Today's bon bon: A nibble of my new cherry, YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU! Pre-order for 99 cents!

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Excerpt YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU, All rights reserved. Copyright 2023. Cerise DeLand.
Kendryck put his two hands to her cheeks. “I told myself I would not take you like a villain.”
“Hmmm,” Tynely said as she considered that with a tip of her head this way and that. Then she pulled at the end of his beautifully tied cravat and said, “You aren’t.”
He took her by the shoulders. “Not against the stables, not in a carriage. We must be in a bed.”
“I do agree.” She sank to lick the skin of his corded neck. “But one must have a few bites of bliss before the main course.” She undid the button of his soft linen shirt and kissed the hollow of his throat. “Otherwise, one’s appetite is not prepared.”
He laughed, he groaned, then he pressed her flush to his chest. “You should have told me you were a tease.”
She rolled her eyes. “Why? Isn’t this more fun?”
He hooted. His grip on her was mighty and seductive. “What should I know, my darling?”
“About…?”
“Making love to you.”
She bent to his mouth and licked his bottom lip. “That I will be as needy as you.”
“Thank God.”
“That I will want all of you as mine.”
“I rejoice at it. And? Anything else?”
“That I am yours completely and you may have me at your will,” she whispered and took one of his fingers and nipped the end, “as long as I may have you at mine.”
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Today's bon bon: Napoleon escaped Elba and the French did not know how to cope! His route was fast!

Napoleon escaped Elba and the French did not know how to cope! His route was fast!

He landed from Elba in Cannes and marched a bit each day north. His objective was Paris to take over the government again. This was not easy. The results, not a foregone conclusion either.

Many assumed the French army would stop him. They didn't. But turned to his cause.

Many thought peasants would rise against him. They didn't. They opened their arms to him.

Many thought his former generals, most of whom were now employed by the new king and the royalists, would stop him. They did not.

Here is his route. I hope you can see it. Do enlarge. It is the first one published of his return.

Today's bon bon: You look for a house where your hero lives...and where his heroine will first meet him and you discover that...

You look for a house where your hero lives...and where his heroine will first meet him and you discover that the house you choose from a map of London because you "feel" that it is one you've seen, and you discover the house once belonged to someone famous.

Very famous!

Like Caroline Norton! She of the notoriety of having been accused by her husband of a liaison with Lord Melbourne and subsequently losing rights to her children. However, she did protest by writing treatises and books that argued for the rights of women. She lived here at No. 3 Chesterfield Street, Mayfair.

It is a small world! Intriguing, always.

Today's bon bon: Amazing what you find when you look for your heroine's family's home in Paris! This!

Among the many ah-ha moments, I love when research brings me something I can smile about...and visit!

Here is a picture of Daisy Molyneaux's family home in the 1st Arrondisment of Paris. The Hotel de Toulouse, owned by her parents in the 1780s, is a building that still stands.  As I describe in BECAUSE OF YOU, this home was built by her great grand father who was an illegitimate son of Louis XV.

During the REVOLUTION, houses like this were seized by the Committee in Paris as national property. A few years later, Napoleon came to power and took this building and gave it to the Banque de France.

And there it stands today!

Today's bon bon: Come see my heroine's chateau in BECAUSE OF YOU in the Loire Valley! (My pictures)

 My heroine's home in France is a gorgeous place. I set it in the Normandy region, near Rouen. I had the pleasure of going there last year and took pictures galore. I've also traveled extensively in the Loire valley where many famous chateaux dot the river. I have combined many of the features from various chateaux to create Marguerite Molyneaux's family home!

Here are a few for you. Do enlarge to enjoy. (They are mine so they are copyrighted material. Please do not share the pictures, only the blog!)

This is really Azay-le-Rideau in the Loire valley

 

 

 

Me, of course, in front of the great kitchen fireplace in Chenonceau in the Loire valley

The collection of copper cookware, Chenonceau, the kitchen

The great dining room, Azay-le-Rideau

The grand parlor, Azay-le-Rideau

 

 

Diane's bedroom, Chenonceau

Today's Bon Bon: How fast can you run on a horse in 1815 from Rouen south, then over to Honfleur? All to escape mobs and Napoleon!

 How fast can you fly on a horse in 1815 from Rouen south, then over to Honfleur? All to escape mobs and Napoleon!

When the little general escaped Elba February 26 1815, so many were shocked that he could. But he did and he went quickly, gaining support from old army veterans and active ones too as well as with the people. Tired of the new King Louis XVIII already, the French were happy to welcome Napoleon back.

Or at least at first they were. 

In my newest BECAUSE OF YOU, my heroine and hero learn of Napoleon's march north to Paris six days later than his landing in Cannes. Why? Well, no tv or telephones then, you see! Word had to travel via runners.

And when it did, those like Daisy Molyneaux Ruxton and her English husband, Daniel Ruxton, must run of their lives.

Going only at night to escape detection, and going in disguise, they must travel an unknown road. They do it for three nights to finally arrive in Honfleur and book passage home to England!

And this is their route!