A Lady's Secret Weapon (30 page)

Many, many thanks to TEAM DEVLYN—Leah Hultenschmidt, Jennifer Udden, Beth Pehlke, Kimberly Manley, Cat Clyne, and the rest of the gang at Sourcebooks and Donald Maass Literary Agency who worked so hard on
A
Lady’s Secret Weapon
. I appreciate every single one of you so very much.

Hugs to my awesome brainstorming and critique partners—Adrienne Giordano, Kelsey Browning, Theresa Stevens, and Tara Kingston. I couldn’t imagine writing a story without you.

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authors Nancy Naigle, Tracy March, Kelsey Browning, and Adrienne Giordano—you ladies rock!! Thanks for sharing the journey with me.

DANGEROUS DARLINGS Street Team—you know how dear you are to me! It’s impossible to express the depth of my gratitude for all your tweets, shares, reviews, promo distribution, and good ol’ fashioned verbal recommendations. Darlings, you’re the best. Muwah!! A special hug and thanks to Danielle Gorman for keeping the team organized.

Enormous thanks to Chicagoland readers for making it to Lady Jane’s Salon-Naperville every other month to hear our live readings from talented authors, to sip chocolaty beverages from Le Chocolat de Bouchard, and to support our local booksellers, Anderson’s and Brain Snacks, and our wonderful charity, Celebrate Differences. It’s so fun hanging out with you all.

Additional hugs go to the kind and generous souls of Barbara Vey and Dianna Love—two incredibly supportive and amazing women, to Betsy Scaletta for her awesome equestrian expertise and for always making me laugh, and to Coach Amy for helping me find the courage to write my first word.

Readers, booksellers, librarians, reviewers, and bloggers who have embraced the Nexus series—thank you, thank you, thank you!

And last, but never least, all my heartfelt love and gratitude goes to Tim, Sarah, Helene, and the rest of my family. Thanks for putting up with my frequent absences and for your constant words of encouragement. XOXO.

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Checkmate, My Lord

by Tracey Devlyn

The stakes are high, the players in position…

Catherine Ashcroft leads a quiet life caring for her precocious seven-year-old daughter, until a late-night visitor delivers a startling ultimatum. She will match wits with the enigmatic Earl of Somerton, and it’s not just her heart that’s in danger.

Let the games begin…

Spymaster Sebastian Danvers, Earl of Somerton, is famous for his cunning. Few can outwit him and even fewer dare challenge him—until now. After returning to his country estate, his no-nonsense neighbor turns her seductive wiles on him—but why would a respectable widow like Catherine risk scandal for a few passionate nights in his bed?

Praise for
A Lady’s Revenge
:

“Devlyn makes a unique mark on the genre with her powerful prose and gripping theme.”
—RT Book Reviews,
4 Stars

“Devlyn reveals the darkness of the spy game and entices readers with a talented and determined heroine.”
—Publishers Weekly

For more Tracey Devlyn, visit:

www.sourcebooks.com

True Spies

by Shana Galen

He’s getting tired of deception…

Baron Winslow Keating is honor-bound to finish one last mission as an elite spy for the Barbican group even though he just wants to go home and be with his family. But after years of secrecy and absence, his daughters hardly know him and his wife has given up on him…

She wants to try a little intrigue…

Lady Elinor has had enough of domestic boredom. She contemplates an affair with a rakish spy, only to discover a world of intrigue and treachery that she never knew existed. Even more shocking, her neglectful husband is suddenly very attentive—quite the jealous type—and apparently there is much more to him than she ever knew…

Praise for Shana Galen:

“Galen is a grand mistress of the action/adventure subgenre.”
—RT Book Reviews,
Top Pick of the Month, 4.5 Stars

“I know I can always turn to Shana Galen for fast paced, sexy adventurous romances…”
—Rogues Under the Covers

For more Shana Galen, visit:

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Tracey Devlyn writes historical romantic thrillers (translation: a slightly more grievous journey toward the heroine’s happy ending). She’s a co-founder of Romance University, a group blog dedicated to readers and writers of romance, and Lady Jane’s Salon-Naperville, Chicagoland’s exciting new reading salon devoted to romantic fiction.

An Illinois native, Tracey spends her evenings harassing her once-in-a-lifetime husband and her weekends torturing her characters. For more information on Tracey, including her Internet haunts, contest updates, and details on her upcoming novels, please visit her website at
www.TraceyDevlyn.com
.