Cathy and her horse Dinero
Woodard Photography Studio
and his father, the Machiavellian Earl of Bossley, until she can safely return to London. Then fate intervenes and Thorn becomes the focus of a heated manhunt. Soon both of them are running out of places to hide. With the shadow of the gallows looming on the horizon, the impossibility of their love becomes ever clearer.
THE SEDUCTION OF SCANDAL is quintessential Cathy Maxwell. She once again brings readers a traditional historical romance novel imbued with contemporary sensibility and the touches of humor that have made sixteen of her books national bestsellers. Among them are her earlier Scandal and Seduction novels, A Seduction at Christmas, The Marriage Ring The Earl Claims His Wife, and His Christmas Pleasure.
ABOUT CATHY MAXWELL
The author of twenty-five novels and four novellas set in the early 1800s, bestselling novelist Cathy Maxwell’s new book, THE SEDUCTION OF SCANDAL, the fifth of her Scandal and Seduction novels, has just been published. Each of the others—A Seduction at Christmas, The Marriage Ring, The Earl Claims His Wife, and His Christmas Pleasure—has appeared for multiple weeks on The New York Times Mass Market Best Seller list.
Born in Olathe, Kansas—“a picture perfect Midwestern town”—Cathy’s family roots go back to the Mayflower and the Revolutionary War. She has long called Virginia home, noting she is “a Virginian by choice, but a Kansan by nature.” She worked in television news as a broadcaster before spending six years in the Navy. She attended Air Force intelligence school, worked in the Pentagon and did a tour with Naval Intelligence.
Cathy began her writing career in 1991 while her children were still small. “It wasn’t easy,” she says. “I worked full time, my husband travelled, we had three kids, I volunteered and I was writing from four until seven every morning.”
Now, twenty years later, she is the author of sixteen national bestsellers and her novels appear regularly on The New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists. A rarity in the book world, Cathy has published every one of her novels with the same publisher, Avon Books. These include the bestsellers In the Highlander’s Bed, Bedding the Heiress, In the Bed of a Duke, The Price of Indiscretion, Temptation of a Proper Governess, and The Seduction of an English Lady.
Cathy is a member of Romance Writers of America, Washington Romance Writers, Virginia Romance Writers, and Novelists Inc. She is a frequent featured speaker and panelist nationally and locally at writers’ conferences, libraries and special events, where she focuses on writing, fiction and the romance genre.
Cathy lives in rural Powhatan County, Virginia with her rescued dogs Rico and Maya and with her son during college breaks, and is just a few miles from her horses, Duncan and Dinero.
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September is National Ovarian Cancer Awareness month, and Avon Books is urging authors and readers to Know the Important Signs & Symptoms of ovarian cancer. The company has donated $25,000 to the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance and is committed to donating an additional 25¢, up to $25,000, for each “K.I.S.S. and Teal” title sold between 8/30/2011 and 2/28/2012. Additional information can be found at www.avonromance.com/kissandteal.
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THE SEDUCTION OF SCANDAL, A Scandal and Seduction Novel by Cathy Maxwell An Avon Mass Market Original/Fiction/September 2011/On Sale 8-30/$7.99 ($10.99) 0061772127 ● 978-0061772122
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Ovarian cancer is a killer cancer just because there is no early diagnostic test. Of the 21,000 women who will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer this year, 15,000 will die because the cancer has been discovered too late. It is important we learn the signs and share them. And for your information, those signs are: bloating; pelvic and abdominal pain; difficulty eating or feeling full quickly; and urinary symptoms (urgency or frequency). I know, I know, too common, right? You are correct. But if you are feeling any of those symptoms on a daily basis, please, get yourself to a doctor. Or in historical terms, hie thee to a doctor!
I know you are busy. I know you are juggling far too many tasks and heading into the doc for bloating isn’t something you want to do right now. I know money is tight. But please do it anyway. Think about the statistics–15,000 out of the 21,000 diagnosed with ovarian cancer will not survive. Better the doc tells you it is nothing to worry about than finding yourself one of the 15,000 ovarian cancer patients who will not beat this disease.
And so what do you get for your money if you help the cause and buy THE SEDUCTION OF SCANDAL?
Well, readers met the heroine Corinne in HIS CHRISTMAS PLEASURE. She is the cousin betrothed to Lord Freddie Sherwin whom she cannot, will not, never, ever, forever abide. She is determined not to marry him, even if it means running away. Of course, that is where the real fun begins. And isn’t life like that? You finally decide to take a desperate measure whether it is finding a new job, joining a dating service, enrolling the kids in a new school and suddenly things you didn’t plan for begin to happen.
For Corinne, the thing that happened she didn’t plan for was being shot and captured by a highwayman. Can it get more romantic than that? (Did I mention he is wearing tall boots and he has a fabulous horse? Can it get better than that???)
In THE SEDUCTION OF SCANDAL, I play with what it means to be true to oneself. There have been many comments in the press about it being a Robin Hood story, but I didn’t see that. I have a hero who is caught between being loyal to someone who has been his guardian, who has educated him, and sustained him, and doing the right thing–even if he could hang for it.
Certainly he didn’t plan to find himself nursing an heiress or entertaining her fantasy of being a free and independent woman!
I had fun writing the book. I adore willful characters. It’s fun to throw them in a room together to see what happens.
Giveaways: Both will end in 2 weeks 9-13 ends at midnight.
For both giveaways all you have to do is comment. Ask a question, comment on the post etc.
First giveaway is one winner will win Cathy’s new release as of yesterday the 30th of The Seduction of Scandal
Second giveaway 1 person will choice one book from Cathy’s Back list. You can see pictures below.
. Ends 8-30-11
