Guest Post: Author Scarlett Scott + Giveaway

How historical romance found me

By: Scarlett Scott

I’ve been reading romance since I was a tween. Of course, back then romance novels were forbidden by my mother, who was not entirely unaware of the steamy material lurking in their pages and made it clear she did not approve. So I did what any romance loving girl in a bind would do and resorted to sneaking into my sister’s room, swiping a paperback off the shelves, and hiding it in my closet for clandestine consumption.

Since I was limited in my early reading days to whatever I could thieve from my sister, I fell into historical romances by default. But I fell in love with them just the same. I stayed up late into the night devouring Kat Martin and Lisa Kleypas historicals. Who needed sleep, I reasoned, when you could be wooed by a rake or seduced by a notorious duke? Definitely not me. (And let’s not even talk about the giant crush I still, to this day, harbor for the evilly sexy Nikolas in Prince of Dreams. I swoon.)

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