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EBOOK TITLE: Lord Peter's Page
GENRE: Romance, Regency Romance, Historical Romance
AUTHOR: Maureen Mackey
Regular price is $4.99

AVAILABLE FILE FORMATS: HTML for the computer, PDF for the computer, MS Reader for the PC and Pocket PC, Mobipocket for Palm Pilot, SONY Reader compatible

DESCRIPTION:

When the Baron and Baroness Finbury pledge their spirited daughter to an elderly earl, they expect her obedience, willing or not. But Charlotte decides to run away rather than submit to her parents' wishes. Disguised as a boy, she finds her escape exhilarating until a street urchin robs her of the money she intended to use for coach fare to her aunt's house in Bath. She spends the night hidden in the stables of the coaching yard, frightened but determined to proceed.

Lord Peter is the handsome younger son of the Duke of Randolph, on his way to the family manor at the summons of his mother. The Duchess has yet another matrimonial prospect for him to meet. When the curricle snaps an axle halfway to Bath, Lord Peter is surprised to find a grubby boy amid his jumbled belongings. That grubby 'boy' is Charlotte.

Charlotte quickly concocts a story to explain her presence, and Lord Peter is moved by the "boy's" sad tale and agrees to keep "Charlie" on hand as a page and take him the rest of the way to Bath. He is puzzled and exasperated by the boy's soft manner and hilarious ineptitude for his duties. And so begins this delightful Regency romp of mistaken identities and not-so-clever disguises as Charlotte finds her adventure a bit more complicated than she had thought.

This is a delightfully lighthearted Regency!

-Reviews-

"This is one of the best and funniest regencies I have ever read. I actually laughed out loud while reading this book!! Ms. Mackey is an incredible story teller who mixes charm, wit and heartfelt emotion all into one package. LORD PETER'S PAGE is a story not to be missed. It is a rarity that one finds an author who can make you laugh out loud while never once compromising the discriminating taste of the regency reader." Reviewed by Josephine Piraneo, TELLTALE PRESS REVIEWS, 4 STARS

"I enjoyed LORD PETER'S PAGE enormously, and I'm sure any Regency reader would, too. It's so good to know that the electronic publishers are helping to keep the traditional Regency alive and flourishing. LORD PETER'S PAGE is top-drawer entertainment." Reviewed by Jane Bowers of ROMANCE REVIEWS TODAY

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Author BIO: Home for Maureen Mackey is the towering firs and misty rains of the Pacific Northwest. Writing is her life-long dream, which first surfaced when she was in the third grade. Ambitiously, she wrote an entire table of contents to an original fairy tale, and then began writing the chapters only to get hopelessly mired in chapter four. Happily, she’s never gotten stuck like that again, (perhaps because she doesn’t write tables of contents anymore), and to date she has written several contemporary and historical romances, as well as a romantic suspense trilogy.

Born in Los Angeles, California, she was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and earned her bachelors of arts degree in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara. While studying English literature and history, she fell in love with the eighteenth-century and Regency England, areas she continues to enjoy researching and writing about. Determined to become a working writer, she obtained a masters of journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, which led to jobs as a staff writer and free-lancer for a number of publications.

In her journalistic career Maureen has written feature articles and book reviews for newspapers, which include the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner and The Oregonian, as well as profiles and in-depth reporting pieces for magazines such as Learning, Change, Darkroom Photography and Monterey Life. Maureen has also written restaurant reviews in tandem with her photographer husband, Tom White, for The Multnomah Village Post, a monthly newspaper in Portland, Oregon. She is a contributing writer to Portland Cheap Eats, (Sasquatch Books, 1999) and Portland Best Places, to be released by Sasquatch Books in Spring 2001.

Her Regency romance novel, Lord Peter’s Page, won first place in the 1996 Top O’ The Trees, a writing competition sponsored by the Regency Plume, before being published by Awe-Struck E-Books. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America, its Portland chapter, Rose City Romance Writers, and the Beau Monde, a special-interest chapter for writers of Regencies.

In addition to her writing, Maureen manages a technical communications business with her husband Tom. In her spare time (what she has of it!) she enjoys prowling through used book stores, gardening, listening to music (especially when played by her two teen-age band student sons) and traveling with Tom, her best friend and companion for the past 27 years. In addition to being busy with her family, she happily copes with a menagerie of animals that includes two large, mixed-breed dogs, two cats, and various assorted fish and rodents.