TOUR: Ravished by a Highlander by Paula Quinn w/ Giveaway

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Davina Montgomery has been hidden away in the Abbey with the nuns for almost her whole life.  Many want her dead, so she hides.  She's the Crown's most guarded secret and her life or death would have consequence.

When the Abbey is attacked, Scottish Highlander Robert MacGregor is nearby and can't stand to see a lady in distress.  He brings her to safety, but her vitality and passion are hard to ignore.

Davina feels safe in Rob's arms, and Rob knows his heart is in trouble.  Full of highlander brogue, political aspirations and romance and passion,  Ravished by a Highlander delivers!

FIVE FUN FACTS ABOUT PAULA QUINN

1. I realized yet again while writing Ravished by a Highlander, that a king plays a vital role in all my books. It began with William the Conqueror from my Risande trilogy. There was no ruling sovereign during Laird of the Mist but the MacGregors’ fate and proscription were the work of a king sixty years prior. Briefly, we met King Charles II in A Highland Never Surrenders, and in my new “Children of the Mist” series, King James has just been crowned. I don’t know what it is about kings, but I find myself always writing about them.  Don’t even get me started on King Arthur.

2. I love to match my characters’ faces to real ones. Lots of authors do. A little quirk I have though is that, if the characters are related in my books, the faces I choose for them have to all resemble one another. Even if those faces are different for my readers, for me, they have to fit and be believable. Matching the MacGregors’ and Grants with their sons and daughter was especially fun. You can check out some of my characters “pictures” on my Fun Facts page at www.PaulaQuinn.com.

3. Speaking of the real faces that have shaped my heroes and heroines, the beautiful Matthew “Jett” Schaefer, pilot/model/actor was the inspiration for Rob in Ravished by a Highlander. Sadly, Matthew passed away while I was writing the book. I didn’t know him, but he had become Rob for me and the tragedy of his death made it difficult at times to write Rob’s story. I thought about changing his face, but instead I researched Mr. Schaefer and discovered how well his family and friends loved him. He was a pilot and did Air Ambulance medical evacuations and Angel flights. He was a true hero and a determined warrior, fighting cancer until the end. I couldn’t think of a better man to be the face of Robert MacGregor.

4. The terrible proscription against the MacGregors had been lifted and most, not all, of their rights returned to them after the restoration of King Charles II. During the writing of this series, the MacGregors were not outlaws. That made this author happy.

5. A few mini-facts about me: 1) I come from Italian heritage on both sides, but my dad’s surname is Scottish and not Italian as everyone first believed. 2) I am what my Catholic characters would call a Protestant. 3) I would rather write a battle scene than a sex scene. 4) I fell, quite unexpectedly, in love with Finlay Grant in Ravished by a Highlander. 5) I go through three pairs of iPod headphones during the course of one book. (I either lose them or break them. A pair once fell into the toilet.)

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Thanks to Hatchette, I have five (5) copies to giveaway!
USA and Canada Only! NO PO Boxes
Winners announced May 10th.

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