Guest Blogger Rae Summers, Author

Readers, today please help me welcome a guest author, Rae Summers. Rae lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, and is a working mom. Welcome, Rae!

Thank you for hosting me here today, Caroline.

My novella, LET’S MISBEHAVE, which released from The Wild Rose Press last week, is set in the Jazz Age. It’s not a period often seen in romance novels, but I just adore the 1920s.

It was a time of adventure, when people let go of the restrictions of the past, experimented and indulged. It was the time of youth, with society dominated by young writers like Scott Fitzgerald, and by young Hollywood icons or celebrities like the dashing Charles Lindbergh. At lavish parties, jazz was in the air. Party-goers danced the Charleston and drank exotic cocktails or bubbling champagne.

Best of all for me, was that the 20s were really the time when women came into their own. They bobbed their hair, wore short skirts, drove cars and drank alcohol. Women poets and writers, sportswomen and actresses, made names for themselves, and everywhere women were getting the vote, getting jobs and gaining their freedom. We modern women owe a great deal to those pioneers of the 20s. At the very least we can thank them for originating compact mirrors and metal lipstick containers.

My heroine is one of these modern women and I hope you enjoy reading about her and her rocky path to love, as much as I enjoyed writing her.

LET’S MISBEHAVE Blurb:

Gabrielle is the quintessential Flapper, a wild child who turns her back on home and a resentful and unloving mother to become a nightclub singer. She wants nothing more from life than freedom and pleasure.

Sebastian is a dutiful son, following in his father’s footsteps and on the verge of marrying a suitable bride. But as the Twenties roar to their conclusion, he finds himself torn between duty and the urge to indulge his adventurous streak.

From the moment Gabrielle and Sebastian meet, the tension between them simmers. When he rescues her from a boorish suitor, Gabrielle discovers a kindred spirit beneath Sebastian's serious demeanour, and she sets out to seduce him into one last passionate fling before he settles for a loveless marriage.

But the fire that burns between them threatens to consume her. Will Gabrielle survive falling in love with the one man she cannot have?

If you’d like to find out more about LET’S MISBEHAVE, or about London in the Jazz Age, visit my blog at http://raesummers.blogspot.com.

You can view the book trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRjGdk2DysA

To buy a copy of LET’S MISBEHAVE: http://www.thewildrosepress.com/lets-misbehave-p-4119.html

Rae, LET'S MISBEHAVE sounds intriguing. I love that time period, too. Thanks for being my guest today. Good luck with your writing.