Blog Tour: The Innocent Auction by Victoria Sue

The Innocent Auction by Victoria Sue
Publisher: Victoria Sue; 1 edition (December 27, 2015)
Amazon Kindle: The Innocent Auction

Blurb: London 1810.
Their love was a death sentence.
Deacon, Viscount Carlisle, was aware of the slums and gin-lanes of London. Just as he was aware of the underground traffic that furnished the brothels and bath houses with human innocents. He was also aware that the so-called justice system would hang the accused without much of an attempt at a defense, unless the unfortunate had deep pockets to pay for it.
He just hadn’t expected to be directly involved in any of it.

It started with a plea for help and ended with forbidden love, the love between a Viscount and a stable-boy. An impossible love and a guarantee of the hangman's noose.
Will Deacon fight for Tom? Will he risk the death sentence and take that fight from the stately halls of his English mansion to the horrors of Newgate Prison and the slums of London?
Or will he realize that if he doesn't, death will be a welcome end to the loneliness of the sentence he is already living?

( Excerpt )

Meet the author: Has loved books for as long as she can remember. Books were always what pocket money went on and what usually Father Christmas brought. When she ran out of her kids' adventure stories, she would go raid her mom's. By the age of eight she was devouring classics like Little Women, and fell in love with love stories.
She especially loves writing gay romance because as far as she’s concerned the only thing better than one hot guy, is two of them.

1) Tell us about your book.
Hi – The Innocent Auction is set in England in 1810. My two main characters are Deacon who is estranged from his father, an Earl, and currently lives in London.
Tom is an orphan and a commoner. He has existed on the streets of London for three years until he gets himself into a huge mess that Deacon rescues him from. Deacon sends him to live and work as a stable boy on his father’s grand estate in the country.
Fast forward five years and Deacon finds out his father is dead and the estate is bankrupt. He goes home and meets an all grown-up Tom.

2) How difficult was it to get into the main character’s head?
I write the book from the point of view of both characters. I read an account of a trial at the time when I thought about writing this story, and both characters immediately started talking to me. Homosexuality was a hanging offence. The fact that one was a lord and one was a commoner meant they couldn’t even be friends in the eyes of society. I had to write this to get them a happy ever after.

3) Is this book a standalone or do you plan on visiting it again?
The book itself is standalone, but I am currently writing The Innocent Betrayal which tells the story of one of the minor characters in the book.

4) Why did you choose to write M/M stories?
Because I think they have a harder time getting their happy ever after, and I wanted to be responsible for a few of them, even if they are only in books.

5) Where do you find your inspiration?
Things just come to me. I sometimes get the title of a book without having a clue what the story is going to be about. I wrote one of my books based on a photo in a magazine.

Where to find the author:
www.victoriasue.com
@vickysuewrites
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sue.kellett
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28236823-the-innocent-auction



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