Spotlight & Giveaway: Remember Love by Mary Balog

Today, HJ is pleased to share with you Mary Balog’s new release: Remember Love

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The beloved queen of Regency romance is back with a brand-new series perfect for fans of Bridgerton. Discover New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh’s Ravenswood series.

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The handsome and charismatic Earl of Stratton, Caleb Ware, has been exposed to the ton for his clandestine affairs—by his own son.

As a child, Devlin Ware thought his family stood for all that was right and good in the world. They were kind, gracious, and shared the beauty of Ravenswood, their grand country estate, by hosting lavish parties for the entire countryside. But at twenty-two, he discovered his whole world was an elaborate illusion, and when Devlin publicly called his family to account for it, he was exiled as a traitor.

So be it. He enlisted in the fight against Napoleon and didn’t look back for six years. But now his father is dead, the Ware family is broken, and as the heir he is being called home. It’s only when Gwyneth Rhys—the woman he loved and then lost after his family banished him—holds out her hand to help him that he is able make the difficult journey and try to piece together his fractured family.

It is Gwyneth’s loyalty, patience, and love that he needs. But is Devlin’s war-hardened heart even capable of offering her love in return?

Enjoy an exclusive excerpt from Remember Love 

He could relax now, Devlin told himself, and enjoy the afternoon with everyone else. Relax and let his mind wander. It had been wandering all day actually—to Gwyneth Rhys, just as it had all of yesterday and last night. The fete was always an exciting time. The arrival of family members as house guests the day before the great event only added to the anticipation. But this year Devlin felt more than usually restless. He had tossed and turned in his bed far more than he had slept on it last night. Because of Gwyneth. Because perhaps, maybe—though probably not—but just possibly he might have a chance with her.
She looked vividly lovely today in a bright pink dress and with her dark hair styled in myriad curls and ringlets and threaded with tiny flowers. And she glowed, a smile curving her lips whenever he caught sight of her, as though she was bubbling over with happiness. As why should she not be on the day of the Ravenswood fete? But he had half feared she would be looking wan and dejected.
He had found out just yesterday from Nick what had happened a few days ago. His brother had ridden into the stable yard and dismounted while Devlin and Ben were examining the hoof of one of the carriage horses to see if the shoe needed to be replaced. Their father had mentioned that he fancied the horse was favoring that leg.
“I’ve done it at last,” Nicholas had announced. “I did it almost a week ago, in fact.”
“Congratulations,” Devlin had said. “I can’t see anything wrong with this shoe. Can you, Ben? And what is it you have done at last, Nick?”
“Had a talk with Gwyn,” Nicholas had said, frowning and nodding when a groom offered to take his horse and brush it down for him.
“That sounds ominous,” Ben had said. “No, I can’t, Dev. There is no stone or anything lodged under it either. A quarrel, do you mean, Nick?”
“There was no quarrel,” Nick had said. “She was very decent about it. And it turned out she felt just as I did. All this nonsense people have begun to spout about the two of us is nothing but—well, nonsense. I am nineteen, for the love of God. And Gwyn is only eighteen. That is hardly on the shelf, is it? I am fond of her, and if I were ten years older, maybe . . . But no, not even then. It must be because we have more or less grown up together. I cannot think of her in that way, and she says the same of me. It was a huge relief finally to talk about it.”
“You were beginning to fear a leg shackle?” their half brother had asked, setting the horse’s hoof back on the ground and straightening up. “At your age?”
“It has been enough to bring me out in a cold sweat, if you want the truth of it,” Nicholas had said. “Though that sounds a bit disrespectful to Gwyn. I like her, dash it all.”
“I daresay she grows a bit clammy too at the thought of being forced to follow you into mud and mayhem,” Ben had said.
“So you have put an end to it.” Devlin had straightened up too and wiped his hands on an old rag.
“We have agreed to more or less stay away from each other until I go away in September,” Nicholas had told them. “I don’t like it, but . . . Well, people can be very stupid.”
So she was free. It was the thought that had hammered at Devlin’s brain for the rest of the day, busy as he had been with the arrival of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins and everyone wanting to talk at once.
She was free. It was the thought that had set him tossing and turning all night.
He need no longer keep his distance from her out of deference to his brother. Not that she would ever have him, of course. And to his shame, he would not even know how to go about wooing her. But . . . Well suddenly there was a glimmering of hope.
And she appeared to be very happy about her freedom if her appearance today was anything to judge by. It might not be, of course. Her smiles and sparkling eyes, her pink dress, the flowers in her hair might all be a mask to disguise heartache. She had always seemed exceedingly fond of Nick, and that had never surprised Devlin. His younger brother had all the magnetic charm, not to mention good looks, that Devlin lacked. And ease of manner. And confidence in himself.
But she was free.

Excerpted from Remember Love by Mary Balogh Copyright © 2022 by Mary Balogh. Excerpted by permission of Berkley. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
 
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Meet the Author:

Mary Balogh has written more than one hundred historical novels and novellas, more than forty of which have been New York Times bestsellers. They include the Bedwyn saga, the Simply quartet, the Huxtable quintet, the seven-part Survivors’ Club series, and the Westcott series.

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