How well do you know your romance?

Basically, because I am utterly brain dead after scrambling to meet an eleven o’clock deadline and getting the material in at 10:59, I thought it might be a great time to have some fun!  So, I’m going to test how well you know your romance!  I will send a $10.00 Barnes and Noble gift card to the person who can tell me the title and author of the six books I’ve taken a line from and put in quotes below.  If you would prefer an Amazon gift card, I can do that as well.  Just make sure when you answer to leave your e-mail address, so I can contact you.  The first person to answer correctly is the winner! 

I’ve chosen six books in honor of the fact that I’m about to complete my sixth book. Here’s a hint.  If you keep  up with my blogs then you know how much importance I put in the first line of a book, and if you don't keep up with me you should!  I'm just as much fun as the Kardashians!  

So without further ado, please name the books and the authors.  Good luck!

1. “Knowing precisely why no one wants to marry you is slim consolation for the truth of it.”
2. “The sound of a war horn sliced through the day, announcing the coming of Blackthorne Keeps new lord.”
3. “I woke to the patter of rain on canvas, with the feel of my husband’s kiss on my lips.”
4. “A stable boy wasn’t suppose to speak to an earl’s daughter, much less climb up to her bedroom window.”
5. “Propped upon a mountain of satin pillows amid rumpled bed linens, Helene Devernay surveyed his bronzed muscular torso with an appreciative smile as Stephen David Elliot Westmoreland, Earl of Langford, Baron of Ellingwood, Fifth Viscount Hargrove, Viscount Ashbourne, shrugged into the frilled shirt he’d tossed over the foot of the bed last night.”
6. “It was only a matter of time before the wedding guests killed one another.”

Good luck!

Julie Johnstone,

The Marchioness of Mayhem 


For added fun...


We now thought it might be interesting to see how well you know your Lady Scribes. Below are un-googleable first lines from our to-be released works. Can you match up the line with the right Lady Scribe? 


Participating ladies, in no particular order, are: 
Marquita Valentine
Jane Charles
Samantha Grace
Ava Stone
Olivia Kelly
Erin Knightley
Jerrica Knight-Catania
Andris Bear
Julie Johnstone 


The first person to correctly identify each first line with the lady who wrote it will also receive a $10 B&N or Amazon gift card. Remember to leave your email address to be entered.

     1. Bianca Manning was no idiot, though she was sure that’s what everyone else must have thought of her, if their behavior was any indication.

     2. I rarely thought about the day I killed my father anymore.

     3. Confound it, what the hell was all that racket?

     4. There were many things Summer Holland had been accused of doing, many things she’d been proudly guilty of committing, but crashing a wedding had never been one of them-until now.

     5. Home, with all of London’s once familiar sights, sounds and, of course, the smell that could only be the Thames.

     6. Grandmamma had always said nothing good happened under the cloak of darkness.

     7. Shadows gathering in the thick brush, twilight crept up the trees, stretching dusky fingers to brush the horizon where the sky was still streaked pink and gold.

     8. I almost turned tail, hauled ass back into the hospital, and demanded a complete mental work up or a full lobotomy.

     9. I am a fraud. Miss Eleanor Weston took another step back.


Good luck!!
~ Lady Scribes