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Web of Deceit

by Catherine Lanigan

Adult Historical Romance

ebook, 462 pages

June 4th 2016 by Cat Nolan Publishing

A Passion she could not deny—A lie she could never escape—

From the depths of a London slum, Amanda Granger created an illusion of wealth and breeding that became her passport into New York society. With her dazzling beauty and the ease with which she lived her lie, Amanda captivated an adoring public and drove men to bold and dangerous passions.

But for all her fierce ambition, all her daring dreams, Amanda Granger knew that her heart’s desires were held together by the fragile threads of deception and secrets. Triumph would always be elusive until she escaped from her web of deceit.

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Catherine Lanigan is the international bestselling and award-winning author of forty published titles in both fiction and non-fiction, including the novelizations of Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile, as well as over half a dozen anthologies, including “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living your Dream”, “Chicken Soup for the Writer’s Soul”, and more. Ms. Lanigan’s novels have been translated into dozens of languages including German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. Ms. Lanigan’s novels are also available in E-books on Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.com, Apple Store, Mobi and Kobo. Several of her titles have been chosen for The Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Clubs. Her Vietnam war-based novel, The Christmas Star, won the Gold Medal Award Top Pick from Romantic Times Magazine and has also won Book of the Year Romance Gold Award from ForeWord Magazine as well as Book of the Year Romance from Reader’s Preference.

Lanigan is the author of a trilogy of non- fiction books regarding angelic intervention in human life: Angel Watch, Divine Nudges and Angel Tales published by HCI and Cedar Fort.

Skyhorse published Lanigan’s “how-to” book on writing: Writing the Great American Romance Novel.

Lanigan was tasked by the NotMYkid Foundation to write a non-fiction book addressing teen addictions. Ms. Lanigan’s first Young Adult adventure novel, The Adventures of Lillie and Zane: The Golden Flute, was published by Cedar Fort.

Currently, she has published six novels in the Shores of Indian Lake series for Harlequin Heartwarming: Love Shadows, Heart’s Desire, A Fine Year for Love, Katia’s Promise and Fear of Falling. Sophie’s Path pubs July, 2016. She has recently contracted for three more in the series: Danger Zone, Wedding for Isabelle and A Bride for Mica.

As a cancer survivor, Ms. Lanigan is a frequent speaker at literary functions and book conventions as well as inspiring audiences with her real stories of angelic intervention from her Angel Tales series of books. She is an outspoken advocate for domestic violence and abuse and was honored by The National Domestic Violence Hotline in Washington, D.C. (THE EVOLVING WOMAN). She has been a guest on numerous radio programs including “Coast to Coast” and on television interview and talk show programs as well as blogs, podcasts and online radio interview programs.

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AMANDA’S JOURNEY 

On this book tour, most of my posts and information have been about the fact that Amanda Granger came from the London slums and rose in New York society by telling a lie. In 1890 New York, though there were no “classes” as there were in England, there were still levels of society.  Money bought a person a measure of a position. Political power was another. Fame still another. 

Women in 1890, bettered themselves as women had for thousands of years. Through marriage. Amanda was no different. She married David Simon, an ambitious painter who saw Amanda as his meal ticket and his stairway to fame and immortality. 

Amanda’s real journey starts after she falls in love with Matthew Wade, a married man, while she’s pregnant with David’s baby.  When she meets Matthew, it’s as if she’s know him in another life. Matthew’s marriage was arranged. It was not a love match on either side. He married Sydney to please his father and hers. 

Amanda’s work as a model brings her into contact with magazine publishers and editors. She is fascinated with writing. And when she wants to write about the New York that she sees, the underside of high society where women are employed like chattel, she is appalled. 

When the editor of the magazine she’s been selling her portraits to, will not print her articles, she knows she must start her own magazine. She divorces David when she realizes he’s having an affair with his new model. 

Amanda’s magazine expounds women’s issues of that day, which are shockingly the same issues women face today. Birth control.  Women in politics. Poor working conditions. Maternity leaves. 

When I researched the stories about women’s rights back in 1890, I was shocked to see they were nearly the same as what I read in my magazines today.

Amanda was a legend maker in her own right. Ahead of her time. Fighting for equality and hoping to secure lasting love for herself. 

— Catherine

Tour Schedule

September 6th: Launch

September 7th: Falling Leaves

September 8th: Bloomfield of thoughts

September 9th: underneath the covers

September 11th: Rockin’ Book Reviews

September 12th: Nicole’s Book Musings

September 13th: The Silver Dagger Scriptorium

September 14th: Mel’s Shelves

September 15th: Wishful Endings

September 16th: Becky on Books

September 18th: Colorimetry

September 20th: Thoughts of a Blonde

September 19th: My Devotional Thoughts

September 21th: EskieMama Reads

September 22nd: Book Lover in Florida

September 23rd: Sylv all about books and films

September 25th: Harlie’s Books

September 26th: Grand Finale

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