{"id":7173,"date":"2011-09-07T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T04:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/?p=7173"},"modified":"2011-09-07T00:00:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T04:00:51","slug":"the-case-of-the-missing-villains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/07\/the-case-of-the-missing-villains\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case of the Missing Villains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>by <a href=\"http:\/\/ashleymarch.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ashley March<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First of all, I\u2019d like to say thank you very much to Bev for hosting me today at The Season\u00a0 blog! The Season\u00a0 is one of my very favorite romance sites, and I\u2019m thrilled to be coming back again on the book tour for my new Victorian romance, <strong>ROMANCING THE COUNTESS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ashleymarch.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7175\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px;\" title=\"ashleymarch\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ashleymarch.jpg?resize=125%2C188\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"188\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a>If you had the chance to read my debut, <strong>SEDUCING THE DUCHESS<\/strong>, you know that there weren\u2019t really any villains in the book. Instead, the hero and heroine had to move beyond their own demons and their past that was keeping them apart. The main conflict was rooted between the couple; there were no villains to run away from, to outwit, or to kill.<\/p>\n<p>Well, in <strong>ROMANCING THE COUNTESS<\/strong>, some people might think that there should be villains. You see, this book is about an earl and his best friend\u2019s wife who are drawn together after their spouses\u2014who were having an affair\u2014die in a carriage accident. They might be dead, but as romance readers and people who believe in the importance of love and fidelity, I think our first instinct would be to think of the cheating spouses\u2014Ian and Angela\u2014as the villains in this story. Both of their spouses loved them, and Ian not only betrayed the heroine, Leah, but also his best friend, Sebastian, by having the affair. How could we not despise them for the pain they put our hero and heroine through?<\/p>\n<p>Yet as I wrote <strong>ROMANCING THE COUNTESS<\/strong>, I never thought of Ian and Angela as villains. Yes, what they did was terrible and I cannot condone it either as a romance author or as a person who puts a lot of stock into fidelity, but I do know that we all make mistakes. If you get a chance to read <strong>ROMANCING THE COUNTESS<\/strong>, you\u2019ll find at the beginning of each chapter a snippet from different love letters that Angela wrote to Ian. These were found by Leah after the carriage accident. I have to give credit where credit is due and tell you that it was my fabulous editor\u2019s idea to include these small snippets at the head of the chapters, and I\u2019m so glad she suggested it. With these little excerpts, the reader is able to see that Angela and Ian were real people, too, not just some faceless people from our hero and heroine\u2019s pasts. They weren\u2019t perfect, of course, but they had hopes and fears and desires and doubts. They didn\u2019t want to be seen as the villains\u2014they just wanted a chance to be with the person they loved. In <strong>ROMANCING THE COUNTESS<\/strong>, Leah and Sebastian were able to realize this and forgive them. And I hope that if you read ROMANCING THE COUNTESS, you do, too.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashleymarch.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7174\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px;\" title=\"romancingthecountess\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/romancingthecountess.jpg?resize=200%2C323\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"323\" \/><\/a>ROMANCING THE COUNTESS<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sebastian Madinger, the Earl of Wriothesly, thought he&#8217;d married the perfect woman-until a fatal accident revealed her betrayal with his best friend. After their deaths, Sebastian is determined to avoid a scandal for the sake of his son. But his best friend&#8217;s widow is just as determined to cast her mourning veil aside by hosting a party that will surely destroy both their reputations and expose all of his carefully kept secrets&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Leah George has carried the painful knowledge of her husband&#8217;s affair for almost a year. All she wants now is to enjoy her independence and make a new life for herself-even if that means being ostracized by the Society whose rules she was raised to obey. Now that the rumors are flying, there&#8217;s only one thing left for Sebastian to do: silence the scandal by enticing the improper widow into becoming a proper wife. But when it comes to matters of the heart, neither Sebastian nor Leah is prepared for the passion they discover in each other&#8217;s arms&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;d love to hear what you think about the issue of infidelity in romance novels. Is it possible for a character (whether the hero\/heroine or secondary character) to cheat on their significant other and not be considered a villain by the reader? Is love a good enough reason for leaving your spouse?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>One random commenter will be chosen to win a copy of my newest book, <span style=\"color: #000080;\">ROMANCING THE COUNTESS<\/span> (open internationally)! Also, find out how to win the <span style=\"color: #000080;\">ROMANCING THE COUNTESS<\/span> Book Tour Grand Prize of 50+ romance novels by visiting <span style=\"color: #800000;\">www.ashleymarch.com<\/span>!\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ashleymarch.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7176\" title=\"rtcbanner\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/rtcbanner.jpg?resize=415%2C140\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ashley March First of all, I\u2019d like to say thank you very much to Bev for hosting me today at The Season\u00a0 blog! 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