Going Back January 2010 On Sale: January 12, 2010 Featuring: Quinn Murphy; Maddie Johnson 256 pages ISBN: 0373716087 EAN: 9780373716081 Mass Market Paperback $5.50 Add to Wish List Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com An Unlikely Setup by Margaret Watson It all seemed so simple before Maddie Johnson landed back in Otter Tail. Sell her godfather’s pub, pay off her debt, return to Chicago and start over. Quinn Murphy, however, is not part of that plan. Maddie hasn’t seen Quinn since a certain humiliating night fifteen years ago. Now her former crush is running the bar she’s inherited, and he’s going to fight her for it. And he’s not above fighting dirty, apparently. Too bad she can’t afford to sell the bar to the lowest bidder—namely, Quinn—and be done with it. Because despite the pain he caused her, the man’s irresistibly attractive to her. Always has been. Always, always, will be. Excerpt Fate sure had a way of biting you in the butt. Of all the places she could have gone to lick her wounds and regroup, why did it have to be Otter Tail, Wisconsin? The town was the symbol of everything she’d once hated about her life. As a…

Before I started writing the novel that comes after The Forever Queen, I Am The Chosen King (Harold the King in the UK), I had not heard of Emma either. You see, I wrote the Harold novel first, the story of 1066, the Battle of Hastings from the English point of view. Queen Emma was one of the more dominant characters, but in this book, she was introduced almost at the end of her life. I still had to research her though – and what a fascinating, intriguing woman she turned out to be! The only woman to be Queen of England twice, married to two different kings and the mother of two more kings, with different fathers. The next claimant to this sort of accolade is the more famous Eleanor of Aquitaine, who was Queen of France and then Queen of England. She also saw two of her sons crowned as King, Richard I and John – but they shared the same father, Henry II. Emma was a Norman, from Normandy – North Man’s Land – in other words, of Viking stock. She was married to King Æthelred II of England her marriage occurring probably between the age of…