina Ullrich 3:25pm May 5, 2015)
Happy Birthday Jade! I adore the excerpt... so sassy! (Kelly Braun 5:55pm May 5, 2015)
Loved the excerpt Fresh Fiction posted. Can't wait to read the whole book. (Samantha Tennant 11:48pm May 5, 2015)
Happy Birthday, Jade! Also, Happy Cinco de Mayo! Hope you were able to get some good Mexican food and some excellent celebratory drinks! (Glenda Martillotti 1:16am May 6, 2015)
Happy Birthday Jade. (Toni Whitmire 1:36am May 6, 2015)
First, Happy Birthday Jade.You sure don't look 52. God Bless ! A Happy Cinco de Mayo to everyone. The book sounds wonderful. Carol L Lucky4750 (at) aol (dot) com (Carol Luciano 6:11am May 6, 2015)
Happy Birthday! :) What a great birthday gift- the release of a new book. Your book sounds quite funny- I love a witty heroine and lots of snappy dialogue. Cinco de Mayo is also my wedding anniversary. (27 years!) My hubby & I laugh and say that there's always a party going on somewhere on our anniversary. (Debbie Burdeen 8:47am May 6, 2015)
Happy Birthday. My daughetr has a friend that shares the date with you and he is 50 now. Congrats on the new book. (Leona Olson 10:30am May 6, 2015)
Happy birthday, Jade! I always enjoy your posts, and the book sounds like a lot of fun. (Janie McGaugh 10:48am May 6, 2015)
Love the post, the book sounds wonderful! Happy belated birthday - hope the celebration was spectacular - and congratulations on the new release! (Kim Giardina 12:41pm May 6, 2015)
Awesomely amazing! A very happy belated birthday to you! I hope you had a MARVELOUS May 5th birthday and celebrated in style! I absolutely LOVE historical fiction and have since I was in Junior High, hmm , forty years ago, that is so sad... (Patrice Eannucci 1:05pm May 6, 2015)
Your posts are always amusing, but then again, anyone who is born in May is forever youthful, witty, smart, and charming, for starters. I know of what I speak, being born in May as well. Happy Birthday de Mayo!! lol I hope you had a wonderful Birthday, and know that your book is going to be a smash hit!! Never in a million years would I have guessed your age, and would have guessed that you had a daughter old enough to be married!! But then again, people get my age wrong all the time, even though my Husband wants to shout it out all the time, and I tell him to keep his mouth shut!! All I'll tell you is that I happen to be slightly older than you, and I prefer to keep my age a secret!! lol Enjoy both your Birthday and book release, and your station should be bombarded at Boas and Tiaras, too!! (Peggy Roberson 1:06pm May 6, 2015)
Happy Birthday Jade! Enjoy each and everyday to the fullest , go , do, and see all that you can while you are still young . Yes , you are still young. I love your books , you have so much talent and imagination . Thanks for this chance to win . (Joan Thrasher 1:19pm May 6, 2015)
Happy Birthday! =) Can´t wait for my chance to meet your rake! //Linda (Linda Larsson 2:29pm May 6, 2015)
Happy Birthday. I have 50 ways on my wish list. (Cecilia Rodriguez 2:35pm May 6, 2015)
Would be nice to read about a rake! (Joddy Lantigua 2:50pm May 6, 2015)
Happy blessed birthday, Can't wait to meet the new rake love them (Lois Pomeroy 3:05pm May 6, 2015)
Happy Birthday and thank you for the chance to win! (Heather Hardy 3:30pm May 6, 2015)
Happy Birthday Jade! I'm looking forward to seeing who ends up with Mellie's heart! (Michelle Tweedy 3:44pm May 6, 2015)
Happy Birthday! I can't wait to read your book! (Ann Unger 3:48pm May 6, 2015)
Happy Birthday Jade. I love your books. (Lena Lee 4:05pm May 6, 2015)
sounds quite interesting! (Julie Touchstone 4:56pm May 6, 2015)
Happy birthday and you don't look 52. Everything sounds great (Judy Ferguson 5:16pm May 6, 2015)
Happy belated birthday! It was my brother's 56th birthday on the 5th! Can't wait to read the book! (Sharlene Wegner 9:59pm May 6, 2015)
Yay! Happy Birthday, Jade. I'd love to try the book. (Karin Anderson 11:04pm May 6, 2015)
Happy birthday to the great authoress Jade Lee! I love you books....And yes, Cinco de Mayo was awesome :) (H J 12:39pm May 7, 2015)
Hello Jade had to stop by and say a big Happy Birthday to you hope its a great one and that you will have many more very happy ones to come. Happy Birthday and have a great summer.good luck with all your writing career. (Gloria Vigil 7:29am May 7, 2015)
Happy birthday!! You don't look 52!! I love your books and can't wait to read this one (Beverly Ross 11:31am May 7, 2015)
Happy Birthday! I can't wait to read this one! (Rachel Collings 1:03pm May 7, 2015)
Happy Belated Birthday!
Hope you enjoyed your day with your family and friends!
I love marriage of convenience stories! Mischief and mayhem and humor sounds like Mellie will give Trevor a run for his money and her hand!
I'd love to win a print copy of your book, 50 WAYS TO RUIN A RAKE! (Laurie Gommermann 1:10pm May 7, 2015)
Hope you birthday was a fabulous one with much celebration. (Dean Young 6:37pm May 7, 2015)
Hope you had a Happy birthday! (Kelly Powell 11:11pm May 7, 2015)
Happy BDay ! Thanks for the chance (Susan Gannon 8:55am May 8, 2015)
I would love to win a print copy. (Angela Parrish 11:02am May 8, 2015)
I've enjoyed reading your books and would love to win this one. Happy birthday! Have a wonderful time. (Anna Speed 1:08pm May 8, 2015)
Can't wait to get my hands on a copy of this! (Laura Gullickson 1:22pm May 8, 2015)
Happy Birthday! The books sounds awesome! (Denise Austin 3:00pm May 8, 2015)
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY JADE Marilyn Collins (Marilyn Collins 5:52pm May 8, 2015)
Your post gave me a great many chuckles. Hope your birthday was a blast. Love the excerpt. Sounds like another wonderful book. (Irene Menge 8:11pm May 8, 2015)
love your books! (Doris Losey 8:20pm May 8, 2015)
I'm with you - Margarittas for everyone! Those Regency folks didn't know what they missed! (Diane Sallans 9:13pm May 8, 2015)
Currently I've been a bit awful with my housework, because other things have cropped up which have taken up my precious moments that I should have spent, cleaning and organizing my house!! My Father also passed away last year, and there are items which were brought here from his house, which I need to incorporate into my little apartment. I have no idea where these things are going to go yet, but once I clean everything, and put them in their proper place (we were in the process of painting when he passed away), I'm sure you'll never know his things are even here!! I can sympathize with you, and if I wasn't on dial-up, I would probably be back on my game site, playing my games as well. I used to play on a certain site for hours, and made quite a few friends there as well, which I still have until this day. Congratulations on your latest book, which I've put on my TBR list!! (Peggy Roberson 9:48am June 5, 2015)
Congratulations on your newest book and thankyou for the chance at your book contest! Lots of Love! (Veronica Boudreau 1:00pm June 5, 2015)
I give myself permission to do badly at housework! Sometimes, there just isn't time to do more than the bare minimum, especially if you want to have any time for yourself, at all! (Janie McGaugh 10:30pm June 5, 2015)
I suck at patience. I have to tell myself everyday that it is not always easy to be an adult with kids in the house and I have to realize they don't always get to have fun either. With ages comes wisdom is a saying that my grandmother was fond of, she told me once that being a grandparent is easy being a parent is hard but being a kid is torture. To some extent that is true but when you never want to grow up then being a kid all your life is really kinda fun but the patience part, I want it now and that is not always gonna happen. I love your books and your Q & A's they are fun to read. thanks for the chance to win... (Tina Ullrich 11:44am June 6, 2015)
Patience, what patience??? I have none. (Sue Farrell 1:30pm June 6, 2015)
My nephew is really smart, but isolates himself in his bedroom when he's home. My sister has gotten some time with him by playing word games with him after dinner. My nephew memorized the scrabble dictionary of 2 letter words. When I play the word games with them, I know that I will lose, and I accept that! I get a thrill when I use a word my nephew doesn't know! (Joanne Schultz 2:07pm June 6, 2015)
I would say d (Cynthia St. Germain 7:05pm June 6, 2015)
I wore a size 11 up to the point when I had my kids. I finally lost all of my baby weight and I got into a car accident. And my metabolism changed. I was inactive and gained more weight than I ever thought possible. It took 3-4 years to find the right meds to stabilize my condition. I have never returned to that size. After a period of time, I had to give myself permission to buy "good" clothes in a bigger size. A much bigger size. I hadn't made poor choices that caused me to gain weight, I had gotten into a car accident and had some health issues that complicated things. So often women punish themselves by wearing cheap garments until they lose weight. I accepted it and made the most of my appearance. (Marcia Berbeza 1:28am June 7, 2015)
Sewing machines. We're not on speaking terms. I love doing handwork, but do not get along with sewing machines. That's OK, the necessary repairs still get done. (Deb Philippon 11:00am June 7, 2015)
I try to do some housework a few times a week. Marilyn Collins (Marilyn Collins 4:19pm June 7, 2015)
I did that (stayed in the house) for about three days before I finally decided that I got to get my front yard presentable instead of showing that no one lives here. (Kai Wong 10:17pm June 7, 2015)
I let housework go like the dusting mostly . Jade, I love your books, and thanks so much for this giveaway. (Joan Thrasher 9:18am June 8, 2015)
I usually give myself permission to be bad at exercise. I'm not the biggest, and I'm not the strongest, but I figure, as long as I try, that's better than nothing.
I may not be able to exercise as well as I'd like, but doing some is better than doing none. You know? (Rebecca Dee 9:53am June 8, 2015)
Housework I give myself permission to do a little a day and that way it doesn't seem such a chore. I also have time for other things that i want to get done or seem to be on the burner. Jade, thank you for the giveaway and would love to read and review as I have been talking about this book for awhile! (Peggy Clayton 1:02pm June 8, 2015)
Oh yes! Daily I give myself permission to be lousy at housework. (I think I'm too permissible here.) Oh well, we all have our strengths and weaknesses. Thanks for the post and giveaway. (G S Moch 1:18pm June 8, 2015)
I give myself permission to let the house cleaning wait until another day (Debbie Rudder 7:26pm June 8, 2015)
I parallel park very badly. I require my own parking lot. (Susan Shapley 10:50pm June 8, 2015)
I garden badly. I've been trying to plant for 2 weeks. Between work & the rain/hail it hasn't been going so well. I never seem to get out there before 5 pm, even if it's the only thing I have to do that day. By the end of the summer the weeding will fall to the wayside too. My Father calls my style of gardening, "gorilla gardening." I hide the vegetables in the weeds to hide them from the animals. (Laura Gullickson 1:40am June 9, 2015)
I am atrocious at parallel parking and forget about asking me to judge distance or if a painting is hung straight. I have horrible spatial reasoning capabilities. And I have to give myself permission to "let things go" instead of fretting over silly little things, plus when dealing with my spouse and children, I need to pick and choose the "battles"; sometimes I hear myself and in my head I wonder where that's coming from??? LOL (Patrice Eannucci 9:52am June 9, 2015)
2,000 words a day! Amazing! I'm really impressed. Now that I've reached the age called getting older, I allow myself to do chores whenever I feel like it. (Anna Speed 3:11pm June 9, 2015)
I like to snack on sweets, diets and I do not get along. (Deb Pelletier 9:15pm June 9, 2015)
I know I would find some dust bunnies, lol! I have things I know I have, but not sure where, so cleaning and reorganizing would help me locate them... (Colleen Conklin 1:25pm July 5, 2015)
How could I not love a book with Rake in the title. You motivated me to clean out my closet, Jade. That and I can't find my favorite shorts. (Morgan Wyatt-stamm 7:05pm July 5, 2015)
What did I find... ALOT...I lost my house a few years back and had to put my stuff in storage. I had to condense a LARGE 4 bedroom, living room, dining room, kitchen, garage, 2 sheds into a 10X10 storage locker. THAT was rough. I got rid of things I didn't know I had in the attic, shed, or garage. I had a tall wardrobe box full of empty collapsed boxes that was from my mother. I found 3 mishmashed christmas trees, 4 sets of crutches, empty toy boxes and some with broken/mutilated toys. and SOOOO much trash. Old receipts, 20 year old tax papers and the like. It was shocking how much junk we collected that we kept and didn't get rid of. Amazing what it can do to your memories. (Tina Ullrich 9:48pm July 5, 2015)
If I started cleaning, I think that I would find the things that I was looking for 10 years ago, but completely forgot about!! I actually started to organize some of the items that I had, and threw a few items away, but then my Father passed away suddenly, and now I have some items from his house to incorporate with mine in a small apartment. This is no easy feat, when we've already tried to fit things from a 3 bedroom home into a one bedroom apartment!! I think you get the picture of what I'm up against. I think I'd much rather read your book or listen to one while I'm cleaning. Love the cover - as always!! (Peggy Roberson 10:24am July 6, 2015)
I really need to do major cleaning in my closets and cabinets . I've got clothes that I keep thinking that I'll fit into and wear one of these days .LoL That will never happen . I'd probably find some of my kids baby clothes and blankets . There's so much stuff that I do need to get rid of . I know my kids would not want any of this stuff . I have to get in the mood to get rid and throw away things .So until then !!! (Joan Thrasher 11:55am July 6, 2015)
You all understand! We collect so much stuff and then we forget it about it. I tried to tell myself my kids would want this stuff. HAH! They've got more stuff than they need too. And for those who'd rather read than clean -- I so get you! My friend suggested we start up cleaning again. I said...uh...not right now. I'd rather hang out and listen to audio tapes... (Jade Lee 4:14pm July 6, 2015)
Each time we moved, we got rid of stuff, But we have been here for a while. While cleaning up my boys old bedroom to have a guest room now, I cleaned up the old toy box. Got rid of broken or worn out things. My boys had a lot of car stuff when they were you. When my grandson found that, he was like a pig in hog heaven. Now it's the first place he checks out when they come to visit. (Nancy Luebke 5:00pm July 6, 2015)
We're in the process of trying to clean our house, but we have a lot of stuff. We've been in this house for over 30 years... (Karin Anderson 5:36pm July 6, 2015)
OMG. My house so needs to be cleaned out AGAIN! I hired a gal many years ago to help me dig and toss. We found a genealogy paper I had written for a class many years ago. I had interviewed my husband's father who had come from the Ukraine, interned in WWII Germany, and then settled in the US. I copied it and gave it out with some old photos to all of the kids in my children's generation. Every last child thanked me for it. (Marcia Berbeza 11:05pm July 6, 2015)
I need to clean my house,but it is so hot I tend to put it off. Marilyn (Marilyn Collins 7:17pm July 7, 2015)
This isn't a theoretical question for me---we just moved and I have personally sorted and touched EVERYTHING we own (and lots we no longer own). I have given away boxes of things to the Salvation Army and have held back about 8 boxes for our church yard sale next month. The most nostalgic thing I ran across was an engraved cigarette lighter. I was never a smoker, but this lighter had memories... (Flora Presley 8:25pm July 7, 2015)
I have been cleaning and throwing. At my age, I think the kids will have to do it so I am. I am scanning old photos and many are black and white so I am also learning some family history. (Leona Olson 9:29am July 8, 2015)
I am perpetually cleaning and throwing stuff away. I can't stand clutter or dirt in my life. (Denise Austin 2:41pm July 8, 2015)
I'd probably find a lot of things I had totally forgotten about,some things I've been wondering where they were, and tons of things I can get rid of and many more I should get rid of (but probably won't). (Diane Sallans 7:40pm July 8, 2015)
I have a bad habit of giving things away. The up side: smaller storage space. Down side: sometimes regretting they are gone. (Cecilia Rodriguez 8:03pm July 8, 2015)
I hope to find gift cards and money. By downsizing, I'm going through papers and things and sorting gradually sorting it all out. (Alyson Widen 8:26pm July 8, 2015)
I have been cleaning....and oh, the things I have been finding! I found all the Christmas clearance bulbs and coloring books I bought from 2 Christmas' past! I looked for them everywhere last Christmas. I have found lots and lots of trash--six children accumulate a lot of that! (Amy Morgan 9:14pm July 8, 2015)
I try to do this every year, giveaway stuff. . And I find all kinds of things. It's like I'm shopping in my own house. (Deb Pelletier 9:30pm July 8, 2015)
Seriously, I'd find the floor in one bed room all the in progress projects get put there when company is coming. We use to tease my cousin that she'd move every year to avoid spring cleaning. (Laura Gullickson 9:52pm July 8, 2015)
Nothing special coming up the rest of the month, but we did take a short trip to Pigeon Forge (Smoky Mountains) and had fun. (Janie McGaugh 1:18am September 20, 2015)
Enjoy your trip. Love your yoga pics! (Virginia Clayton 5:36pm September 20, 2015)
Sounds like you are going to have a fun month (excluding yoga)! (Arlene Downey 6:32pm September 20, 2015)
Enjoy the weddings and Italy. Nothing I am doing compares to those! (Jane Goldsmith 8:08pm September 20, 2015)
I've wanted to read your latest book since it first came out, and now that it's on sale, you give me no excuse now!! I'll have to go check it out, along with your new website, which I'll be checking out, after I make my posting. You always have a way to make me chuckle with your remarks, and I know they carry over into your books. Congratulations on your latest book, and I hope the sales beat all of your expectations!! The cover is sensational!! (Peggy Roberson 10:56am November 5, 2015)
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