Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors !

 I’m back this week with more from my WIP As Long As You’re Mine. I plan on releasing this book sometime in summer 2024, so stay tuned to find out when to expect it.

As Long As You’re Mine

BLURB:

Desperate to marry a man who will not touch her heart, Lady Amantha Easton has pre-arranged to get herself compromised by a gentleman who fits that bill. By mischance, she enters the wrong bedroom where she instead meets Rafael Beauregard, an American architect and charming bad boy. Despite his attractive and playful attitude, Amantha leaves the room untouched (almost) and undetected by her father. She resolves to contact her prospective husband the next day and try the compromise again.

Unfortunately, while waiting for her would be lover, Amantha gives in and kisses Rafe–and is then discovered by her father and forced to marry him. Amanth’s greatest fear is that she will fall in love with him but that he will never fall for her given the circumstances of their marriage. Despite her fears, Amantha decides the best way to prevent her inevitable heartbreak is by making Rafe fall in love with her.

In today’s snippet Amantha tries again to put her desperate plan into operation but has forgotten one scandalous detail.

EXCERPT:

Straightening her shoulders, Amantha was just about to slip out of the door when Sara appeared around the corner, her cap askew, her cheeks a hectic pink.

“Thank goodness.” With a sigh of relief, Amantha eased out of her room, closed the door with a soft click and beckoned the maid to follow her down the passageway.

“Where are you going dressed like that, my lady?” Puzzlement fought with exhaustion in Sara’s face as she took in Amantha’s appearance.

Amantha glanced down and gulped. Dressed in a frilly white night gown, with frothy lace at the high neckline and around the cuffs of the sleeves, she was the picture of a lady ready for her bed, not for traipsing around a manor house in the dead of night at a house party. In her haste to get her plan underway, she’d forgotten her robe.

“Oh, goodness, how silly of me,” Amantha darted back into the room, grabbed her pale rose robe, and stepped back into the corridor,“I’m so distressed I forgot my robe. Help me put this on before someone sees me.”

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