{"id":3030,"date":"2010-04-16T16:07:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T20:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2010-04-16T16:07:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T20:07:43","slug":"arc-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/16\/arc-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"ARC Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is only now I can bear to part with the ARC of <strong><span style=\"color: #d60000;\">Mistress By Mistake<\/span><\/strong> and that&#8217;s simply because Maggie sent me a copy of the finished thing! Autographed specially to me. \ud83d\ude00\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #d60000;\"><strong>Mistress By Mistake<\/strong><\/span> doesn&#8217;t come out until April 27, so still over a week away, but it really can&#8217;t hit the stores soon enough. I&#8217;ve written a review for it that will accompany Maggie&#8217;s <strong>Feature Interview <\/strong>on the blog. In the meanwhile, do yourselves a favor and pre-order this book (if you&#8217;re not lucky enough to win it today). It is sooooooo good. There is nothing like loving a book you had absolutely NO expectations of. There&#8217;s nothing like finding a new author to add to your auto-buy list. That&#8217;s what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maggierobinson.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><em>Maggie Robinson <\/em><\/span><\/a>and <span style=\"color: #d60000;\"><strong>Mistress By Mistake<\/strong><\/span> did for me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comment to enter\u00a0 to win the ARC that I fell in love with and\u00a0 experience Maggie&#8217;s wonderful romance and gorgeous prose ahead of the general public. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #7a4961;\">~*~*~<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"border: double; border-color: #d60000; padding-right: 15px;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #d60000;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-444\" title=\"mistressbymistake\" src=\" http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/mistressbymistake_200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><span style=\"color: #d60000;\">Mistress By Mistake<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #d60000;\"><br \/>\nAuthor: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maggierobinson.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maggie Robinson<\/a><br \/>\nPublisher: Brava \/ Kensington<br \/>\nPub. Date: April 27, 2010<br \/>\nISBN-13: 978-0758250995<br \/>\nRetail: $14.00<br \/>\n352 pages<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em> <strong>Scandal is only the beginning\u2026 <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Charlotte Fallon let her guarded virtue fall once\u2014and she\u2019s paid dearly for it ever since. She swore she\u2019d never succumb to men\u2019s desires again. But even a village spinster\u2019s life miles from temptation can\u2019t save her from a sister with no shame whatsoever. Or a heart that longs for more, whatever the cost\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sir Michael Bayard found more than he expected in his bed when he finally joined his new mistress. He\u2019d fantasized about her dewy skin and luscious curves, assured her understanding that what passed between them was mere dalliance. But he didn\u2019t expect the innocence and heat of her response in his arms. Nor her surprisingly sharp tongue once she was out of them\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A few days of abandon cannot undo the hard-learned lessons of a lifetime. Nor can an honest passion burn away the restraints of society\u2019s judgments. 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