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Anthea Lawson is the pseudonym of a husband-wife team writing spicy Victorian romance. Their second novel, ALL HE DESIRES, has just been released. Their debut novel, PASSIONATE, was nominated for a Best First Book RITA in 2009. Visit their website, http://www.anthealawson.com for all their latest news (and to find out how they manage to happily write romance novels together)!

ALL HE DESIRES – Anthea Lawson

Setting: early Victorian 

Subgenre: Historical 

Hero: Alex Trentham 

Heroine: Caroline Huntington 

One sentence summary: A self-exiled doctor with a mysterious past meets the one woman who can break through his isolation and bring him out of the shadows and into the light. 

Scene you like most and would never cut: The hero and heroine are trapped in a place where it’s pitch black.  Fearing that this is their last opportunity, they know they must pack a lifetime of love and desire into their time together.  It was an excellent challenge to write without using the sense of sight, and setting this scene in absolute darkness ended up giving it a lot of emotion—and heat. 

Thing your heroine would never be caught dead doing/saying: “Certainly dear, whatever you say.” She is a woman who knows her own mind and follows her dreams. 

Your hero, is he a boxer or brief kind of guy: In Victorian times briefs were not an option.  The stretchy elastic that puts the tighty in the whities wasn’t available.  Alex would wear “drawers” –or nothing at all.     

Ancillary character you had the most fun with: We enjoy our villains and the terrible things they get to do and say. Cousin Reggie is such a plotter.  Trouble always springs up in his footsteps. 

Your heroine’s favorite hobby: Teasing the dour doctor whose care she has fallen under, and swimming with him in the Mediterranean in scandalously inadequate clothing. 

Your hero’s favorite hobby: At the start of ALL HE DESIRES, his favorite hobby would be walking alone on the upland trails of Crete and staring moodily in the direction of England, the home to which he can never return.   

What you think readers will like best about this book: The chemistry between the heroine and the hero and the way love finally compels him to piece his life back together and confront his past.

The person that readers want you to write about but you haven’t yet: The hero and heroine of the next book we are working on, of course!  We are really excited about our newest project and can’t wait to share it with our readers.

Thanks for having us here at Border’s True Romance! To celebrate the release of ALL HE DESIRES, we’ll be giving away a copy of the book, plus a copy of our RITA-nominated debut, PASSIONATE, to one lucky commenter. But if you don’t win here, you have more chances – check out our November blog tour listings on our website www.anthealawson.com.

Question of the Day:  Tell us – who’s your favorite brooding hero?