The Romantic Novel of the Year Awards 2024.

I have just got home after almost six weeks away in South America to discover that Becoming the Earl’s Convenient Wife has been shortlisted in the Shorter Romantic Novel category for the Romantic Novel of the Year Awards!

The Awards ceremony is in London on 20 May, so my fingers are crossed…

I’m delighted to start the new Year with the fifth in the Clock House Mysteries series – and the tenth dispatch from the time travelling world of Welhampstead.

Honeymoon With Death sees Tash and Matthew set out on what ought to have been a romantic road trip through Georgian England. Instead they acquire a pair of newly-weds, a desperate young lady and a puppy and find themselves investigating a mysterious disappearance . And that leads to murder…

Read more, including an extract here.

And I now have a date and a cover for my next book from HMB – How Not to Propose To a Duke will be out in April. You can read more and pre-order  here.

The friend she’s loved…

Is now the husband she must resist…

Lady Isobel might be the daughter of the late Lord Martyn, but she’s treated by her brother and  sister-in-law as a maid. So when her childhood best friend Leo Havelock reveals that he will only inherit his fortune if he marries—immediately!—she agrees to be his convenient countess. Their union offers Isobel the chance to escape her home…but can she escape the feelings she has long had for her husband, especially when she knows he loves another woman?

Becoming The Earl’s Convenient Wife will be out 26th October and is available for pre-order now. You can read an extract here.

The Clock House Mysteries Book 4 is out now!

The Discovery of Death begins where Time’s Perilous Desire left off – with the discovery of a skeleton in the grounds of Natasha’s latest development project. That’s bad enough news, but things become much worse when Matthew realizes he knows who this is, an acquaintance called Ludovic Washburn.

It was clearly not a natural death and Matthew’s instinct is to track down the killer – but that will change history. It’s a dilemma that threatens his relationship with Natasha and things rapidly become more complicated as they probe the secrets of Lodovic’s life.

Can they find who was responsible and, if they do, how to they bring justice for the dead without altering the future? The answer turns out to be far more complicated than they could ever have imagined.