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Guest Author Margo Maguire & Giveaway!
by sue on Oct.01, 2009, under Book Chat
Subgenre: Regency-set Historical
Hero: Hugh Christie, Laird Glenloch, earl of Newbury
Heroine: Brianna Munro
A runaway bride encounters a brooding rake in his haunted castle on the Scottish coast, unaware that she is interrupting his dangerous and faulty smuggling operation.
Scene you like most and would never cut:
It’s winter and the weather is harsh, but Brianna has to get away from castle Glenloch so that her guardian and jilted bridegroom won’t find her. (And so that she doesn’t succumb to her attraction for the laird). At her first opportunity, she takes off in a boat (because that’s the fastest way to get to her destination), but the weather changes and she loses control on the water. That’s when Hugh realizes where she’s gone and he rushes out to rescue her - risking his life to do it. He takes her to the first shelter he finds, a kelper’s cottage on the beach. They spend the night there, sharing one blanket and … Well, that’s enough for now!
Thing your heroine would never be caught dead doing/saying:
Brianna would never say: “Oh, sure. Whatever you say.”
Your hero, is he a boxer or brief kind of guy:
Well, he’s actually an Englishman, not a Scot, so he won’t be “commando” in a kilt. But I can see him in boxers, tall and rugged, the boxers ready to slide right off a tight, muscular bum…
Ancillary character you had the most fun with:
I could have written whole books about Glenloch’s housekeeper and the townspeople. But I think I most enjoyed writing Lachann Sinclair. He’s a very handsome old friend of Brianna, and when he arrives at the castle, Hugh takes an immediate dislike to him. (Of course!). I would have done more with him, but hey, TAKEN BY THE LAIRD is not about Lachann Sinclair! Maybe he’ll get his own story some day.
Your heroine’s favorite hobby: Everything to do with horses.
Your hero’s favorite hobby: Boxing.
What you think readers will like best about this book:
I hope readers will enjoy the steamy tension between Hugh and Brianna and the twists and turns of the plot. It’s just the kind of book I love to read, curled up in a cozy chair with a nice hot drink on a fall day.
The person that readers want you to write about but you haven’t yet:
I have a lot of requests for a spin-off from my Warrior books. Especially a book for Ana MacLochlainn. I’m hoping to get to that soon, with a novella I’ve been asked to write for an anthology.
What’s next: THE ROGUE PRINCE, which comes out in May, 2010. The hero, Thomas Thorne, is a man who was wrongly convicted of a crime and spent years in an Australian penal colony. By a twist of fate, he becomes incredibly wealthy. But when he returns to London for his revenge against the two men who accused him, he falls for the woman who is the widow of one, and stepsister of the other.
I sometimes include paranormal elements in my books. THE BRIDE HUNT, THE PERFECT SEDUCTION, AND WILD have absolutely nothing paranormal about them. But my “Warrior” series is based entirely on a paranormal premise.
TAKEN BY THE LAIRD is a more traditional romance, but as I wrote it, and thought about the castles I visited in Scotland, I just had to include a ghost. I didn’t want this to be a ghost story, so I was careful not to overdo it. How do you feel about ghosts and other paranormals appearing in your romance stories?
Margo will be giving away 2 copies of her latest books, WILD & TAKEN BY THE LAIRD — comment below if you’re interested!
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