Promo: Victoria & Violet by Rachel Brimble
I'm delighted to host bestselling romantic historical fiction author, Rachel Brimble, on Ruins & Reading today. If you haven't read any of her novels yet, here's one to tempt you!
Rachel tells us a little about her new novel, Victoria & Violet, due to be released next month. It sounds like a wonderful story, so I've added it to my TBR list.
Thanks so much for having me here today, Cathie - this is the first chance I’ve had to properly introduce my upcoming novel Victoria & Violet to the world, and I’m thrilled to be here!
My latest offering, Victoria & Violet, is book 1 in my brand-new Royal Maids series and I am excited, but also nervous, about it being released into the world on the 17th October. Why? Well, as much as I love this book and how proud I am of writing it, Victoria & Violet is the first novel in which I have included real people and real events alongside the fictional.
To do this has been an ambition of mine ever since my first book was published in 2007 so having achieved it feels like a very big deal – I can only hope and pray readers love the story as much as I do. Although Queen Victoria, Lord Melbourne, the Duchess of Kent, Lehzen and others feature in the book, the story really revolves around the lives and burgeoning romance of fictional housemaid Violet Parker and fictional assistant to Lord Melbourne, James Greene.
These two characters were a joy to create, and their electricity was immediate which made a usually hard job all the easier! Their paths have crossed a few times before the book opens, but the interest is firmly in James’s court (so to speak!), rather than Violet’s who has far more important and life-changing things on her mind than romance, such as escaping the clutches of her overbearing mother and forging a life of her own. Of course, it is not as though Violet would ever consider James a possible suitor considering his superior status…yet he really is most persistent!
All too soon, James and Violet are thrown together over and over again as their roles become ever more important to Victoria and Lord Melbourne. Amid a court that travels from the gardens of Windsor Castle to the corridors of Buckingham Palace to the wedding of the Queen herself, Victoria & Violet takes you on an adventure of drama, intrigue and romance that I hope has you quickly turning the pages!
Happy reading,
Rachel x
Blurb:
Here's the blurb & preorder link – I hope I’ve tempted you!
Violet hopes to explore who she is and what the world has to offer without her mother’s schemes overshadowing her every thought and action.
Then she meets James Greene, assistant to the queen’s chief political adviser, Lord Melbourne. From entirely different backgrounds and social class, Violet and James should have neither need nor desire to speak to one another, yet through their service, their paths cross and their lives merge—as do their feelings.
Only Victoria’s court is not always the place for romance, but rather secrets, scandals, and conspiracies…
International Buy Link: https://geni.us/u0GmS5
About the Author:
Rachel is a member of the Romantic Novelists Association as well as the Historical Novel Society and has thousands of social media followers all over the world.
To sign up for her newsletter (a guaranteed giveaway every month!), click here: https://bit.ly/3zyH7dt
Connect with Rachel:
Website: https://bit.ly/3wH7HQs
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Rachel tells us a little about her new novel, Victoria & Violet, due to be released next month. It sounds like a wonderful story, so I've added it to my TBR list.
Over to Rachel...
Introducing Victoria & Violet…
Thanks so much for having me here today, Cathie - this is the first chance I’ve had to properly introduce my upcoming novel Victoria & Violet to the world, and I’m thrilled to be here!
My latest offering, Victoria & Violet, is book 1 in my brand-new Royal Maids series and I am excited, but also nervous, about it being released into the world on the 17th October. Why? Well, as much as I love this book and how proud I am of writing it, Victoria & Violet is the first novel in which I have included real people and real events alongside the fictional.
To do this has been an ambition of mine ever since my first book was published in 2007 so having achieved it feels like a very big deal – I can only hope and pray readers love the story as much as I do. Although Queen Victoria, Lord Melbourne, the Duchess of Kent, Lehzen and others feature in the book, the story really revolves around the lives and burgeoning romance of fictional housemaid Violet Parker and fictional assistant to Lord Melbourne, James Greene.
These two characters were a joy to create, and their electricity was immediate which made a usually hard job all the easier! Their paths have crossed a few times before the book opens, but the interest is firmly in James’s court (so to speak!), rather than Violet’s who has far more important and life-changing things on her mind than romance, such as escaping the clutches of her overbearing mother and forging a life of her own. Of course, it is not as though Violet would ever consider James a possible suitor considering his superior status…yet he really is most persistent!
All too soon, James and Violet are thrown together over and over again as their roles become ever more important to Victoria and Lord Melbourne. Amid a court that travels from the gardens of Windsor Castle to the corridors of Buckingham Palace to the wedding of the Queen herself, Victoria & Violet takes you on an adventure of drama, intrigue and romance that I hope has you quickly turning the pages!
Happy reading,
Rachel x
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Blurb:
Here's the blurb & preorder link – I hope I’ve tempted you!
It should be a dream come true to serve the Queen of England…
When Violet Parker is told she will be Queen Victoria’s personal housemaid, she cannot believe her good fortune. She finally has the chance to escape her overbearing mother, a servant to the Duchess of Kent.
Violet hopes to explore who she is and what the world has to offer without her mother’s schemes overshadowing her every thought and action.
Then she meets James Greene, assistant to the queen’s chief political adviser, Lord Melbourne. From entirely different backgrounds and social class, Violet and James should have neither need nor desire to speak to one another, yet through their service, their paths cross and their lives merge—as do their feelings.
Only Victoria’s court is not always the place for romance, but rather secrets, scandals, and conspiracies…
International Buy Link: https://geni.us/u0GmS5
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Rachel Brimble
Rachel lives in a small town near Bath, England. She is the author of 29 novels including the Ladies of Carson Street trilogy, the Shop Girl series (Aria Fiction) and the Templeton Cove Stories (Harlequin). Her latest novel, Victoria & Violet is the first book in her new Royal Maids series with the Wild Rose Press and releases 17th October 2022.
Rachel is a member of the Romantic Novelists Association as well as the Historical Novel Society and has thousands of social media followers all over the world.
To sign up for her newsletter (a guaranteed giveaway every month!), click here: https://bit.ly/3zyH7dt
Connect with Rachel:
Website: https://bit.ly/3wH7HQs
Twitter: https://bit.ly/3AQvK0A
Facebook: https://bit.ly/3i49GZ3
Instagram: https://bit.ly/3lTQZbF
Hi Cathie! Thanks so much for having me here today - I'm looking forward to chatting with your visitors :)
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