Hey dear readers–my books are moving to a new publishing platform, and for a while you might find that some titles aren’t available at your favorite retail site. They’ll be back! Every retailer has its own timeline for adding titles and making updates.
I’ll try to keep retailer links updated as each book moves so you have the best book-hunting experience possible. When the transfer to the new publishing platform is complete, you won’t notice any difference in my books (except that they’re available more widely than ever). 🙂
The illustrious team at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books created an Unhinged Romance Bingo in December, and you have until March 20 to complete it. This theme is a lot of fun. If you’re playing and you still need to fill a few spaces, some of my books could help you out.
Niche Business or Hobby: To be honest, I don’t remember all the weird stuff my characters do, so there could be a lot of niche interests lurking in my books. Rhapsody for Two fits this category well as the heroine, Rowena Fairweather, is a luthier (she makes and repairs stringed instruments). Bonus: it’s a stand-alone novella, so you’ll get a quick read with no series connections.
Swiss Army Knife Character: This means a character who is a Lot of Things, and Benedict Frost, the hero of Fortune Favors the Wicked is your man here. He’s a bookseller’s son turned sailor who left the military after losing his sight to study medicine, then become a traveler, memoirist, and treasure-seeker. (Some aspects of his life are based on a real historical figure named James Holman!)
A Favorite Author Blurbed It: Well, it depends who your favorite authors are! Love Courtney Milan as much as I do? You’ll find her blurb on The Viscount’s Inconvenient Temptation. The marvelous Vanessa Kelly blurbed The Earl’s Holiday Wager, and blurbs from the wonderful Julianne MacLean appear on the original editions of the Royal Rewards quartet.
Pet That Isn’t a Dog or Cat: Here again, Rhapsody for Two can help you out, because the heroine keeps a pet hedgehog named Cotton. And of course, every book in the Romance of the Turf series includes horses and their stable companions.
Am I the Asshole?: TBH, someone is the asshole at some point in most books–though if I did my job right, you’ll understand why and you’ll see them change. For instance, the hero of The Earl’s Holiday Wager might say “Everyone thinks I’m cool because I have money, think of interesting bets, and throw great parties, but I’d rather go to bed early with a good book. If my cousin knew what a nerd I really am, he’d wreck my reputation, and I’m lonely and don’t have anything else. So I let him talk me into placing a scandalous wager on the woman I like, especially because it means I’ll get to spend more time with her. AITA?”
A Book in a Book: Rhapsody for Twois doing some heavy lifting in the Unhinged Bingo, as includes a subplot about a scandalous novel that’s taken society by storm. It’s the most unhinged of all my romances, I guess? Desperately Seeking Scandalalso includes a “field guide” called Ways to Wed for Wealth that could count as a book within a book.
Knotting: If you’re really desperate to fill this square, there’s a secondary character in Those Autumn Nights who knits a lot.
Autumn has arrived in the USA, and with the turn of the season I’ve made some refreshes to the website. For one, the Home page now features seasonal works. You will not be shocked to see that Those Autumn Nightsis a featured title right now, because, well, autumn. This is a completely stand-alone novella, unrelated to any series, with a second-chance love story and an HEA. It’s also a home-reno romance! The ruined building on the cover is very much part of the story.
Those Autumn Nights originally appeared in an anthology called A Gentleman for All Seasons with novellas by Kate Noble, Shana Galen, and Vanessa Kelly. We had a blast coming up with the concept together and planning our stories: a year in the life of a village, with a different love story in each season. Kate took spring, Shana summer, I wrote about autumn, and Vanessa wrapped it up with a Christmas story. The anthology isn’t available anymore, but you can check out our individual novellas by clicking the names above. All have independent love stories with HEAs, but you might notice characters from other novellas making cameo appearances.
The other title I’ve featured is Scandalous Ever After, which begins in the month of October. This book has autumnal vibes, with characters in their thirties who’ve experienced loss. The heroine is a widow; the hero, her late husband’s best friend who’s loved her for a long time. Friends become lovers, but they have to grapple with grief and money troubles and the slow realization that the person they both lost wasn’t who they thought.
Does that sound like a bummer? It’s not, I promise. NPR named this one of their best books of the year when it came out, and alongside the romance, you’ll find lots of animals being adorable and plenty of spice. Scandalous Ever After is part of my Romance of the Turf series, but like all my books, it has an HEA and you can read it without reference to the rest of the series.
In other website news, I’m in the process of changing my long lists of individual Buy links to universal book links (UBLs). You’ve encountered those: click one link, find all the formats and retail sites where a book is available. (Here’s an example.) As I switch over the links, you’ll have one-click options for getting ebooks, paperbacks, and audiobooks at your favorite vendors. More retailers are being added all the time, especially for paperbacks.
The link changes are in progress; for a while you’ll find some pages with long lists and some with UBLs. Please pardon the construction, and have a wonderful autumn–or, if you’re south of the equator, a beautiful spring. <3
Happy December! I wanted to alert you to several sales going on this week.
First, my Holiday Pleasures ebook box set is on sale for the first time. It’s 99 cents in the USA and is similarly discounted internationally.
This box set includes four full-length historical romances and three bonus short stories. Each novel has its own couple and a firm HEA. You can read each romance on its own, but if you do read them in order, you’ll spot some familiar characters.
The second sale: Fortune Favors the Wicked, the first Royal Rewards novel, is also 99 cents (or a similar price in your local currency). In this romance, a courtesan on the run and an ex-naval lieutenant race to locate a fortune in stolen gold that will allow them to begin new lives.
The hero, Benedict Frost, is based on the real naval lieutenant James Holman, who became blind and thereafter started traveling, studying medicine, and writing memoirs.
And finally, The Sport of Baronets, an enemies to lovers novella inspired by the Sherlock Holmes story “Silver Blaze” (but, you know, romantic), is temporarily FREE. This love story is the first in my Romance of the Turf series, which features four siblings at the heart of the Regency horse-racing world.
Other than horses, the series includes lots of other animals being adorable. Plus there’s intrigue, antiquities fraud, and a school that secretly teaches girls everything from self-defense to spycraft. Romance tropes in this series include road trip, coworkers, friends to lovers, second chance, and marriage in trouble.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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!
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.)
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:
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!
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!
Just 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.
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.
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.
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!
Niche Business or Hobby
Swiss Army Knife Character
Am I the Asshole?
A Book in a Book
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Just 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.