Under the Rose Releases TODAY

Today marks the release of my second novel, UNDER THE ROSE.* The book picks up where my first novel, Secret Society Girl, left off, and chronicles the further adventures of Amy Haskel and her class of initiates in Rose & Grave.

(But, if you read this blog at all, you probably already knew that.)

Publisher’s Weekly calls it “impossible to put down” and Booklist warns that readers will “get swept up in the sexy story in no time.”

One early reader said it was fabulously witty, another “devoured it” and can’t wait for Book 3, and yet another called it a “terrific summer read.”

My future sister-in-law says it’s better than the first one, my friend’s little brother says it’s surprisingly steamy, and a librarian I met at ALA last weekend said it has one of the best sex scenes she’s ever read.

And if that’s not a sales pitch, I don’t know what is.

UNDER THE ROSE introduces new challenges to Amy and her compatriots, including a devious website run by a paranoid conspiracy theorist, called secretsofthediggers.com. Click on the above link to learn more, and read the book to see what happens!

In honor of the book’s release, my friend Carrie is giving away a copy of both Secret Society Girl and Under the Rose on her blog, and then Carrie and Erica are giving away a few more on the blog of the Manuscript Mavens. (If you are posting about Under the Rose this week, let me know and I’ll link to it here.)

Are you still reading, or have you already taken off for the nearest bookstore? What are you waiting for? Conspiracy theories, hot sex, Hamlet lectures, and Halloween. This book has it all, I’m telling you… except for the stuff I’m writing into Book Three.

But that, my friends, is the subject of another blog post. Right now, it’s all Under the Rose, all the time around here. It’s a veritable UTR marathon.

And okay, fine. Twist my arm. A giveaway. A signed copy of Under the Rose to the commenter whose Secret Society Girl series-related haiku or limerick amuses Sailor Boy the most.
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* Here be release-day giddiness. Move aside for the shameless self-promo train.