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Welcome to It's Raining Books. If you could apologize to someone in your past, who would it be?
An old very dear friend who I’ve lost touch with.
If you could keep a mythical/ paranormal creature as a pet, what would you have?
A pygmy puff from Harry Potter. My daughter has a couple of stuffed ones and they are so cute!
How do you keep your writing different from all the others that write in this particular genre?
I just try to write my story with my voice. I don’t read a lot of books in my genre anymore because I find I can’t do so while writing, and I write too much, lol.
What are the best and worst pieces of writing advice you ever received?
Best: Use objects to block out action scenes. When I do writing retreats with my friends Elisabeth Naughton and Rachel Grant, we are known to use silverware to figure out how something will play out on paper. Yes, it’s as hilarious as it sounds and we have at least one of those on video, lol.
Worst: Luckily, I can’t really think of any bad writing advice I’ve received. I’ve been so fortunate to work with amazing critique partners and editors!
Are the experiences in this book based on someone you know, or events in your own life?
No, I don’t think I’ve ever included anyone from real life in a book. I’m sure I’ve borrowed certain things from events—how I or someone else felt or some detail—but I can’t think of anything in this book.
Jessamine Goodfellow has spent six Seasons avoiding the parson’s trap, and spinsterhood is finally within her grasp. A brilliant scholar, she longs for adventure and new experiences, things her family frowns upon. Presented with the opportunity to use her puzzle-solving talent on a secret mission for the Foreign Office, Jess eagerly accepts. Even when it means posing as the wife of a scorchingly attractive Scotsman who she must also covertly investigate as a possible double agent.
Lord Dougal MacNair, the new Viscount Fallin, has always completed his assignments for the Foreign Office alone. Now he’s saddled with an overly enthusiastic amateur partner. She possesses a remarkable intellect, but something about her isn’t quite right, and after two failed missions, Dougal is certain someone is working against him. Battling their secret suspicions, Dougal and Jess dive deep into their cover as a married couple, which arouses temptations they find irresistible. Danger is all around them, but it’s their hearts that may be the most imperiled.
Read an Excerpt
“Have you ever given up on a cryptogram?”
“No.”
“And I imagine some of them weren’t easy.”
She exhaled. “No, they were not.”
“I assumed as much. I know you, Jess, and you’re tenacious.”
“We haven’t even known each other a fortnight,” she scoffed. “Not officially anyway.”
“What does that mean, ‘officially’?”
She took a generous drink of brandy. “We have met before. Four years ago. I remember it distinctly.”
“Four years ago?” Damn, now he felt terrible. “How can you be sure?”
She gave him a haughty look of certainty that quite frankly pricked his desire. “Because I am. You asked me to dance at the Edgemont Ball.”
He’d danced with her. Four years ago. And never again. Worse, he didn’t remember it. He was an absolute cad. “I should have remembered you. I can’t imagine why I didn’t.” he said softly.
Sentiment, which he preferred to indulge in small, manageable doses, threatened to send him to her chair, to take her hand and beg her forgiveness. A husband would do that. A lover. He was neither and since they were alone, there was no reason to continue the pretense. Only, he was fairly certain he was no longer pretending.
About the Author:
A native Oregonian, Darcy lives on the edge of wine country with her guitar-strumming husband, artist daughter, and imaginative son who will almost certainly out-write her one day (that may be tomorrow).
They’re a crazy cat family with two Bengal cats, a small, fame-seeking cat named after a fruit, an older rescue Maine Coon with attitude to spare, and a collection of neighbor cats who hang out on the deck and occasionally venture inside. You can find Darcy at a winery, in her comfy writing chair, or binge-watching TV with the family.
Her happy places are Disneyland, Labor Day weekend at the Gorge, Denmark, and anywhere in the UK—so long as her family is there too.
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