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Conscience Rising: Book Spotlight & Giveaway

It is always a delight to welcome debut and experienced Austenesque authors alike to my blog whenever there is a new release. Today we have Cat Gardiner visiting My Love for Jane Austen with terrific news to share. If you guessed that she has a new publication out just in time for the holiday season, you are both right and wrong. How can that be you ask? Read on for the answer.
Book Spotlight
Newest Release from Cat Gardiner: Conscience Rising releasing 1st November on Kobo and Nook
The Perfect *HOT* Holiday Gift to Yourself or a Friend


Book Blurb
A binge-worthy romantic adventure awaits you in this pulse-pounding e-book BOXSET BUNDLE of three full-length novels that will leave you breathless and hot, hot, hot! *Includes a bonus novelette of vignettes in Guilty Conscience*

Book 1. Denial of Conscience
Book 1.5. Guilty Conscience
Book 2. Without a Conscience
Book 3. In Good Conscience

Fitzwilliam Darcy is steel, rock-n-roll and Tennessee whiskey. Elizabeth Bennet is orchids, opera and peaches with cream. Thrown together they are physically and emotionally charged TNT, ready to explode!

"Don't be afraid. Get on ... let's ride." ~ Fitzwilliam Darcy, the "Iceman"


Book 1: Denial of Conscience

Elizabeth Bennet is hiding from life on her family's decaying, historic plantation, afraid to live fully. Hindered by duty and obligation, even reluctantly agreeing to an untenable marriage, she cannot silence her conscience from crying out for her to flee run escape before it's too late.

Prompted by a cataclysmic event and the arrival of the enigmatic, attractive Fitzwilliam Darcy, Liz is thrust into a dangerous adventure where her spirit is released amidst international intrigue. However, Darcy carries his own deep stash of secrets as a premier government-sanctioned assassin working with an elite clandestine group named Obsidian. He's spent a long, dark decade justifying his career choice while smothering his own conscience that beckons him back home to his ancestral Pemberley, its demons, and the man he was meant to be.


Book 1.5: Guilty Conscience (Bonus vignettes)

The characters you fell in love with in the modern Pride and Prejudice-inspired Denial of Conscience have charted a new course five months after the dramatic rescue of Thomas Bennet in Marrakech. This BONUS NOVELETTE: Guilty Conscience brings us six epilogue-esque vignettes.

Questions such as: What is married life like for newlyweds Fitzwilliam and Liz Darcy after their whirlwind romance in Denial of Conscience? Can the protective Darcy give his new wife wings to fly without holding on too tight? Can the newly freed Liz learn to compromise after being essentially imprisoned at Longbourn? You'll also get a glimpse into what the future may bring this couple in Without a Conscience. Does danger lurk around the corner? Although Iceman has retired from Obsidian and trains polo ponies, could he be drawn back into black ops?


Book 2: Without a Conscience

Someone wants to kill The Iceman, Fitzwilliam Darcy, and will stop at nothing to lure him into the open. Out for retribution, the son of an assassinated South American drug lord is seeking payback. His diabolical objective puts Operation Macarena into play by dangling bait guaranteed to entice his enemy. Can Darcy's new bride, Liz, accept his decision to leave their tranquil life at Pemberley to resume the deadly profession he swore was behind them forever?

But are Darcy and Liz each fully satisfied with their simple, peaceful existence raising polo ponies and planning exotic vacations? Darcy set Liz's spirit free; how can she resist the urge to ride on the wild side? Perhaps coming out of retirement is just what her husband needs because The Iceman never truly melted.

Without a Conscience takes readers on an adventure from the dangerous Peruvian Amazon Basin to the salacious underbelly of Parisian nightlife, leading toward a perilous rescue in Moscow.

Conscience or no, but propelled by love, Liz and Darcy re-enter the realm of international intrigue for the one and only thing they know is truly worth fighting for: each other.


Book 3: In Good Conscience

The Final Adventure.

No man has loved a woman as much as Fitzwilliam "Iceman" Darcy loves his wife Elizabeth. His love is indestructible, insatiable and his Achilles' heel.

Since the whirlwind and dangerous adventure in Paris and Moscow in Without a Conscience, life at Pemberley has been a combination of idyllic repose and focused preparation and defense. Darcy's enemy is still out there — a hair's breadth from delivering revenge for his father's assassination.

When the enemy strikes first, Iceman's world comes crashing down kick starting a firestorm. How far will the gelid warrior go to protect all his loved ones? Just how much is the former Navy SEAL willing to sacrifice? Is his attritional warfare blind rage? — or are his extreme actions in good conscience?

This emotional, wild ride will take you on a breathless, white-knuckle international journey from heartbreak and revenge to survival and enduring bliss because ...

No woman has loved a man like Elizabeth Darcy loves her husband Fitzwilliam. Her love is invulnerable, unyielding and her strength.


Book Links
Nook  |  Kobo  |  Goodreads

Individual books, including the latest hot new release, In Good Conscience can be found on Amazon and Nook


Author Bio
Cat Gardiner loves romance and happy endings, history, comedy and Jane Austen. A member of the esteemed National League of American Pen Women and a PAN member of Romance Writers of America, she enjoys writing across the spectrum of the romance genre from Contemporary to Chick-Lit Romantic Comedy, 20th Century Historical Fiction and Pride and Prejudice-inspired.

Her greatest love is writing Historical Fiction, WWII-era Romance. Her debut novel in this sub genre, A Moment Forever, was a 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Award Romance Finalist. She is currently working on her second novel in the Liberty Victory Collection. Between writing and WWII home front re-enacting, Cat takes her readers on a swell 1940s journey at The 1940s Experience™ blog and gallery.


Author Links
Website  |  Blog  |  Facebook  |  Twitter


Giveaway
Thank you very much for coming over to my blog to promote this box set bundle, Cat. It has been awhile since you last visited here. Best of luck with the release. Here's hoping that readers will be intrigued by the premise and fall in love with your "Iceman".

Cat didn't come empty handed as she has brought along two prizes to give away to loyal readers. A set of autographed paperbacks in The Conscience series (that's 3.5 books) is reserved for US residents while one Conscience Rising box set is open to all. You are required to leave a comment or add the book bundle to your Goodreads TBR list to be eligible. The contest closes next Sunday, 11 November 2018 which happens to be Armistice Day. Cat would surely be pleased by this coincidence.

The winners will be announced a few days after the deadline. They have a further 72 hours to contact me to claim the prize or else it will be forfeited and another winner(s) will be picked. Please do not leave your email address in the comment section for privacy reasons.

In addition be sure to drop by Austenesque Reviews tomorrow for another shot at winning the above prizes. You can also read the fun interview with Cat Gardiner.

Comments

  1. I love Cat Gardiner’s writing and can’t wait to finish reading the series! Loved the first book and looking forward to reading the rest! Congrats on the release of the three book!

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    1. Hi Dung!! So great to see you here. Thank you for commenting. I you get to finish the series and enjoy it. Thanks for adding it to your GR TBR <3 Best of luck in the giveaway.

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  2. Wow! I did not really know what these novels were about. Thank you for the blurbs. They sound fantastic.

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  3. Love this series. Would definitely like the set of paperbacks.

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  4. I've been patiently waiting to read all of these books in a ....
    Hmm, I was just looking up synonyms to "binge" and it suggested "orgy". Would that be appropriate? ;-)

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  5. Lovely to meet you schilds! They are quite an adventure. Full speed ahead with a lot of steam heat! Thank you for your comment, and best wishes in the giveaway. <3

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  6. Congrats on the release of this boxset. It sounds fantastic!

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