Jul 2, 2016 | Blog, Elizabeth Moss, July 2016
Rose Bride is the third book in the Lust in the Tudor Court series by Elizabeth Moss and is a seductive and steamy tale set within the court of King Henry VIII. Could you survive as a member of the royal court? Our dear heroine has returned to court, will she be able to stay this time?
Marjerie Croft left court years ago with a secret that she just can’t run away from. The rumors surrounding that fateful night years ago still haunt her, are they true? Men don’t believe her and woman fear her. A woman has no voice in Henry’s court unless you’re the queen or in the King’s favor. Will Marjerie find the strength to survive? Unable to give up she finds an ally in the most unlikely place.
Virgil Elton is a doctor at court and is enchanted by Marjerie. Yet he too is caught up in the rumors that surround her past. Even when he comes to her aid will he still has doubts. They will form an unorthodox friendship, no good came come of it. Virgil also has secrets, what will Marjerie do when she discovers what he’s been hiding.
One of the most satisfying aspects of this series is that it’s gritty, complicated and completely captivating. This three and a half pepper spicy latte read has a story that will sweep you away to a time when the king’s word meant life or death.
Life in King Henry’s court is full of lust, all eyes are watching your every move and no one can be trusted.
Proceed with caution, this three pepper spicy latte must read is 
pretty hot and may offend. For mature readers 18+.
This seductive adventure will tie up loose ends, reveal the naughty ways of the royal court and show how just one rumor can potentially destroy many lives.
While this book is part of a series one can enjoy it as a stand alone read. However, I can’t imagine not indulging in each book in this must read series!
I received this ARC from the publisher for a fair and honest review.
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***** TIP FOR SURVIVING THE TUDOR PERIOD *****
DON’T DRINK THE WATER
You won’t survive long in the Tudor period if you drink the water. There’s no such thing as clean water in towns, where sewage runs freely from street ditches into the rivers, and even in the less polluted country, you may find animals have been there before you. Water is strictly for washing only, and in fact, washing is not really recommended either. After all, you might catch a cold or get an infection if you strip off for a wash in dirty water, and there’s no easy way to lower a temperature. (Some poor people are actually sewn into their clothes for the winter. Which saves on laundry too.) Basically, if you want to survive the night, just say no to sewage-infected water, and reach for a goblet of something safer instead. Tasty substitutes for water include wine for the well-heeled Tudor middle-classes and ale for the poor. I wouldn’t advise bathing in either of those though!
Excerpt
Virgil stopped, listening. Someone was coming along the shadowy corridor ahead. He could hear light footsteps, almost shuffling. Then a dim figure passed beneath the nearest torch and he saw her face, pale, her eyes open but devoid of expression, her lips parted in a string of barely coherent whispers.
It was Margerie Croft herself, wandering barefoot in her sleep, her unbound hair tumbling in a cloudy red cascade to her waist, clad in nothing but a thin white shift.
Fortuna audaces iuvat, he thought fiercely. Fortune favours the bold. And he would have to be bold if he wished to be favoured by this beautiful, elusive creature.
‘He will not touch me again. No, I shall not allow it,’ she was whispering to herself. ‘You must let me go, sir. You cannot keep me here forever.’
So her night wanderings were not at an end, as she had tried to pretend. And here was the proof.
Virgil stepped into her path and caught her by the shoulders. ‘Margerie,’ he said quietly, looking into her face.
But her clear green gaze looked past him, empty and seemingly unaware of her surroundings.
She was asleep.
Virgil stood a moment, thinking, still holding her lightly. He had read of somnambulists in ancient texts, troubled souls who walked in their sleep, and had even prescribed a sleeping draught to keep her nightmares at bay. But he had not truly believed it to be possible until he had seen the phenomenon with his own eyes, thinking she and Kate Langley must have exaggerated her condition.
What was it that stirred her soul so deeply, she must wander the palace at night in this dreamlike state?
‘Are you awake, Margerie? Can you hear me?’ His whisper echoed in the narrow corridor. ‘Do you know where you are?’
She did not respond but stood passive and blank-faced, breathing more deeply now, as though fast asleep. His gaze dropped to her mouth, and a powerful surge of desire moved through his body, surprising him.
She was at once vulnerable and strong, her swaying curves generous, her height imposing, suggesting she was the equal of a man. In any other woman such fiery independence of spirit would have left him cool. Yet something about Margerie threw out a challenge to every male she passed – an instinctive lure as old as time, a dare that he found nigh impossible to resist – to tame and subdue her if he was up to the task. And Virgil knew he was.
But he wanted Margerie to be awake when he took her.
‘Margerie, I am going to kiss you,’ he warned her, but there was no flicker of response in that pale face.
Was she in truth asleep, or just feigning?
There was one way to find out. Grasping her shoulders, Virgil leant forward and set his lips to hers. The violent shock that ran through him as their mouths touched stole his ability to breathe, to think, to retain control over himself. She was still asleep. He should not be doing this, it was not right. Still he could not draw away.
His kiss deepened, and as her lips parted softly under that pressure, Virgil pushed his tongue inside and tasted her. That was his undoing.
She tasted like honey, and God’s blood, he was drowning in her. Drowning …
Then suddenly Margerie was struggling in his arms, jerking away from him, gasping and shaking. Virgil let her go. He was not interested in forcing Margerie into an embrace she did not welcome.
Besides, her eyes held shocked awareness now. She was awake.
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Born into a literary family, Elizabeth Moss lives with her husband and five children in South-West England, and is a keen countryside walker. She writes fun and sexy historical romances. She also writes award-winning fiction as Victoria Lamb. For more information, please visit her website: https://www.elizabethmossfiction.com.
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Dec 3, 2015 | Blog, December 2015, Elizabeth Moss
Rebel Bride (Lust in the Tudor Court Book #2) by Elizabeth Moss is an intoxicating and intense historical romance set in Tudor court where men can have anything they want and women must fight to be heard.
Once again we are transported into a world full of steamy passion, adventure and turmoil. While this book is the second in a series have no fear dear readers, this book can be enjoyed as a stand alone. However, once you are finished you will want to download Wolf Bride. Trust me 😉
Strong willed Susannah Tyrell has no desire to wed or be controlled by any man, ever. That is until she sets her sights on Hugh Beaufort and then considers the possibility for a fleeting second. Yet, when a kiss and misunderstanding find them in a most precarious situation, can Susannah find a change of heart?
Unable to deal with her family demands any longer she makes an impulsive decision. Susannah is intent to push the rules, convinced she’ll find happiness and satisfaction living the single life.
Someone is intent on coming between Susannah and Hugh, family plans are set and two hearts are caught up in a twist of emotions despite the obstacles. Can Hugh convince her that marriage isn’t so awful?
Download this e-book today and find out just how fabulous Elizabeth Moss’s Tudor Court series is. Life is full of lust when you reside at court and remember you never know who’s watching.
Proceed with caution, this three pepper spicy latte must read is 
pretty hot and may offend. For mature readers 18+.
While I received this ARC from the publisher for a fair and honest review I would certainly purchase this for myself or as a gift. I just wish I didn’t have to wait until next summer for Rose Bride to be released. I’m not sure I can wait that long ;).
*****Historical Road Trip with Elizabeth Moss*****
In Rebel Bride, Hugh and Susannah travel the dangerous roads of Tudor England together, forced into each other’s company by circumstances. Beautiful and feisty, Susannah has run away from her cruel father in Yorkshire. Finding her in the wild forest, Hugh is determined to escort his willful charge safely to the king’s court.
Fictional journeys like this often work as metaphors for a character’s inward journey towards emotional or spiritual development. For Susannah, this journey to London is about resistance and attraction; for Hugh, it’s a struggle between physical desire and his moral duty to protect this young woman – even from himself!
Travel in Tudor England was not easy, even for a courtier like Hugh Beaufort. Beyond London, major roads were little better than muddy tracks, with robbers and bandits lying in wait for the unwary traveler. Within towns, local citizens were charged with the upkeep of roads; in reality, this meant Tudor streets were dark, narrow and uneven, pitted with potholes, and strewn with rubbish and human ordure. The wealthy travelled by horse or curtained litter, a good horse covering up to 30 miles per day. There were no carriages yet, and carts would have been deeply uncomfortable for passengers, lacking any form of suspension as they jolted and bumped over every pothole.
Road trips around England could take a week to ten days to complete, and wealthy travelers like Hugh and Susannah usually preferred not to hurry. Every night would be spent at a wayside inn, as journeying after dark was impractical without lights. If you could find a place to stay that looked clean and was free of plague, you were lucky. Popular inns might be crowded with travelers, and being forced to share a bed with a stranger was not unheard-of. Though on their journey, Hugh has to be careful – in public at least – to keep his distance from an unmarried lady like Susannah.
Fare would have been simple too. Inn keepers or famers along the way might provide travelers with the equivalent of a packed lunch for the journey. Our hero and heroine probably dined on bread and cheese, smoked bacon, honey cakes, and a stoppered flask of beer, consumed at the roadside. As a courtier, Hugh might have insisted on wine and perhaps sweetmeats for his lady companion. Besides onions for flavor, even wealthy Tudors rarely consumed vegetables, though seasonal fruits were popular and often elaborately prepared.
Hugh and Susannah’s Tudor tips for your own road trip:
Never argue with thy love in front of thy companions on the road, for fear of shaming one another.
Journey not for many hours without ceasing, but take thy ease from time to time, for fear of some mishap.
Avoid excess of wine and music late at night when the body is weak and the desire strong.
Consume not strong onions with thy cheese. Or, if thou must, keep a sprig or two of parsley close at hand and so avoid the reek of foul breath.
Let neither wine nor ale confuse thee on horseback, but keep thy good wits sharp, remembering that robbers and uneven roads ever assail the unwary traveler.
Carry a saint’s bone or other holy relic in thy purse, and thou shalt end thy journey safely and in good spirits.
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Author Info:
Born into a literary family, Elizabeth Moss lives with her husband and five children in South-West England, and is a keen countryside walker. She writes fun and sexy historical romances. She also writes award-winning fiction as Victoria Lamb. For more information, please visit her website: https://www.elizabethmossfiction.com.
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Jul 21, 2015 | Blog, Elizabeth Moss, July 2015
Wolf Bride (Lust in the Tudor Court) is a historical erotic romance by Elizabeth Moss that’s shows a steamy and spicier side side of the Tudor Court and King Henry VIII.
It’s January 1536 and Eloise Tyrell, a lady in waiting to Queen Anne Boleyn, is frustrated when her family informs her of their plans regarding her future. Upon discovery of an arranged marriage to a man she doesn’t really know, Eloise is conflicted. The notion that she needs to cast aside her own desires is unthinkable. Will she give up everything because she is told to do so? Will her life be submissive and focused on heirs and spares?
When Lord Wolf discovers Eloise has a few secrets, will it prevent her from finding love and all that she desires? Devising a few plans of his own, Lord Wolf is determined to make sure innocent Eloise is enlightened. Survival from this wolf will depend on risk, trust and lust of the heart.
A H-O-T must read this summer that takes you on a journey into a world of love, lust, Lords and libation. If you like Tudor romances with a bit of spice then you will LOVE Wolf Bride. This new series has just enough sizzle to make you tingle. For mature readers +18
I received this ARC from the publisher for a fair and honest review.
In case you missed my Coffee With Elizabeth Moss yesterday here is a quick link: https://booksilovealatte.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/coffee-with-elizabeth-moss/
Author Info:
Born into a literary family, Elizabeth Moss lives with her husband and five children in South-West England, and is a keen countryside walker. She writes fun and sexy historical romances. She also writes award-winning fiction as Victoria Lamb. For more information, please visit her website: www.elizabethmossfiction.com.
Social Networking Links
Website: www.elizabethmossfiction.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elizabeth.moss.566
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ElizabethMoss1
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/ElizabethMoss
Jul 20, 2015 | Blog, Elizabeth Moss, July 2015
If we were meeting at a coffee shop I’d be drinking a Latte 🙂
What would you order?
I would also order a Latte, but a large, skinny, one-shot Latte. Too much caffeine fries my brain.
Thanks so much for taking the time to answer a few questions. When you write, it’s either historical romance, historical or contemporary romance. Your latest series – Lust in the Tudor Courts, is very “spicy” as I like to call it here on the blog! It was captivating and unique to read a Tudor Series that was steamy and engaging.
For those readers who don’t know anything about this series – it takes place in the Court of King Henry VIII and Queen Ann Boleyn. What was it about King Henry VIII that inspired you to write a Tudor series about him and give it a steamy/”Spicy” twist?
Henry was clearly a very lascivious king – not only did he have all those wives, but he had numerous mistresses too! So it was not hard to imagine the Tudor court under Henry as being a place of sexual intrigue among the courtiers too. Like master, like servant.
What type of research did you do to prepare yourself?
I had already written six books – as Victoria Lamb – set in Tudor England, though slightly later, so all I had to do was read up on the Henrician court and Anne Boleyn in particular, whose trial forms the political backdrop to this novel.
Will there be more than three books in this series?
Not at the moment. I do have three further Bride books all planned out for the Elizabethan court, but no publisher for them so far. Any offers, dear publishers, you know where to find me!
For those who are not familiar with your work, you write under a few different names. You must be super organized to keep that all straight!. Is it easy to switch around when writing? How do you keep every character and story line straight?
It is easy for me to switch around most of the time. I sit down and my writing ‘voice’ changes automatically to fit my readership. That part comes quite naturally to me; I’m a bit of a social chameleon too and my writing is an extension of that facility. Being organized is not so easy, alas, but somehow I manage. I don’t keep fact sheets – that’s way too organized for me – so I just have to keep all the characters and story lines straight in my head while writing. Again, I mostly manage that. Though sometimes I have to stop and check back to see what colour someone’s eyes are! That’s always an issue when you write books quickly though, especially back to back or even overlapping.
Many readers are drawn to a book strictly based on the cover and I admit, I love a great cover. For the Tudor Series did you have input in the design?
No, but then I like to leave such jobs to the designers. I self-publish sexy Regencies too as Elizabeth Moss – and other stories under other names! – and hate people interfering in my cover choices. So I do as I would be done by. 🙂
Earlier this year in May here in the states, Wolf Bride was released. I’ll be posting my review tomorrow. When can we expect to read Rose Bride and Rebel Bride?
Rebel Bride is Book Two, and is due out in December for the Christmas market. I expect it will be up for pre-order in early autumn. Book Three, Rose Bride, which is my personal favorite, is out in May 2016.
Sounds great! Just in time for the holidays 🙂
I hope you are enjoying your summer and am thrilled we were able to hang out – I had a blast! Thank you so much for your time.
THANK YOU, Rae! Lovely coffee, by the way! 😉
8 Tantalizing Tidbits 🙂
1. What is your must read book and why? Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke – I’ve had the book for years, but was put off by its huge size. But recently I saw the BBC adaptation and was blown away by it. So that’s the one I have to grapple with in 2015.
2. What is one place I should see if I visit your hometown? Oddly, I only moved to Devon from Cornwall in England a month ago so I’m still finding my feet here. But nearby is Dartmoor, a wild and desolate high place, and well worth a visit to blow the cobwebs away and remind us what life may have been like for early humans.
3. Castles or Beaches? Beaches, definitely. Castles scare me, even though I write about them so much in my Tudor novels!
4. What is one thing readers would be surprised to know about you? I used to be a semi-professional snooker player in my twenties, and was seeded 24th in the world for women’s snooker. So I know all the British pool players who emigrated to America a decade or so ago, like Allison Fisher, Kim Shaw, Karen Corr, Kelly Fisher etc. But that’s a whole other story!
5. If you had an all expenses paid trip anywhere in the world for research, where would you go? Australia, probably. I’ve never been and the outback sounds amazing. I love wild, lonely places.
6. What is your guilty pleasure? Writing poetry. It feels so self-indulgent.
7. What are you afraid of? Spiders. Even tiny ones. I scream when I see one, and run away like a mad woman.
8. If you could pick a book you’ve read and make it into a movie, which book would it be (besides yours 🙂 ? I I’d love to see Georgette Heyer’s THE GRAND SOPHY as a novel. It has everything, it’s a marvellously layered and witty romance.
Author Info:
Born into a literary family, Elizabeth Moss lives with her husband and five children in South-West England, and is a keen countryside walker. She writes fun and sexy historical romances. She also writes award-winning fiction as Victoria Lamb. For more information, please visit her website: www.elizabethmossfiction.com.
Social Networking Links
Website: www.elizabethmossfiction.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elizabeth.moss.566
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ElizabethMoss1
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/ElizabethMoss
pretty hot and may offend. For mature readers 18+.
