"THE STERLING TRILOGY"--The incomparable USA Today bestseller Samantha James cordially invites you to Regency England for a Sterling affair!
A Perfect Bride (Sterling Trilogy, #1) by Samantha James
Perfectly marvelous...
Devon St. James must surely be dreaming! She closes her
eyes in London’s poorest slum, and awakens wrapped in fine
linens…staring into the eyes of the most gorgeous man she has ever seen!
Sebastian Sterling, Marquess of Thurston, is clearly shocked to
have a girl from the streets in his bed, though the heat of the desire
burning in his gaze is unmistakable. But if he believes Devon will
easily submit, he is quite mistaken!
What the devil has he done?
It’s bad enough their family is already mired in scandal, now
Sebastian has to deal with the exquisite young beauty in rags he had
impetuously carried into his home! Worse still, the lady is driving the
serious, responsible marquess to distraction with her fiery spirit and
breathtaking sensuality. But perhaps, just perhaps, with some of
Sebastian’s private schooling, this low-born enchantress can learn
refinement and manners – and be miraculously transformed from merely his
passionate obsession into…
A Perfect Bride
A Perfect Groom (Sterling trilogy, #2) by Samantha James
Perfection is in the eye of the beholder…
Proud of his reputation as a rogue, Justin Sterling intends
to be the first to bed “the Unattainable”--the Season’s most luscious
debutante--and win the wager that’s the talk of the ton. However,
he never expected the enchantress in question to be Arabella Templeton,
who once stole his heart and owns it still. Now the notorious scoundrel
will have to prove to her that his intentions are honorable…while
protecting her virtue from every other rascal in London.
Arabella
will marry only for love--and she does not need her childhood nemesis
to act as her self-appointed guardian! Though the arrogant cad seems
sincere, she is well aware of his rakehell history and won’t be swayed
by his considerable charm and disarming good looks. For it would be pure
madness for Arabella to ignore the voice of reason that whispers “beware!” and heed instead a traitorous heart that insists Justin Sterling would make…
A Perfect Hero (Sterling trilogy, #3) by Samantha James
Can a perfect scoundrel be the perfect hero?
Since she was cruelly
left at the altar at the age of twenty-two, Lady Julianna Sterling has
resolved to have nothing to do with men. So she is shocked to discover
she has unwelcome feelings for the very worst of the breed - a
dangerous, unbearably handsome highwayman who has set upon her coach in
the countryside and taken her captive. Worse still, her righteous ire
turns quickly to disappointment when the irresistible outlaw sets her
free.
Viscount Dane Graville knows he should not have
revealed his face to the enchanting Lady Julianna - for he has
compromised the secret mission he has undertaken for the Crown in the
guise of the notorious Magpie. Now their paths are crossing once more,
and Dane aches to taste again the sweetness of her kiss. But he must
resist what his heart demands, for their passion can only lead to perils
beyond imagining.
Samantha James
Growing up in Joliet, Illinois,
Samantha James had many childhood aspirations--being a writer was never
one of them. When she was ten, she was certain she was destined to be an
astronomer. That soon changed (happened a lot during those pre-teen
years!) when she decided archaeology was in her future. Detective work
was her next goal, thanks to the Trixie Belden mysteries she was
reading, and before long, nursing beckoned (courtesy of the Cherry Ames
series). In college, she set her sights on teaching history, then
briefly entertained the notion of becoming a flight attendant, only to
discover she did not like to fly.
Having been raised in a family
of avid readers, she was rarely without a book in hand. Her tastes were
rather eclectic. She got hooked on the Doc Savage series and Edgar Rice
Burroughs after her older brother finished them, in her teen years,
moved on to Agatha Christie, Daphne DuMaurier, and Phyllis A. Whitney.
In
the meantime, the right guy came along. They met on a semi-blind date
at an office Christmas party. She was told he wanted to go out with her,
and he was told she wanted to go out with him. Six months later, the
U.S. Army shipped him off to Germany--and she wrote faithfully at least
three times a week--she often jokes this was the start of her writing
career!
Marriage followed, as well as three daughters. Samantha
left the detective work to her husband and turned her attention to
raising their girls. When her youngest was six months old, two things
happened: 1) she read Moonstruck Madness by Laurie McBain and scrambled
to find every historical romance she could lay her hands on; 2) her
older brother revealed he was writing and submitting his short stories
to big-name magazines. As he put it, "I've been rejected by the best of
'em."
The seed was planted. Rejection was a dreaded word, but Samantha figured, "Well, if he can take it, so can I."
That
summer, she wrote not one book, but three--longhand, in a notebook,
during naptime. Bedtime. Any time she could. The burning desire to write
was a long time in coming--she was nearing thirty by then--but she
discovered that once she set pen to paper, she couldn't stop.
Those
three manuscripts did get the dreaded rejection letter (they're still
languishing somewhere in her attic), but she finally hit pay dirt with
her fourth. Samantha's brother promptly proposed collaborating on a
fantasy together--alas, still unwritten... Nowadays, she's firmly
convinced she's the queen of rejected titles for her books. She's only
managed to retain two original titles thus far, but writing is indeed a
dream come true...
To date, her books have been published in
numerous foreign countries (her daughters' number one choice for
show-and-tell were always the foreign editions of Mom's books). Known
for her heartfelt, emotionally charged "three-hanky reads", her books
have been nominated for numerous awards, and have consistently hit the
bestseller lists.
Maybe someday she'll do that fantasy-romance
collaboration with her brother. For now, she's having a great time
spinning dramatic, passionate tales of old...
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