(PG Excerpt): Re-Release of HAVE CHRISTMAS CARD... WILL TRAVEL



It’s Christmas in May! :))

HAVE CHRISTMAS CARD... WILL TRAVEL: EPPIE Finalist for Best Historical Romance.

Author: Susanne Marie Knight

Genre: Time-Travel Regency

Available electronically at Amazon.com and Smashwords.com.

Price: $2.99

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Blurb:
A magic Christmas card sends lonely Meredith back in time... then returns her to her own century each morning. A handsome lord proposes, and she accepts, but then finds herself attracted to her fiancé’s honorable brother. How can she find happiness when she has one foot in the past with the other in the present?

Scene Set-Up:
Meredith goes to sleep in her own apartment, and wakes up in a wintry, wooded area. Two brothers, William and Jeffrey, rescue her and take her back to their house. After a rest, she joins a party in progress. She thinks she’s dreaming.

Excerpt:
“Meredith.” William leaned into her ear, and whispered, “I do like your name. Merry Meredith--a diamond of the first water. You feel like heaven in my arms!”

Wow, this guy could lay it on thick. But maybe that was what she needed, to be wined and dined and flattered as if she were the queen of the prom.

Enjoying the moves of the waltz as they swayed, she sighed. She could get used to being the center of the universe.

Someone tapped William on the shoulder. “May I cut in?”

Meredith glanced up at the newcomer and gulped down hard. What a dreamboat! Tall, broad shoulders, deep brown eyes to die for, and dark, disheveled hair. This man had to have been Jeffrey, the one who carried her.

“Rot,” William complained. “Do you have to?”

“Yes, I do.” Jeffrey turned his stern gaze on her as if asking her permission.

She nodded, and willed her heart to slow its beating. Goodness, she hadn’t turned into liquid goo at the sight of a man since her fiancé. But then again, look how that had turned out.

“Well then, if you must.” William released her to his brother, then gave her another wink. “After this dance, Merry is mine, old man.”

Jeffrey took her in his arms. To her surprise, she almost melted against him. His masculine scent tormented her in a thousand different ways. Everything peaked, in a manner of speaking. Not daring to look up into his face, she studied the jeweled pin in his white cravat.

“Merry? Is that your name?” He expertly maneuvered her about the parquet floor.

She unstuck her tongue from the roof of her mouth. “No, I’m Meredith. Meredith Wyatt. And you are Jeffrey...?”

“Lord Burnett,” was his ungracious reply. “So how did you arrive on our lands, dressed in your night clothes, Miss Wyatt? If my brother had not found you, you surely would have expired due to exposure.”

He was being very nosy for a hallucination, not to mention haughty. Peering over his shoulder, she stared out at the other occupants of the room. “It’s a mystery, Lord Burnett. I have no idea. But I’m very grateful to you and... your brother.”

“How grateful are you, Miss Wyatt?” He executed a turn that caused her to bump into him.

Hot fire poured into her veins, and her breasts tingled even more. But dream or not, she had to ignore her feelings. This man was insinuating that she wasn’t a lady. After all, he had wanted to deposit her in the servants’ quarters.

She stiffened and gave him a tight little smile. “Very grateful, Lord Burnett. You and your brother are such gentlemen.”

Hopefully that remark would remind him to behave accordingly.

When the waltz ended, she took a step away from him. Then she noticed another new arrival, a woman a little older than the other young ladies. The woman had more poise, more polish. And she glared daggers of hate at Meredith.

Meredith shivered.

“Are you cold, Miss Wyatt?”

“No, Lord Burnett. Why do you ask?”

The smile on his handsome face could only be described as a smirk. He dropped his gaze to her chest. “Because it looks as if you might be cold.”

She glanced down... and died. Her nipples had hardened and the soft satin material of her gown showed every revealing curve.

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Hope you enjoy!

Susanne Marie Knight
Read outside the box: award-winning Romance Writing With A Twist!

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