My Coffee Pot Guest: Stella Riley - The Shadow Earl

Welcome to my Blog!
Wander through worlds
real and fictional,
meet interesting people,
visit exciting places
and find good books
to enjoy along the way!

About the Book

Book Title: The Shadow Earl

Author: Stella Riley

Publication Date: 15^th July, 2023

Publisher: Stella Riley

Page Length:  433

Genre: Historical Romanc

At the end of his Grand Tour, somewhere between Athens and Constantinople, Christian Selwyn, the young Earl of Hazelmere, vanished - seemingly without a trace.

Time passes.  In London, his uncle and cousin move into his home … while his unofficial fiancée, Sophia, is left desolate and in limbo.  Finally, his friends – loyal and close as brothers – set out to search in person. 

Christian’s startling re-appearance at a grand ball takes society by storm and fuels endless speculation. Where has he been during these three missing years? What happened to him? 

And more importantly, how did it happen? 

Only one thing is clear.  The earl who left England five years ago, has returned a changed man.  A man with secrets.

SHARING A SNIPPET....

London 1779:  Christian, Lord Hazelmere, has been missing for 2 years

Four gentlemen sat in a private card room at Sinclairs while one of them reminded the others of things, most of which they already knew.

‘After we recalled the other searchers, Penfold stayed on but to little effect. He found no trace the dragoman Christian engaged for his journey or the fellows Basil sent to find him when he didn’t arrive at Palermo or the ones Eustace claimed to have sent to search when Basil returned alone.’

‘No surprise there,’ muttered Daniel. ‘There’s a murky pit of jealousy in Basil – and possibly Eustace – that I don’t think Kit is remotely aware of.’

‘He knows,’ said Benedict. ‘He just doesn’t care to explore it.’

‘Quite.’  Gerald reached for the next page. ‘There was a possible sighting of Christian on the Dardanelles and a rumour of a fair-haired Westerner outside Constantinople – but those might be anyone.’  He looked up. ‘Basically, we’re no nearer finding him than we were a year ago. All we can be sure of is that he would have returned if he could.  So either he’s too ill or injured to travel or …’

‘Or someone is preventing him doing so,’ finished Benedict grimly.  And then, ‘We’ve let this slide far too long.’

‘I agree.  Sending men to search was all very well,’ replied Anthony. ‘But when they found nothing, we should have gone ourselves.’

‘Can’t we just kidnap Baz Selwyn and choke the truth out of him?’ suggested Daniel. ‘I wouldn’t put dirty tricks past him.  And he knows more than he’s saying.’

‘We believe he does,’ corrected Benedict with a wry smile. ‘But we can’t prove it.’

‘So we force him to admit it.’

‘He won’t.’  Gerald straightened his papers. ‘He and his father are living in Christian’s house, spending his money and treating the earldom as if it was their own.  In short, they’re behaving as if Christian was dead.  But they can’t say that he is dead without admitting knowledge they claim not to have.’

~  *  ~

Audiobook narrated by Alex Wyndham

Buy Links:

Universal Link: 

https://books2read.com/u/meqpeZ

Amazon UK: 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shadow-Earl-Stella-Riley-ebook/dp/B0C6VMXVTC/  

Amazon US: 

https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Earl-Stella-Riley-ebook/dp/B0C6VMXVTC/

Amazon CA: 

https://www.amazon.ca/Shadow-Earl-Stella-Riley-ebook/dp/B0C6VMXVTC/

Amazon AU: 

https://www.amazon.com.au/Shadow-Earl-Stella-Riley-ebook/dp/B0C6VMXVTC/

Barnes and Noble: 

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-shadow-earl-stella-riley/1143607582?ean=2940166065582

Kobo: 

https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-shadow-earl

Smashwords: 

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1401655

About the Author

Winner of four gold medals for historical romance (Readers' Favourite in 2019, Book Excellence Awards in 2020, Global Book Awards in 2022 and Book Excellence Award in 2023) and fifteen B.R.A.G. Medallions, Stella Riley lives in the beautiful medieval town of Sandwich in Kent.

She is fascinated by the English Civil Wars and has written six books set in that period. These, like the 7 book Rockliffe series (recommended in The Times newspaper!) and the Brandon Brothers trilogy, are all available in audio, narrated by Alex Wyndham.

Stella enjoys travel, reading, theatre, Baroque music and playing the harpsichord.  She also has a fondness for men with long hair - hence her 17th and 18th century heroes.

Website:  https://stellarileybooks.co.uk

Twitter: 

https://twitter.com/RileyStella

Facebook: 

https://www.facebook.com/stellariley.books

Instagram: 

https://www.instagram.com/stellarileybooks/

Pinterest: 

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/riley9631/stella-riley-books/

Book Bub: 

https://www.bookbub.com/search?search=Stella%20Riley

Amazon Author Page: 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stella-Riley/e/B0034PB7UU

Goodreads: 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/171405852-the-shadow-earl

 

 Follow the tour

Twitter Handles:  @RileyStella @cathiedunn

Instagram Handles:  @stellarileybooks @thecoffeepotbookclub

Hashtags: #HistoricalRomance #HistoricalMystery #BlogTour 

#The CoffeePotBookClub

Tour Schedule Page: 

https://thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2023/07/blog-tour-shadow-earl-by-stella-riley.html

< PREVIOUS POST

*** *** 

You might also like 

books written by Helen Hollick 

Website: https://helenhollick.net/

Amazon Author Page: https://viewauthor.at/HelenHollick 

The Jan Christopher Cosy Mysteries

set in the 1970s

www.helenhollick.net

~ ~  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 

Have you ever thought of saying 'thank you'?
https://thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2023/08/summertime-history-say-thank-you.html?fbclid=IwAR0aS4fWJXlQ70RLhyopReb1dIu5n-aL80R9q7w8MelmC_28mnBdMdttKNY