Michael Ashton, the Duke of Ravensdale, is caught in two scandals, neither of which is his own doing. The first involves a woman (don't they always), and the second...well, it also involves a woman and a large sum of stolen money. To clear his family name, Michael must track down his charlatan cousin... the same cousin believed to be dead. Blythe Willoughby Ashton has been married for a year, but hasn't been a wife for even a day. When she learns of her husband's death, she just wants to be left alone. Then her husband's cousin shows up uninvited on her doorstep, looking more handsome than any man should. He is the one man she knows she shouldn't trust. She is the one woman he knows he can't have.
It was a Saturday afternoon when Jeannie Ruesch gave up her illustrious, hours-long ambition of becoming a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader (after seeing the made for TV movie). That day, she sat to write her very first story and when she was finished, she knew that pen ..or rather, pencil and collegiate-lined paper was the path for her. She was six. She finished her first two books in 7th grade--handwritten on 150 legal size pages and complete with hearts dotting the I's, of course.
Jeannie sold her first completed novel (as an adult and written on a computer this time) in 2008 to The Wild Rose Press- a historical romance that has been a labor of love from the start. "It's been through four or five revisions, including one complete scrap-it-and-start-over, and has been a wonderful tool for learning how to be a better writer."
She is also the creator of the WIP Notebook, a writer's tool to help stay organized while you write, which you can find at her website.
Now with a few more tools in her author's tool belt, her first book soon to be published, and a drawer full of emergency chocolate, she has a lot more stories to tell. She lives in Northern California with her husband (who is likely tired of having his brain picked on the 'male perspective'), and their son and a puppy named Cooper who likes to sleep at her feet while she writes.
