Author Guest Post with Jenna Jaxon, The Widow’s Christmas Surprise

The death of her husband has thrown Lady Maria Kersey’s future into doubt—and her heart into the arms of a man she cannot have. But Christmas with the Widows’ Club will bring choices—and surprises—that may change all her holidays to come…

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Author Guest Post

10 Things Most People Don’t Know About Me

If people follow my blog and Facebook posts, they likely know a good bit about me. But there are some things a lot of people DON’T know. Here are 10 things you might not know about me:

1. I am an only child. I always wanted a sibling, so I swore if I ever had children I’d have two or more. And two it was.
2. I was nominated for Homecoming Queen Senior Year in high school. Every club had to nominate someone and I was the only female in the Fencing Club, so I was it. The most unlikely person to be in that group of girls, but there I am in all the Homecoming pictures in the yearbook.
3. I took fencing lessons for a year, again during my Senior Year in high school. I thought it would be fun, however, the fencing coach wouldn’t teach me “just for fun,” so I ended up a competitive fencer and went to the National Fencing Competition that year. I was horrible, but it has helped me immensely in writing romances!
4. My favorite form of exercise is stage combat. I dislike most forms of exercise as they are mindless. Stage combat is a huge work-out and you have to pay attention all the time or you’re apt to get hurt. But man, is it fun!
5. If anyone is a fan of James Joyce’s Ulysses, you’ll appreciate this. When I was 22 years old, I stood atop the Sandycove Martello Tower in Dublin on Bloomsday (June 16). For those who don’t know Ulysses, that is the place where Joyce’s masterpiece begins, with the hero, 22-uear-old Stephen Dedalus standing on top of the Sandycove Martello Tower in Dublin. (I wrote my undergrad thesis on Ulysses, so it was a big deal for me. And interestingly enough, my younger daughter was born on June 16 many years later.)
6. I had three majors and one minor in undergrad college: History, Communication and Theater, and English. The minor was in American Studies.
7. I never wear sunglasses.
8. I did not read Pride and Prejudice until I was in graduate school.
9. The first Broadway show I ever saw was Sweeney Todd with the original cast of Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou.
10. My all-time favorite television series is The West Wing.

About the Book

The Widow’s Christmas Surprise
The Widows’ Club Book Five
by Jenna Jaxon

Published 29 September 2020
Zebra Books

Genre: Historical Romance
Page Count: 258
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The death of her husband has thrown Lady Maria Kersey’s future into doubt—and her heart into the arms of a man she cannot have. But Christmas with the Widows’ Club will bring choices—and surprises–that may change all her holidays to come…

Maria just gave birth to her first child, a beautiful daughter—but the event is shrouded in sorrow.  A month earlier, Maria’s husband, Lord Kersey, was killed in a duel under compromising circumstances. Worse, Maria’s failure to provide a male heir has stripped her of any hope of an inheritance. Scorned by the ton, one of her few allies is her late husband’s steward, Hugh Granger. Hugh is everything her husband was not—warm, charming—and penniless…

Hugh has fallen desperately in love with Maria, but has little to offer but comfort. As their attraction becomes impossible to resist, Maria flees to London to spend Christmas with her dearest friends, a group of widows who lost their own husbands in the Battle of Waterloo. Little does she know the holidays will reveal a twist of fate she never expected—proving that the greatest Christmas gift is the magic of true love…

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Excerpt

“Shall I have the carriage brought around?”

She wrinkled her brow, an eagerness in her face and an excited tension in her slim body. “Oooh, I would love to ride, but my cousin might prefer the carriage. Let me return to the house and ask her.” A gleeful smile spread across her lips and she placed a small hand on his arm. “Thank you so much, Mr. Granger.”

Their eyes met and Hugh had the sensation of falling into dark pools that might be fathoms deep. To have made this lovely woman happy seemed now to be his greatest accomplishment. “You are most welcome, my lady.”

She picked up her skirts and scampered up the steps, outdistancing him in moments.

Mouth dry and heart beating a painful tattoo in his chest, Hugh let her go. As he had said, he knew better than to borrow trouble, but he knew it when it came knocking at his door. Nothing could come of these unexpectedly tender feelings for Lady Kersey. He was a gentleman, to be sure, but his prospects were as uncertain as the lady’s own future, and both dependent on the next Lord Kersey’s goodwill. On which neither of them could count to any degree at all.  Best to treat this budding tendre as nothing more than a fleeting notion that was not to be pursued.

He started for the house, all too aware that what he thought with his head might not make a bit of difference to what had taken up lodging in his heart.

About the Author

Jenna Jaxon is a best-selling author of historical romance, writing in a variety of time periods because she believes that passion is timeless. She has been reading and writing historical romance since she was a teenager. A romantic herself, Jenna has always loved a dark side to the genre, a twist, suspense, a surprise. She tries to incorporate all of these elements into her own stories.

She lives in Virginia with her family and a small menagerie of pets–including two vocal cats, one almost silent cat, two curious bunnies, and a Shar-pei beagle mix named Frenchie.

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