Hello, and thank you to my fellow Casa Authors for having me
here to celebrate the release of Mischief by Moonlight. It’s the final story in
my Regency Mischief series, and the trouble in this book starts with a love
potion.
My heroine, Josie, is engaged to an army captain who’s been
away for over a year. So she’s had a long time to worry about her beloved older
sister, who’s in danger of becoming an unhappy spinster. Josie decides that
their handsome friend Colin, the Earl of Ivorwood, would make her sister a
wonderful husband, and a gypsy’s love potion gives her the chance to matchmake.
But things don’t work out at all as Josie expected…
I loved working on this story about two sisters, perhaps
because I think romantic stories and sisters go together like beach towels and
summer crushes, like late-night phone calls and consoling pints of ice cream. I’m
lucky enough to have a sister I’m close to, but even those of us who don’t have
sisters probably have a friend who’s a sister of the heart.
With that in mind, I thought I’d offer up a few of my
favorite books with sisters and romance:
·
Pride and
Prejudice by Jane Austen. Not a surprising choice for a Regency romance
author, is it? But it’s hard to top the bonds of affection and true
understanding between the eldest sisters, which make the reader really cheer
for each of the two most deserving Bennet girls to get her man. In reality,
Jane Austen was extremely close to her older sister, Cassandra, and I can only
think their relationship enriched her telling of this classic story.
·
I Capture
the Castle by Dodi Smith. The two sisters in this romantic 1930’s story are
quite different from each other—one is beautiful and dramatic, the other wants
to be a writer and has, in one of my favorite descriptions, “a neatish face.”
But they complement each other perfectly, and they’re great partners in the
story’s hilarious adventures.
·
Garden Spells
by Sarah Addison Allen. The sisters in this southern-set story are half-sisters
who’ve been apart for years, and part of the pleasure of the book is watching
them find a place for each other in their adult lives. And as the title
suggests, they each have a little bit of magic to bring to the story.
·
Ain’t She
Sweet? by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. The two women in this story are
half-sisters as well, and they grew up in the same town but not the same house,
and on different sides of their father’s affection. One of the sisters made the
other miserable when they were teenagers, and now that she’s come back to town
as an adult, there’s a lot of bad blood between them that needs to be resolved.
Do you have any favorite romantic stories that feature
sisters? Or a favorite thing about your own sister, or sister of the heart?
Mischief by Moonlight
Now available at the following:
Amazon: http://amzn.to/1kCvPKV
Kobo: http://bit.ly/1x7epej
ARe:
http://bit.ly/StwDGG
Powell’s: http://bit.ly/1h9Rmut
Happy Reading!
I must have this book. Sisters are a thing in our family. My grandmother had one sister; my mother had one sister; I had one sister; I had two daughters (one has two daughters and the other has five daughters). This is going on my TBBought list! And love potions? Oh, my, that makes it that much more appealing!
ReplyDeleteAww, thanks, Carolyn. I have a couple of your books in my TBR pile :-) I have 2 daughters, and it's been so lovely watching them grow as sisters (but don't tell them I said so --they're teenagers, lol).
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the release. It sounds fabulous!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Shana.
DeleteCongratulations, Emily! I really enjoyed Josie and Colin's story. "I Capture the Castle" is one of my favourite books too! Great post.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jayne :-)
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