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Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Blog Tour: Madame Pommery by Rebecca Rosenberg

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Madame Pommery
by Rebecca Rosenberg

Publication Date: March 21, 2023
Lion Heart Publishing

Genre: Historical Fiction

 

 

Champagne, France, 1860. Madame Pommery, an etiquette teacher and orphanage founder, loses her husband and is forced to support her family. With no experience, the forty-year-old widow decides to make champagne. Her unique vision is to change it from a sweet dessert beverage to a dry, crisp wine to be enjoyed anytime. When champagne makers refuse to teach her their craft, she forges ahead on her own and secretly begins the excavation of champagne caves under the Reims city dump.

Soon after, her son and her entire crew are conscripted to fight the Franco-Prussian war, leaving Madame Pommery alone to struggle with her champagne dreams. After Napoleon and a hundred thousand French troops are captured, the Prussians invaded France, and Prussian General Frederick Franz occupies Madame Pommery’s house as his army headquarters. Undaunted, Pommery uses her secret wine caves to hide the Francs-Tireurs, resistance fighters for France, while she plans to build a spectacular castle winery above the caves.

But when her former lover, a Scottish Baron, unexpectedly proposes marriage, Madame Pommery must choose between nobility and her passionate quest for fine champagne and the most beautiful winery in the world.

Based on a true story, Madame Pommery is a heroic novel about a mother and widow who fights the Prussians, the social class system, champagne patriarchs, and champagne tastes to create a champagne legacy.

“The sun-drenched vineyards of France, a real-life heroine who against all odds refuses to give up her dreams… and champagne. What’s not to love?” Barbara Davis, Best-selling author of The Echo of Old Books

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About the Author

California native Rebecca Rosenberg lives on a lavender farm with her family in Sonoma, the Valley of the Moon, where she and her husband founded the largest lavender product company in America. A long-time student of Jack London’s work and an avid fan of his daring wife, Charmian, Rosenberg is a graduate of the Stanford Writing Certificate Program. Her books include: GOLD DIGGER, the Remarkable Baby Doe Tabor, The Secret Life of Mrs. London, Lavender Fields of America, and the Champagne Widows series.

For more information, please visit Rebecca’s website and blog. You can also find her on Amazon, BookBubFacebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Goodreads.

Blog Tour Schedule

Tuesday, March 21
Review at Amy’s Booket List

Wednesday, March 22
Review at Books, Cooks, Looks

Thursday, March 23
Review at A Girl Reads Bookss

Friday, March 24
Excerpt at The Book Junkie Reads

Monday, March 27
Review at Book Reviews and More

Tuesday, March 28
Review at With A Book In Our Hands

Thursday, March 30
Review at 100 Pages a Day

Friday, March 31
Review at Reading is My Remedy

Monday, April 3
Review at My Reading Getaway

Friday, April 7
Review at History from a Woman’s Perspective

Monday, April 10
Excerpt at I’m Into Books

Friday, April 14
Review at Novel Nerd Blog

Monday, April 17
Review at Novels Alive

Wednesday, April 19
Excerpt at Books, Cooks, Looks

Saturday, April 20
Review at CelticLady’s Reviews

Wednesday, April 26
Review at Passages to the Past

Giveaway

Enter to win a Champagne Swag pack including champagne earrings, champagne jellybeans, and champagne ornament.

The giveaway is open to the US only and ends on April 21st. You must be 18 or older to enter.

Madame Pommery

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Book Blast: The Romanov Heiress by Jennifer Laam

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The Romanov Heiress
by Jennifer Laam

Publication Date: March 20, 2023

Genre: Historical Fiction/Russian

 

 

Four sisters in hiding. A grand duchess in disguise. Dark family secrets revealed…an alternate future for the Romanov sisters from Jennifer Laam, author of The Secret Daughter of the Tsar and The Lost Season of Love and Snow.

With her parents and brother missing and presumed dead, Grand Duchess Olga Romanova must keep her younger sisters safe. The Bolsheviks are determined to eliminate any remaining holdovers from the tsarist regime, hunting down the last Romanovs and putting them to death. Now living in England, the Romanov sisters remain hidden to protect their identities, even as isolation strains their relationships.

But they can’t distance themselves from the world forever.

Olga learns that a peer of the realm has accused the late Empress Alexandra of betraying Russia and her allies during the Great War. Under the spell of the scheming Grigori Rasputin, Alexandra disclosed military secrets to the enemy and pursued a separate peace with Germany. If this rumor becomes history, it will destroy her legacy and her family’s future.

Disguised as “Olivia,” a wartime nurse turned maid, Olga accepts a position in Lord Hammond’s household. There, she works to discover the truth about her mother. When Olga meets his lordship’s heir—an alluring, enigmatic war veteran—her situation grows even more precarious. Could she fall for the son of her new enemy? As she learns more about the tragedies of his past, Olga realizes the connection between their families is more complicated than it appears.

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About the Author

An avid history nerd long fascinated with the Romanov sisters, Jennifer Laam’s next books, including THE ROMANOV HEIRESS (March 2023), will explore their stories with several “what-ifs.”

A proud native of Stockton, CA, Jennifer currently lives in Sacramento with a spoiled tabby cat named Jonesy. When not reading or writing, she enjoys planning cosplay for the next San Diego Comic-Con, experimenting with vegetarian recipes (to mixed results), and obsessing over House Targaryen or Baby Yoda.

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Book Blast Schedule

Monday, March 6
Reading is My Remedy
Books In Their Natural Habitat

Tuesday, March 7
Michelle the PA Loves to Read

Wednesday, March 8
Robin Loves Reading

Thursday, March 9
The Lit Bitch
Jorie Loves A Story

Friday, March 10
History from a Woman’s Perspective

Saturday, March 11
Lisa Everyday Reads

Sunday, March 12
Books Less Travelled

Monday, March 13
A Girl Reads Bookss
Passages to the Past

Tuesday, March 14
I’m Into Books

Wednesday, March 15
My Reading Getaway

Thursday, March 16
The Book Junkie Reads

Friday, March 17
Impressions in Ink

Saturday, March 18
The Girl Who Reads

Sunday, March 19
Amy’s Bookshelf
CelticLady’s Reviews

Giveaway

Enter to win an eBook of The Romanov Heiress by Jennifer Laam!

The giveaway is open to the US only and ends on March 19th. You must be 18 or older to enter.

The Romanov Heiress