Blog Tour: AS LONG AS YOU’RE MINE

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A scandalous mistake…or a wicked way to happiness?

Hoping to compromise herself, Lady Amantha Easton sneaks into the bedroom of her would-be suitor only to find a total stranger there—a totally handsome, charming stranger to be sure—but not at all the man she plans to marry. She leaves his room with her reputation intact—barely—only to fall victim to the gentleman’s charms in a public place. Now Amantha must face the fate she’s tried to avoid—marriage to a man who will never love her.

All Rafael Beauregard wanted was a warm bed and a good night’s sleep…but what he got was an unexpected romp with a beautiful vixen and a fiery kiss that left him wanting more. An excellent trade, except now he’s got to marry Lady Amantha, one of the most willful women he’s ever met. So Rafe’s challenge is to persuade her that marriage to him might be the best thing for them both…once he convinces himself.

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“Oh, Raif!” She could scarcely breathe now. “That…feels…so good.”

“I thought it might. You’re awful sweet.” His low, sleepy voice sounded odd under the covers. On the verge of asking if he was well, she lost the thought when he lifted his head from her breast and crushed his lips to hers.

All else forgotten, she wouldn’t have cared if the house burned down around them. His lips were hot, insistent. Then he plied the seam with his tongue, softly urged it to part for him. She had no desire to resist and soon he had buried his tongue deep in her mouth. A tentative stroke of her own brought a growl of encouragement, and she abandoned herself to explore his willing mouth. She did things she’d never dreamed she’d do, with Raif or anyone else. And she only wanted more. “Oh, Raif. I never thought it could be like this.”

He chuckled. “How soon you forget, Jenny.”

“Jenny?” Amantha froze, her blood turning to ice in her veins. “Who’s Jenny?” Sudden anger lit a fire in her, and she pushed him away. “How many women were you expecting in your bed tonight, Raif?”

“What?” The sleepiness had flown from his voice. “You’re not Jenny?”

“You expected me to be?” This was a nightmare. They weren’t even married and Raif was being unfaithful to her.

“I didn’t expect anyone in my bed.” He threw off the covers and fumbled at the bedside table.

“What do you mean you didn’t expect me? We had planned this, Raif.” What the devil was the man playing at?

“We?” A match flared as he lit the lamp, the sudden light after the darkness almost blinding her. She put her hand up to shield her eyes.

“What do you mean, we?” He sat up in the bed, rubbing his eyes. “Who are you, sweetheart?”

The voice, now unmuffled, certainly did not have the superior tone of Raiford Tolbert. Slowly Amantha lowered her hand to find a man with dark hair she’d never seen before peering at her.

Dear God, what had she done?

Interview:

Where are you from? Tell us a little about yourself!
I was born and raised in central Virginia, but for the last 25 years I’ve lived by the coast in a semi-rural area that’s just lovely. My family consists of me, my husband of 35 years this June, two daughters doing well out on their own, and a dog and a bunny. This is the first year we have not had a cat in the house, but my daughter moved and took back the one who was living with us. When I’m not writing, I’m a professor at Hampton University teaching theater classes along with directing plays for the theater department.


Tell us about your book? How did it get started?

As Long As You’re Mine was the “Aha” moment I had while writing a short story. The story was about a lady who wanted to compromise herself so her father would let her marry a man he disapproved of. As I was writing away, I suddenly thought, “What if she got herself compromised by the wrong man?” And so my current book was born, almost 15 years ago. It’s gone through several revisions, the most recent a very drastic one, but it’s now out in the world and doing very well indeed.


What got you started in writing?
A production of Macbeth. It’s quite a story.

I directed a production of Macbeth in the spring of 2008 that was so stressful to me (so many actors came and went at one point four days before opening I was onstage playing one of the witches) it triggered an intolerance to gluten, so I went on a gluten-free diet. Six months later, just after Christmas, I got a huge rush of energy and creativity. For Christmas I’d bought myself Kathleen Woodiwiss’s romance novel Everlasting, set in my favorite Medieval period. I loved the book, and tore through it, finishing it at lunch one day in my office at school. I remember vividly standing up, looking at the book and saying aloud, “I could write something like this.” Then I sat down and began writing what would be my first historical romance, Time Enough to Love.

How do you get your ideas for writing?
I truly get them from everything. My first book, Time Enough to Love, was inspired by a History channel program on the Black Death, and how England’s King Edward III’s daughter Joanna was on her way to Spain to her wedding when she died of the plague in Bordeaux. Only A Mistress Will Do was inspired by a line in one of Mary Balough’s romances about a courtesan’s first encounter with a client. And my whole Widow’s Club series was inspired when I was driving to work one morning and heard The Weather Girls singing “It’s Raining Men” and I got to wondering how women in the Regency could have access to a lot of men and still not lose their reputations. (The answer was to have them be widows hosting a house party!) So I get my inspiration from anything and everything it seems.


What would your advice to be for authors or aspiring in regards to writing?
My best advice for any author, seasoned or aspiring, is the excellent advice my mentor, author Judi McCoy gave me the first time I met her: “You can fix crap; you can’t fix nothing.” Meaning give yourself permission to write something that’s not perfect. Just fill up that page. Write it down. It doesn’t matter how bad it is—because if you write it down there is something to fix. You cannot fix a blank page and a lot of authors are afraid to write that first word or sentence for fear it will be wrong or bad. It won’t be, but even if it is, you can fix it and revise it until you make it the best.

About the Author

Jenna Jaxon is a best-selling author of historical romance, writing in a variety of time periods because she believes that passion is timeless. She has been reading and writing historical romance since she was a teenager. A romantic herself, Jenna has always loved a dark side to the genre, a twist, suspense, a surprise. She tries to incorporate all these elements into her own stories.

She lives in Virginia with her family and a small menagerie of pets–including Olive, an almost silent cat, Earl Grey, a very curious bunny, and a Shar-pei mix dog named Frenchie.

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