Colette Saucier* has been writing poems, short stories, and novellas since grade school and experienced early success in having several of her poems published in her junior high school newspaper.  Her interest in literature led her to marry her college English professor, but eventually a love of history encouraged her to trade up to a British historian.  Technical writing has dominated Colette’s career for the past twenty years; but finding little room for creativity in that genre, she has spent the last several years traveling to Europe and Britain, researching Regency England and vampire lore and literature, to complete her first full-length novel, Pulse and Prejudice  – a Secret Cravings Publishing #1 Bestseller. She was selected Austenprose “Debut Author of the Year” in 2012 for her contemporary novel All My Tomorrows.

*Pen name

Visit Colette on her website – ColetteSaucier.com  – her Blog and Facebook Page and on Twitter @Colette_Saucier

 

 

Colette’s Novels ~

 

Pulse and Prejudice

Austenprose Readers’ Choice: Top 5 Books of 2012

In this thrilling and sensual adaptation of the classic love story, Elizabeth Bennet and the citizens of Hertfordshire know Fitzwilliam Darcy to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man, but they never suspect the dark secret of his true nature.  He is not a man at all – but a vampire.

When the haughty and wealthy Fitzwilliam Darcy arrives in the rural county of Hertfordshire, he finds he cannot control his attraction to Elizabeth Bennet – a horrifying thought because, as she is too far below his social standing to ignite his heart, he fears she must appeal to the dark impulses he struggles to suppress.

Set against the vivid backdrop of historical Regency England, this adaptation of Pride and Prejudice follows the cursed Mr. Darcy as he endeavours to overcome both his love and his bloodlust for Miss Elizabeth Bennet.   Although Pulse and Prejudice adheres to the original plot and style of the Jane Austen classic, it is not a “mash-up” but an imaginative, thrilling variation told primarily from Darcy’s point of view as he descends into the seedier side of London and introduces Elizabeth to a world of passion and the paranormal she never knew existed.

For an excerpt and info on Pulse and Prejudice, visit HERE

 

 

All My Tomorrows

P&E Readers Poll: Top 10 Best Romance Novels of 2012

All My Tomorrows is losing the ratings war.

Headwriter Alice McGillicutty would do anything to save the long-running soap opera from cancellation, even reading the old absurdist melodrama The Edge of Darkness for inspiration.

When scandal rips Hollywood bad boy Peter Walsingham off the tabloids and into her studio, Alice doubts the small screen is big enough for his ego – or his entourage. In their battle of pride and prejudice, will Peter’s vanity and arrogance compel Alice to write him out of her script, or can she find a role for him in All My Tomorrows?

For an excerpt and info on All My Tomorrow, visit HERE

 

 

Dearest Bloodiest Elizabeth ~ coming in 2014
In this lurid, lusty sequel to Pulse and Prejudice,  death shadows the newlywed Darcys from Pemberley to the parlors of Regency London to the courtyards of Antebellum New Orleans.  As Elizabeth discovers the trials and travails of marriage to a vampire, can Darcy ever believe that she loves him as he is?  Or will his jealousy tear them apart?