Betrayed (11 page)

Catherine Lloyd loves reading, watching great episodic
television, and writing romance. Love stories that are hot and soul-satisfying
are her drug of choice. She was inspired to write
Victorian Villains
from the gothic romance novels she devoured as a
kid. Phyllis A. Whitney, Victoria Holt and Daphne du Maurier combined suspense
and romance without the use of vampires.

She decided to release her Victorian stories in
installments in the tradition of serialized fiction of the Victorian Age.
Magazines nicknamed “the penny dreadful” published genre literature at a low
cost in bi-weekly installments. The Victorian Age was an exotic time of
science, exploration, high drama and passionate romance on stage and in books.
The villains were psychologically fascinating. And hot!

The author has two grown children, two stepdaughters, a cat
named Harry who thinks he’s a dog, and four grandsons. She lives with her
long-suffering spouse in the country where she enjoys having no hobbies and
writes full time. She is hard at work on
Mark
of Caine
, the next in
Victorian
Villains Serials
. In this romantic trilogy, a hired assassin for Queen
Victoria develops an unhealthy obsession with his mark. Follow Catherine on
Amazon to be notified of new releases in this series and others!

Contact Catherine Lloyd at
[email protected]

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Four brides. Four seasons. One rocky road to
romance.

THE
JILTING
~ Summer

Best
friends forever. Until one of them falls in love
.
The groom is AWOL. It’s Scout Rutherford’s wedding day and in the next 24
hours, she is shot at, lied to, forced to reveal a secret, abducted at gunpoint
and thrown down a ravine. But a night spent in hiding with her best friend
Ryder Dean puts her in the worst danger of all.

LIE
FOR ME
~ Autumn

Sworn
enemies, until they pretend to be lovers. Is the lie really the truth?
Shelby Porter doesn’t like Sheriff Sawyer McIntyre and everyone in
town knows it except Dolly Porter, Shelby and Sawyer’s much-loved, daffy aunt.
Dolly’s health hasn’t been good of late. She worries too much over Shelby’s
single status. To ease her mind, Shelby tells a little white lie that morphs
into a whopper, until she is standing in Sheriff McIntyre’s bedroom at three o’clock
in the morning with a teeny request: “Lie for me.” And that’s when things
really get scary.

THE
WAY HOME
~ Winter

The one
thing they agree on is to never fall in love
. Mandrake
Falls is cocooned in a thick blanket of snow when Michael Shannon, the star of
Tomorrow Never Comes
is dropped like a
bomb into Hudson Grace’s bachelor life. For the next seventy-two hours, due to
a bureaucratic mix-up, the forester is stuck with the daytime diva. A fire on
the hearth. A raging blizzard. And a three-year-old holy terror. Who will crack
first?

LOVE
RISING
~ Spring

Nobody
expected them to fall in love
. Nerdy stage manager,
Jeremy Marks sees right through Jocelyn Tate’s stunning beauty to the
vulnerable girl she is underneath. It’s no secret he’s in love with her.
Jocelyn thinks Jeremy is sweet but poor and she’s determined to marry a rich
man--preferably a billionaire. Jeremy doesn’t have a hope until a mysterious
notice appears in the Gazette announcing their engagement. Thrown together, the
young couple form a bond to find out who has it in for them.

MANDRAKE
FALLS ROMANCE ~ Boxed Set Edition

Romantic Comedy. All four titles for one low price!

Love. In a dangerous time.

WANTON

Callie of Wideopens is the beautiful
18-year-old ward of Jane and Ethan. Jane is dying and the crone who supplies
her herbs has had a vision of a terrible act. In a misguided attempt to alter
the fate of her husband, Jane makes a desperate request of Callie. In doing so,
she unwittingly sets in motion the crone’s prophecy.

WASTREL

Lord Sebastian Redford’s drinking,
card-playing and womanizing is legendary at court and his brazen affair with
the wife of the most powerful man in England has put his life in danger. To
ward off disaster, Lord Redford’s man hastily arranges a marriage of
convenience to Beatrice Fall. Sebastian’s bride proves to be anything but
convenient when he consummates their marriage and their marriage of convenience
becomes a dangerous wedding of illicit love.

TRAITOR

The Earl of Dorset has betrothed his only
child, pampered 18-year-old Lady Elspeth to the French lord, Tyndale to secure
his favour with the new French king. The trip to Canterbury is a great adventure
accompanied by her father’s Captain of the Guard, Griffith of Nottingham. The
captain is a skilled bowman, loyal to the Earl and admired by Lady Elspeth—he
is also a double agent working to restore King John to the throne.

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SOLDIER
~ A Medieval Christmas Novella

Two stories.
Two amoral men transformed by love. In
Mercenary,
Broderick has been made a new father but his infant son
is failing to thrive. Then Tess is brought before him, the daughter of the lord
whose lands Broderick has usurped. The new master of Castlemuir confines the
young woman to his inner sanctum to nurse his son, but his desire for the
silent girl drives him to take dangerous risks. In
Jester
, Dumas is a hideously deformed clown who travels the
countryside in a caravan with his young assistant, Fallon, a young woman
disguised as a boy. In return for keeping her identity a secret, Fallon must
perform for the misshapen man each night. But Dumas has a secret of his own as
Fallon soon learns after a performance at Castlemuir Hall.

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