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Blurb
for EMMA: The Wild and Wanton Edition:
Emma
Woodhouse and Mr. Knightley won the literary world’s heart 200 years ago when
Jane Austen first penned the story of their friendship-turned-love.
Emma is the young, rich, beautiful heroine with too much time on her hands and
an overactive imagination; Mr. Knightley is her long-suffering friend who is
always trying to steer her in the right direction. Their love story is one of
deep, dedicated affection blooming into passion.
But what about all of that sexual tension that crackles in the subtext? In this
Wild and Wanton edition of Austen’s classic, Emma and Mr. Knightley burn up the
pages as they give in to their baser natures. Discover the sexy scenes that
readers of Emma have been imagining between Austen’s lines since 1815.
Emma
Woodhouse is a lady of leisure with little to occupy her time and so fancies
herself a talented matchmaker. Taking credit for the successful match between
her former governess, Miss Taylor, and the widower, Mr. Weston, she now sets her
sights on bringing more unmatched friends together all the while trying to
ignore her own desirable thoughts of the noble Mr. Knightley.
George
Knightley has known Emma Woodhouse since her birth and until recently had not
thought of as anything more than a spoiled girl who he enjoyed goading into
temper. But something about Emma has changed, at least in his eyes, and he now
finds his thoughts and his desires straying into a territory that has him feeling unhinged.
Excerpt
(a spicy one):
She was his own Emma, by hand and
word.
He made a noise that seemed to
emanate from deep within his chest, and the light kisses he had been gifting
her with continued to travel up from her wrist to her inner forearm, to the
hallow of her elbow at which point she completely forgot how to breathe.
He began to talk again, his breath
caressing her skin as completely as his lips had seconds ago. “You have made me a very happy man, my
Emma.” He punctuated the endearment with
another kiss to her upper arm. “I had
dared not to hope—” a kiss to her cloth-covered shoulder “—dared not to dream.”
His words trailed off as he pressed
an open-mouth kiss to her collarbone.
She felt the sweep of something velvety and wet, and her body jolted as
she realised it was his tongue. She
heard herself make a noise, and heard him echo it.
“I am forgetting myself, dearest,”
he said hoarsely into the patch of damp skin.
“Remind me,” he begged. “Remind
me of how I should behave.”
Her Mr. Knightley, Emma thought with
exultation, always so concerned with how one should behave. Emma was entirely uninterested in proper
behaviour at this moment. “Not yet,” she whispered into his hair, the scent of
the garden and sunshine greeting her as she rested her cheek against his
head. “Please not yet.”
He groaned and his kisses moved to the
hallow of her throat. “Your wish, my
lady.” ***
EMMA by
Jane Austen is one of my favorite of her works simply because of Mr. Knightley
and the way he stands back and allows Emma her lead. Of course, he does so while keeping her check
without her notice, until she makes a fool of herself and then scolds her out of
fear of losing her to Frank Churchhill. Micah Persell has taken this beautiful
story with its lively banter and unspoken attractions and filled in the blanks
for us bringing EMMA to life in a way that I’m sure Ms. Austen would surely
have approved - if it would not have shocked her into a blushing silence. Keeping true
to the voice of Jane Austen, Micah has improved upon a classic. She has made it
even more romantic, if possible. She's filled in the gaps for us. From Mr. Weston’s proposal to Miss Taylor and
her wanton acceptance in the garden clear through to the Knightley’s wedding
night, which was just as I would imagine it to be since Emma was most assuredly
a virgin, when she married her Mr.
Knightley. As Ms. Austen ended her own edition, there was most certainly a perfect happiness in the union.
I
highly recommend EMMA: The Wild and Wanton Edition by Micah Persell and Jane
Austen to every fan of Ms. Austen’s works who has ever wondered about the true
romance hidden between those lines of expert and exquisite prose. Mr. Knightley
has always been my favorite Austen hero but now I’m totally in love with this
most honorable, noble and sexy man.
About the Authors:
Jane
Austen is one of the most beloved authors of all time. She never married, and as far as we know, she
died a virgin. More’s the pity.
Micah
Persell is the award-winning author of the paranormal romance series Operation: Middle of the Garden. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English and
a double master’s degree in English pedagogy and literature, and she found
particular delight in driving her professors to madness by imagining the
characters’ salacious untold stories during class discussions of “serious
literature.” She is beyond thrilled that
the object of her professors’ horror is now her profession.
To learn
more about Micah Persell and her books, please visit her website and feel free
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3 comments:
Love the Review! Thank you for hosting today!
Umm, I'd have to say Pride and Prejudice. But I'm nit finished exploring Miss Austen's works.
Sounds interesting! I love Jane Austen :)
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