I've posted the first chapter of The Young Blood here, if you'd like to see what happens when our hero and heroine meet.
$0.99 Pre-Order
The Young Blood will be releasing on September 27. That's only a few weeks away now! I always want to make sure that my biggest fans get a chance at buying my books at the best price, so from now until release day it's on sale at Amazon, iTunes and Kobo for $0.99. After the 27th, it will go up to $3.99.
Here are some direct links, if you want to jump on the sale price:
AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Young-Blood-Better-Ange…/…/B01KRCY0P6
iBOOKS: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/…/book/the-young-…/id1146213265
KOBO: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/the-young-blood
It turns out that setting up pre-orders on Barnes & Noble is a more complicated process than the others. If you're a B&N customer, feel free to email me at erin@erinsatie.com and I'll see what I can do.
It's all happening
Sorry to be so quiet on the blog. I've been head-down and focusing hard on finishing, revising, and polishing The Young Blood. I knew this book would be coming out later than I'd hoped--I hadn't realized exactly how much later. With every passing day/week/month, another seemingly essential task or habit fell to the wayside.
But now the book is off to the proofreader, which is the very final step. I'm working on my next project, which I should be announcing soon--my next two releases are going to be novellas, one in an anthology, one a stand-alone addition to the No Better Angels series.
More news about those in a bit.
So I apologize for the delays. The good news is, I'm happy with this book. I think it's my best book, my most romantic book. It's my funniest book and probably also my darkest book. I think it brings the series to an end in a satisfying way.
I've known how I'd redeem Alfie for a long time. For years, actually. I never had any doubt. But I had a harder time developing his heroine. She had to be his equal but not his duplicate, someone who would see him clearly but not reject him out of hand. Not an innocent, not a saint, but someone who nonetheless challenged him to be better.
I adore Sabine. She might be my favorite heroine.
The release date is going to be September 27. Mark it on your calendars but never fear, I'll keep posting reminders here and elsewhere as I get pre-orders set up and review copies ready to go.
For now, here's a preliminary blurb:
Sabine Banchory is a sensible, intelligent, and eminently capable woman—which is why she was forced to marry a short-sighted reprobate. She tries to keep her husband in line while he fritters away her dowry at gambling dens and flaunts his affairs.
The Earl of Kingston is just the sort of man she most despises. He’s a notorious rake who wastes his considerable natural talents on seduction, often dragging the women he targets into the mire of scandal and disgrace. And all for what, a bit of pleasure?
When the smooth-talking, sinfully handsome and strangely perceptive earl sets his sights on her, she doesn’t bother to drive him away. He’ll soon learn she’s immune to such temptations.
Isn’t she?
Coming in September: The Young Blood
I have more information to share about The Young Blood--and soon it will be a lot more information.
I've finished my draft, sent it to my developmental editor, finished my revisions and I'm working through line edits right now.
I'm targeting an early September release date. I should have an actual date within the next couple of weeks.
So far reactions to the book have been really good--I think it's my best book yet and early readers agree.
The Young Blood
I'd originally planned to release the fourth book in the No Better Angels series at the end of 2015. I haven't finished it as quickly as I'd hoped, but I'm closing in on the home stretch right now. Publication is still months away, but it's time for an update.
The book will be called The Young Blood and it will look like this:
Pretty, isn't it? I think it's gorgeous. The model on the cover captures the heroine, Lady Sabine Banchory, beautifully.
What else can I tell you about The Young Blood? The hero, as most readers of the series will have guessed, will be Alfred Lamb, The Earl of Kingston.
When I created Alfie, my goal was to write a proper rake. Not a basically decent fellow who had a few vices he pursued in a fashion sanctioned by society. Not a nice guy who keeps a dancer or an actress as a mistress and never, ever lays a hand on nice girls from good families. Rake is not an innocent word. It's not a Regency synonym for 'charming playboy.' A rake is a selfish bastard who takes advantage of double standards to hurt people.
So that's how Alfie started. Careless, cruel... no filter, says anything he wants to anyone who catches his attention, intense and charismatic but also repellant.
He became a favorite of mine quickly. He's fun to write. He doesn't play by the rules and every time he appears, he proves it. Anything can happen around Alfie. But that doesn't make him redeemable.
After the events of The Secret Heart and The Orphan Pearl, he's open to change. But how to make that change convincing? How to make it sufficient?
It will be up to the reader to judge whether or not I've succeeded. But here's a tantalizing hint about the answer I came up with:
When The Young Blood starts Sabine Banchory, the heroine, is married.