Wickedly Used.
Release date – 17th
February.
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Publisher’s Note: Wickedly Used: A Dark Regency Romance includes
spankings and sexual scenes. If such material offends you, please don’t buy
this book.
Blurb
Elizabeth is an
heiress to one of the largest fortunes in England, but she cannot touch her
inheritance until she marries or turns thirty, and her cruel uncle has used
that fact to his advantage and treats her as no more than a servant.
Lord Rothbury
knows that he must marry into money so that his sisters can have the life he
wants for them, and when he finds himself falling in love with a girl he
believes to be a servant he tries to forget her. But letting go of Elizabeth
proves much more difficult than he expected…
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Excerpt
Hidden behind their masks, the
patrons behaved too freely. Druid’s Walk became a place for pleasure and
indiscreet sex. Seeing that serving girl go there alone roused his protective
instincts. He needed to ensure her safety, but it took him a while to make his
way through the crowd.
His size always made him stand
out, and tonight, he drew predatory looks from some of the ton’s ladies. He’d
been immune to women’s charms since his first love ruined his life. He didn’t
understand why that serving girl called to him on a primal level.
Finally, he reached Druid’s Walk.
Looking far ahead, he saw a group of Cits accost her; he clenched his fists and
started toward them. Those louts needed to learn better manners. Just as he
approached, she broke free and vanished into the night. The silly chit ran
further into the Walk’s notorious depths.
Five drunken idiots had harried
the woman who fascinated him. He released the cold fury that lived inside him
and strode toward them. Menace dripped from his gaze. Dangerous and deadly, he
knew five to one weren’t bad odds… for him. He’d honed his fighting skills
during his seven years fighting in the Peninsular War. Teaching drunks who
thought they were invincible some manners came naturally to him.
He tapped the nearest one on the
shoulder. “You need to treat ladies with more respect.”
The drunk said nothing, just
flailed his arms wildly, trying to hit the dragoon’s head. Sidestepping,
Rothbury planted his right fist in the drunk’s face and his left in his gut.
The man doubled over and threw up.
The other four rushed him in a
group. Rothbury’s first punch broke a man’s nose. His second dislocated another’s
jaw. One kick and another drunk doubled over on the ground. Two more punches
and the last two sprawled on the mud at his feet.
Breathing steady and even,
Rothbury towered over them. If they’d have been in his unit, they’d have been
on a charge. Tonight, he’d leave them sprawled on the pathway and follow the
blonde who’d enchanted him.
The need to possess her clawed
at his soul. Her beauty drove him wild and turned his balls blue. Not that he
could afford a mistress or even a couple of hours with a whore. If she was the
innocent she seemed, he’d see her safely home. But he wanted her to be wicked
and willing.
By the time he found her again,
she’d attracted Lord Dawlish’s attention. That man’s reputation was so dark his
peers had blackballed him at White’s.
Questions and Answers
1 Give
us an insight into your main character. What does he/she do that is so special?
My heroine, Lady Elizabeth
Blayneton is an heiress, but she can’t inherit until she marries or turns
thirty. Her uncle and guardian is determined she will marry his slack-mouthed
son, but she’d rather not marry at all than wed him. Only she doesn’t want to
die a virgin.
2 Tell us about your
hero.
Brigade Major Lord
Rothbury carries the wounds his first love inflicted when she threw him over
for his father. To silence the gossip, his father packed him off to fight in
the Peninsula war and squandered the family fortune on his new bride. When the
current Lord Rothbury inherited, there was nothing but mortgages and debts.
He’s been trying to put things right and provide for his sisters ever since.
Waterloo looms, and he’s recalled to Wellington’s staff. Then there’s this
serving girl who keeps ending up in his bed, only wedding her would cause
another scandal and ruin his sisters’ future.
3 What genre are
your books?
I write romance. Any sort.
Paranormal or contemporary. Wickedly Used
is my first Regency Romance, although it’s darker than many.
4. What draws you to this genre?
I write the books I like
to read. There’s always a strong plot, with lots of adventure. Then there’s the
sex. My pet hate is cliff hangers. Each book in either of my series can be read
as stand-alone romance. Add in that I’m a sucker for a happy-ever-after, and
you’ve got my writing style.
5. What is your favorite motivational phrase.
It’s one of Mohamed Ali’s
catchphrases. “If my head can conceive it
and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.”
6 How do you select the
names of your characters?
I try to pick a name that
fits the world they live in. My paranormal heroines are often named for herbs
and flowers. For my contemporary characters, I look at popular names in the
year they were born. Sometimes they shout at me that I’ve named them wrongly,
but that doesn’t happen often. The heroine in my book Claimed by Vampire, Seduced by the Werewolf went through three name
changes before I got her name right.
More about Kryssie
Fortune.
Kryssie reads everything and anything, from literary fiction to
sizzling romance. Her earliest memory is going to the library with her mother.
She can’t have been more than two at the time. Reading, especially when a
book’s hot and explicit, is more than a guilty pleasure. It’s an obsession.
Kryssie loves to visit historic sites, from Hadrian’s wall to
Regency Bath. The first book she fell in love with was Georgette Heyer’s The Unkown Ajax. After that, she
devoured every regency book she could. After a while, they went out of fashion,
but part of Kryssie’s psyche lives in in in Regency London. She longs to dance
quadrilles and flirt behind fans. Of course, Kryssie’s heroines do far more
than flirt.
Kryssie lives in Bridlington on the Yorkshire coast –about thirty
miles from Whitby, where Bram Stoker wrote Dracula. She enjoys gardening,
travel, and socializing with her author friends. You’d be surprised how many
erotic romance authors live in the North of England.
Tina
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