Release Blitz & Giveaway: Sinfully Yours – Cara Elliott

Posted May 1, 2015 by Shannon in Blog Tour, Giveaways / 0 Comments

Elliott_Sinfully Yours_MMSINFULLY YOURS by Cara Elliott (April 28, 2015; Forever Mass Market; The Hellions of High Street: Book #2)

After an eventful Season, Anna Sloane longs for some peace and quiet to pursue her writing. Though her plots might be full of harrowing adventure and heated passion, she’d much prefer to leave such exploits on the page rather than experience them in real life. Or so she thinks until she encounters the darkly dissolute-and gorgeously charming-Marquess of Davenport.Β 

Davenport has a reputation as a notorious rake whose only forte is wanton seduction. However the real reason he’s a guest at the same remote Scottish castle has nothing to do with Anna . . . until a series of mysterious threats leave him no choice but to turn to her for help in stopping a dangerous conspiracy. As desire erupts between them, Davenport soon learns he’s not the only one using a carefully crafted image to hide his true talents. And he’s more than ready to show Anna that sometimes reality can be even better than her wildest imaginings . . .Β 

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Excerpt

A high note of the aria died on his lips as a frown strangled all further sound.

He stared for a long moment at the front of Manton’s shop, trying to quell the erratic quickening of his pulse as he suddenly recognized the figure standing there. Shaking off the physical response to the person in question, Devlin made himself concentrate on the practical question her presence raised. What was she doing there? Ladies did not usually linger in front of a gunsmith’s display window.

Lightening his footsteps, Devlin approached in silence. β€œPlanning on murdering someone, Miss Sloane?”

Anna started, nearly dropping the small notebook in her hands, and then whirled around.

β€œSome men,” she snapped, β€œdeserve to be shot.”

β€œMore than a few,” he agreed, angling his head to try to catch a glimpse of what she had been writing.

The covers quickly snapped shut.

β€œIf you like,” he went on, β€œI could draw up a list of the most offensive characters.”

Chuffing a rude sound, Anna darted one more look at the pistols on display before shoving her pencil and notebook into her reticule. β€œCome along, Nettie,” she called to the young maid hovering near the corner of the storefront. β€œLet us be on our way.”

Devlin shifted his stance just enough to block her path. β€œIt’s unusual for a lady to have an interest in firearms. I confess, I am curious as to why.”

β€œThere is an old adage about curiosity killing the cat,” she shot back.

He smiled, which appeared to annoy her even more.

β€œThen it is lucky that I am an imp of Satan.”

β€œWhy is it that I have a feeling Luck has nothing to do with your choice of habits?”

Because your wit and your tongue are lethally sharp.

Keeping such thoughts to himself, he merely said, β€œAn interesting question. But you haven’t yet answered mine, and I asked first.”

A glare, which he countered by stretching his smile into a grin.

Her nostrils flared as she drew in a sharp breath. β€œNot that it is any of your business, but Iβ€”I am looking to find a special gift for Wrexham.”

A reasonable reply. So why did he have the feeling that she was lying? β€œManton’s pistols are frightfully expensive,” responded Devlin, carefully watching her face. β€œDare I assume that the poor-as-churchmice Sloane family is now no longer under the hatches, thanks to the generosity of your older sister’s new husband?”

A light breeze ruffled the ribbons of her bonnet, and for the space of a heartbeat a flutter of a shadow seemed to hang on her gold-tipped lashes.

β€œIndeed, knowing the earl’s noble nature, I would imagine that you and Miss Caro are now in possession of a very generous dowry.”

Her cheeks darkened to an angry shade of red. β€œYou are not only impertinent, you are offensive, Lord Davenport. Kindly step aside.”

β€œBut of course.” He slowly shifted, deliberately dragging his boots over the paving stones to make a loud rasping sound. It was ungentlemanly to goad her into a temper, but the fire in her eyes was mesmerizing to watch. Heat blazed in a burnt-gold swirl of sparks, turning their deep green hue into a pool of molten jade.

β€œAllow me to make amends for my churlish manners by offering a recommendation on which of Manton’s models the earl might like.”

β€œOn second thought, I have decided to look elsewhere for a gift,” replied Anna tightly.

β€œA simple but elegant watch fob, perhaps? A bejeweled cravat stickpin would not be at all in keeping with the earl’s sense of style.”

β€œI can’t help but wonder something, sir,” she said in reply.

β€œWhich is?”

β€œWhy you take such fiendish delight in tormenting me.”

β€œPerhaps because you react with such delightfully explosive ire.” Devlin waggled a brow. β€œMost young ladies are afraid to stand up for themselves. But not you.”

She brushed past him without comment.

Devlin watched her stalk away. Miss Anna Sloane was known for her effortless grace, and yet there was no other word than β€œstalk” for her stiff-legged gait. Which in itself spoke volumes about her state of inner agitation.

Again, he wondered why.

Turning, he moved to where she had been standing and

made a careful study of the display window.

He frowned. It was conceivably the sort of firearm a lady might tuck in her reticule . . .

Assuming she had reason to fear for her safety.

Anna Sloane in danger? For an instant, his hands fisted, but he quickly dismissed the idea as absurd.

Absurd.

β€œI have been reading too many adventure novels.”

CnB About the Author

Cara ElliottCara Elliott started writing Western novels at the age of five. Later she changed her genre to Regency romance after readingΒ Pride and Prejudice. She graduated from Yale University, and she now lives and works in New York City.

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I am a lover of alpha males with dirty mouths, strong heroines putting alpha males in their place, and the Chicago Blackhawks. I'm a proud hockey mom who can often be found at the hockey rink cheering on my favorite forward, with my kindle close by.