Twelve-thousand a year and an extensive estate can gild a sow's ear, or so Elizabeth Elliot has always supposed. But now that she's fallen for the dashing Patrick Gill, Elizabeth is almost ready to give up Mr Rushworth's fortune. Painfully aware of her bruised pride and vulnerable heart, Elizabeth can only despise herself for loving so common a man. But it has never occurred to her that darling Mr Gill guards a secret of his own--and that he might be responsible for her father's disappearance. So Lively a Chase is book 2 of Laura Hile's delightful series Mercy's Embrace: Elizabeth Elliot's story based on Jane Austen's Persuasion.
I began writing on-line serialized fiction in the days when the Internet was young. To keep readers interested, I developed what has become my signature style: rapid pace, intertwined plots, cliffhangers, and laugh-out-loud humor. The comedy I come by naturally in my job as a seventh grade teacher. There's never a dull moment at school!
That's also true in my Regency novels. They're anything but the usual "stop, drop, and roll" bodice ripper! I think of them as a delightful escape--dare I say mind candy? --for the thinking reader.
