Welcome to Sunday Love-in! This is a new feature where an author shares one of their favourite smexy-time scenes from their latest book, tells us the reason for their choice and then shares the scene with us with a delicious excerpt. Enjoy. Nicola Cornick and her favourite smexy scene… Inspired by my love of shoes, Forbidden is a Cinderella story, a rags to riches tale of Margery Mallon, a lady’s maid who finds that she is the richest heiress in England. Lost as a child, Margery grows up in ignorance of the…
‘Where Stories Are Made‘ is a regular feature here at Book Chick City. It’s where an author takes us on a tour of their writing place, be it an office, coffee shop or park and tells us about their writing day in words and pictures. My guest today is historical romance author, Nicola Cornick… Whisper of Scandal: Out Now One Wicked Sin: Out Now Mistress by Midnight: Out Now Website | Twitter | Goodreads | Facebook | Blog Thank you, Book Chick City, for inviting me to drop by to…
Mistress by Midnight (The Scandalous Women of the Ton #3) by Nicola Cornick | Mira Books (Aug 2011) Paperback, 379 pages | Historical Romance Mistress by Midnight is the third book in the The Scandalous Women of the Ton series by Nicola Cornick, and the best so far in my opinion. Although the format is very much the same with each novel I really enjoy Cornick’s style of writing, it’s very easy to read and her stories seem to suck me in from the first chapter. She is fast becoming one of my favourite…
Title: One Wicked Sin (Scandalous Women of the Ton #2) Author: Nicola Cornick Publisher: Mira (UK) | Harlequin (US) Publication Date: July 2011 (UK) | Oct 2010 (US) Paperback: 360 pages Genre: Historical Romance Source: Review copy from publisher Reviewed by: Carolyn RATING: 7/10 – very good SUMMARY: Once the toast of the ton, Lottie Cummings is now notorious for being divorced. Shunned by society, the destitute beauty is lured to become a Covent Garden courtesan. Until a dangerous rake saves her with a scandalous offer. The illegitimate son of…
Title: Whisper of Scandal (Scandalous Women of the Ton #1) Author: Nicola Cornick Publisher: Mira (UK) | Harlequin (US) Publication Date: June 2011 (UK) | Sept 2010 (US) Paperback: 362 pages Genre: Historical Romance Source: Review Copy Reviewed by: Carolyn RATING: 8/10 – brilliant, couldn’t put it down SUMMARY: One whisper of scandal and a reputation dies…London, May 1811. Widow Lady Joanna Ware has no desire to wed again but that doesn’t stop the flurry of suitors knocking on her door. Desperate to thwart another proposal, Joanna brazenly kisses…
Title: Confessions of a Duchess (The Brides of Fortune #1) Author: Nicola Cornick Publisher: Mira (UK) | Harlequin (US) PublicationDate: June 2010 | June 2009 Paperback: 369 pages Genre: Historical Romance Source: Review Copy Reviewed by: Carolyn RATING: 6/10 – Good SUMMARY: When an ancient tax law is invoked requiring all unmarried ladies to either wed or surrender half their wealth, the quiet village of Fortune’s Folly is overrun by a swarm of fortune-hunting bachelors. Marry again? Never! Not after what Laura, the dowager duchess, was forced to endure the…
