I’m delighted to say that The Earl’s Marriage Bargain, Book Two in my Liberated Ladies series is due out this month – 28th May in the UK and 19th in the States. You may recall it’s heroine, Jane Newnham from Least Likely to Marry a Duke – Jane’s an artist and, as the book opens, one in disgrace on her way to Bath. On the way she rescues a battered earl from a brawl which leaves Ivo Merton, a man with a guilty secret and an inconvenient sense of honour, with problem – how to marry a lady who is strongly opposed to the idea. You can read more, including an extract, here.

Book Three – A Marquis in Need of a Wife (scholar Prue Scott’s story) is awaiting its publication date and I have just started Book Four which will be pianist Lucy Lambert’s tale.

To all my readers – stay safe!

Christmas is coming and I have a book out this month – Contracted As His Countess – as well as a Christmas novella in Snowbound Surrender last month.

My surprise Christmas present, however, was a contract for a five-book series – Liberated Ladies. Book One, Least Likely to Marry a Duke came out in March and I intended it to be a stand-alone title. Then I found myself writing about one of the heroine’s five close friends and I have just finished The Earl’s Marriage Bargain – out in June next year. I could hardly leave the other three friends out, I thought, and fortunately my editor agreed, so three more unconventional young ladies are going to be disturbing the ton!

There’s no sign of snow yet, but I’ll leave you with this snowy accident on the streets of London! Have a marvellous festive season wherever you are!

It seems impossible that November is here and the shops are beginning to fill up with Christmas decorations and gift ideas.

In keeping with the coming season I have a new Christmas novella out this month in company with two of my favourite Regency authors, Christine Merrill and Laura Martin. The three stories are in Snowbound Surrender and mine is titled Snowed In With the Rake. 

Julia is a lady in disgrace, Giles the rake who she blames for it – when snowdrifts trap them together for  Christmas it promises to be very awkward indeed. Can a cat with attitude, the arrival of a baby next door and well-meaning, interfering, neighbours turn a disaster into something else entirely?

I hope it puts you in the mood for your Christmas shopping!

I am just back from a fabulous trip to Eastern Canada where I found a whole host of Georgian history to intrigue me. I even slept in a house in Annapolis Royal where the Duke of Kent, Queen Victoria’s father, attended a reception and ball. Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathern, was the fourth son of George III. He was serving in the army in Gibraltar, but requested a transfer to Canada in 1791 where, with his mistress Julie St Laurent, he soon became a fixture on the social scene. In 1799 he was appointed a General and Commander in Chief of British forces in maritime North America. I bumped into him again at the Citadel in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he was based. Under his command a number of significant buildings were erected including a handsome clock which is in the process of being renovated. Later, after the death of George IV’s daughter Princess Charlotte, Edward was forced to marry in the frantic race to provide Hanoverian heirs.  Edward was the only son to father an heir –  Victoria – but he died less than a year after her birth.

Out this month is book 3 in the time-travelling romantic crime series Time Into Time. A Love For the Moment reveals the truth about Luc’s henchman Garrick’s background and plunges Luc, Cassie and Garrick into murder and mystery. As Cassie says, maintaining a romance over two hundred years is tricky and things are not getting any easier – practically or emotionally – for the lovers.