Susan always dreamed of being a writer. Something about creating worlds and
characters on paper has always fascinated
her. In 2008, she won the RWA Golden Heart ® Award in the Regency Historical category. MISTRESS BY MISTAKE will be released December 1, 2009, from Berkley Publishing. This is the sixth full-length manuscript she has written. (Those first five books are safely tucked in a drawer.) Her latest endeavor is Damsel in Disguise, a Regency Historical and will be released summer of 2010.
Viscount Randolph Dashford isn’t a bad person; he’s simply pretending to be one to avoid matrimony.
Heiress Evaline Pinchley isn’t usually a sotted wanton; she’s merely celebrating her birthday.
One full moon and one empty Madeira bottle later, Evaline wakes to find herself in Dashford's bed!
While Evaline tries to salvage what dignity she can from this colossal blunder, family secrets and would- be fiancés run rampant around her. Just when it seems she might find a way out of the mess she's made, Evaline realizes things are worse than imagined.
She's lost her heart to Dashford, and that could be the biggest mistake of them all.
ISBN-13: 978-0425231517
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date: Dec 1
Pages: 368
Retail Price: $7.99
Mistress By Mistake Susan Gee Heino
Excerpt
"Dear God, it's you!" he exclaimed.
And it was. The very woman who had disrupted his thoughts all day long was seated there on the dusty floor, a book open on her lap. She was wearing a drab gown, the color of dead moss. Still, her fawn colored hair was not tucked under a cap, but pulled up stylishly on her head. She looked prim and proper and untouchable. And with every fiber of his being he wanted to touch her.
Flustered, she slammed her book shut and sent a dust cloud into the air around her head. Another sneeze, and she struggled with her skirts as she scrambled to her feet. He chuckled at the delightful sight of one perfect ankle, but reached out a hand to help her. She did not take it.
"What are you doing here?" she asked quickly, glancing around, probably for a way to escape.
"I think I should ask you the same thing. Am I interrupting your reading hour?"
"No, I just—" she noticed the clock on the mantle. "Oh no! I had no idea it was so late!"
"Don't worry. I'll see that you don't get into any trouble."
"Oh, I doubt that," she replied. Smart girl.
Praise
“A funny, sexy romp! Destined to become a reader favorite.” –Christine Wells, author of Wicked Little Game
“Mistress by Mistake is a fun romp by a fresh voice in Regency historicals. Evaline and Dashford will keep you chuckling and turning pages."—Donna MacMeans, author of The Seduction of a Duke