Blog Tour : Excerpt & Giveaway , K.J Charles – Think of England

Today we are happy to welcome author K.J Charles to Love Bytes . She shares with us an excerpt from her latest release “Think of England “and she also brings with her a giveaway 🙂

Welcome K.J !

 

 

 

Title : Think of England

Author : K.J Charles

Publisher: Samhain publishing

Release Date: July 1, 2014

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Blurb:

Lie back and think of England…
England, 1904. Two years ago, Captain Archie Curtis lost his friends, fingers, and future to a terrible military accident. Alone, purposeless and angry, Curtis is determined to discover if he and his comrades were the victims of fate, or of sabotage.
Curtis’s search takes him to an isolated, ultra-modern country house, where he meets and instantly clashes with fellow guest Daniel da Silva. Effete, decadent, foreign, and all-too-obviously queer, the sophisticated poet is everything the straightforward British officer fears and distrusts.
As events unfold, Curtis realizes that Daniel has his own secret intentions. And there’s something else they share—a mounting sexual tension that leaves Curtis reeling.
As the house party’s elegant facade cracks to reveal treachery, blackmail and murder, Curtis finds himself needing clever, dark-eyed Daniel as he has never needed a man before…

 

After a morning where hopelessly amateur spy Archie Curtis has tried to search his host’s private rooms, and Daniel da Silva has consistently been in his way, the two men have to keep up the social façade over lunch. Archie doesn’t know if he’s given the game away, can’t tell what da Silva’s up to, and has got his efforts at making friends off to a great start by offering da Silva a plate of ham, forgetting that he’s Jewish…

 

“I beg your pardon,” Curtis repeated. “I didn’t mean to offend you. Er, how about beef?” He lifted the plate apologetically and saw what looked like a glimmer of laughter in the dark eyes.

“Beef is quite acceptable, thank you.” Da Silva accepted the offering with great gravity. “I’m not offended by ham, you understand, I simply don’t eat it. The only meat that offends me is kidney, and that’s for aesthetic reasons.”

That was exactly the sort of pansyish remark Curtis would have expected of him. Much more so than that intense scrutiny earlier, or the series of well-targeted jabs. He was damned if he knew quite what to make of this.

“So, er, are you a religious man?” he tried.

“No, I couldn’t claim to be that. I’m not terribly observant.” Da Silva gave a sudden, feline smile. “Of my faith, that is. I’m quite observant in general.”

Curtis was sure that was another dig, but da Silva didn’t follow it up, returning his attention to his plate. Curtis took the opportunity to look him over. He was a handsome enough fellow, he supposed, if you could tolerate the type, with those deep, dark eyes, a full, well-shaped mouth, high cheekbones, and black brows that were almost too elegantly curved. Curtis wondered if he did something to shape them and decided that he did. He had seen that sort in London, passing certain clubs: plucked eyebrows, powdered faces, rouged cheeks, chattering to one another in that affected way. Was that what da Silva did in his private hours, with other men?

Da Silva gave a slight cough and Curtis realised he had said something. “I beg your pardon, what was that?”

“I enquired as to your plans for the afternoon. Or shall we simply keep, ah, bumping into one another?”

“I shall go for a short walk in the grounds, I expect,” Curtis snapped.

Da Silva’s lips curved in a secret smile, as if relishing a joke that Curtis did not share. “I’ll be in the library. Don’t let me stand in your way.

 

AUTHOR INFO:

 

 

I’m a writer of romance, mostly m/m, often historical or fantasy or both. I also have a contemporary thriller coming out soon. I like to mix it up.

I’m a commissioning editor in my daily life and I blog about writing and editing at kjcharleswriter.wordpress.com.

I live in London, UK, with two kids, a tolerant husband and an even more tolerant cat.

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Tour Information:

Sunday, June 29 –  MM Good Book Reviews

Monday, June 30 –  Boy Meets Boy Reviews

Tuesday, July 1 – The Blogger Girls

Wednesday, July 2 – Boys in our Books

Thursday, July 3 –  Prism Book Alliance

Friday, July 4 –  Joyfully Jay

Saturday, July 5 – Love Bytes

Sunday, July 6 – The Novel Approach

 

Check out Elizabetta’s review of Think of England here !

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