Last week I finally got the cover for my September Harlequin Historicals release, The Runaway Countess!! It’s such a suspenseful moment just before opening those new cover files. Will it be hideous? Beautiful? Make my heroine look weirdly like Miley Cyrus or something? But I didn’t need to worry at all about this one, I love it wholeheartedly.
Wed to wickedness
In Society’s eyes, Hayden Fitzwalter, Earl of Ramsay and Jane Bancroft have the perfect marriage. But what can’t be seen are the secrets hidden behind closed doors. Believing Hayden will never renounce his dissolute ways, Jane flees to her family’s dilapidated estate in the country.
Years later, Hayden now longs to win back the only woman who has ever touched his heart. But first he has to convince her that this rogue is ready to be tamed….
BANCROFTS OF BARTON PARK
Two sisters, two scandals, two sizzling love affairs
It’s available for pre-order now…
This book was my first attempt at a “marriage in trouble” story, which was a fun challenge! How to take a couple already married, but torn apart by disappointed expectations and a lost child. It made writing their HEA twice as sweet, I think. (Book two will be the story of Jane’s free-spirited sister Emma…)
Do you like “marriage in trouble” plots?? What do you look for in Regency covers?
And I will be drawing a winner for Kae Elle Wheeler’s The English Lily later tonight! You still have time to comment on last Tuesday’s post….
The cover really is lovely, Amanda! I think it is perhaps your best cover yet!
I do love marriage in trouble stories. During the Regency it was perfectly realistic to have two people in a marriage who never saw each other! It was nothing at all to lead separate lives. I love a story where that sort of separation is possible, but the hero and heroine can’t live with it.
My hero and heroine try it…but then find much to their surprise they actually DO love each other 🙂 I love how the cover conveys that distance and longing
That is a beautiful cover and conveys a lot of emotion.
Marriage in trouble stories are tricky, I think, because they can be so wrapped up in uncomfortable realities. But that makes them all the more satisfying when they work.
Congratulations!