Give a warm welcome to Sandra Master, author of One Night with a Duke, released TODAY, July 21, 2017! Happy Book Birthday! Pull up a chair, grab a drink of your choice from the cooler, a Chocolate Chip or Peanut Butter cookie from the plate, and let’s find out a little about Sandra and His Grace, Raven, Tenth Duke of Ravensmere from One Night with a Duke. Sanrda, tell us a little about writing One Night With A Duke. I wrote this book in 1999 when I didn’t know anything about craft or markets or word counts. It was 160,000 words. Every year after that, I took it out and revised…and revised…and revised. Then stopped and cried. Four years later in 2016 I chopped 55,000 words, bringing it to an acceptable word length. Boy I know that must have been tough! Now let’s hear from his Grace Raven, Tenth Duke of Ravensmere. Setting: Regency England 1817, the industrial revolution, and returning soldiers with no employment set the scene for political turmoil. His Grace, Raven, Tenth Duke of Ravensmere, reclusive, politically powerful, denies love after the tragic deaths of his duchess and baby son. Bound by a deathbed promise made ten years prior, he has vowed never to allow love to enter his heart again. He meets Lady Samantha Winston, a young widow, who permits him to seek refuge in her carriage in a time of need, and what started out as a kiss in the name of safety, became pleasurable and not Continue Reading →