The Renegade Wife is the first book in my Children of Empire Series. It features a hero who appeared as a small boy in the prequel, A Dangerous Nativity along with boys who are the heroes of the next two books In Children of Empire. It is a historical romance set in 1832, the late Georgian Era just before Victoria took the throne. Released by Soul Mate Publishing 2016, it was a finalist for both the Raven and RONE awards and a top pick at InD’Tale, Readers’ Favorite Reviews, Night Owl Reviews, and The Romance Reviews.
…the characters leap off the page
and into the reader’s heart…
The Book
Desperate and afraid, Meggy Blair will do
whatever it takes to protect her children. She’d hoped to find sanctuary from
her abusive husband with her Ojibwa grandmother, but can’t locate her. When her
children fall ill, she seeks shelter in an isolated cabin in Upper Canada. But
when the owner unexpectedly returns, he’s furious to find squatters disrupting
his self-imposed solitude.
Reclusive businessman
Rand Wheatly had good reason to put an ocean between himself and the family
that deceived him. He just wants the intrusive woman gone, but it isn’t
long before Meggy and the children start breaking down the defensive walls he’s
built. But their fragile interlude is shattered when Meggy’s husband
appears to claim his children, threatening to have Rand jailed.
The only way for Meggy
to protect Rand is to leave him. But when her husband takes her and the
children to England, Meggy discovers he’s far more than an abuser; what he’s
involved in endangers all their lives. To rescue the woman who has stolen
his heart, Rand must follow her and do what he swore he’d never do: reconcile
with his aristocratic family and finally uncover the truth behind all the
lies. But time is running out for them all.
An Excerpt
She
pushed away from the door. “If you’re finished, I’ll clear up your dishes.
“Damn
it woman, I fend for myself here.” He looked her up and down. He noticed her
deep blue eyes, midnight black hair, and dusky skin. “What are you? Gypsy? Is
that where you learned how to diddle a man out of his belongings?”
She
drew her back up straight and squared her shoulders. The gesture pulled her
dress tight across obviously ample breasts.
There’s a practiced
enticement. She’s in for a surprise if she thinks that trick will work on me.
Chin
high, she met his eyes without flinching. “My grandmother is Ojibwa, my father
was French, and my husband was a Scot. You can despise whichever one of those
your English heart chooses, or all of them, but I am not a thief.”
She
grabbed her skirt and took a step toward the door. “Do fend for yourself. We’ll
leave as soon as we can.”
“I’ll decide when you’re a thief,” he snarled, bringing her to a halt. “It’s my house.”
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More About the Author
Award winning author
of family centered romance set in the Regency and Victorian eras, Caroline
Warfield has been many things: traveler, librarian, poet, raiser of children, bird
watcher, Internet and Web services manager, conference speaker, indexer, tech writer, genealogist—even
a nun. She reckons she is
on at least her third act, happily working in an office surrounded by windows where she lets her characters
lead her to adventures in England and the far-flung corners of the British
Empire. She nudges them to explore the riskiest territory of all, the human
heart. You can find her here:
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The Renegade wife sounds like my kind of novel. The excerpt is totally engaging. I've put this one on my soon to be read list.
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