MASQUERADE
by
Hannah Fielding
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BLURB:
Summer,
1976. Luz de Rueda returns to her beloved Spain and takes a job as
the biographer of a famous artist. On her first day back in Cadiz,
she encounters a bewitching, passionate young gypsy, Leandro, who
immediately captures her heart, even though relationships with his
kind are taboo.
Haunted
by this forbidden love, she meets her new employer, the sophisticated
Andres de Calderon. Reserved yet darkly compelling, he is totally
different to Leandro – but almost the gypsy’s double. Both men
stir unfamiliar and exciting feelings in Luz, although mystery and
danger surround them in ways she has still to discover.
Luz
must decide what she truly desires as glistening Cadiz, with its
enigmatic moon and whispering turquoise shores, seeps back into her
blood. Why is she so drawn to the wild and magical sea gypsies? What
is behind the old fortune-teller’s sinister warnings about
‘Gemini’? Through this maze of secrets and lies, will Luz finally
find her happiness … or her ruin?
Excerpt :
Luz set
eyes on him for the first time from her seat on Zeyna’s back as the
fine white Arab mare stepped down the narrow path from the cliff that
led to the beach. He was sitting on the edge of the track, leaning
nonchalantly against a wild carob tree, watching her while chewing on
a sprig of heather. As she drew nearer, she met his steady gaze,
spirited and wild. At that moment she had no idea this man would have
the power to change her world and create such havoc in her heart,
that she would emerge from the experience a different person. Fate
had not yet lit up the winding pathway of her life nor the echoes of
history along it, but now, in front of this stranger, a disturbing
awareness leapt into flame deep inside her and began to flicker
intensely.
AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
Hannah
Fielding is an incurable romantic. The seeds for her writing career
were sown in early childhood, spent in Egypt, when she came to an
agreement with her governess Zula: for each fairy story Zula told,
Hannah would invent and relate one of her own. Years later –
following a degree in French literature, several years of travelling
in Europe, falling in love with an Englishman, the arrival of two
beautiful children and a career in property development – Hannah
decided after so many years of yearning to write that the time was
now. Today, she lives the dream: writing full time at her homes in
Kent, England, and the South of France, where she dreams up romances
overlooking breath-taking views of the Mediterranean.
Social
links
Website:
www.hannahfielding.net
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/#!/fieldinghannah
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/fieldinghannah
Goodreads:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5333898.Hannah_Fielding
Purchase
links
http://www.amazon.com/Masquerade-Hannah-Fielding/dp/0992994365
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Masquerade-Andalucian-Nights-Trilogy-2/dp/0992994365
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for featuring my book blast. This book is set in beautiful Cadiz; do you know it? I always like to set my books someplace stunning where I’ve lived or travelled, to offer the reader an escape from the everyday.
Thanks for hosting!
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