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Promo Spotlight and Giveaway: How to Train Your Baron by Diana Lloyd

Friday, July 27, 2018

I'm hosting, today, a promo on Diana Lloyd's debut historical romance release, How to Train Your Baron (What Happens in the Ballroom #1), as a part of the ongoing VBT. Also find an excerpt for your enjoyment. The giveaway includes a $15 Amazon GC, so don't forget to enter via rafflecopter below!
How to Train Your Baron
Diana Lloyd
(What Happens in the Ballroom #1)
Published: July 23, 2018 by Entangled Amara
 
 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36406243-how-to-train-your-baron
When Elsinore Cosgrove escapes a ballroom in search of adventure, she has no idea it will lead to a hasty marriage. The youngest daughter of a duke, all she wants is to make her own choices. Now she’s engaged to an infuriating, handsome Scottish baron who doesn’t even know her name! Using all her feminine wiles, along with advice gleaned from a training guide for hunting hounds, Elsinore is determined to mold her baron into the husband she wants.

Quin Graham is a man with many secrets. If another scandal can be avoided with a sham marriage, so be it. Only his fiancee isn’t at all what he expected and the clumsy, curious, and clever Elsinore refuses to be set aside. For reasons he’s unwilling to explain, the last thing Quin needs is to fall in love with his wife.

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An Excerpt from How to Train Your Baron:

Elsinore walked up the steps to her room, dragging her water logged bonnet by a single damp ribbon. “All is lost,”she said aloud, feeling wet, miserable, and sorry for herself.
Her maid, Yvette, walked slowly behind her. “Now,now,” Yvette soothed as she helped Elsinore to her room so she could remove her soggy gown. “If you don’t wish to marry the Scottish gentleman, I’m sure in time your papa will reconsider.”
“Didn’t you hear? It’s all been settled without me—the wedding is in three days’ time.”
“Lady Elsinore, as your maid it is my business to watch over you. It is not necessarily my business to listen as well,”Yvette replied as she helped her into a dry gown and wrapped
a shawl around her shoulders. The maid was a French orphan not much older than herself and had encouraged,if not actually participated in many of Elsinore’s recent indiscretions.
“Oh, Yvette, he’s purchasing a special license this afternoon! My birthday ball is now to be a wedding celebration. I thought I had more time.”
“Does he know you are unhappy?”
“I’m not sure. I was a complete ninny-hammer today,but it didn’t seem to deter him. He is always as polite and charming as a man can be,” she said, remembering his arms around her as they bobbed in the water. Elsinore threw herself down on her bed, trying to erase his image from her mind. “There has to be something I can do to slow things down so I have time to think and can take control of my own life. Can you think of nothing?” She asked at last.
“Well…” Yvette stopped and pursed her lips.
“Out with it. I need any help I can get.”
“There is perhaps one thing that I did hear, milady—or rather, something that I did not hear.”
“Oh, please make sense, Yvette!”
“It’s your name. Lord Graham has never once, that I’ve noticed, spoken your name.”
“You’re right.” Elsinore sat up quickly, a frown on her face as she thought back. “He’s never called me by my name. Not even formally. Today he called me ‘kitten,’by our wedding day I might be ‘my little hedgehog.’ How disgusting.”
Yvette shrugged. “How could he not know your name?”
“We were never formally introduced. I wouldn’t know his name if I hadn’t heard Papa use it. Oh my God.”Elsinore’s face flushed with outrage, and her hands clenched into fists. It was her worst nightmare come true; her future husband was content in knowing her only as“Wallingford’s youngest.” He couldn’t even be bothered with looking her up in Debrett’s. “He proposed to me without even knowing my name. That, that, scoundrel,” she stammered out, “that
jackanapes, that…”
“Whoreson?” Yvette offered helpfully.
“But that must mean he hasn’t yet signed the settlement papers. Surely my name is on them,” Elsinore said excitedly,a new plan taking shape in her mind. “The hound has just turned into a cur, but there may still be time to teach him a lesson he won’t soon forget.”
“How will you do that?”
“I won’t.” Elsinore jumped up from the bed and grabbed Yvette by the arms. “You will.”
“What? Milady, how…”
“It’s perfect, don’t you see? No one in my family ever calls me by my name. I’m always ‘little sister’ or ‘darling daughter.’ I’ve no calling cards of my own, as I’ve only been allowed to go calling with my mother.”
“But your father is a duke; everyone knows your family.”
“It’s only the oldest sons who ever matter. All anybody remembers is that we are all named from the writings of Shakespeare. When a duke has five daughters, no one cares overmuch whether they know which one is which; it’s the dowries they’re thinking of.”
“So,” Yvette said, appearing to warm to the plan, “how is it that I can help you teach this man some manners?”
“Mother invited him over again tonight so that we might play cards. She is determined that he and I get to know each other better before the wedding—as if three days is enough time to get to know your future husband. I’ll ask her if you might chaperone while we play, and as soon as we are alone,you are to call me Lady…Hippolyta.”
“Who is Lady Hippolyta?”
“She’s Queen of the Amazons and a character in one of Mr. Shakespeare’s plays. I think,” she said, smiling triumphantly, “that it shall be good to be queen.”
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About the Author:

Diana Lloyd, mother of gingers, first of her name, is a stay-at-home wife, a hockey mom, and writer of stories with kissing in them. Diana defends her writing time like a rabid goalie while simultaneously volunteering for things she doesn’t really have time for.

Diana is a member of Hearts Through History chapter of Romance Writers of America and was a 2017 RWA Golden Heart Finalist. Her Regency romp, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR BARON, the first book in the “What Happens In the Ballroom” series, is scheduled for publication in July 2018.

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