Late Summer Releases

By in My Books, Royal Rewards

Since my last post, two new editions have become available: the Lady Notorious audiobook and (as of today) the Royal Rewards digital box set. The box set is $9.99, half the price of getting individual titles separately–so if you like ebooks and this series is new to you, go forth and one-click.

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The four novels included in the box set are:

Fortune Favors the Wicked

In this “richly rewarding Regency tale” (Booklist, starred review), a quick-witted courtesan and a roguish naval officer join forces on a hunt for treasure stolen from the Royal Mint.

Passion Favors the Bold

A grumpy physician joins his best friend’s younger sister on a treasure-hunting road trip in this Regency-set romance with “laugh-out-loud scenes and heated sexual tension” (RT Book Reviews, Top Pick).

Lady Rogue

How to Steal a Million meets Regency England in this “entrancing” (Booklist) romance, as a beautiful widow plans an art heist with the Bow Street Runner who once investigated her husband’s mysterious death.

Lady Notorious

In this “delightful, enthusiastic jaunt through Regency-era London” (BookPage), a duke’s charming, science-loving heir falls for the spirited investigator he’s hired to solve a society mystery.

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And if print or audio is your preference instead, all individual Royal Rewards books can be found in those formats. Click a title above to be taken to that book’s page on my website, where you’ll find retailer links according to format–plus trivia and an excerpt. Happy reading!

LADY ROGUE audiobook release day!

By in My Books, Royal Rewards

The third Royal Rewards book, Lady Rogue, is available now as an audiobook! Callum and Isabel’s story is narrated beautifully by Gabrielle Baker. You can listen to an audio preview at the Tantor site and through several other retailers. (And of course if you prefer print or ebook, those formats are available too.)

Ebook: amazon • apple • barnes & noble • kobo

Print: amazon

Audio: amazon • audible • audiobooks.com • downpour • everand • google • kobo • tantor

The series will wrap up on July 30 with the audiobook release of Lady Notorious.

Royal Rewards, Now on Audio

By in My Books, Royal Rewards

The complete Royal Rewards series will be available in audio format this summer! Book 1, Fortune Favors the Wicked, has been available as an audiobook for a while, and the rest of the quartet is joining it beginning with today’s release of book 2, Passion Favors the Bold.

Passion Favors the Bold is one of my favorites among my books, simply because Hugo and Georgette have so much fun together. Their romance is packed with tropes: a grumpy physician hero accompanies his best friend’s adventurous younger sister on a road trip across England to seek a fortune in stolen gold.

As narrated by the talented Gabrielle Baker, that sense of fun will come across for your ears. 🙂 You can listen to an MP3 sample on the Tantor website here.

Passion Favors the Bold is available as an audiobook at:

amazon • apple • audible • audiobooks.com • everand • google • kobo • tantor

Royal Rewards books 3 and 4–Lady Rogue and Lady Notorious–will also be narrated by Gabrielle Baker and will be available as audiobooks on July 16 and July 30. Happy listening!

Wrapping Up the Royal Rewards Series

By in My Books, Royal Rewards

Happy new year! As of this week, the final Royal Rewards book, LADY NOTORIOUS, is available again. Cass and George’s love story is a grumpy-sunshine tale with a practical investigator hired by a duke’s charming son to solve a society mystery.

This is a reissue of a book originally published in 2019–so if you read it then, it’s the same love story. But if you haven’t read it yet, this is the edition I’d love you to check out. I’ve made small changes to the pacing and added even more fun.

In LADY NOTORIOUS, you’ll find Bow Street Runners, a fiendish tontine wager, early experiments in photography, life-changing hand pies, flirting at a fish market, and lots of banter. George is a happy-hearted charmer and Cass has no time for nonsense. I hope you’ll enjoy seeing how they balance each other and fall in love!

Ebook: amazon • apple • barnes & noble • kobo

Print:  amazon

The Holiday Pleasures Series is Now a Box Set

By in Holiday Pleasures series, My Books

3D cover art for Holiday Pleasures series box setJust like it says in the post title: the Holiday Pleasures series is now available as a digital box set! For half the price of individual titles, you can get all four of these romances–and I’ve included three bonus stories as well.

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The box set includes:

The Viscount’s Inconvenient Temptation

A lighthearted Regency friends-to-lovers tale full of family, the delights of the London season, and an unbelievable number of biscuits.

The Earl’s Holiday Wager

At a notorious house party, a fake rake and a bold bluestocking ignite a Christmas scandal…

The Baron’s Marriage Gamble

He needs a wife. She needs an escape. Theirs would be the perfect marriage of convenience—if she didn’t love him.

The Rogue’s Treasure Hunt

A merry class-difference road romance full of codes, puzzles, and found family at Christmas.

Bonus stories:

“In Which Viscountess Roseborough Removes Her Disguise”

“Room for One More”

“When in Venice”

As I mentioned, the box set is only in a digital format. But individual titles are still available, and you can get those in trade paperback as well as ebook format.

Happy reading!

Love in the Time of Art Heists

By in My Books, Royal Rewards

Lady Rogue is being reissued today, and I’m so excited to make Callum and Isabel’s story available to you again! If you’ve read it before, this reissue is the same love story. It’s just received a polish since its original release.

In this book, Lady Isabel Morrow needs to switch a forged painting for a genuine one in order to avert a scandal that would destroy her ward’s prospects. She has to carry out the swap in secret because, again, possible scandal. Who better to ask for help than Callum Jenks, the Bow Street Runner that once investigated Isabel’s husband’s death? (And with whom she had a tryst some months later at Vauxhall Gardens…)

Callum has never forgotten Isabel, but he lives by an ironclad moral code. The aftermath of a family tragedy has him rethinking his loyalties, though, and he agrees to carry out a heist with Isabel. They plan together, they work together, they enjoy each other’s company so much. But they live in such different worlds that their partnership can only be temporary…right?

Of course not right. They’ll get their HEA. 🙂 I hope you enjoy seeing how it happens! Lady Rogue is currently available as a paperback and ebook. An audio edition is forthcoming too, though I don’t yet have a release date.

Ebook: amazon • apple • barnes & noble • kobo

Print: amazon

Coming next: a November box set of the Holiday Pleasures series and a January reissue of the final Royal Rewards title, Lady Notorious. More details soon!

Passion Favors the Bold: All the Tropes

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Passion Favors the Bold has been reissued today! Hugo and Georgette’s love story has lots of romantic tropes:

*best friend’s little sister
*grumpy-sunshine
*road trip
*treasure hunt
*class difference

If you’ve read it before, it’s the same story you’re familiar with! But if you’ve never read it, I’ve made some updates to make it even more romantic and fun.

All the latest links are available here, where you can also read Chapter 1. I hope you’ll love their story. <3

2023 Reissues: Three Rewards and a Box Set

By in History, My Books, News, Royal Rewards

Dear readers,

You might recall from the bajillion reissues last year that many of my books went out of print at about the same time. I’ve been working since then at updating them with new covers and book descriptions, sometimes edits, and sometimes even new formats. And the next series to get the treatment? The Royal Rewards quartet, which begins with a treasure hunt for a fortune in stolen gold coins.

The series starts with Charlotte and Benedict’s love story, Fortune Favors the Wicked, which has been out of print for well over a year. Today the ebook is available again, and the print edition is coming soon; I would guess later this week. An audiobook is also available.

Charlotte is a courtesan on the run; Benedict is a blind ex-sailor/physician. They both need the treasure to begin a new life–so they might as well work together, right? If you’ve read this story before, it’s the same as it always was. It just has a lovely new cover.

If you haven’t read it, I hope you’ll check it out. Charlotte and Benedict like and enjoy each other so much; their scenes were a blast to write. But their lives are so different that they don’t think they can have a happily ever after. (We know better, don’t we?)

Order links and an excerpt can be found on the book’s page here on my site. You’ll also find trivia there about the real-life historical inspirations for this story.

Coming up in four weeks, on September 26: Passion Favors the Bold, a best friend’s little sister/road trip romance featuring Benedict’s younger sister, Georgette, and his closest friend, Hugo. (You’ll meet them briefly in Fortune Favors the Wicked.)

I’ve lightly revised this story to include even more romantic fun for Hugo and Georgette–but if you’ve read it before, it’s still the same love story. I hope you all like the new cover art! The castle, the sea, and the heather are all a part of the story, and I’m so glad the cover artist was able to include them. (For that matter, you’ll notice that the waterfall on the Fortune Favors the Wicked cover makes an appearance during a significant scene…)

Coming up after FFTW and PFTB, I expect to release Lady Rogue–the third Royal Rewards title–later in the autumn. And in time for the winter holidays, I hope to get you a box set of all four Holiday Pleasures books so you can enjoy some toasty romantic reading at a discounted price.

Happy reading!

You’re Invited…

By in Holiday Pleasures series, Just for fun, My Books, The Earl's Holiday Wager

…to a Regency house party spanning Christmas to Twelfth Night. Mistletoe will be gathered, wicked party games will be played, and the library will play host to secrets and steamy encounters.

This eventful party can be found in The Earl’s Holiday Wager, a rake-bluestocking romance in which both our hero and our heroine are struggling with unwanted reputations. Over the course of a house party, they remake themselves and, of course, fall in love. Louisa and Alex’s love story was a lot of fun to write, and I hope you’ll enjoy reading it.

Ebook: amazon • apple • barnes & noble • kobo

Print: amazon

This romance was originally published in 2012 as Season for Surrender. Since that time, I’ve given it a new title and a light edit–but if you read it in its first edition, this is basically the same story. Just so we’re clear. 🙂

In the final days of summer vacation, I picked up a new hobby: lettering. I’m still very much a newbie, working on making letterforms consistent and developing a steadier hand, but the practice is really soothing for me. Today, to celebrate release day, I designed a fancypants rendering of the title. Hand-lettering of "The Earl's Holiday Wager" in script and sans serif Louisa and Alex see a lot of ornate books; maybe they’d like this. Or at least accept it as an “it’s the thought that counts” gift.

Happy reading to you all! And if you enjoy word art, happy lettering, too.

New Titles and Cover Art for the Holiday Pleasures Series

By in Holiday Pleasures series, My Books, Season for Surrender, Season for Temptation, The Earl's Holiday Wager, The Viscount's Inconvenient Temptation

I’ve regained the rights to many of my historical romances, which means some of them are temporarily out of print while I shine them up and get them ready to republish. Earlier this year, the Romance of the Turf books were individually reissued–and for the first time, they are also available in audio format and as a box set.

Coming up next? The Season for [Insert Abstract Noun Here] series–officially, the Holiday Pleasures series–is getting an updated look, with new titles that will tell you more about the stories within. I’ll be able to bring them to you at a lower digital price, too.

Next week, on August 23, the book originally known as Season for Temptation will be republished as The Viscount’s Inconvenient Temptation.

Cover art for The Viscount's Inconvenient Temptation
A lighthearted Regency friends-to-lovers tale full of family, the delights of the London season, and an unbelievable number of biscuits.

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On September 20, the second Holiday Pleasures book (originally titled Season for Surrender) will be republished as The Earl’s Holiday Wager.

Cover art for Holiday Pleasures book 2, The Earl's Holiday Wager
In this Regency house party romance, a fake rake and a bold bluestocking ignite a Christmas scandal…

amazon • apple • barnes & noble • kobo

In October, The Baron’s Marriage Gamble will follow, and in November, the series will conclude with The Rogue’s Treasure Hunt.

All of these books are getting a light edit, but they’re essentially the same love stories they always were. I’m making the original title part of each book’s description on my site and on retail sites, so hopefully it’ll be easy to tell whether you’ve read it before. Print editions will become available for each book right around the digital release dates.

Guess I’d better get back to work! 🙂

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