Mar 19, 2012
Thanks, Dottie from Romance Junkies! Here’s a snippet from the review:
A delightfully decadent read, MASTER OF SIN, the fourth and final book in phenomenal author Maggie Robinson’s COURTESAN COURT series, is a witty, sensual historical romance. Maggie Robinson fans will already be familiar with hero Andrew Rossiter and will learn the reasons behind his previous bad behavior. Due to his scandalous past, Andrew does not feel that anyone can really love him, nor does he feel worthy of love. But Gemma has secrets of her own. Infused with secrets galore, complex characters, witty dialogue, sexual tension, murder, suspense, passion and romance, this emotion-packed story is an absolute delight. Is there any wonder that Ms. Robinson has become one of my very favorite authors? Readers will find themselves rooting for this very atypical couple, who deserve the happiness that has long been denied them.
Mar 9, 2012
Lords of Passion will be released as a mass-market paperback on November 1, 2012! This anthology features wonderful novellas by legendary Virginia Henley and Kate Pearce, as well as my “Not Quite a Courtesan.”
Publishers Weekly said: This lively book collects three well-matched historical romance novellas set in England. In Henley’s “Beauty and the Brute,” high-born teens Charles and Sarah are wedded to settle Charles’s father’s gambling debts. Mortal enemies on their wedding day, they part for three years, only to reunite as strangers and experience unexpected passion. In Pearce’s “How to Seduce a Wife,” prim young Louisa March yearns to feel pleasure in the bedroom. Her husband, Nicholas, wants to help her, but doesn’t know how. Could a Mayfair madam help them? In Robinson’s delicious “Not Quite a Courtesan,” a young heiress gets far more than she bargains for when she marries into a family of swindlers short on cash but long on charm. Readers will float away on the literary flair of these escapist tales, each touched with just the right amount of eroticism.
Mar 1, 2012
Zounds! Love the tagline: “Sometimes scandal comes looking for you.” Lord Gray and his list will be joining us in November 27, 2012. Thank you, Kensington art department! 🙂
Feb 29, 2012
Thank you Carrie Divine at Seductive Musings for selecting Mistress by Marriage as a 2011 favorite!
We’re back home from our Florida trip. We enjoyed our stay so much that next year we’d like to stay through March–which seems especially relevant since we’re due to get a huge snowstorm tomorrow on March 1. I’m not a big winter person, so I’m definitely at a disadvantage since I live in Maine. 😛
I’m doing revisions for Captain Durant’s Countess before I turn it in to my editor. I even worked on the plane coming home. And then…on to my secret project. My agent and I are excited about my next series and hope an editor will be excited too!
For the March website contest, I’m giving away a signed hardcover copy of Master of Sin! Enter on the contest page. 🙂
Feb 21, 2012
Thank you, Kathe Robin! From the April issue of RT BookReviews Magazine:
MASTER OF SIN
by Maggie Robinson
Genre: Historical Romance, England
Sensuality: HOT
Setting: Regency England
RT Rating ****
Robinson crafts an intelligent, powerful, emotional, highly sensual love story with a damaged hero and an exceptional heroine, moving the story beyond the typical and into the unconventional. Readers will become so invested in the characters that the fast pace and heated sexual tension only add to the delight. Fine storytelling.
Andrew Rossiter has sold himself to the decadent and wealthy for so long that he believes there is no other life for him. But when the mother of his son is murdered, and the toddler’s life is at stake, he flees Italy to a remote Scottish island*.
Gemma Peartree is a plain brown mouse of a woman hired to be a governess to the little boy. Her sardonic wit and sharp-edged tongue is unattractive, yet Andrew is slowly drawn to her. Gemma has her own secrets and no desire to be noticed by her handsome employer. Alone on the island*, caught in a violent storm and with enemies stalking them, Gemma and Andrew discover a mutual need and a blazing desire that could be their salvation or their ruination. (BRAVA, Apr., 300 pp., $14.00)
*corrected Highlands to island 🙂
Feb 11, 2012
From Publishers Weekly:(containing a few spoilers, so if you’re someone who wants to be completely surprised…)
Robinson (Mistress by Marriage) turns in an unusual Regency packed with drama. Andrew Rossiter’s son, Marco, was conceived at the behest of an Italian duke who was unable to impregnate his wife. Raised as the heir, Marco is a target for relatives who crave the title and fortune, so when the duke and duchess are killed, Andrew flees to Scotland with Marco and hires a Miss Peartree to be the three-year-old’s governess. To his surprise, Miss Peartree is actually Gemma Anna Bassano, who has her own unhappy ties to Italy. Andrew, a rape survivor and former prostitute who is not so much bisexual as unable to believe his desires matter, is ashamed of his past and convinced he has to do penance, while Gemma and Marco struggle to show him that he is worthy of being loved. Despite the heavy secrets, the romance is unaffected and pure. Agent: Laura Bradford, Bradford Literary Agency. (Apr.)
Reviewed on: 02/13/2012
