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Today I’m happy to welcome Karleen Koen , the New York Times bestselling author of Through a Glass Darkly, Now Face to Face, and Dark Angels, who’s guest blogging here today. Her latest book, Before Versailles focuses on four intense months of King Louis’s young life. It’s the summer of 1661, and after the death of his prime minister, twenty-two-year-old Louis steps into governing France. He’s still a young man, and in a way quite inexperienced and shy, but also very determined, intelligent and headstrong. He’s used to having anything and everything his heart desires—land, women—including his brother’s wife. Why did I write “Before Versailles”? by Karleen Koen Read more »

This book was received free, for review purposes. Series: A Summerhouse Novel (Book 3) Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: MIRA (March 6, 2018) ISBN-10: 0778307611 Synopsis –  One fateful summer, three very different women find themselves together in Summer Hill, Virginia, where they find they have much more in common than they realized… Sixty-year-old Olivia’s first marriage was long and unhappy, but now she is a newlywed, thrilled to finally be starting her life with the man she’s always truly loved—even if they are getting a late start. Kathy is in her forties and married to a handsome, successful businessman. Theirs would be a fairy-tale romance if it weren’t for one problem: he’s passionately in love with someone else! Twenty-something Elise is also in a troubled marriage, stuck with the man her wealthy parents chose for her. Now that he has a pregnant mistress, he seems willing to go to drastic lengths to take Elise out of the picture. Though each of them wound up at the summerhouse