Guest Post & Giveaway: Bound By Bliss by Lavinia Kent
Bound
By BlissBound
and Determined #2
By:
Lavinia Kent
Releasing
February 24th,
2015
Loveswept
Blurb
Lady
Bliss Danser, daughter of the Duke of Mirth, is a scandal waiting to
erupt. Which is why her highly conventional brother wants to saddle
her with Stephan Perth, Earl of Duldon, the only man he thinks will
marry her. Worse, Stephan keeps threatening to punish her, to teach
her just how a woman should behave. His words may cause Bliss to
tingle in the strangest places, but that doesn’t mean she likes the
man himself.
Stephan has secretly desired Bliss for years, but he knows how close he is to losing his beloved. Careful not to rile her impetuous heart, he promises only to aid Bliss in her search for another fiancé. And if she’s determined to understand the male body first, he’s happy to comply in that regard as well. However, she must follow his rules or face the consequences. Slowly he takes Bliss to the darker, steamier side of his world . . . where she realizes that Stephan is everything she’s ever wanted.
Bound by Bliss is an erotic romance intended for mature audiences.
Stephan has secretly desired Bliss for years, but he knows how close he is to losing his beloved. Careful not to rile her impetuous heart, he promises only to aid Bliss in her search for another fiancé. And if she’s determined to understand the male body first, he’s happy to comply in that regard as well. However, she must follow his rules or face the consequences. Slowly he takes Bliss to the darker, steamier side of his world . . . where she realizes that Stephan is everything she’s ever wanted.
Bound by Bliss is an erotic romance intended for mature audiences.
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Romancing the Readers would like to welcome Lavinia Kent and thank her for stopping by today! Give her a warm welcome!
I am delighted to be here. Thank you so
much for having me.
I am Lavinia Kent and right now I am
writing ultra-sexy historicals. I started seriously writing just as
romances really began to go heavy on the steam. During my teens I
can remember getting excited about a page and a half of teasing in
Kathleen Woodiwiss’s Shanna. It was only years later,
looking back at the book, that I realized how little was actually
described.
By that time I had begun to read
romance again and became caught up in the much longer and heavier
scenes by such authors as Sabrina Jefferies and Cheryl Holt. I once
heard Sabrina Jefferies talk at a conference and her explanation of
how to make a sex scene matter stuck with me.
I work hard to make my sex scenes part
of the story, not just something that happens on the sideline. That
may be why my scenes have moved from Woodiwiss’s page-and-a-half to
sometimes close to eighty pages. LOL But it’s not because I have
such a vivid imagination or am thinking of positions that no one else
has tried before, it’s because I like to take the vulnerability and
openness of the moment and use it as a chance for my characters to
talk and share things they never would in the light of day. A really
hot sex scene gives an opening for trust and revelation. It’s also
a chance to play with the power dynamic between a couple, for them to
try out new ways of being and relating.
I find this particularly valuable in
historicals where so much of day-to-day life had to follow the
dictates of society – and there is so much fun playing with the
rules and letting naïve woman learn just how much they are missing.
Bound by Bliss is such a story.
My heroine, Lady Bliss, knows she wants to explore and experiment,
but she doesn’t really have any idea what that means. My hero, the
masterful Lord Duldon, is more than ready to teach her – and to see
just how far her boundaries can be pushed.
Bound by Bliss is the second of
my Bound and Determined Series. The first book,
Mastering the Marquess, is the story of Bliss’s older
brother. I have also released a novella, Revealing Ruby,
which tells a little of the story of the madame who helps to bring
several of my couples together. I hope to share the rest of her
story late this coming summer.
I’d love to know what were the first
books you read that made you blush – and were they the more
descriptive books of the current age or those that gave only the
barest hint that left imaginations whirling?
Thanks for having me.
Author
Info
Lavinia
Kent is a former two-term president of the Washington Romance
Writers and a four-time Romance Writers of America Golden Heart
nominee. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her family and an
ever-changing menagerie of pets.
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