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Tour Schedule: http://hfvirtualbooktours.com/queenofbedlamtour Tour Hashtag: #QueenofBedlamTour Publication Date: June 10, 2014 Myrmidon Books Ltd Paperback; 432p ISBN-10: 1910183016 London, 1788. The calm order of Queen Charlotte’s court is shattered by screams. Her beloved husband, England’s King, has gone mad. Left alone with thirteen children and a country at war, Charlotte must fight to hold her husband’s throne in a time of revolutionary fever. But it is not just the guillotine that Charlotte fears: it is the King himself. Her six daughters are desperate to escape their palace asylum. Their only chance lies in a good marriage, but no Prince wants the daughter of a madman. They are forced to take love wherever they can find it – with devastating consequences. The moving true story of George III’s madness and the women whose lives it destroyed. my thoughts Most American's know George III was the King during the American Revolution. This was the extent of my knowledge of George....

HF Virtual Book Tours invites you to join Joyce Wayne as she tours the blogosphere for The Cook's Temptation! Enter the giveaway to win an eBook of The Cook's Temptation or a $10 Amazon Gift Card! Publication Date: February 1, 2014 Mosaic Press Formats: Ebook, Paperback Joyce Wayne brings to life the complexities of Victorian life, first in County Devon and then in Londonís East End. The ëbig pictureí is about one womanís life, class conflict, religious intolerance, suspicion and betrayal. The central figure is Cordelia, a strong-minded Jewish woman who is caught between her desire to be true to herself and her need to be accepted by English society.Cordelia Tilley is the daughter of a Jewish mother and an Anglican father. Her mother has groomed her for a life in English society while her father, a tough publican, has shown no tolerance for his wifeís social climbing or the conceits of their perspicacious daughter. Cordeliaís mother dies from typhoid fever, she tries to run the...

Hardcover, 272 pages Expected publication: October 7th 2014 by Quirk Books ISBN 1594747296 (ISBN13: 9781594747298) Bright siblings--and amateur inventors--Nick and Tesla Holt are back in this fourth installment of their whiz-bang middle-grade series. This time, the twins are out to save science itself, as they race against the clock to figure out why a robotic assortment of history's greatest scientists and inventors keeps going haywire. Is this sabotage, robo-geddon...or something more sinister? To unravel the mystery, they'll have to keep adding all-new gadgets to their cyborg glove as they stay one step ahead of a hidden adversary. Together with zany scientist Uncle Newt and their friends Silas and DeMarco, Nick and Tesla won't give up until an answer is found...but can they do it before time runs out? In this book, readers will learn how to construct a super-cyborg gadget glove that has four incredible functions: LED signal light, ultra-loud emergency alarm, handy sound...

Please join Reina M. Williams on her Love at Pemberley Series Book Blast from May 12-June 13. About Most Truly Publication Date: December 15, 2013 Amazon Digital Services, Inc. eBook; 88 pages Heat level: Sweet Colonel James Fitzwilliam is home. The war has left him weary, battle-scarredóand a free man of fortune ready to find a wife. He travels to Pemberley, his second home. There he meets Kitty Bennet. Her unexpected charms soon have him questioning his familial duty and his expectations. A fight looms on the horizon when his auntóLady Catherine de Bourghóand his parents arrive with their own plans for his future. Kitty Bennet has found happiness. At Pemberley, she has improved herself and formed true friendships with her sister Lizzy and Georgiana Darcy. Kitty is captivated by the gentlemanly Colonel Fitzwilliam. But she will not be silly over a redcoat again, and she will not risk her happinessóor his familyís displeasureófor his attentions. Colonel Fitzwilliam, Darcy, Lizzy, an...

about the book Paperback, 362 pages Published April 14th 2013 by Streetlights Publishing (first published April 13th 2013) ISBN 0989036405 (ISBN13: 9780989036405) edition languageEnglish seriesAutumn #1 2014 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARD FINALIST! What would you do if you lived through the apocalypse? The real fight to survive comes after everyone else is gone. A plague of epic proportion sweeps the globe, leaving less than one percent of the world’s population immune. Among the living is Autumn Winters, the teenage daughter of a famous actress. When Autumn’s parents don’t come home and the city is overtaken by a dangerous faction, she goes into hiding with a small group of underground survivors. They’re led by a mysterious young man who harbors an unearthly secret, and with whom Autumn feels a deep connection.  Autumn in the City of Angels is the first novel in a series, followed by Autumn in the Dark Meadows and Autumn in the City of Lights. my thoughts To begin, I am slightly ...

about the book Paperback, 480 pages Published February 16th 2014 by Quercus Books (first published January 16th 2014) ISBN 184866320X (ISBN13: 9781848663206) edition languageEnglish url http://www.quercusbooks.co.uk/book/The-Missing-One-by-Lucy-Atkins-ISBN_9781848663206 The loss of her mother has left Kali McKenzie with too many unanswered questions. But while clearing out Elena’s art studio, she finds a drawer packed with postcards, each bearing an identical one-line message a Canadian gallery owner called Susannah Gillespie: thinking of you. Who is this woman and what does she know about Elena’s hidden past? Desperate to find out, Kali travels with her toddler, Finn, to Susannah’s isolated home on a remote British Columbian island, a place of killer whales and storms. But as bad weather closes in, Kali quickly realises she has made a big mistake. The handsome and enigmatic Susannah refuses to talk about the past, and as Kali struggles to piece together what happened back in the 1970s...

Tour Schedule: http://hfvirtualbooktours.com/cursesandsmoketour Tour Hashtag: #CursesandSmokeBlogTour Publication Date: May 27, 2014 Arthur A. Levine Books Formats: Hardcover, eBook Genre: YA Historical about the book When your world blows apart, what will you hold onto? TAG is a medical slave, doomed to spend his life healing his master's injured gladiators. But his warrior's heart yearns to fight in the gladiator ring himself and earn enough money to win his freedom. LUCIA is the daughter of Tag's owner, doomed by her father's greed to marry a much older Roman man. But she loves studying the natural world around her home in Pompeii, and lately she's been noticing some odd occurrences in the landscape: small lakes disappearing; a sulfurous smell in the air. . . . When the two childhood friends reconnect, each with their own longings, they fall passionately in love. But as they plot their escape from the city, a patrician fighter reveals his own plans for them -- to...

Please join Jenny Barden as she tours with HFVBT with her new book THE LOST DUCHESS Tour Schedule: http://hfvirtualbooktours.com/thelostduchesstourandbookblast Tour Hashtag: #LostDuchessBlogTour #LostDuchessBookBlast Paperback Publication Date: June 5, 2014 Ebury Press Paperback; 448p An epic Elizabethan adventure with a thriller pace and a high tension love story that moves from the palaces of England to the savage wilderness of the New World. Emme Fifield has fallen about as far as a gentlewoman can. Once a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth, her only hope of surviving the scandal that threatens to engulf her is to escape England for a fresh start in the new America where nobody has ever heard of the Duchess of Somerset. Emme joins Kit Doonan’s rag-tag band of idealists, desperados and misfits bound for Virginia. But such a voyage will be far from easy and Emme finds her attraction to the mysterious Doonan inconvenient to say the least. As for Kit, the handsome mariner has spent year...

GIVEAWAY  GIVEAWAY GIVEAWAY!!!!! I recently hosted Lynn Cullen and her latest book Mrs. Poe.  I failed to post the giveaway for a copy, so I am now posting the giveaway...open to US residents. Leave a comment on this post with your email address, and you're entered! This giveaway is open to residents of the US and ends at 11:59pm Tuesday, June 17, 2014. Winner will be selected at random. Thanks, and good luck! oh, and I would like to repost info about the book and my review about the book: A vivid and compelling novel about a woman who becomes entangled in an affair with Edgar Allan Poe—at the same time she becomes the unwilling confidante of his much-younger wife. It is 1845, and Frances Osgood is desperately trying to make a living as a writer in New York; not an easy task for a woman—especially one with two children and a philandering portrait painter as her husband. As Frances tries to sell her work, she finds that editors are only interested in writing similar to that of ...

Henrietta and the Dragon Stone (Book 2) Print Length: 300 pages Publisher and date published: Firewolf Books, Jan. 31, 2014 ASIN:  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I54CZII Genre: young adult fantasy/epic fantasy Format: Digital and print About the Book A new story of young adult epic fantasy adventure by award-winning author, Beth Barany. Book 2 in the Five Kingdom series of the continuing adventures of Henrietta The Dragon Slayer. What if everyone you loved was threatened by a force you couldn't see or fight? Henrietta the legendary dragon slayer wants to return to her village for a heroes’ welcome. But an unknown sorcerer rides after her and her Dragon Stone and aims to destroy everyone she cares about. Can she claim her newfound powers sparked by the Dragon Stone and keep her loved ones safe, or will the sorcerer destroy everyone and everything she loves? Excerpt of Henrietta and the Dragon Stone (Book 2 of the Five Kingdom series) chapter one: in his grasp The Dracontias, dra-con-ti...

Tour Schedule: http://hfvirtualbooktours.com/mrspoevirtualtour Tour Hashtag: #MrsPoeBlogTour  Paperback Publication Date: April 1, 2014 Gallery Books Great Reads of 2013 –NPR Books That Make Time Stand Still –Oprah.com Editor’s Pick—The Historical Novels Review Best Books of 2013—Atlanta Magazine Indie Next List Pick A vivid and compelling novel about a woman who becomes entangled in an affair with Edgar Allan Poe—at the same time she becomes the unwilling confidante of his much-younger wife. It is 1845, and Frances Osgood is desperately trying to make a living as a writer in New York; not an easy task for a woman—especially one with two children and a philandering portrait painter as her husband. As Frances tries to sell her work, she finds that editors are only interested in writing similar to that of the new renegade literary sensation Edgar Allan Poe, whose poem, “The Raven” has struck a public nerve. She meets the handsome and mysterious Poe at a literary party, and the two h...