One good blackmail deserves another.
TO COVET A LADY'S HEART
The Landon Sisters #2
Ingrid Hahn
Releasing Feb 20, 2017
Entangled Scandalous
One
good blackmail deserves another.
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.
Worst of all,
she and Lord Maxfeld couldn’t talk, not truly—not about anything that mattered.
That was the one thing she wanted above all, more time alone with him to talk.
But why did
she have the earl’s attention? Oh, there was a certain energy between them,
sure enough. It couldn’t have been only her who felt the...oh
dear...attraction. That’s what it was. Attraction, plain and simple.
Only it
wasn’t simple at all. He might appear perfectly at home among Lady Delamore’s
guests this evening, but he was still a rake. Scandal followed him wherever he
went.
Scandal into which Phoebe would rather eat worms three times a day for a
week than ever, ever enmesh herself.
When had this
turned so complicated?
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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
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