One of my all-time favorite movies is Romancing the Stone. Romance and comedy go hand in hand in this wonderfully plotted story, with characters you cared about and fell in love with from the first screen images until the last. You (the viewer) couldn’t help but be 
swept up in the life of Joan Wilder, romance novelist, as she lives the life she’s written about but has never experienced.
Have we ever experienced true romance? Is it candlelight dinners and flowers and long walks on the beach? Or is it risking your all, fighting beside your significant other, to rescue them and save the day? Not just Romancing the Stone fits this definition, but Last of the Mohicans (Daniel Day Lewis, be still my heart!), Star Wars, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
What are you willing to lose to gain everything? How do you gauge romance in your life?
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My characters in Only Scandal Will Do are more than willing to fight alongside each other-
-or facing one another! Lady Katarina is capable of meeting any man with a sword in her hand, while Duncan Ferrers, Marquess of Dalbury, itches to meet her–in more ways than one! Katarina leads him a merry chase and they must learn all the facets of romance before they are truly satisfied.
Excerpt from Only Scandal Will Do:
“I assure you, there was never a night like that before.” Lord Dalbury spoke quietly, and Katarina sensed a tension in him. “I had never done such a thing before. Never participated in such an auction. Never tried to take a woman unwillingly to my bed.” He stopped speaking. Just stopped. Then his breath hissed as though he’d slowly released it.
“I cannot find the words to tell you how deeply I regret I was not a better man who night.” He paused, and she held still and waited. “What I tried to do was madness, without thought, without honor. I do not even have an excuse other than my base desires, and that your abundant charms overwhelmed me.” His face was shadowy in the scarce light of the sickle moon, but he sounded contrite. “I have no right to ask for your forgiveness. I have no right to expect it. But I would ask you to allow me to attempt to remedy the situation.”
Kat shook her head slowly. “What on earth do you believe you could do, Lord Dalbury, that could even come close to a remedy for the terror and humiliation you put me through? Do you think now that I have met you, heard your feeble attempts at an apology, and rejected them, the memory of that night will magically disappear?” She fought to control her anger, though she yearned to blast him with it. “What magic potion would you have me take that would erase the memory of you pinning me to the bed? Because if you have such an elixir, then yes, I will gladly take it from you and obliterate you absolutely and irrevocably.”
He stood silent at her words, then said simply, “I have only myself to offer, my lady.”
“You would have me kill you, my lord? In that, too, I agree I would oblige you, but not at the cost of my own life. I understand the English law punishes those who do murder quite severely.” Kat was astonished when he lurched backward, as from a blow.
“No, my lady, I would not have you kill me,” he said, sounding grimly amused. “Though indeed that would probably give you most satisfaction. I meant I would have you marry me.”
His words surprised a laugh out of her. “Marry you?” The laughter grew. “I see, my lord, you think me both a whore and a fool.”
“I think you are neither, Lady Katarina.”
“Then you are the fool to believe I would put such a man as you in control of every aspect of my life.” That he thought she would even entertain the suggestion was insulting.
The pale moonlight shadowed his face, but she could read displeasure there just the same. “You judge me solely on one act that, I assure you, was grossly out of character for me. You cannot possibly know what kind of husband I would be.”
“And never will, Lord Dalbury. I can swear to you that I would not marry you if I were in Hell and you were my only hope of Heaven.”
He inclined his head toward her, a faint smile touching his lips. “I believe you made a similar claim about dancing with me, Lady Katarina. Yet we have indeed enjoyed a dance together despite your words.” His tone was soft, the sensuous, cajoling one he had used to seduce her that night in the House of Pleasure.
Kat trembled, recalling the incredible sensations of his hands, his mouth on her body. Damn. He could not do this to her again. Not just with his voice.
“Is there nothing that would entice you to leave your Hell for my Heaven?”
She struggled to answer, opened her lips to deny it, only to find her mouth completely sealed by his.
Only Scandal Will Do is available at Amazon, iTunes, and All Romance E-Books.
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Jenna Jaxon Romance--because passion is timeless. 
For me, romance is about the small things my hubs does for me–shoeing horses, getting hay, but the big diamond earrings he bought me for my last anniversary didn’t hurt my feelers! LOL
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Love Romancing the Stone!! I have to watch it again sometime.
Flowerlady_23@yahoo.com
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Probably, the thing I’m willing to lose to gain everything would be my mind, haha. My boyfriend makes me lose my mind all the time and I wouldn’t have it any other way. 🙂 Romance for me is spending quality time together and enjoying each other’s company.
craigcrystal(at)ymail(dot)com
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Thanks for the chance to win!
natasha_donohoo_8 at hotmail dot com
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I already have everything I could have ever wanted so I’m not willing to lose anything anymore. I gauge romance by what the people do for each other especially in times of crisis.
vadeluna07@yahoo.com
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Oh how I love romances. I am a simplistic romantic. I enjoy when my husband brings home something sweet for no reason at all AND he knows who my all time favorite author is too!!!!
Thanks for the hop.
koonie2888 at yahoo dot com
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Romance for me & my hubby is a great home cooked dinner. Most likely steak. Then watching a movie while cuddling on the couch. I steal the popcorn & he hides the twizzlers from me. lol It is our romantic night and I love it.
kaylyndavis1986@yahoo.com
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Romance is anything my husband does or says that’s just for me.
Thanks for the giveaway!
deedee [at] grifmail [dot] com
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Wishing you success with this hop and with your fabulous book. I don’t know how anyone could resist it!
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Thanks for the giveaway! Good luck to all (:
AnimeAngel1016(at)yahoo(dot)com
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For me romance is having your significant other walk with you hand in hand in public and when they give themselves to you unreservedly in private.
flubber2kool@gmail.com
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I used to watch Romancing the Stone, I swear, on a daily basis when I was younger. I loved the HEA, but the snarky humor was the best!
Thank you very much for the chance at winning your giveaway!
Sebrina_Cassity at yahoo dot com
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Thank you for the giveaway!
Diana
bookofsecrets(at)yahoo(dot)com
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Thanks for the awesome hop! Romance to me is when your significant other puts your needs and wants before theirs.
slinkydennis@yahoo.com
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Romance to me is when your husband surprises you by bringing home dinner so you can have a night off.
sqwalker2@hotmail.com
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To me it is when you are the most important thing in that persons life, they would go to the ends of the earth if asked,
emily.heisler @ gmail.com
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Romance to me is when he does something that I love but he doesn’t. In other words, when he puts me before hisself!
Thanks for participating!
slinkydennis@yahoo.com
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Great post! I never read Romancing In the the Stone, but it’s going on my TBR for sure.
This a great way to find new authors, I’m really enjoying this hop.
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Great excerpt.
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Oh Boy! I Love that Lady Katarina can handle a sword. I took a class in fencing while in college – I’m sure that was prompted by my love of swashbuckler movies & books!
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Romancing The Stone is my ALL time favorite romance movie. I’ve watched no less than 15 times–and now i want to watch it again.
Romance to me is still being “in love” with a person after 20 years of marriage, raising two boys, going through financial hardships, life’s hardships, and witnessing all the good and bad from each other. It’s not only all the good times we go through that is romantic to me, it’s going through all the bad times holding each others hands, relying on each other, loving each other through it all. That is romance–real romance.
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Dang, in my ramblings I forgot my email.
brenda_dyer212@hotmail.com
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What a great hop! Grand prizes, old friends to visit and new ones to meet… and chances to win at each stop too. I’m in Blog heaven!
Thanks for being part of the hop and for the chance to win.
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i would love to win the kindle fire or tablet because i don’t have any. thank you
deborahdumm@yahoo.com
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romance to me is him letting me get a few more minutes of sleep while he makes breakfast for the babies befor wakeing me with a soft smile. getting my coffee made just the way i like it as im rushing around in the morning trying to get everyone ready to go off to school or work. little things like that that some dont even notice.
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Thanks for the chance.
Jesse
jesse.kimmelfreeman@gmail.com
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