Book Giveaway: Because of You by Cathy Maxwell

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I recently read and enjoyed Cathy Maxwells Because of You, and thanks to the lovely people at''Joan Schulhafer publishing and media consulting I have a copy to give away to one lucky US or Canadian reader.

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Blurb:'Because of You'calls upon the traditions of historical romance, bringing readers a vicars daughter, a disinherited rakehell son of a duke and a forced marriage in her story of Samantha Northrup, a young woman alone in the world.''Following the death of her father, Samantha leads a neat and orderly life in the Village of Sproule. A seductive stranger arrives at her door one stormy night and, suddenly, her world is turned upside down. Discovered in a compromising position, she is forced to marry a man she barely knows. Her groom is Lord Yale, who has returned to England after being banished by his father.''Now married to a cad who has been outcast by society, Samantha must abandon the life shes known for a loveless marriage and a husband who may never be able to change his ways.

See my review of Because of You'(Rating: )

About the author:

Born in Olathe, Kansas,'Cathy'Maxwells family roots go back to the Mayflower and the Revolutionary War.''She has long called Virginia home, noting she is a Virginian by choice, but a Kansan by nature. She worked in television news as a broadcaster before spending six years in the Navy. She attended Air Force intelligence school, worked in the Pentagon and did a tour with Naval Intelligence.

Cathy'began her writing career in 1991 while her children were still small.''It wasnt easy, she says.''I worked full time, my husband travelled, we had three kids, I volunteered and I was writing from four until seven every morning. Now, twenty years later, she is the author of seventeen national bestsellers and her novels appear regularly onThe New York Times'and'USA Today'bestseller lists.''A rarity in the book world,'Cathy'has published every one of her novels with the same publisher, Harper Collins/Avon Books.

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