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Ella Quinn | How Do You Like Your Heroes?

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A KISS FOR LADY MARY is the seventh full novel in my Marriage Game series. By this time, I’ve written all sorts of heroes: Sweet, difficult, rakes, ones that have it all together, and ones that don’t. They all had one thing in common. None of them balked at seducing the woman they loved into marriage, or, in one case, into a real marriage. Then along came Kit Featherton. An Alpha hero who seems to have it all together. Strong, handsome, the perfect gentleman, who refuses to seduce his way out of a completely scandalous situation. In fact, he almost made a perfect mess out of courting his lady.

I never make play lists, but two songs kept playing in my head, and, it seemed, on the
radio when I was in the car.

The first was Hello, Good-by, by The Beatles.

β€œYou say yes, I say no, You say stop and I say go go go, oh no, You say goodbye and I say
hello, Hello hello, I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello, Hello hello, I don't
know why you say goodbye, I say hello."

The second was Hot N’ Cold by Katie Perry.

β€œ'Cause you're hot then you're cold. You're yes then you're no. You're in then you're out.
You're up then you're down. You're wrong when it's right. It's black and it's white.

It was then I realized that the push me-pull me sort of thing occurs all the time in
relationships, and has been happening for hundreds of years. It just makes getting my hero
and heroine to a Happily Ever After a little more challenging.

How do you like your heroes?

About Ella Quinn

Bestselling author Ella Quinn’s studies and other jobs have always been on the serious
side. Reading historical romances, especially Regencies, were her escape. Eventually her
love of historical novels led her to start writing them. She has just finished her first
series, The Marriage Game, and her new series will start in April 2016.

She is married to her wonderful husband of over thirty years. They have a son and
granddaughter, one cat and a dog. After living in the South Pacific, Central America,
North
Africa, England and Europe, she and her husband decided to make their dreams come true and
are now living on a sailboat cruising the Caribbean and North America.

Ella is a member of the Romance Writers of American, The Beau Monde and Hearts Through
History. She is represented by Elizabeth Pomada of Larsen-Pomada Literary Agency, and
published by Kensington.

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About A KISS FOR LADY MARY

Ella Quinn’s bachelors do as they like and take what they want. But when the objects of their desire are bold, beautiful women, the rules of the game always seem to change…

Handsome, charming, and heir to a powerful Viscount, Christopher "Kit" Featherton is
everything a woman could wantβ€”except interested in marriage. So when he hears that someone
on his estate near the Scottish border is claiming to be his wife, Kit sets off to
investigate.

Since her parents’ death, Lady Mary Tolliver has been hounded by her cousin, a fortune- hunting fool after her inheritance. Refusing to settle for anything less than love, Mary escapes to the isolated estate of rakish bachelor, Kit Featherton. Knowing he prefers Court to the country, she believes she will be safe. But when Kit unexpectedly returns, her pretend marriage begins to feel seductively real…

Comments

3 comments posted.

Re: Ella Quinn | How Do You Like Your Heroes?

I like my heroes unpredictable :-)
(Andrea Stein 12:03pm May 26, 2015)

LOL, Andrea! It is interesting to see what they are going to do. Thanks for commenting!
(Ella Quinn 12:14pm May 26, 2015)

I like my heroes a bit on the bad side, but nothing that a
Lady can't It makes for interesting reading!! Your latest
book sounds like just the ticket for this Summers' read, and
I'm looking forward to it!! Congratulations on what I'm
sure is going to be a big hit!! Love the cover, too!! I'm
also glad that you left the heads of the characters on the
cover, since the "vogue" thing to do is to chop them off!!
To me, it seems to cheapen the book, as well as the story.
(Peggy Roberson 10:57am May 27, 2015)

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