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Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Illicit Passion

Showbiz superstar, Lisette, flees a blackmailer threatening to reveal to the scandal-hungry media that she bore a child of incest. Michael, her father and ex-lover, initiates an audacious plan to set her free that leaves the whole family hovering on the brink of emotional and financial disaster. Their adult daughter, Harriet, learns the truth and vows vengeance on all who conspired to hide her birth by registering her as the twin of the man she loves. “The night will end in death.” The story, the scene set with a meeting between Lisette and her rejected, blackmailing, would-be lover in the prologue, goes on to show Harriet growing up and the sibling rivalries between Michael's, and his wife Lizzie's, five offspring. Lisette, knowing she is guilty of seducing her father, keeps the secret of blackmail, which has progressed from the extortion of money to a life of torture and perverted sex for sixteen years. She joins Michael for a European concert tour to promote the music of Kit Marsh, due to open at the Opéra Bastille in Paris. A scream in the night alerts Michael to Lisette’s distress and guilt drives him to risk his career, and his liberty, to defeat his old enemy. The Book of Hours that belonged to Margaret, James IV of Scotland’s queen, which she used as a diary and carries the secret royal command to her heiresses “find love where ye may” is given to Harriet. She plots to follow the dangerously immoral example of the queen’s great-granddaughter, Lady Harriet Allanach, who falls in love with her own brother, until Harriet herself discovers that she is the child of incest and love for her whole family turns to hate.

Illicit Passion (British Romance)

By Sarah Stuart

Independent Publishing Platform

ISBN #978-1518747427

Price $8.00 (Paperback)

Price $2.99 (Kindle)

320 Pages

Rating 5-Stars

In this sequel to Dangerous Liaisons, the family cycle continues with deceit and family secrets. Lisette, bore a child from incest with her father, and now a blackmailer and the media are after the superstar. Someone wants to use her incestuous background to bring her star crashing down.

The author spins a complicated plot with twists, and strong characters with multi-layered lives. Although I prefer sweet romantic love stories without all the sex and scandals, I’m sure that romance readers everywhere will love all the heated scenes in this well-written novel and series.

Ginger Johnson

Author of COWBOY FROM TEXAS

Monday, May 28, 2018

Guest Author Sarah Stuart

Sarah Stuart is an award-winning author and a book reviewer for Readers’ Favorite. Her passions are theatre, music, wildlife, history, and travel, all of which come together in the Royal Command Family Saga. She writes because she enjoys it, and as a commitment to ecology, 100% of her royalties are donated to charities helping endangered species worldwide. Typically, this might be reforestation to provide suitable habitats.

The settings of her books, the Western Highlands of Scotland, London’s Theatre-Land, and Europe, are vivid; Sarah has lived, or spent a considerable time in these places. She uses insider knowledge gained from working in theatres to create the showbiz setting.

5-star Amazon review: “The characters are relatable and Sarah weaves a story linking them in ways that reveal their ambitions, weakness, pleasure and pain. And just as importantly, the love and support they offer one another. Sarah also deals with the issue of forbidden love, presenting it in a way that has the pages flying by as hitherto perfect love is put to the test by close, interconnecting relationships crossing boundaries that threaten to ruin not only careers, but friendship and family. And she does it all in a crisp, elegant style that is her very own.”

Her fifth book, Three Against the World: A Waif, a Stray, and the Search for Romance, is totally different, though it does reflect her love for dogs. It's a clean love story full of suspense that is suitable for 14+ and up.