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Title: Lady Emily’s Exotic Journey
Title: Lady Emily’s Exotic Journey
Author: Lillian
Marek
Series: Victorian
Adventures, #2
Pubdate: August
4th, 2015
ISBN: 9781492602293
From sensible, sheltered
girl
Safe
in the embrace of her loving family, Lady Emily Tremaine longs to feel more intensely
alive. Surely the magic and mystery of Assyria and the fabled ruins of Nineveh
will bring about the transformation she seeks.
To the woman his heart
desires
Scarred
by his past and estranged from his noble grandfather, French adventurer Lucien Chambertin
desires neither a home nor the chains of emotional attachment. He seeks only to
explore the far reaches of the world. But he did not know the world contained
the likes of Lady Emily—whose curiosity and sense of wonder match his own.
Lillian
Marek was born and raised in New York City. At one time
or another she has had most of the interesting but underpaid jobs available to
English majors. After a few too many years in journalism, she decided she
prefers fiction, where the good guys win and the bad guys get what they
deserve.
***
This August marks the release
of the second in Lillian Marek’s Victorian Adventures series, Lady
Emily’s Exotic Journey! To
celebrate her new release, Lillian’s here to share a fact about the Victorian
era she discovered during her research:
Contessa Maria della Torre,
one of Garibaldi’s lovers, wore men’s clothes to take part in his campaign: a
white braided hussar tunic, trousers, boots outside with spurs, a Spanish hat
with plumes, and a sword which clanked as she walked.
An Excerpt:
Emily had left the tent, and
Lucien began to turn to her to share his thoughts on the scene when he saw a
puff of smoke and a glint of metal by one of the boulders on the cliff. At that
moment a bullet ploughed into the deck beside him, and he heard the shot.
He flew
across the feet separating them to knock Emily to the ground, covering her with
his body. “Keep down,” he ordered when she tried to raise her head. More
bullets fell about them, most splashing into the river. He had his pistol in
his hand, but he could not see a target on the cliff. The Turkish troopers on
the next raft were firing away but not to any useful purpose that he could see.
Meanwhile,
the oarsmen on their raft, who had first dropped their oars in a panic, were now
working madly to keep them from being dashed against the rocks as the current
swept them around a curve. The skipper joined them, shouting encouragement,
until a bend in the river had them out of sight of their attackers. As the wild
rocking of their craft ceased and they resumed their placid drift, Lucien
became aware of his more immediate surroundings.
To be
precise, he became aware of Emily lying beneath him. A warm, soft Emily lying
beneath him, a situation his own body found most agreeable. Her breasts were
pressed against his chest, and he was positioned between her thighs. She was so
soft, such a perfect match for him. She did not appear to be distressed by
their position, for she was making no effort to extricate herself. Did she
understand what their position was? Could she tell just how agreeable his body
found this position? Because his body was reacting most strongly to this
juxtaposition.
She was looking up at him with an
expression of dazed surprise. He wondered if he was looking at her with the
same expression. Her hands were sitting on his shoulders, not pushing him away
but not drawing him down. Just touching him. Her lips were parted ever so
slightly. In surprise? In invitation? He was close enough to feel the damp
warmth of her breath. He was overcome with longing and began to lower his mouth
to hers.
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