more than a decade. She is also dedicated to animal rescue and advocacy. She writes full-time, surrounded by four rescued cats and one spoiled rescue dog.
Galen applied the Page 69 Test to her new Regency romance, A Shop Girl's Guide to Wooing a Lord, with the following results:
From page 69:Visit Shana Galen's website."You're starving."It turns out that page 69 is a perfect glimpse into A Shop Girl's Guide to Wooing a Lord. As the novel opens, Tamsin Archer is starving and desperate. She's also proud, as evidenced by her refusal to take offered food from the "deep voice in the back room," who happens to be a friend of hers. Garret, on the other hand, wants to save her. He wants her to be comfortable and safe and cared for. This page also hints that Tamsin knows more about him than he does about her. She knows his name, which indicates they have met before. Garret doesn't seem to remember the meeting, but even after fainting, Tamsin knows exactly who he is and where he stands in relation to her socially.
She looked at him, seemed to realize just how close they were, his arm about her waist, and tried to back away. "Steady now. Hold on to the table."
She grasped the table with a white-knuckled grip, and he stepped back, not wanting to crowd her. Still holding the edge of the table, she moved around it, putting the furnishing between them. "I am sorry about last night, Mr. Garret. Please don't call the magistrate."
Garret felt a zing of surprise shoot through him. "You know my name?"
"I beg your pardon. I forgot your surname. My head is fuzzy."
"Ye want this toast?" came a deep voice from the back room.
"Yes!" Garret called.
"No!" Miss Archer replied.
Page 69 only hints at the sexual tension between the two of them. This scene is in Garret's point-of-view, and he notes that Miss Archer comes to and realizes how close they are physically. We don't know what she's feeling, but presumably she knows physical contact with a person of the opposite sex is inappropriate for the time in which this book is set and she is uncomfortable with it. She immediately puts space between them, though that might also be because she is anticipating the need to escape. She asks him not to call the magistrate, indicating she has done something illegal that Garret knows about.
This is an ideal peek into the novel, and if it raises your interest, then this might be the book for you!
--Marshal Zeringue
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