Just wanted to let you know Jude Knight Author’s newest book in The Golden Redpennings series, The Realm of Silence, is now available… before its release on major e-retailers!

Jude is one of the Bluestocking Belles, too, and writes historical romance, but you’ll find her stories are just that little bit different from the standard. I love them, and I think you will, too!

She’s just made her books available from her own website for the first time.

Have a look — you’ll be glad you did!

Excerpt from The Realm of Silence

Here’s an excerpt from The Realm of Silence, Book 3 in the Golden Redpennings series!

 

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Lyons was too ill to continue, so Susan arranged lodgings and nursing, which meant it was ten of the clock before she and Gil were crossing the stableyard to the readied carriage.

“I feel guilty about abandoning him,” Susan said, as they pulled out into the road.

Gil didn’t take his eyes from the horses, which were fresh and inclined to take offence at swaying bushes and innocuous puddles. “You have left him well cared for. You have no need to feel guilty.”

He had his own reasons for not wanting to leave Lyons behind. Handing Susan down from the carriage yesterday was torture enough. Riding in the cabriolet-phaeton with her was a mix of Heaven and Hell beyond anything he could have imagined.

Even when she sat decorous inches away, every particle of his body stood to attention. And when she leaned into him as they took a corner, her shoulder brushing his arm, he went rigid with the effort of keeping that arm on its appointed job, and not wrapping it around the appetising bundle beside him.

His arm was not the only part of him that was rigid. Only the fact she never gave him the least encouragement allowed him to maintain a facade of gentlemanly behaviour.

From the corner of his eye he could see Susan turn towards him, saying nothing, examining him for so long that Gil had to quell the urge to shift under her inspection. “I thought you were going to demand I let you go on alone,” she admitted, after a very long silence.

“I need you for when we catch up with Miss Grahame and your daughter.” Young Amy hadn’t seen him in four years, and Miss Grahame didn’t know him at all.

Gil didn’t want to imagine the fuss the two girls or the woman with them might make if they objected to his attempt at a rescue.

“I cannot make sense of it, Rutledge,” Susan complained. “Why did they join forces with Miss Cornillac? And who is the young man?”

“If it is Miss Cornillac,” Gil cautioned. “We know only that she is French and bound for Doncaster. A pity no one observed the first meeting between her and our two runaways.”

All the inn could confirm was that the two parties—one a French lady calling herself Madame Duval and the other a very young couple who claimed to be brother and sister—had arrived in separate post chaises and commissioned separate rooms, but had breakfasted together and left in a single post chaise.

And yes, the mysterious pursuer had put in an appearance the day before yesterday, notable only for his questions about his French cousin, who was travelling north alone.

The Goddess worried at the few threads they had as they passed Burghley Park and trudged up the steep rise to North Witham. Gil listened with half an ear while planning their stops on the day’s journey. The horses were still stepping out well enough, and from here the road was easier through to Grantham. They’d change at the Angel; fresh horses and something to eat and drink. They’d make Grantham to Newark the next post and lunch at the Saracen’s Head. Gamston or Bawtry for the next stop, arriving in Doncaster late afternoon or early evening. With luck, they’d find Miss Cornillac and her brother tonight. With more luck, the two girls would be with them.

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The Realm of Silence

(Book 3 in the Golden Redepennings series)

Rescue her daughter, destroy her dragons, defeat his demons, go back to his lonely life. How hard can it be?

“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved…  the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.” George Eliot

When Susan Cunningham’s daughter disappears from school, her pleasant life as a fashionable, dashing, and respectable widow is shattered. Amy is reported to be chasing a French spy up the Great North Road, and when Susan sets out in pursuit she is forced to accept help from the last person she wants: her childhood friend and adult nemesis, Gil Rutledge.

Gil Rutledge has loved Susan since she was ten and he a boy of twelve. He is determined to oblige her by rescuing her daughter. And if close proximity allows them to rekindle their old friendship, even better. He has no right to ask for more.

Gil and Susan must overcome danger, mystery, ghosts from the past, and their own pride before their journey is complete.

Be one of the first to read it!

Be one of the first to read The Realm of Silence, before it goes public!

Realm is currently available from Jude Knight’s book shop – click on Buy from Jude Knight on her book page at  http://judeknightauthor.com/books/the-realm-of-silence/

Click on any of the other buy links to preorder from major e-retailers. It will be released on 22 May.

Meet Jude Knight, author of Realm of Silence

Jude Knight’s writing goal is to transport readers to another time, another place, where they can enjoy adventure and romance, thrill to trials and challenges, uncover secrets and solve mysteries, delight in a happy ending, and return from their virtual holiday refreshed and ready for anything.

She writes historical novels, novellas, and short stories, mostly set in the early 19^th Century. She writes strong determined heroines, heroes who can appreciate a clever capable woman, villains you’ll love to loathe, and all with a leavening of humour.

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