{"id":1119,"date":"2011-02-14T10:16:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T17:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2011-02-14T10:16:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T17:16:16","slug":"paper-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/2011\/02\/14\/1119\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/AJL_PaperValentine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1120\" title=\"AJL_PaperValentine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/AJL_PaperValentine-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/AJL_PaperValentine-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/www.ajllewellyn.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/AJL_PaperValentine.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day! My new M\/M novel set in Victorian England may be historical but has all the hot romance you&#8217;ve come to expect from an A.J. Llewellyn story. Wishing all my wonderful readers a day of romance and passion.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I love you all!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A.J. xoox<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>PAPER VALENTINE <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>London, 1840. At the height of Victorian hypocrisy, two men meet and fall in love. Their romance is forbidden, punishable even by death, but their passion blossoms thanks to a paper Valentine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Saint Valentine\u2019s Day has become a new and very popular day for lovers. Thousands of Londonites are clamouring for the ideal romantic gift. While men buy chocolate and posies, they yearn for something more unusual, more personal. Enterprising brothers Aldon and Samuel Barnaby hit upon the idea of paper Valentines, creating lavish presentations decorated with silk, lace, and paper flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Aldon is fortunate to have his perfect valentine going to his expectant wife, Geneve, but Samuel still longs for his own true love, pouring his heart and soul into his beautiful creations. Samuel\u2019s romantic verses inside his paper Valentines are in huge demand, yet not a single local girl can lay claim to his heart\u2026because his passion lies not in a woman, but another man\u2014Jude, a handsome but shy widower.<\/p>\n<p>Jude&#8217;s heart, haunted by grief, hasn&#8217;t been ready to consider marriage again. But slowly, through his inclusion in the Barnaby family&#8217;s lives&#8230;and his frequent excursions to stop and stare at the Barnabys\u2019 shop window&#8230;he begins to wonder in what direction his future lies.<\/p>\n<p>Can Samuel possibly allow his heart to explore love with another man? Could Jude ever love him in return? He sends Jude an exquisite, anonymous paper Valentine, not suspecting that his entire world is about to be turned upside down\u2026<\/p>\n<p>For an excerpt and purchase please click this link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.total-e-bound.com\/product.asp?strParents=&amp;CAT_ID=&amp;P_ID=1074\">http:\/\/www.total-e-bound.com\/product.asp?strParents=&amp;CAT_ID=&amp;P_ID=1074<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day! My new M\/M novel set in Victorian England may be historical but has all the hot romance you&#8217;ve come to expect from an A.J. Llewellyn story. Wishing all my wonderful readers a day of romance and passion. I love you all! A.J. xoox PAPER VALENTINE London, 1840. 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