The Baron Regrets by D.S. Dehel - Book Tour + Giveaway
The Baron Regrets
by D.S. Dehel
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Cozy Mystery
Regret nothing.
Tessa Winthrop, an art restoration specialist, is hoping for the job of a lifetime—one which would cement her reputation in a field dominated by her male colleagues.
Working for Baron Lucien Stanhope—or Leo as he prefers—challenges Tess’s talent, intellect, and emotions. Leo is charming, handsome, and way out of her league. It doesn’t matter, though, because she only is there for her art and the mystery surrounding master painter Giovanni Remini.
When a night of passion leads to consequences that could mean the end of her career, Tess fears that the baron regrets having ever met her.
But fate has more in store for them, and sometimes regrets are the beginning of better things.
“Robert, I would like you to meet
Ms. Tessa Winthrop. She is the art historian and conservator I have hired to
work on Willows.” Leo had not moved
from just inside the door. “Tessa, I would like you to meet my brother,
Robert.”
Robert did a double-take and
dropped the remote before hopping up and heading towards them.
Tess’s first thought was that while
Leo was like a model in a magazine, she would look at him, think, He’s
handsome, but then turn the page and forget about
him. However, Robert was also like a model, but she would tear his picture out
to be used as a reference. He was that striking.
The brothers were a study in
contrasts. Although they were the same height, Leo appeared taller because of
his thin, aristocratic build. Robert was more muscular and wore clothes that
emphasized the fact. Leo’s hair was ash brown and wavy, possibly curly, but it
was short and slicked back. Robert’s was straight and dark blond, worn fashionably
long.
Up close, she noticed Robert’s eyes
were the color of the sea on a sunny day, while Leo’s were a stormy gray.
“I’m the spare,” Robert said,
shaking Tess’s hand and not letting go. He turned to Leo. “And here I thought
you were hiring another dowdy artist. You didn’t tell me she was beautiful.”
“Robert is my younger brother and an incorrigible flirt. Don’t listen to a word
he says.”
“That’s not a nice thing to say.
Tess is beautiful. She reminds me of
Botticelli’s Venus.” He tugged Tess
closer to him with the hand he was still holding. “Don’t pay any attention to
Leo. He’s just an old bore who has no taste in women.”
Leo rolled his eyes. “She looks
nothing like Venus.”
“How insulting.” But Robert’s
outrage was clearly feigned.
“Well, at least he didn’t say I
look like Picasso’s Woman in a Green Hat,”
she quipped.
Behind them, Leo snorted. Robert
smiled, but Tess could see he did not know the Cubist painting. I bet
Venus is the only painting you know.
“I hate to interrupt your vain
attempt at wooing Tessa, but I would like to show her where she will be
working.” Leo was now the formal, serious man of the interview.
It was Robert’s turn to roll his
eyes at his brother.
“And it’s gauche to flirt with
staff.” Though she may have been teasing, she had a rule to not get involved
with her employers.
Finally, Robert dropped her hand.
“But my dear, you are not staff. You are an expert restorer, and thus fair
game.”
“You stay away from her.” Leo
pointed a finger at his brother. “Let her work.” Then he walked out of the
room.
D. S. Dehel is a lover of literature, good food, and the Oxford comma. When she is not immersed in a book, she is mom to her kids and spoiling her rather coddled feline, Mr. Darcy or her equally pampered puppy, Jameson. Having finally retired, she spends her days dreaming up new plotlines. She adores literary allusions, writing sex scenes, and British men. Actually, make that hot men in general. Her devoted husband is still convinced she writes children’s books. Please don’t enlighten him.
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