{"id":3920,"date":"2015-02-13T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2015-02-11T09:26:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T13:26:08","slug":"guest-author-nina-mason-and-her-novel-devil-in-dukes-clothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3920","title":{"rendered":"Guest Author Nina Mason and Her Novel DEVIL IN DUKE&#8217;S CLOTHING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Maggie.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3922 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Maggie-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Maggie\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/300;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3922 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Maggie-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Maggie\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Happy launch to Nina Mason and her\u00c2\u00a0latest novel, DEVIL IN DUKE&#8217;S CLOTHING.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About the Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Maggie York, a convent-raised foundling, knows the Duke of Dunwoody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sexual tastes are a shade or two darker than normal, but marries him anyway\u00e2\u20ac\u201dpartly because she has no other prospects and partly because, try as she might, she can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to exorcize her desire for the dashing ducal devil. Two years ago, she watched him swive and spank her lady&#8217;s maid, luring her from the garden of innocence into the orchard of fleshly delights&#8211;and she&#8217;s been hungry for more ever since.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Robert Armstrong, the duke, is a Roman Catholic whose extreme devotions as a child warped his desires as a man. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also a slave to the times in which he lives&#8211;and to his king. Everything he is, everything he holds dear, depends on staying in Charles II\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good graces. Unfortunately, Maggie isn&#8217;t the bride the king selected for him. Now, to make amends, the duke must choose between the lesser of two evils: whore his wife or be reduced to a penniless commoner.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Whose interests will Robert choose to serve, his own, the king\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, or the woman he loves?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nina-Mason-author.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3921 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nina-Mason-author-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Nina Mason, author\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/300;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3921 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nina-Mason-author-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Nina Mason, author\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ninamasonauthor.com\/\">Nina Mason&#8217;s Site<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nina Mason is a hopeful romantic with strong affinities for history, mythology, and the metaphysical. She strives to write the same kind of books she loves to read: those that entertain, edify, educate, and enlighten.<\/p>\n<p>She has two books out at present: The Queen of Swords, a darkly erotic Scottish paranormal romance\/urban fantasy, and The Tin Man, a political thriller.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Mason is currently at work on two new series&#8217;: an erotic historical trilogy titled Royal Pains and a four-part erotic paranormal\/fantasy series titled The Knights of Avalon. Devil in Duke&#8217;s Clothing is book one in Royal Pains. Starry Knight, book one in the Knights of Avalon will be released on August 4, 2015 by Lyrical\/Kensington.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10.5pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10.5pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Happy launch to Nina Mason and her\u00c2\u00a0latest novel, DEVIL IN DUKE&#8217;S CLOTHING. About the Book Maggie York, a convent-raised foundling, knows the Duke of Dunwoody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sexual tastes are a shade or two darker than normal, but marries him anyway\u00e2\u20ac\u201dpartly because she has no other prospects and partly because, try as she might, she can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3920\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guest Author Nina Mason and Her Novel DEVIL IN DUKE&#8217;S CLOTHING<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3924,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions\/3924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}