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Enter an Easter Egg Hop Contest for a Chance to win a $150 Amazon Gift Card!

 

Easter is right around the corner, and I’m participating in an Easter Egg Hunt. To enter all you have to do is find the picture of each author’s egg, then match them up with the author’s name. Need to print out the form? Click HERE.  Once you’re done send the list to Heather@HeatherMcCollum.com. While you’re here please sign up for my newsletter to learn what other contests and giveaways I’m participating in.  Also, if you scroll down you will see that I’m part of a huge book giveaway and there are only a few more days to enter. Want to find my egg, then scroll down to my next post. It’s my favorite color. Good luck to everyone who participates!!!

  1. Alanna Lucas https://alannalucas.com/
  2. Anna St. Claire https://www.annastclaire.com/contest
  3. Callie Hutton https://www.calliehutton.com
  4. Caroline Warfield https://www.carolinewarfield.com/bookshelf/
  5. Celeste Barclay https://www.facebook.com/celestembarclay
  6. Collette Cameron http://facebook.com/collettecameronauthor
  7. Deb Marlowe https://www.debmarlowe.com/nothing-but-a-rakehell.html
  8. E. Elizabeth Watson https://eelizabethwatson.com/happy-easter/
  9. Elizabeth Rose https://elizabethrosenovels.com/
  10. Emily Royal https://www.facebook.com/eroyalauthor
  11. Gina Conkle https://ginaconkle.com/
  12. Heather McCollum https://www.heathermccollum.com/
  13. Jane Charles https://www.janecharlesauthor.com/happy-easter
  14. Jessica A Clements https://www.facebook.com/JessicaAClementsNavarro
  15. Jude Knight https://www.facebook.com/JudeKnightAuthor
  16. Katherine Bone https://www.katherinebone.com
  17. Katherine Grant https://mailchi.mp/katherinegrantromance/easteregghop
  18. Kathleen Bittner Roth https://www.facebook.com/Kathleen.bittnerroth.author
  19. Lisa Rayne https://www.lisarayne.com or https://www.facebook.com/authorlisarayne
  20. Lori Ann Bailey https://loriannbailey.com/
  21. Madeline Martin https://www.facebook.com/MadelineMartinAuthor
  22. Melanie Rose Clarke https://www.facebook.com/groups/1159564541120841
  23. Michelle McLean https://michellemcleanbooks.com/
  24. Nadine Millard https://facebook.com/nadinemillardauthor
  25. Renee Ann Miller https://reneeannmiller.com/category/blog/
  26. Sandra Sookoo https://www.facebook.com/sandrasookooauthor/
  27. Tara Kingston https://www.facebook.com/TaraKingstonAuthor
  28. Terri Brisbin https://www.terribrisbin.com
  29. Tina Gabrielle https://www.facebook.com/TinaGabrielle
  30. Tracy Sumner https://www.tracy-sumner.com/

 

Never Marry a Scandalous Duke Cover Reveal

Never Marry a Scandalous Duke has a cover!!! I love the red dress and the fact that the cover artist added a butterfly on Sara’s hand, which is perfect since she is an entomologist who studies butterflies. 

Enter for a Chance to Win 24 Historical Romance Books!


The random winner of this contest will receive 24 historical romance books. The prize package contains some signed paperbacks and ebooks. Sorry US residents of the contiguous US states only. Void where prohibited.

Never Kiss a Notorious Marquess is on Sale for .99¢

Never Kiss a Notorious Marquess is on sale for a limited time for.99¢! 

Secrets can destroy…
For James Trent, Lord Huntington, there’s no escaping the question that labeled him The Murdering Marquess: was his wife’s death a tragic accident or a cold-blooded crime? He’s avoided London’s gossipmongers since that terrible night, as guardian to his younger siblings on his Essex estate. But trouble finds him when a veiled temptress with secrets of her own falls—quite literally—into his arms.

Caroline Lawrence doesn’t need a man to rescue her—the aspiring journalist anonymously advocates for women’s rights in a radical London newspaper column. But when a suffragist’s soapbox speech turns to pandemonium, Caroline is knocked on the head and reawakens in Trent Hall—with the notorious lord of the manor irresistibly close. If there is any truth to his tarnished past, she should denounce him with her powerful pen. Yet love has a way of revealing a man’s true character.

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Historical Romance Cookie Hop 2020

Are you interested in gathering some new cookie recipes, learning about holiday traditions, along with the chance to win a $150 Gift Card? Well, do I have an event for you! I’m one of the authors participating in the Historical Romance Cookie Hop. I have a short post on the Victorian Christmas tree and a sweet cookie recipe that can be made not only during the holidays but throughout the year.

The Victorian Christmas Tree

By the end of the 19th century, the Christmas holiday had become one of the most celebrated in Victorian England. The tradition of having a Christmas tree became more popular thanks in part to Queen Victoria’s husband, Albert, who was from Germany where indoor Christmas trees are said to have originated. The trees would be decorated with everything from sweet candy treats to costly glass ornaments. Some even placed candles on them, which is where the tradition of stringing electric lights on a tree comes from. In my Victorian Christmas novella, The Taming of Lord Scrooge, Eve hangs homemade ornaments on her Christmas tree. If you’re interested in reading my novella it is currently on sale this week at several online retailers for .99¢

Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup shortening
1/4 cup butter, softened
1 egg
1 1/4 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
  • Mix sugars, peanut butter, shortening, butter, and egg in a large bowl. Stir in remaining ingredients. Cover and refrigerate about 2 hours or until firm.
  • Heat oven to 375°F.
  • Shape the dough into 1 1/4-inch balls. Place about 3 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten in crisscross pattern with fork dipped into sugar.
  • Bake for 9 to 10 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool 5 minutes; remove from cookie sheet. Cool on a wire rack.
    THEN ENJOY

For more cookie recipes and historical tidbits, here is the list of other authors participating in this giveaway, along with the link to the Facebook Page for the cookie hop.

https://www.facebook.com/events/368460541094815

Email your completed list of author names, with their treat names, to Heather@HeatherMcCollum.com with the heading: “Historical Romance Authors are Sweet” to be entered into the $150 gift card grand prize random drawing.

Cover for Never Mix Sin with Pleasure!

I’m thrilled to share the cover for my upcoming release, Never Mix Sin with Pleasure! 

With the proper calculations, even a reckless rake and a secretly infamous woman can find a love they can count on . . .

No one would ever guess that Olivia Michaels, companion to an elderly dowager, is really the thief the London newspapers have nicknamed the Phantom. Working in a nobleman’s home is the perfect guise to gather information, allowing her to exact her own justice on several wicked noblemen. But when the dowager’s grandson, notorious ne’er-do-well Lord Anthony Trent, requires her assistance with some tasks of his own, Olivia discovers that the charming rogue may be capable of stealing something himself—her heart . . .

Anthony has his own secret: Numbers get jumbled in his head. He’s cultivated his reckless reputation as a way to avoid dealing with his family’s businesses. Yet as obligations fall on him, he’s determined to prove his worth, and Olivia’s genius for numbers is a boon he hadn’t expected. But as the pair pore over ledgers together each evening, their connection blooms into a heated flirtation that threatens to expose the secrets each of them has been hiding . . .

Can desire and deception ever add up to true love?

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Never Conspire with a Sinful Baron is Available Now!

He’s promised to help her catch the man that she wants, but can she trust him?

Renee Ann Miller

 

He leaned close. “You know, the best way to snag a man is to make him realize you are a prize catch. Especially a man like Fernbridge who enjoys the hunt. You are going about this the wrong way, darling. If you seem too readily available, he’s less apt to be interested.”

She frowned. What was he saying? That she could win Fernbridge’s eye if he thought someone else was also vying for her hand? Surely, Ralston didn’t mean he was willing to play the role of a gallant suitor to make Fernbridge more interested. “Are you offering to play the faux competition?”

Ralston cringed as if the idea were distasteful; then a slow smile lifted one corner of his mouth. “Why not? It might be entertaining. Yes, I’ll sacrifice myself for the good of the cause.”

“Sacrifice? I always thought you a smooth talker. Now I’m wondering what draws women to you like bees to a single flower in a field of dried grass.”

As they reached the dance floor, he set his warm hand to her back and pulled her close. As he spun her into the flow of those moving in tandem to the music, he whispered, “It’s not the way I talk to a woman, darling. It’s something much more wicked.”

 

Never Conspire with a Sinful Baron

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