Blog Tour ‘Trial of Love’ by Christina Ow

Welcome
to my stop on the blog tour for ‘Trial of Love’ by Chirstina Ow. Today I’m
participating in my first ever blog tour and I’m totally excited for this new
addition on my blog. To see the full tour schedule click HERE.

I think
I should start with a little introduction 🙂

 

Hi, my
name is Rinah and I go by the author name Christina OW—it’s my mom’s names and
initials. I couldn’t think of a better way to honor her and all she’s done for
me being a single parent raising three girls. I write Paranormal, Contemporary,
Fantasy fiction romance and now Regency/Historical romance. I must say, so far
Regency romance has been my favorite to write– it feels like giving unknown
personalities from the 18th and 19th century life by telling their ‘what if’
story and I find it remarkable.

Once
upon a time, long long time ago I wasn’t much of a fan of historical books. Yeah,
shocking! But I used to think the Old English was too distracting and I didn’t
like the description of the characters especially the male ones–too unmanly.
An image of a pale out of shape stuffy dandy with an annoying nasal voice kept
popping in my head when I’d read some of the dialogue. And the women, they
annoyed me most. Always written like complete air heads who fainted at the
littlest things and hang onto the belief that without a man their lives were
meaningless! I also didn’t like that they didn’t have a say in their own
lives– I became a true feminist while reading those books. So I stopped
reading them all together until I happened across a book by Jerrica
Knight-Catania. There was nothing wrong with the genre I was just reading the
wrong categories and books by authors who didn’t suit my taste.

She
introduced me to lust worthy heroes and strong heroines despite their limited
life coupled with restrictions of the society and the best description of a
world I wished I’d seen first hand. And let’s just say the forbidden fruit is
tastier even for a passive audience like a reader. The illicit affairs, the
forbidden loves and the lengths the heroes and heroines would go for
happiness… regency romance became a fantasy fairytale to me full of passion
and excitement that drew me in and left me craving for more! After just one of
Jerrica’s books I became hooked, an addict for the genre searching for authors
with the same writing style and adding them to my favorite authors list. Then
one day I just thought, why not try my hand at it?

I knew I
would need to do a lot of research to make the story authentic enough and
change my way of thinking and writing to fit the genre and then finally, I let
my imagination weave the rest and thus TRIAL OF LOVE, book #1 of THE SLAVE
BOUND SERIES was born! It took a while before I queried it because I was so
frightened it wouldn’t be good enough. But I took the risk, figuring the only
way I could truly know it was read worthy was if I queried it to the same
publisher who published a good number of my favorite regency/historical
books.  I queried to Second Wind
Publishing and Mike loved it. It was a long road before the final product was
out but I’m proud of the book we both put out.

Trial Of
Love, a turbulent love story about a slave from America and the Earl who saved
her from a fate worse than death .

After
her mother’s death, Melanie’s life in America is full of heartache. Still, she
has never allowed herself to despair. She was responsible for the care of her
beloved father. Then he remarried a woman to wicked to be considered a mother
to Melanie or her two sisters. After years of abuse, the stepmother sells
Melanie off—to work in a brothel, and about to be sold to the highest bidder.
Through a series of fortuitous events, Melanie falls into the care of
Christopher, Earl of Ashworth, who has family issues of her own. The solution
to his problems—and redemption for Melanie—wind together toward destiny.

 For a
chance on winning a copy of ‘Trail of Love’ go to the Giveaway website.

– See you in the pages of Trial Of Love! –