Cheryl Holt | LOVE'S PERIL

Have you read any of my "Lord Trent" trilogy yet?  What are you waiting for?  Book #3, LOVE'S PERIL, is already out this week.  It's a fun, fast-paced, and thrilling conclusion to the trilogy, and the hero is a macho, sexy pirate.  Yum!

The linking premise in the three novels has to do wtih Charles Sinclair, the Earl of Trent.  He is England's most notorious roué, and over the decades he's sired many illegitimate children.  His oldest bastard son, Phillip, is on a quest to find his lost half-siblings and build a family with them.  The books tell the stories of four of Lord Trent's cast-off children on their rocky road to happily ever after.

The hero in LOVE'S PERIL is John Harcourt Sinclair.  His father is Lord Trent and his mother was a ruined British countess.  But John grew up in Paris, so he has the accent and mannerisms of a Frenchman.  He's also known as The French Terror, the most notorious pirate in the world and the kingdom's most wanted criminal.  For years, he's disrupted British shipping lanes, creating mayhem wherever he goes.  No one can figure out what drives him or how to thwart him, and there are hundreds of bounties on his head, posted in port towns from Rome to Jamaica.

In a rigged card game, he wins the Bramble Bay estate, located on the English coast.  As he arrives to take possession of his new property, Miss Sarah Teasdale's life will never be the same.

The three books—LOVE'S PROMISE, LOVE'S PRICE, and LOVE'S PERIL—were released back to back in May, June, and July 2013.  They're available as print books and e-books and contain all my usual great characters, intricate plots, and maddening villains.  They're a great way to lounge at the beach on your summer vacation, and I hope you'll check them out.  Thanks to everyone for your interest in me and my "Lord Trent" trilogy!  I'm grateful.

About LOVE'S PERIL

CHERYL HOLT delivers another gripping tale of love, betrayal, loyalty, and family, proving once again why she's hailed as a women's fiction powerhouse. In this explosive conclusion to her ‘Lord Trent' trilogy, readers will be sighing with pleasure and cheering with delight.

John Sinclair leads a double life. Though he's the illegitimate son of the infamous cad, Charles Sinclair, he seems to be a rich and prosperous gentleman. In reality, he is the notorious pirate known as Jean Pierre, The French Terror. He preys on British ships, carrying out a secret vendetta guaranteed to financially ruin several wealthy families. He's driven and determined and takes what he wants with a reckless abandon.

Sarah Teasdale lives quietly in the country at her family's estate on the English coast. With her father's death, she's at the mercy of her cruel relatives, and she'd give anything to change her fate. When dashing, mysterious John Sinclair arrives for a visit, she's stunned to learn that her stepbrother has gambled away her home to John. Everything is lost—including Sarah—with John claiming she now belongs to him and he can use her however he wishes. And he has many ideas as to the exact sort of role he'd like her to fill.

Normally, John wouldn't have bothered with a sheltered innocent like Sarah. But he simply can't resist. As a man who enjoys only the finest things in life, Sarah might turn out to be just what he's always needed.

CHERYL HOLT is a New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon bestselling author of over thirty novels.

She's also a lawyer and mom, and at age forty, with two babies at home, she started a new career as a commercial fiction writer. She'd hoped to be a suspense novelist, but couldn't sell any of her manuscripts, so she ended up taking a detour into romance where she was stunned to discover that she has a knack for writing some of the world's greatest love stories.

Her books have been released to wide acclaim, and she has won or been nominated for many national awards. She is particularly proud to have been named "Best Storyteller of the Year" by the trade magazine Romantic Times BOOK Reviews.

She lives and writes in Hollywood, California, and she loves to hear from fans. Visit her website.