Thursday, July 22, 2010

Announcing: Punch's Cousin--a new blog-novel

Coming Monday, July 26, I will launch a new “Blog Novel” called Punch’s Cousin here at Stalking the Belle Époque. Each day, you will have the opportunity to read a new chapter. I’m pleased to offer this free-of-charge to my readers. 

Punch’s Cousin is an historical novel set in England and New Orleans in the Mid-19th Century. Lord Julian Molliner has been given strict instructions. His mother--Her Grace, Pauline, the Duchess of Fallbridge—furious that her daughter, Lady Barbara, has fled England to avoid her marriage to a baron, has ordered Julian to find the wayward girl. Agoraphobic Julian is not eager to leave the safety of Fallbridge Hall, however, he cannot resist his mother’s commands. Julian finds himself in New Orleans in 1852. With rumors of an epidemic of The Yellow Fever swelling around him, Julian must find his sister in The Vieux Carre. Under the watchful eye of his valet, a spy for the Duchess, Julian must keep a secret. His sister has stolen “The Fallbridge Blue,” a priceless blue diamond, from the family’s treasures. Will Julian find his sister and the diamond before both slip into the hands of the notorious “Elegant Ogress?”

Punch’s Cousin is a companion novel to my The Garnet Red. I’m excited to offer this to all of you before anyone else sees it. Come back on Monday for the first installment!



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