Breaking Josephine
Brooke Stanton
Publication date: November 1st 2018
Genres: Adult, Historical, Romance

From an award winning and #1 bestselling author comes a “HOT, sexy, and sinfully delicious historical romance!”

Widower Jack Harrington needs a young man to work on his farm, what he gets is eighteen-year-old Josephine Taylor—a spirited young woman from Manhattan. Stubborn and willful, Jo tests Jack’s limits. But soon the struggle between them awakens a passion neither can resist. Giving in to temptation could mean the ruin of Jo socially and the destruction of Jack’s carefully guarded heart. Do they have the courage to fight against the restraints of society and fall into the intoxicating embrace of love…

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After her own misadventures in New York City, LA, and London, Brooke Stanton now lives in sunny South Florida. She’s an award-winning author who has contributed to Natural Awakenings Magazine, wrote a column for Examiner.com, and is the author of The Bloom Sisters series. Visit her website brookestantonbooks.com.

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Question with Author Brooke Stanton

If you could be one of your characters for a day, who would it be and why?”

I’m intrigued by the era in Ruby’s Passion. Things were a lot less complicated in many ways in 1905, but as much as we romanticize it, living in those times were not ideal for many people. Women in particular…if you had ambitions beyond domestic life. (In the next book in the series I introduce a character who is half Native American, and the hardships that came with not fitting into a society that liked to keep classes and races separate). But in Ruby’s Passion, I don’t tread far from the simple desires of a woman in that time—to be a wife and mother.

Ruby, the heroine of the story, is still complex with a past that has stymied her transformation from girl to woman. At the start of the story, Ruby has just married the man she loves, James Lucas, but on her wedding night she discovers a devastating secret that turns her sheltered and predictable world on it’s head.

I would love to walk in her shoes for a day (after everything was resolved!) and see through her eyes the world she lives in as a pioneer woman in the new state of Oklahoma. Not to mention all the hot sex she has with James Lucas!

But the character’s life that intrigues me the most from the book—even more than Ruby’s—is James’s mother, Sarah. I’d love to walk the halls of her Manhattan townhouse and drape myself in all the rich fabrics of her turn-of-the-century wardrobe. I’d be waited on by her lovely staff, then I’d wander the streets of old New York experiencing what life was really like from the slums to the gilded mansions off Fifth Avenue.

These are two very different women living very different lives in the Gilded Age, and to experience a taste of every day life from each of their perspectives would be deliciously fascinating. It’s why I love writing historical fiction. It’s a way of experiencing life from long ago—while still enjoying the modern conveniences of today!