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The Eve of Love: A Hearts Through History anthology

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Shunned as a divorcee, Livi Breeze performs on the streets of London to survive. Asked to sing at a New Year’s Eve party thrown by a famous theatre couple, she realizes this may be her only chance to escape rain, snow, and sleet for a career on the stage. As the clock nears midnight and her nerves begin to fray, the party magically also offers a chance for true love.

Ash Crispen has poured his heart and soul into an operetta, determined not to be the talentless son of extraordinary parents. Heavily courted by a beautiful actress gunning for the lead in his play, Ash assumes he’ll cast her, that is until he sees Livi. Is she capable of holding an audience, and more importantly, can she win the favor of London’s empresarios?

 

The Christmas Unicorn

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Believing herself abandoned by her fiancé in the wilds of Northern Wales, actress Babbie Crispen and her wheelchair-bound son struggle to find shelter on a frigid night before Christmas.

A strange man the locals call the Wicked Scot finds them near death on a snow-covered hillside. He brings them to his castle, a place of both terrifying and wonderful magic so powerful it changes all their lives.

 

A Rogue in Sheep’s Clothing

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In Lord Hugh Davenport’s opinion, women of the ton perpetually hide behind a mask of deception. That’s hard for Lady Ellie Albright to swallow – especially since she’s disguised herself as a stable hand to get back the prized stallion her father sold Hugh to pay a debt. If Hugh learns her true identity she’ll lose the horse and her family will go bankrupt. Somehow, though, giving up Hugh’s love is starting to seem worse.

The flock of insipid debutantes Hugh's mother invites to a house party, bore him. Instead, he's captivated by an enigmatic stable hand who swears she’ll never marry. The harder he presses her, the more she urges him to wed Ellie Albright, the silliest goose in the whole unappealing lot. What Hugh desires is a strong, independent woman who can hold her own and who cares about something other than the latest hat styles. And that’s just the type of woman he's never going to find in his mother’s parlor…

Friday Elf Ahearn is talking about her latest release #MFRWAuthor #romance Anthology #Regency #romance #unicorn

 

 

“Regency romance with a gothic twist.”

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1.      Tell me about your latest release or the book you wish to feature? Genre?

The Eve of Love is an anthology of short stories taking place on New Year’s Eve. Within its hallowed covers is my short story Love in the Midst of Midnight. Last year I released a novella, The Christmas Unicorn. To my surprise the characters in Love in the Midst of Midnight demanded to appear in a sequel to The Christmas Unicorn. What could I do? When books seize the keyboard and start writing themselves, you have no choice but to sit back and let them have at it.

 

2.      Where did the idea arise?

My parents, who were theatrical in every sense of the word, used to throw costume parties every New Year’s Eve. I met my first husband at one, wearing the same red velvet dress in which my heroine appears. “Write about what you know,” they say, so that’s what I did in Love in the Midst of Midnight. The countdown, the burning of confessions, the dinner, and the show are just as my parents had back in those wild and wonderful days of yore.

 

3.      How much research was involved? Did you stay on point or be distracted by wanting to look at just one more thing?

Many rabbit holes were explored during the writing of this short story. For example, my heroine is a street performer, which led me to reading about organ grinders. At one time there were perhaps hundreds of thousands of them playing on the streets of London from 8 AM to 10 PM. The noise was so overbearing, a law was enacted fining musicians 40 shillings if they failed to vacate immediately after being asked to do so.

“Vendors of fruit and flowers, of milk and muffins are not agreeable visitors when they roar for a living, and the poor organ-grinder little knows, let us hope, the anguish he inflicts upon sensitive nerves.” Janeaustinworld.com 

 

4.      How long did you take to write the book?

I’m a notoriously slow writer so I’m going to guesstimate six months. Pitiful, eh?

 

5.      Now a bit about you. How long have you been writing? What is your Sun Sign?

I am a Taurus, and yikes I’ve been penning fiction for about 10 years. Before that I was a journalist for 10 years, a corporate communicator for two years, and for a few decades before I jumped into writing, I was a professional actress in NYC with a day-job in insurance. Because numbers are baffling and full of inexplicable tricks, I was horrible at insurance; my bosses liked me because I kept them amused.

 

6.      Do you write in a number of genres of stick to one?

I stick to one genre: “Regency romance with a gothic twist.”

 

       7.   Where on the internet can you be found?

The very best place to find me is on Facebook, but I do have a Website: elfahearn.com. It’s hosted by Yahoo!, which is folding up shop, so I’m going to have to pack up all my stuff soon and move. Ugg. I can also be found on Twitter and Whatsapp at @elfahearn.