Monday, February 22, 2016

NEW RELEASE: HOW TO HANDLE A SCANDAL (THE SCANDALOUS SISTERS) BY EMILY GREENWOOD. AVAILABLE 3/1.

 

 

 

 

 

 

How to Handle a Scandal by Emily Greenwood

The Scandalous Sisters, Book 2

ISBN: 9781492613688

Release Date: March 1, 2016

Genre: Historical Romance 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

 

THEY THOUGHT THE DEBUTANTE WAS SCANDALOUS

 

Miss Elizabeth Tarryton was the toast of the London Season the year she was seventeen and spurned young Tommy Halifax. A careless flirt who didn't know what she wanted, she was startled into laughter by his public proposal of marriage. Furious and heartbroken, Tommy promptly left home for a life of adventure in India.

 

IF THEY ONLY KNEW ABOUT THE WIDOW

 

Seven years later, Elizabeth has much to make up for, but the methods she chooses for doing good are as shocking as her earlier wanton behavior--should the ton ever find out. Tommy returns to England a hero, with no intention of allowing himself to be hurt by a woman ever again, but he's fascinated nonetheless by Elizabeth, now widowed and more alluring than ever.

 

 

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REVIEW: HOW TO HANDLE A SCANDAL (THE SCANDALOUS SISTERS) BY EMILY GREENWOOD

 

How to Handle a Scandal (The Scandalous Sisters, #2)How to Handle a Scandal by Emily Greenwood

My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars


As a youngster, our immaturity brings about stupid actions that can be hurtful to others and ourselves. Unless we learn from them. In How to Handle a Scandal, Lizzie and Tommy learn this first hand. Lizzie has a lot to make up for. Her life experiences have taught her much. Now she works to make a difference in the lives of the less fortunate. When she and Tommy cross paths again their history makes it hard to get back to the friendship they once shared. But past regrets have a way of working themselves out. I received an ARC of How to Handle a Scandal in exchange for an honest review. The story itself was a little slow paced at times but I was able to overlook that because I really enjoyed these characters. 3.5 of 5 stars.



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Excerpt from HOW TO HANDLE A SCANDAL

 

Eliza Tarryton broke Tommy Halifax’s heart when she was seventeen and the scandal of the London Season. Tommy promptly left England. He’s been gone for six years, but now he’s back, and Eliza wants to make amends for what happened. But so far, Tommy has been cool to her. In this scene, they’ve just encountered each other in a bookshop, where Eliza was engaged in something she doesn’t want Tommy to discover.

 

“Lizzie?” he said in a voice that held none of the playful warmth he’d showed Mrs. Dombrell. “What are you doing here?”

She decided on misdirection as her best course. “It’s Eliza now, actually. I haven’t gone by Lizzie for years. Are you shopping for something in particular?” A stupid question that made her sound as though she worked at the shop and was offering assistance, but with any luck it would distract him.

It didn’t, and his eyes narrowed. “Were you there the whole time I was with Mrs. Dombrell? Were you spying on me?”

She flushed. “What a thought!” she said, managing a laugh. “I’m simply passing the time before I meet a friend. But perhapsyou are up to something nefarious that you wish to hide by attacking me.”

He just stared at her for several long moments, an effective method of intimidation that made her want to squirm.

“You must have been lingering in that aisle for some time—and very quietly, too—because I have perfectly good hearing, and the only person I’ve noticed around that aisle was a lady who emerged several minutes ago. Perhaps she was a friend of yours?”

Eliza willed herself not to flush again. The last thing she needed was to make Tommy interested in who Nancy was.

“I don’t know who you mean. I was simply looking for books about Italy,” she said. “I’ve always wanted to go there. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I must be on my way.” She stuck her nose in the air and took a step forward, but he grabbed hold of her arm and drew her close.

“You’re up to something, aren’t you? You might have my brother charmed into thinking you’ve changed into a virtuous woman, but I’m not so easily fooled.”

This was all wrong, the way things were between them. Maybe he’d known she wanted to apologize yesterday and he hadn’t wanted to hear it, but he deserved her apology—and she really needed to offer it.

Besides, at this rate, they wouldn’t even manage to be pleasant when Will and Anna eventually thrust them together, as now seemed inevitable. And, equally important considering what she was planning to do that night, was that Tommy not be suspicious of her. She looked him in the eye.

“Tommy, I want you to know that I’m very sorry about what I did six years ago when you proposed.” She thought he flinched at the word proposed, but she made herself keep going. “I sent a letter to apologize, but I don’t know whether you ever received it.”

“I did, nine months later.”

She winced, but she’d known it would take a long time for a letter to reach India. Her letter had been stiff and formal, because she hadn’t known how else to express herself.

“A letter was inadequate as an apology, and far too easy for me. I hope you’ll accept my apology now for the way I behaved. I was young and, frankly, scared about the idea of marriage. You deserved so much better from me.”

 

 

 

 

About the Author

 

Emily Greenwood worked for a number of years as a writer, crafting newsletters and fundraising brochures, but she far prefers writing playful love stories set in Regency England, and she thinks romance novels are the chocolate of literature. A Golden Heart finalist, she lives in Maryland with her husband and two daughters.

 

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Q&A with Emily Greenwood

 

Q: What are three fun facts about you?

 

A: 1) When I was twenty-one, I hitchhiked across France with a girlfriend. I would never have stood on highways in the US and sought rides from strangers, but somehow being in another country made it all right. Even worse than the hitchhiking, though, was that we actually spent the night in the home of a man who picked us up on the road, because we didn’t have anywhere else to stay. I know—incredibly stupid! My teenage daughters insist I would have been more street smart if I’d watched Criminal Minds, but it didn’t exist back then, and I wouldn’t have watched it anyway because I like fun stories.

 

2) I’m a hockey fan. I'll admit that I never would have known how much fun it is to watch hockey if it weren't for my sports-loving husband, but now I'm hooked. Go Capitals!

 

3) I love to bake, read, take long walks, and hang out with my family and friends—kind of your standard contented middle-aged person, so fun fact: I sound pretty dull on paper. But I'm really not. :)

 

 

 

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