After her very successful tour
for
The Keys of the Watchmen,
one of the top 3 books
most viewed in 2015
on France Book Tours

Kathleen C. Perrin

is back for the second book in the series!

on tour

March 7-26, 2016

The Sword of the Maiden

(historical fiction)

 Release date: December 3, 2015
Self published at Langon House

515  pages

ISBN: 978-0692576922

Website | Goodreads

SYNOPSIS

After being abruptly separated from Nicolas le Breton during the battle to save Mont Saint Michel in 1424, Katelyn Michaels finds herself back in her normal twenty-first century life as an American teenager. Depressed and anxious to be reunited with Nicolas, she is comforted when a series of events and impressions lead her to believe she is being prepared for another mission as a Watchman. When her beloved mentor, Jean le Vieux, comes to her in a dream and gives her the injunction to “Learn of the Maiden and take her the sword,” Katelyn understands that her mission involves assisting one of the most iconic figures in all of French History. Katelyn is once again whisked back to the turmoil of medieval France during the Hundred Years’ War and to Nicolas. However, before the two can consider the future of their relationship, they must first complete their mission to take the sword to the Maiden. Little do they know that their old nemesis, Abdon, is already on their trail and will do everything in his unhallowed power to stop them.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kathleen C. Perrin
holds bachelor’s degrees in French and Humanities
from Brigham Young University
and is a certified French translator.
Besides being the author of The Watchmen Saga,
she has published several non-fiction articles, academic papers,
and a religious history about Tahiti.
Kathleen has lived in Utah, New York City, France, and French Polynesia.
She and her French husband have spent years
investigating the mysteries and beauties of his native country
—where they have a cottage—and have taken tourist groups to France.
The Perrins have three children and currently reside in Utah.

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VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Monday, March 7
Review + Giveaway at History from a Woman’s Perspective

Tuesday, March 8
Review by Erin on Goodreads

Wednesday, March 9
Review + Giveaway at French Village Diaries

Thursday, March 10
Review + Giveaway at The Fictional 100

Friday, March 11
Review + Giveaway at The Testy Badger

Saturday, March 12
Review + Giveaway at Book Nerd

Sunday, March 13
Guest-Post at History from a Woman’s Perspective

Tuesday, March 15
Review + Giveaway at LibriAmoriMiei

Wednesday, March 23
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway at Impressions in Ink

Thursday, March 24
Review + Giveaway at Celticlady’s Reviews

Saturday, March 26
Review + Giveaway at Words And Peace

  

You can enter the global giveaway here
or on any other book blogs participating in this tour.
Be sure to follow each participant on Twitter/Facebook,
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of the Tour will give you 5 extra entries each time!
[just follow the directions on the entry-form]

Global giveaway open internationally:
5 participants will each win a copy of this book, print or digital
and 3 participants will each win a $10 Amazon gift card

FRANCE BOOK TOURS 2015

2015 has been another great year for France Book Tours, its authors and its reviewers!

Here is the year through some graphs and stats.

28 books have been presented in 2015 (a total of 89 so far)

Mystery was the most popular genre, but we had a nice diversity otherwise.
Women writers were more present.
And many books translated from the French!

AND NOW TO THE 3 BOOKS
MOST OFTEN VIEWED IN 2015
(click on the covers to know more)

#1

#2

#3

Through France Book Tours, the following have been posted:

• 224 reviews
• 51 spolights
• 36 excerpts
• 13 guest-posts
• 12 interviews

Don’t forget that book reviewers are entered in $15 gift card giveaway for each 10 stops tour, when they cross-post their reviews. More information here.
Spread the word!

HAPPY NEW WRITING AND READING YEAR
TO EACH OF YOU!

We have winners!

won a copy of

Blood Rose Angel

(historical romance)

 Release date: November 14, 2015
at Liza Perrat

349  pages

ISBN: 978–2954168197

Website | Goodreads

SYNOPSIS

1348. A bone-sculpted angel and the woman who wears it––heretic, Devil’s servant, saint.
Midwife Héloïse has always known that her bastard status threatens her standing in the French village of Lucie-sur-Vionne. Yet her midwifery and healing skills have gained the people’s respect, and she has won the heart of the handsome Raoul Stonemason. The future looks hopeful. Until the Black Death sweeps into France.
Fearful that Héloïse will bring the pestilence into their cottage, Raoul forbids her to treat its victims. Amidst the grief and hysteria, the villagers searching for a scapegoat, Héloïse must choose: preserve her marriage, or honor the oath she swore on her dead mother’s soul? And even as she places her faith in the protective powers of her angel talisman, she must prove she’s no Devil’s servant, her talisman no evil charm.

PRAISE FOR BLOOD ROSE ANGEL

“Blood Rose Angel, from the spellbinding The Bone Angel series, tells a story of continuing family traditions, friendships overcoming adversity, and how good and evil are too often bestowed on fellow humans in the name of faith”––Zoe Saadia, author of ‘The Rise of the Aztecs’ and ‘The Peacemaker’ series.

“Medicine, religion, and love intertwine in this captivating, richly-detailed portrait of a young woman’s search for identity as the Black Death makes its first inroads into Europe. Liza Perrat uses her training as a midwife and her experiences living in a French village to create a compelling and unforgettable heroine determined to heal the sick in a world still ruled by superstition”––C. P. Lesley, author of The Golden Lynx and The Winged Horse.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Liza Perrat grew up in Wollongong, Australia,
where she worked as a general nurse and midwife for fifteen years.
When she met her French husband on a Bangkok bus,
she moved to France, where she has been living
with her husband and three children for twenty years.
She works part-time as a French-English medical translator,
and as a novelist.
Since completing a creative writing course twelve years ago,
several of her short stories have won awards,
notably the Writers Bureau annual competition of 2004
and her stories have been published widely in anthologies and small press magazines.
Her articles on French culture and tradition have been published in international magazines
such as France Magazine, France Today and The Good Life France.
Spirit of Lost Angels is the first in her French historical trilogy, The Bone Angel Series.
The second – Wolfsangel – was published in October, 2013,
and the third, Blood Rose Angel, is published in November, 2015.
She is a founding member of the author collective, Triskele Books and reviews books for BookMuse.

 

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