One good blackmail deserves another.
To Covet a Lady's Heart
The Landon Sisters #2
Ingrid Hahn
Releasing Feb 20, 2017
Entangled Scandalous
After a lifetime of rakish behavior, Lord Maxfeld must pretend he’s reformed and find a fake wife. And, with the perfect blend of family scandal and tenuous acceptance in Society, there is nobody more suitable than Lady Phoebe. Trouble is, Phoebe will not agree to a false engagement, forcing Max to blackmail her into his scheme.
Phoebe will go to great lengths to avoid anything remotely dishonorable. Unwilling to bear the scandal of a broken engagement, she blackmails Max right back—directly to the altar.
Once married, though, Phoebe wants much more than Max’s ring. She wants his heart. But he will never give it. For better or worse may just be words but Phoebe cannot stay with Max if he thinks love is the worst thing that can happen.
She rocked against
him—just once. Almost experimentally. Except with a certain awareness of
exactly what it was her bottom was up against. “I stretched, and how wonderful
it felt.”
“You’re teasing me,
wench.”
“I’m not a wench, I’m your
wife. Do you want me to go on, or not?”
His lips in a grim line,
he gave a single nod.
“Very well.” She cleared
her throat. “I wanted to explore myself, and I wanted to explore you. But you
weren’t there.”
“So you had only one
option.”
She pulled back and gave
him a look that could have put the strictest governess to shame. Oh, what it
did to him. “I’m telling this story, husband.”
“Then tell it. Please,
tell it.”
Q&A with Ingrid Hahn
Q: Name one thing you won’t leave home
without.
Definitely my
head. Thankfully, I’m not a screw top, so I can always remember it. Everything
else is fair game.
Q: If you could trade places with
anyone for just one day, who would you be?
I can’t decide
between two choices. Either Cleopatra right after she met Mark Antony, but I
won’t tell you why. Or some chick inside a perfume commercial. You get to be
gorgeous, perfectly made up, and there is usually a not-too-hard-on-the-eyes
guy around. (That goes for perfume lady—Cleopatra wasn’t the gorgeous siren
she’s depicted as being in popular myth.) The perfume lady has the bonus of
either getting to wear a big fancy dress or lazing around a private beach.
Q: What
types of scenes are your most favorite to write?
The naughty ones.
Q: Is anything in your book based on
real life experiences or purely all imagination?
I put a tiny,
tiny bit of myself into each heroine in a superfluous way. My first heroine,
Grace, loved chocolate and has less-than-perfect hair (far less, I’m afraid).
My second, Phoebe, is a big reader and loves tea. My third, Eliza—her book is
coming in June—hates cherries. However, unlike Eliza, I came by my dislike
honestly. I just plain don’t like them. I won’t spoil it for you, but Eliza
came by her dislike by way of an abhorrent association.
Q: Do you have any advice to give to
aspiring writers?
Let go of your
ego, never stop learning, work hard to nail good conflict, learn to encapsulate
your entire story in one pithy statement that makes strangers’ eyes bulge and
beg you to write the book immediately (I’m still working on this one!). Don’t
self-publish too early. Give yourself permission to turn into a seething green
jealousy monster even for writer friends you love dearly when they achieve
something you covet, but cap your time in The Great and Terrible Land of Envy
to about ten or twenty minutes, then go back to being happy for them and
focusing your energy on your own work.
Ingrid Hahn is a
failed administrative assistant with a B.A. in Art History. Her love of reading
has turned her mortgage payment into a book storage fee, which makes her the
friend who you never want to ask you for help moving. Though originally from
Seattle, she now lives in the metropolitan DC area with her ship-nerd husband,
small son, and four opinionated cats. When she’s not reading or writing, she
loves knitting, theater, nature walks, travel, history, and is a hopelessly
devoted fan of Jane Austen. She loves to connect with her readers
Thank you for featuring Ingrid and TO COVET A LADY'S HEART!
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