The Baron Regrets
by D.S. Dehel
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Cozy Mystery
Regret nothing.
Tessa Winthrop, an art restoration specialist, is hoping for the job of a lifetime—one which would cement
her reputation in a field dominated by her male colleagues.
Working for Baron Lucien Stanhope—or Leo as he prefers—challenges Tess’s talent, intellect, and
emotions. Leo is charming, handsome, and way out of her league. It doesn’t matter, though, because she
only is there for her art and the mystery surrounding master painter Giovanni Remini.
When a night of passion leads to consequences that could mean the end of her career, Tess fears that the
baron regrets having ever met her.
But fate has more in store for them, and sometimes regrets are the beginning of better things.
D. S. Dehel is a lover of literature, good food, and the Oxford comma. When she is not immersed in a
book, she is mom to her kids and spoiling her rather coddled feline, Mr. Darcy or her equally pampered
puppy, Jameson. Having finally retired, she spends her days dreaming up new plotlines. She adores
literary allusions, writing sex scenes, and British men. Actually, make that hot men in general. Her
devoted husband is still convinced she writes children’s books. Please don’t enlighten him.
GUEST POST
Do I have control of my characters?
No. Nope. Uh-uh. The miscreants run my
life until their story is told. They haunt my dreams, and I see them
in public. I think I started writing just to get them to be quiet.
As unsettling as it may be, this aspect
of my writing gives them depth. In many ways these are real people
with fears and foibles. I don’t create complicated character
sheets, but I could. Often these details are irrelevant to the story.
Does it matter that Leo hates herring? No, but he detests it, and he
pushes it around his plate until he can excuse himself from the
table. It would be simpler for him to tell the cook not to serve
herring, but his mother and grandmother like it, so he tolerates for
their sake. That’s just who Leo is. Not one word of that is in the
story, but it demonstrates how much my characters become a part of my
life.
I have this weird theory of heaven. To
put it simply, it’s that whatever is left of us—call it a soul,
if you will—exists within our own memories. If that’s the case,
I’ll get to spend eternity hanging out with my loved ones and
my characters, which is a pretty cool idea.
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