Monday, May 19, 2014

THE ROSE GARDEN TOUR for Miss Armistead Makes Her Choice by Heidi Ashworth

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Welcome to my tour stop for THE ROSE GARDEN TOUR for
Miss Armistead Makes Her Choice
by Heidi Ashworth

Roses in the Miss Delacourt Series

It all begins when the Dowager Duchess of Marcross sends her grandson, Sir Anthony Crenshaw, to accompany her niece, Miss Ginny Delacourt, to their country estate to check on the roses. The Dowager is concerned since her neighbor is keen on stealing cuttings from her spectacular rose garden for Rosehaven, his rose-inspired country home. On the way, they have a carriage accident and are held up by highwaymen but it isn't until they are quarantined at Rosehaven for the pox that Ginny's and Sir Anthony's love begins to bloom.

Thus the series begins...
 
Heidi Ashworth, the author, has a beautiful rose garden and each stop is showcasing one of her roses.

Here is mine:


Miss Armistead Makes Her Choice
by Heidi Ashworth
Adult Historical Romance
Ebook, 274 pages
April 24th 2014 by Dunhaven Place Publishing

Mr. Colin Lloyd-Jones and his friend, Sir Anthony Crenshaw, make a pact to avoid the fair sex during the course of an entire season in order to nurse their wounded hearts. As they shake hands on it, they have no idea that one would soon be off on a trip to escort a young lady to the country and the other soon to fall head over heels in love with Miss Elizabeth Armistead. Sadly, Miss Armistead is only interested in those she trusts not to become so besotted with her beauty that they cannot see her true self. Prior to meeting Colin, she had only met one man fitting that description and she has promised to be his bride. However, Mr. Cruikshank is not due to arrive in London for a full month. Can Colin convince Miss Armistead that he loves her for more than her beauty before her betrothed's ship arrives on British shores?
Excerpt


It was fortuitous that Mr. Colin Lloyd-Jones chose to lift his gaze from the pavement at the very moment a matron emerged from her carriage to recklessly step out into his path.  The London season had barely begun and Colin was already the injured party in one too many irrevocable tragedies; a collision with said matron should hardly improve his circumstances.

"I beg your pardon, Madame," he said as he thrust his walking stick in the path of his companion, a gorgeously attired young gentleman who, like Colin, was lost in the mental fog of a broken heart.  In a graceless but noble action unacknowledged by the matron, the twosome came to an ungainly halt only to be peered at through a pair of thick spectacles in a manner most rude.

"I must confess," his companion bemoaned with a minor adjustment to his faultless cravat, "I have never felt quite so much like an exhibit at the Tower Menagerie."

Colin had his own thoughts on the subject.  However, he was forced to delay his riposte so as to rescue the lady from a nasty fall as she caught her kid boot on the threshold to the milliner's shop.  Once again, she failed to greet the gesture with even so much as a "Good day."

"Bond is meant to be utterly void of the fair sex for the duration of late afternoon," Colin observed.  "A man has a right to be availed of the opportunity to stroll down the street without women cluttering up the pavement," he added a bit crossly.

"To be sure, you are quite correct, mon ami," Sir Anthony Crenshaw, agreed.  "But, pray, do not suggest we eschew Bond Street as thoroughly as we have agreed to obviate the balls and routs of the entire season.  We shall be sadly ignorant as to how to place our bets at White's.  How might we hope to know who is the loveliest debutante, or which among them shall prove most popular, as well as most likely to be first betrothed, if we are utterly unenlightened as to who is in town?"

Colin opened his mouth to reply, but his attention was abruptly born away by the sight of a young maiden's face as it appeared at the door of the carriage.  She was breathtaking, her heart-shaped face possessed of a pair of large, impossibly green eyes set off by arched brows, black as the hair that curled along her temples.

"If you have had your fill," Sir Anthony drawled, "you had best look away.  You are utterly defenseless in the face of such beauty."

As much as the accusation stung, Colin knew it to be just.  Quickly, he averted his eyes; there was no point in avoiding the Marriage Mart with all of its balls and soirees if he were to fall head over heels in love with the first new young lady to town since he broke off his engagement with one Miss Cecily Ponsonby.

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Heidi Ashworth, author of the popular Miss Delacourt series, including the award-winning Miss Delacourt Has Her Day, is a busy wife and mother who's grateful for a bit of peace and quiet in which to write. An unapologetic anglophile, she is determined to return to England to see the home of Jane Austen, a landmark she missed during her first trip across the pond, though she knows Lord Byron's house to be a suitable substitute. She's smitten with books, chocolate, and roses, not necessarily in that order, and is never averse to a round of Guitar Hero.

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