You may or may not know that I have a lovely Cavoodle named Brandy. She’s now 15 months old and she needs a play mate.

She’s quite an active wee girl and loves her long morning walks but when I try to write she’s at me the whole time. When I sit at my desk to work she will sit quietly underneath it, but I do most of my writing using a lap desk as it’s better for my neck and shoulders. When I’m sitting on my bed or on the sofa writing, she believes it’s time to play.

I have been taking her to doggie day care two days a week and she loves it there with the other dogs. Then, when I was visiting with my Dad in Canada, they have two dogs and I saw the friendship and thought Brandy needs a brother.

I live in the country and we have a huge section and it would be really fun for her to have a little friend. I’ve found a black and white male Cavoodle and I pick him up on 26 August. He will be 18 weeks old when I get to collect him, and I need a name for him.

I googled the top 50 male dog names and there are quite a few I like. So many in fact, I can’t pick one. What do you think the little puppy’s name should be? He’s a Cavoodle too, and black and white.

I shall select one person who leaves a comment with a name suggestion either here or on my Facebook page, as a winner and they will win an autographed copy of WORTH ANY PRICE by Lisa Kleypas.

Open internationally, closes on August 26th 2015. You can enter as many times as you’d like either in the comments below or on my Facebook post.

Dear Readers

A TOUCH OF PASSION is releasing this month on 24 March. Book #3 in my Disgraced Lords series. Great title when you think about it (thank you Sue Grimshaw, my editor at Random House Loveswept), because passion drives all of us.

I love this quote from one of my all time favorite TV writers – Joss Whedon (Buffy, Angel, Firefly etc)

“Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping… waiting… and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir… open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us… guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love… the clarity of hatred… the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we’d know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we’d be truly dead.”
― Joss Whedon

WOW – so powerful and so very true!

In A TOUCH OF PASSION, the character who is driven by passion is my heroine, Lady Portia Flagstaff. She’s filled to her bonnet with passion. She almost died when she was sixteen, and she’s determined to embrace all that life has to offer, society’s norms be damned. And whom she really wants to embrace is my hero, Grayson Devlin, Viscount Blackwood. However, to her consternation, Grayson, having grown up in her family’s household, views Portia as nothing more than a younger sister. That is, until one fateful night at a Cyprian’s ball….Here is a touch of passion arising when Grayson suddenly see’s Portia as a woman:

Portia tried to move. “You can let me go now. I’m sure the ladies are waiting for you.”

His eyes smiled into hers. “That almost sounds like jealousy.”

Of course it did. She was jealous, but she was not about to let him know that. “Don’t be ridiculous. If you remember, I left as soon as you arrived. Why would I be jealous?”

“So, you’re saying you’re unaffected by me?”

What game was he playing? Portia found her gaze riveted on Grayson’s lips, watching them move, wondering what they would feel like. She shook her head. What had he asked?

“Of course I’m not jealous. Not every woman wants to fall into your bed.”

“Liar. I can feel your heart pounding in your chest.”

“We were almost caught by my brother. He does allow me more leeway than most men, but dressed like this, in your arms . . . There would have been consequences.”

He reached up and slid his fingers behind her nape, and her breathing faltered as she watched his lips draw nearer. “So if I were to kiss you, you’d feel nothing?”

He didn’t allow her to reply but drew her mouth up to meet his. He permitted his lips, soft and firm at the same time, to play over hers like a maestro. Liquid heat washed over her, making her light-headed. She was losing herself in his kiss. She wanted to experience everything his kiss had to offer, and never leave his embrace.

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In the latest Disgraced Lords novel from USA Today bestselling author Bronwen Evans, a vivacious thrill seeker clashes with her dutiful defender—causing irresistible sparks to fly.
 
Independent and high-spirited, Lady Portia Flagstaff has never been afraid to take a risk, especially if it involves excitement and danger. But this time, being kidnapped and sold into an Arab harem is the outcome of one risk too many. Now, in order to regain her freedom, she has to rely on the deliciously packaged Grayson Devlin, Viscount Blackwood, a man who despises her reckless ways—and stirs in her a thirst for passion.
 
After losing his mother and two siblings in a carriage accident years ago, Grayson Devlin promised Portia’s dying brother that he’d always watch over his wayward sister. But having to travel to Egypt to rescue the foolhardy girl has made his blood boil. Grayson already has his hands full trying to clear his best friend and fellow Libertine Scholar of a crime he didn’t commit. Worse still, his dashing rescue has unleashed an unforeseen and undesired consequence: marriage. Now it’s more than Portia he has to protect . . . it’s his battered heart.

Tell me who or what is your great passion and what your life would be without them or it. I’ll pick two lucky winners to win a eBook copy of CAPTIVATED BY HIS KISS a boxed set of 7 authors (including me). Open Internationally. Closing 31 March 2015.

I find that one of the fun things I experience in the process of creating a book, is working with amazing people. One of them happens to be Carrie Divine, from Seductive Designs, who creates my beautiful covers.

I first met Carrie when she was a blogger with Seductive Musings. She wrote lovely reviews of my books, and lucky for me she agreed to beta read for me. Then, to my joy, she started designing covers and I think I was one of her first customers when I bought my cover for my Wicked Wagers Trilogy from her.

The team at Loveswept also loved her covers, and I got to work with Carrie on my Disgraced Lords series too. She has completed four Disgraced Lords series covers and each one is beautiful.

Here is the latest cover for A WHISPER OF DESIRE (23 June, 2015) Book #4 Disgraced Lords series. All the kudos goes to Carrie who understands what I love and who my characters are. THANK YOU!

Sensual heat melts the ice in the new Disgraced Lords novel from USA Today bestselling author Bronwen Evans, as a marriage of convenience leads to delightful pleasure—and mortal danger.
 
Lady Marisa Hawkstone’s nightmare is just beginning when she wakes up naked, with no memory of the night before, lying next to Maitland Spencer, the Duke of Lyttleton—a man so aloof and rational he’s nicknamed “the Cold Duke.” A scandal ensues, in which Marisa’s beloved beau deserts her. As a compromised woman, Marisa agrees to marry Maitland. But on her wedding night, Marisa discovers the one place the duke shows emotion: in the bedroom, where the man positively scorches the sheets.
 
Taught from a young age to take duty seriously, Maitland cannot understand his new wife’s demands on his love and affection. Marisa’s hot-blooded spirit, however, does have its attractions—especially at night. In retrospect, it seems quite silly that he didn’t marry sooner. But being one of the Libertine Scholars requires constant vigilance, even more so when the enemy with a grudge against his closest friends targets Marisa. Now Maitland must save the woman who sets his heart aflame—or die trying.

Which one is your favorite cover? I can’t decide. I love them all!