Here's a brand new, dark Regency romance from author Kryssie Fortune
Wickedly Used
Release date – 17th
February.
Publisher – Stormy Night
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Description:
While
he is no stranger to pleasurable company from ladies of the night, Major
Richard Rothbury of the royal dragoons is not the kind of man who will stand
idly by as a woman is taken against her will, and when he witnesses a
disreputable cad attempting to force himself on a girl in a back alley, he does
not hesitate to intervene.
But
after the grateful young woman offers herself to Rothbury, he is shocked to
discover that not only was she no harlot, she was a maiden and he has
deflowered her. Furious at the girl’s scandalous behavior and her carelessness
with her own safety, Rothbury chastises her soundly.
Though
she is due to inherit one of the largest fortunes in England, the fact that she
cannot touch the money until she marries or turns thirty has kept Elizabeth
completely at the mercy of her cruel uncle, and for years she has been treated
as if she were a servant. Her encounter with Lord Rothbury is by far the most
exciting thing that has ever happened to her, but while he shows great concern
for her safety, he refuses to believe that she is anything more than a serving
girl.
Despite
having made it clear that he doesn’t consider a match between them to be
possible, when Elizabeth disobeys him Rothbury proves more than ready to strip
her bare, punish her harshly, and then enjoy her beautiful body in the most
shameful of ways. But can she dare to hope that he will one day make her his
wife, or is she destined to spend her life being wickedly used?
Publisher’s
Note: Wickedly Used: A Dark Regency
Romance includes spankings and sexual scenes. If such material offends you,
please don’t buy this book.
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Questioning Kryssie:
Give
us an insight into your main character. What does he/she do that is so special?
My heroine,
Lady Elizabeth Blayneton is an heiress, but she can’t inherit until she marries
or turns thirty. Her uncle and guardian is determined she will marry his
slack-mouthed son, but she’d rather not marry at all than wed him. Only she
doesn’t want to die a virgin.
Tell us about your
hero
Brigade Major
Lord Rothbury carries the wounds his first love inflicted when she threw him
over for his father. To silence the gossip, his father packed him off to fight
in the Peninsula war and squandered the family fortune on his new bride. When
the current Lord Rothbury inherited, there was nothing but mortgages and debts.
He’s been trying to put things right and provide for his sisters ever since.
Waterloo looms, and he’s recalled to Wellington’s staff. Then there’s this
serving girl who keeps ending up in his bed, only wedding her would cause
another scandal and ruin his sisters’ future.
I write
romance. Any sort. Paranormal or contemporary. Wickedly Used is my first Regency Romance, although it’s darker
than many.
What draws you to this genre?
I write the
books I like to read. There’s always a strong plot, with lots of adventure.
Then there’s the sex. My pet hate is cliff hangers. Each book in either of my
series can be read as stand-alone romance. Add in that I’m a sucker for a
happy-ever-after, and you’ve got my writing style.
What is your favorite motivational phrase?
It’s one of
Mohamed Ali’s catchphrases. “If my head
can conceive it and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.”
How
do you select the names of your characters?
I try to pick a name that fits the world they live in. My paranormal heroines are often named
for herbs and flowers. For my contemporary characters, I look at popular names
in the year they were born. Sometimes they shout at me that I’ve named them
wrongly, but that doesn’t happen often. The heroine in my book Claimed by Vampire, Seduced by the Werewolf
went through three name changes before I got her name right.
More about Kryssie Fortune.
Kryssie reads everything and anything, from
literary fiction to sizzling romance. Her earliest memory is going to the
library with her mother. She can’t have been more than two at the time.
Reading, especially when a book’s hot and explicit, is more than a guilty
pleasure. It’s an obsession.
Kryssie loves to visit historic sites, from
Hadrian’s wall to Regency Bath. The first book she fell in love with was
Georgette Heyer’s The Unkown Ajax.
After that, she devoured every regency book she could. After a while, they went
out of fashion, but part of Kryssie’s psyche lives in in in Regency London. She
longs to dance quadrilles and flirt behind fans. Of course, Kryssie’s heroines
do far more than flirt.
Kryssie lives in Bridlington on the Yorkshire
coast–about thirty miles from Whitby, where Bram Stoker wrote Dracula. She
enjoys gardening, travel, and socializing with her author friends. You’d be
surprised how many erotic romance authors live in the North of England.
