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The Marquess Midwife, A Christmas Novella by Alina K. Field  #AHAgrp  #MFRWauthor

12/20/2017

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Hello there! I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season! I'm so glad that Alina Field stopped by today to share a bit about her new release, The Marquess Midwife. So, Alina, tell us about the book.

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Separated by lies, united by secrets

Finding the woman he lost turned out to be easy. Winning her is another matter.

Blurb:
 
Once upon a time, the younger brother of a marquess fell in love with his sister's companion. He was sent off to war, and she was just sent off, and they both landed in very different worlds. 
 
Now Virgil Radcliffe has returned from his self-imposed exile on the Continent to take up his late brother's title and discover the whereabouts of the only woman he's ever loved. 
 
Abandoned by her lover and dismissed by her employer, Ameline Dawes has found a respectable identity as a Waterloo widow, a new life as a midwife, and a safe, secure home for her twin girls. Called to London at Christmas to attend her benefactress's lying-in, she finds herself confronted by an unexpected house guest--a man determined to woo her anew and win her again. 
 
But, is loving the new Marquess of Wallingford a mistake Ameline cannot afford to repeat? 
  
He released her and leaned back, and his shirt gaped around a starburst scar, corded and jagged right above his heart.
She gasped and reached to touch it, but he clasped her hand and pushed it away.
“Waterloo?” she whispered. “I’d heard you were wounded, but—”
“I survived,” he said in a tight voice.
Her lungs squeezed and her heart quickened. Had he? If so, it was just barely. He’d been stabbed or speared, or shot, and somehow, somehow, his great heart had carried on. This had been no minor wound. Virgil had suffered terribly.
“I want to see.” She pushed his hand away and grasped his collar. He grabbed for her hand, but she dodged him and ripped the fine cotton, rending the shirt down the front.
“Ameline—”
“You have a trunk full of shirts. I want to see.” She knelt before him on the sofa, yanked the shirt down his arms, and studied his chest. Small cuts marked his side and his belly, but the mottled scar was the worst. It would have taken months to fully heal a wound like this from the inside out. He should have died.
Her vision blurred so she couldn’t see. But her hands, trained to examine a babe in the womb, they could see. She flattened her palms and set a course over the ridges knots, and hard ripples.
He surely had almost died. A world without Virgil, without his laughter, and his generally kind heart. He’d used her, true, as men did. It was in a man’s animal nature, wasn’t it? And she’d used him also, hadn’t she? Both of them grieving over his sister’s death, and comforting each other. And she was left with her girls, and things had turned out all right, hadn’t they?
Her hands cupped his shoulders and slipped over to his back. No scars there that she could feel. The ball, or saber, or…what else did men use to kill each other?…had not gone clean through. It had merely dredged a hole in his front and wreaked havoc inside him.
And nearly killed him.
She’d always pictured a wounded Virgil, binding up a minor slash and heading off to the Continent to charm actresses and diplomats’ wives, maybe taking a wife there himself, and bringing her back to breed pretty, cheerful children. Virgil, rich, content and happy.
How she’d wallowed in that vision.
The feel of the scarred skin melted away her resentment. Let him have that happy life with his marchioness and heirs. And perhaps, on a rare occasion, he could come down to Longview and visit his twins.
“Ameline.” Virgil’s breath touched her cheek.
Large hands cupped both of her hips.
Warmth spurted through her. Too late, she realized her error. She’d got too close again.
She pulled the sides of his shirt up, her gaze sliding over the rip and…
Right. He was fully erect. Of course he was.
Hot need shrieked inside her, and she battered it down and found her breath. “I apologize. My infernal curiosity.” She patted his shoulders and eased away.
His eyes had gone dark and feral, his lips parted like a hungry man ready to chomp down on a long-awaited meal. Inside, she melted more.
She took in a great breath. She must keep him talking. “How did the wound happen?” she asked.
His eyes shuttered and he yanked her hard against him, smashing his lips to hers.
 
Buy Links
Amazon:  http://a.co/5tSH05P
Amazon
Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/the-marquess-and-the-midwife
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iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-marquess-and-the-midwife/id1167622013?ls=1&mt=11
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Nook: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1125068696?ean=2940156905331
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Google Play


I love the premise, Alina. I can't wait to get a copy and read it! Now let's see what people are saying about Alina Field!

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Award winning author Alina K. Field earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and German literature, but her true passion is the much happier world of romance fiction. Though her roots are in the Midwestern U.S., after six very, very, very cold years in Chicago, she moved to Southern California and hasn’t looked back. She shares a midcentury home with her husband, her spunky, blonde, rescued terrier, and the blue-eyed cat who conned his way in for dinner one day and decided the food was too good to leave.
 
She is the author of the 2014 Book Buyer’s Best winner, Rosalyn’s Ring, a 2015 RONE Award finalist, Bella’s Band, and a 2016 National Reader’s Choice Award finalist, Liliana’s Letter, as well as her latest release, The Marquess and the Midwife. She is hard at work on her next series of Regency romances, but loves to hear from readers!
 
Visit her at:
http://alinakfield.com/
https://www.facebook.com/alinakfield
https://twitter.com/AlinaKField
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7173518.Alina_K_Field
https://www.pinterest.com/alinakf/
https://www.instagram.com/alinak.field/
https://www.bookbub.com/authors/alina-k-field


Thank you, Alina, for stopping by and visiting with your new holiday release. I wish you great success.

Visitors, Alina and I love to chat with our readers, so please let us know you've dropped by. Have a wonderful holiday!

Connie


8 Comments
Pamela S Thibodeaux link
12/20/2017 09:17:17 am

love the excerpt . lovely cover!
Good luck and God's blessings
PamT

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Alina K. Field link
12/20/2017 09:57:31 am

Thank you, Pam!

And thank you, Connie, for having me as a guest today.

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Alina K. Field link
12/20/2017 10:00:24 am

I wanted to let everybody know, this novella is specially priced for the holidays at 99 cents through December 31, 2017.

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Patricia Kiyono link
12/20/2017 03:26:41 pm

Congratulations on the new release! Thanks so much for sharing.

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Alina K. Field link
12/20/2017 05:06:27 pm

Thanks for stopping by, Patricia! Happy holidays!

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Kara O'Neal
12/20/2017 03:32:59 pm

Book sounds great!

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Alina K. Field link
12/20/2017 05:06:50 pm

Thanks, Kara!

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Thots Colorado link
3/30/2021 09:30:23 pm

Much appreciate you sharing this.

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