Raine Balkera - Romance Author

(The Brothers Sinister Book 1) Pages -  271 pages Device Usage -  Unlimited Publisher -  Courtney Milan -  1st edition Pub Date -  December 6, 2012 Amazon -  Link Genre -  Regency Romance Sexual Content -  4/5 Language -  vulgar SYNOPSIS Miss Minerva Lane is a quiet, bespectacled wallflower, and she wants to keep it that way. After all, the last time she was the center of attention, it ended badly--so badly that she changed her name to escape her scandalous past. Wallflowers may not be the prettiest of blooms, but at least they don't get trampled. So when a handsome duke comes to town, the last thing she wants is his attention. But that is precisely what she gets.  Because Robert Blaisdell, the Duke of Clermont, is not fooled. When Minnie figures out what he's up to, he realizes there is more to her than her spectacles and her quiet ways. And he's determined to lay her every secret bare before she can discover ...

I stumbled across this Challenge today and thought it might be fun to participate. As most challenges (and I) go, sticking it out to the very end (after coming in part-way) will prove to be  . . . a challenge. I'll try to do this every week. Today, and every Friday through December, I'm expected to blog about the topic assigned (which you are welcome to do, too, and each is explained in the image posted below). Your only obligation is to use the hashtag #LifeBooksWriting and remember to include the below-mentioned image with each post. My Recent Book The last publication for me was Love Over Time , which is currently in 2nd Edition stage, but for today's post I'll discuss the book and include an excerpt I hope you will enjoy. This is a Contemporary Romance with a Fantasy element that includes the ability for one of the two leads to see the past transgressions of her ancestors. Characters Kaisa Dalen is a freelance photographer on assignment in ...

It's the first weekend in August, 2016, and even though it is still hot, muggy, and drought-inducing dry here, this particular weekend always triggers a whats-to-come feeling in me. I anticipate ominous weather reports about a Canadian Cold Front sweeping down across our state to switch seasonal gears and make all the hotness go away . . . for good. But according to our weatherman, it isn't the case this time around. It'll continue to be hot, muggy, and DRY through next week, so maybe it will happen then, or the week after that. Still, I'm thinking about autumnal colors, parkas and jeans, and how best to decorate for Halloween this year. The stores are filled with a lot of the stuff I go nuts over, like notepads, lined paper, gel pens, markers, and neon sticky-note pads. Discounts on the overly cool hardcover lined-paper 'books' I used to buy by the half-dozen and write story after imaginative story. Using colorful gel pens, of course. I s...