{"id":7442,"date":"2011-10-14T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T15:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/?p=7442"},"modified":"2011-10-14T11:02:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T15:02:09","slug":"exclusive-excerpt-how-the-marquess-was-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/14\/exclusive-excerpt-how-the-marquess-was-won\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive Excerpt: How the Marquess Was Won"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, you are all in for a major treat. Treat I tell you!<\/em> I somehow managed to twist the arm of the extremely talented and fabulous Julie Anne Long<\/a><\/em><\/strong> so much so, she agreed to give me an excerpt to post of her eagerly awaited January 2012 release, HOW THE MARQUESS WAS WON<\/a>, <\/strong>the sixth book in her Pennyroyal Green series.<\/p>\n

I was lucky enough to get my hands on the egalley of this fantastic book and thoroughly enjoyed it. The beautiful lyrical prose of Julie Anne Long<\/a><\/strong><\/em> doesn’t disappoint in this dry witted, tension wrought and emotional tale of the ruthless, cold Marquess Dryden, Julian Spenser, known as the Lord of Ice<\/em>, falling for the most unsuitable Phoebe Vale, the paid companion to Lisbeth Redmond, the woman he firmly intends to marry.<\/p>\n

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Exclusive excerpt from<\/em> HOW THE MARQUESS WAS WON<\/strong><\/p>\n

Coming January 2012 from Avon\/HarperCollins<\/p>\n

Copyright Julie Anne Long<\/p>\n

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Sparked by a single unforgettable encounter, tension\u2014and forbidden fascination\u2014have been building for days between The Marquess Dryden, the infamous Lord Ice, and Phoebe Vale, paid companion for the spoiled, exquisite heiress (and his prospective bride) Lisbeth Redmond. And then Lisbeth leads a group of house party guests, including the Marquess and her brother Jonathan, on a stroll to see picturesque ruins on Redmond Land and Phoebe becomes separated from the rest of the party\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

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What the devil\u2014? A woman couldn\u2019t just vanish into thin air. He scanned the pathway. Oaks had dropped their loads of leaves, but hawthorns were everywhere thick and rustling with tiny hidden creatures.<\/p>\n

And then he saw the narrow passage between a Hawthorne and the trunk of a large oak.<\/p>\n

He peeked through.<\/p>\n

And there she stood, in an almost magical clearing , a circle of lush meadow grass not yet killed by frost bounded by, hidden by, Hawthorn and oaks and trees that hadn\u2019t yet lost all of their leaves.<\/p>\n

She was dappled in the shadows of leaves when she stood up, smiling, with a handful of green clutched in her fist.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou see?\u201d she presented, triumphantly. \u201cI was right. Sage does grow here. And it smells heavenly.\u201d<\/p>\n

She pressed it to her nose and inhaled deeply.<\/p>\n

He watched her close her eyes to isolate herself with the scent. All at once every corner, for some reason, filled with light.<\/p>\n

He\u2019d gone mute.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a region in France that claims sage helps in the easing of grief. They plant them around tombstones in their cemeteries,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow did you\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

But there really was no point in asking. She read things, she knew things, and out they came, little surprises. It was strangely like unwrapping little gifts, not all of which he appreciated. She clung to facts and information, like flotsam in a shipwreck. They\u2019d saved her.<\/p>\n

Mutely, he looked at her. Too full to speak. Her eyes were green. He knew that decisively now. A more facile man would have compared them flatteringly to something\u2014leaves or moss or emeralds or some such\u2014but all he would truthfully be able to say was that no one he\u2019d ever known possessed eyes quite hers. It had little to do with their color. It was in the way that over the course of mere days he\u2019d found himself saying things just to see how they would change: how humor would kindle them, and kindness soften them, and anger make them flash, and how he felt when the light of them was turned on him. How he wanted to hold up his hands before them and warm them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI read about it,\u201d she told him anyway. She looked down at the bundle in her hand, indecisively. And then:<\/p>\n

\u201cHere.\u201d She extended it to him. \u201cA gift for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

He stared it.\u00a0 All at once too many thoughts and impressions jostled for the exits, and none could escape in the form of words. So he did as she ordered: slowly, wordlessly, he reached for them.<\/p>\n

And as she began to surrender them, her fingers brushed his.<\/p>\n

He stopped breathing.<\/p>\n

He\u2019d once seen a man struck by lightning. He\u2019d watched as the bolt held him helpless, motionless, arcing his body. Having its way with him.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t unlike that.<\/p>\n

Breathlessly, dumbly, they both stared at the place where their fingers met. Stunned to at last, at last, be touching. Skin to skin.<\/p>\n

He dropped the herbs and seized her wrist. \u201cEnough.\u201d<\/p>\n

The word was low and dark. And it thrummed command and something like a plea.<\/p>\n

Slowly, slowly, she levered up her head, as if spooling courage on the way up. Her jaw was taut; her eyes were wide when they met his, but comprehension flickered in them.<\/p>\n

The air suddenly seemed full of snapping sparks. One would have thought he\u2019d<\/em> captured a unicorn, for God\u2019s sake, for how enervated he felt.<\/p>\n

As he watched, a flush painted her from her collarbone upwards. Beneath his thumb, placed over a pale blue vein in that silky hand, her pulse raced.<\/p>\n

He turned her palm up. He wished he could be certain she was the one who was trembling, for one<\/em> of them was. Her hand was achingly soft, too vulnerable. It was cold, which struck him as poignant. He wanted to warm her. He needed to warm her.<\/p>\n

And so he brought her palm to his mouth.<\/p>\n

He softly opened his mouth against her skin, touched his tongue there, burned her with a kiss that was at once chaste and perhaps the most carnal he\u2019d ever given.<\/p>\n

Her head tipped back hard; her eyelids shuddered closed. She made a soft sound, a gasp of shock and pure sensual pleasure.<\/p>\n

Mother of God<\/em>.<\/p>\n

He lifted his head with some effort. He curled her fingers closed over the place he kissed her, as if handing her a keepsake.<\/p>\n

He knew he ought to. And yet he found he couldn\u2019t relinquish her hand.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook at me, Miss Vale.\u201d His voice a low demand.<\/p>\n

A moment\u2019s hesitation. She opened her eyes. He was absurdly thrilled to see them again. They were dazed and starry and wary. The sun haloed her, and the light both set her aglow and obscured her. As he stared, he withstood bolt after swift bolt of impression, each distinct and pure and primal:<\/p>\n

Who kissed you first? I will kiss the memory of it away. I will run him through with a sword. I can\u2019t recall kissing anyone before you. I am ruined. I am happy. I\u2019m afraid. I need to leave. <\/em>You need to leave. <\/em><\/p>\n

He was holding her hand as though it was as delicate as an egg. Which rather contrasted his expression, which, little did he know, was edging toward the thunderous.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know I was going to do that,\u201d he said finally.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you always know what you\u2019re going to do?\u201d\u00a0 Her voice was a low husk.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlways.\u201d He said shortly. It sounded like an accusation.<\/p>\n

A heartbeat\u2019s worth of silence passed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat are you going to do now?\u201d And in her whisper was both sensual challenge and trepidation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~*~*~<\/span><\/p>\n

How great does that sound?! And that’s not the end. Julie Anne is generously agreed to give away an autographed copy of one of the other books<\/em><\/span> in her Pennyroyal Green series and a signed coverflat of HOW THE MARQUESS WAS WON. Comment to enter to win!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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