Rogue's Angels Present ~ Trifling Favors by Heather Hiestand

Please welcome Heather Hiestand author of Trifling Favors.

Heather will be awarding a $25 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

Trifling Favors

by Heather Hiestand

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GENRE: Historical Romance (Victorian)

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BLURB:

The sweetest treat is a kiss…

Greggory Redcake's plate is full. Widowed young and left with two small children, the manager of the Kensington location of the illustrious tea shop is besieged on all sides between the bakery and family matters. If only his remarkably efficient shop assistant, Betsy Popham, could manage his home life, too! But Greggory can't linger on thoughts of Betsy's fetching smile when a dead body is discovered in the bakery…

Betsy has no time for romance, not even with the delectable Mr. Redcake, whose kisses are all too unforgettable. Haunted by a specter from her family's past, Betsy is terrified that the man blackmailing her has turned to deadly violence. Yet the only way to save her position--and possibly her life--is to accept Greggory's help as their delicious attraction sweetens into the tantalizing promise of true love…

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EXCERPT:

Betsy Popham had been paying for her mother’s murderous impulses most of her life, but she hadn’t expected a victim’s daughter to walk into her place of business. She knew her father had paid the family their usual annuity the day before, on the first of the month, as he had for nearly eighteen years.

Violet Carter had the face of an ingénue: huge dark eyes with thick lashes, pretty rosebud lips, and a mass of curling blond hair that must have been assisted in its brilliance by the application of lemon juice and sun. Her black mourning gown dulled her beauty somewhat.

Betsy finished smoothing the white tablecloth she’d placed on a recently vacated table and went to Violet, hovering by the entrance to the tearoom at the Kensington branch of Redcake’s. The locale was far too exclusive to be visited by a young working-class woman from Fulham, even one as pretty as Violet.

Violet’s sweet face lost its look of desperation when she saw Betsy moving toward her. She took a step forward and clasped Betsy’s hands.

“Oh, my dear friend,” she cried.

Why would this girl think to call her a friend? She was the daughter of the woman who had poisoned Violet’s father. While Betsy toiled to pay the Carter family’s bills, she scarcely knew them as people. They were merely an unending debt her father had insisted was their Christian duty to pay.

“This is my workplace, Violet,” Betsy said, pulling the girl into the entrance hall, away from the exclusive clientele who came to enjoy the mouthwatering pastries and light comestibles offered in the tearoom. On the other side of the hall, the double doors to the bakery offered a tasty selection to all passersby, and the customer might be one such as Violet, come in for a shilling cake or other special treat, after a day spent viewing art at the Victoria and Albert Museum, or shopping at John Barker & Co.

“I know, Betsy. That is why I am here.”

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Heather Hiestand was born in Illinois, but her family migrated west before she started school. Since then she has claimed Washington State as home, except for a few years in California. She wrote her first story at age seven and went on to major in creative writing at the University of Washington. Her first published fiction was a mystery short story, but since then it has been all about the many flavors of romance. Heather’s first published romance short story was set in the Victorian period, and she continues to return, fascinated by the rapid changes of the nineteenth century. The author of many novels, novellas, and short stories, she has achieved best-seller status at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. With her husband and son, she makes her home in a small town and supposedly works out of her tiny office, though she mostly writes in her easy chair in the living room.

For more information, visit Heather’s website at www.heatherhiestand.com. Heather loves to hear from readers! Her email is heather@heatherhiestand.com.

Social media:

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Buy Links:

BN: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/trifling-favors-heather-hiestand/1122187187?ean=9781616507961

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Trifling-Favors-Redcakes-Book-7-ebook/dp/B0104FZETC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1455245637&sr=8-1&keywords=Trifling+Favors

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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE

Heather will be awarding a $25 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/28e4345f1570