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GIVEAWAY: The Betrayal of the Blood Lily by Lauren Willig

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For the first time in paperback, Lauren Willig’s 6th novel in the bestselling Pink Carnation series, The Betrayal of the Blood Lily, is due to be released January 4, 2011 from Penguin Group! Isn’t that just the most gorgeous cover; I’m just so excited to have a copy available for giveaway to my readers!

Here’s a bit about the book from Lauren Willig’s website:

Everyone warned Miss Penelope Deveraux that her unruly behavior would land her in disgrace someday. She never imagined she’d be whisked off to India to give the scandal of her hasty marriage time to die down. As Lady Frederick Staines, Penelope plunges into the treacherous waters of the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, where no one is quite what they seem—even her own husband. In a strange country where elaborate court dress masks even more elaborate intrigues and a spy called the Marigold leaves cobras as his calling card, there is only one person Penelope can trust….

Captain Alex Reid has better things to do than play nursemaid to a pair of aristocrats. He knows what their kind is like. Or so he thinks– until Lady Frederick Staines out-shoots, out-rides, and out-swims every man in the camp. She also has an uncanny ability to draw out the deadly plans of the Marigold and put herself in harm’s way. With danger looming from local warlords, treacherous court officials, and French spies, Alex realizes that an alliance with Lady Frederick just might be the only thing standing in the way of a plot designed to rock the very foundations of the British Empire.

About the Author from Lauren Willig’s website:


A native of New York City, Lauren Willig has been writing romances ever since she got her hands on her first romance novel at the age of six. Three years later, she sent her first novel off to a publishing house—all three hundred hand-written pages. They sent it back. Undaunted, Lauren has continued to generate large piles of paper and walk in front of taxis while thinking about plot ideas.

After thirteen years at an all girls school (explains the romance novels, doesn’t it?), Lauren set off for Yale and co-education, where she read lots of Shakespeare, wrote sonnet sequences when she was supposed to be doing her science requirement, and lived in a Gothic fortress complete with leaded windows and gargoyles. After college, she decided she really hadn’t had enough school yet, and headed off to that crimson place in Cambridge, Massachusetts for a degree in English history. Like her modern heroine, she spent a year doing dissertation research in London, tramping back and forth between the British Library and the Public Records Office, reading lots of British chick lit, and eating far too many Sainsbury’s frozen dinners.

By a strange quirk of fate, Lauren signed her first book contract during her first month of law school. She finished writing “Pink Carnation” during her 1L year, scribbled “Black Tulip” her 2L year, and struggled through “Emerald Ring” as a weary and jaded 3L. After three years of taking useful and practical classes like “Law in Ancient Athens” and “The Globalization of the Modern Legal Consciousness”, Lauren received her J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. For a year and a half, she practiced as a litigation associate at a large New York law firm. But having attained the lofty heights of second year associate, she decided that book deadlines and doc review didn’t mix and departed the law for a new adventure in full time writerdom.

GIVEAWAY DETAILS

I have 1 paperback copy of The Betrayal of the Blood Lily by Lauren Willig available for giveaway to my readers. To enter…

  • For 1 entry leave a comment with a way to contact you.
  • For 2 entries follow my blog.
  • For 3 entries blog or tweet this giveaway to spread the word.

This giveaway is open to US & Canadian residents only (no PO boxes) and I will be drawing for the winner on Wednesday, December 22, 2010. Good luck everyone!

Darlene

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  3. This one looks great! I'd love to read it. Please enter me. Thanks for the giveaway.

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  21. what a gorgeous cover!! i would love to read this, thanks for the chance to win!!

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  27. I've been wanting to read this series, have the earlier books on my wish list. Thanks for the giveaway.

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  38. This sounds like a fun book. I'd like to read it. Please count me in.
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