Inquiring readers,
Sourcebooks Landmark have agreed to offer Karen Wasylowski’s first book ‘Darcy and Fitzwilliam’ for free for the week of March 11 to March 18. Read more about the author’s latest novel, then find out how to access a free kindle book version from Amazon!
Saints and Sinners
In my first book, Darcy & Fitzwilliam (a continuation of Pride and Prejudice) the romance of Pride and Prejudice continues with the marriage of Lizzy and Darcy, showing the couple newlywed and starry eyed – when into the mix rides Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam, Darcy’s cousin and closest friend. Where Darcy is aloof, proud and elegant, Fitzwilliam is gregarious, charming and a rascal. ‘Darcy and Fitzwilliam’ is unique in that it is also a ‘bromance,’ a story about two men who had grown up together – bonding like brothers, fighting like rivals.
Darcy and Fitzwilliam then spawned a series of books, a Family Saga really, beginning with Sons & Daughters the story of the two young families, the Darcy’s and the Fitzwilliam’s, and their increasing numbers of children, the terrors of parenthood, the vitality of young couples loving each other and arguing just as fiercely, and little children discovering the wonder of the world.
After Sons and Daughters came my third book, Wives and Lovers. In Wives and Lovers the Darcy and Fitzwilliam children are adults venturing out into the world, falling in love, experiencing heartbreaks and joys. Life happens with or without our permission, good and bad, and families go on.
And now Saints & Sinners.
Saints and Sinners begins with the death of Prince Albert at 42 years of age, an event that stunned an already reeling nation. Prince Albert had taken over many of Queen Victoria’s duties as their large family grew and his passing came at a dangerous time. Tensions were exploding with America and another war threatened.
It is into this time frame the families return as Colonel Fitzwilliam’s volatile, passionate son, Matthew, confronts the woman he loved and lost years before to his rival… while his twin brother, Mark, the steadier of the two, decides to give up waiting for true love to find him, and will settle in marriage with an old friend. As always nothing turns out as planned with the loves, laughs, tears and surprises of life pushing and pulling the families in directions they never saw coming.
Karen Wasylowski author page: author.to/KarenWasylowski
Previous interview on this blog:
Interview with Karen V. Wasylowski, Author of Darcy and Fitzwilliam: A Tale of a Gentleman and an Officer, from the desk of Shelley de Wees, Feb, 2011
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When will Saint and Sinners be available? Will it be free for a time also?
Saints and Sinners is availableNOW (occasionally I even get a banner that it’s #1 in British and Irish Classics on Amazon, and then the banner disappears before I get the screen shot) and it’s $3.99.
Darcy and Fitzwilliam, however, is free until March 18.