Coming Soon
Castonbury Park is an exciting Regency series which I’ve been working on with seven other Harlequin Historical authors. The stories span the ups and downs of the noble Montague family, with scandal and intrigue aplenty. The series will be issued one book a month from June 2012 (digital and print) in the UK, digitial only in North America. I’ve written the ebook prequel and Book 3, which features the eldest daughter of the house and a freed African slave.
Books in the Pipeline
Outrageous Confessions of Lady Deborah will be released in the UK and North America in print and ebook in August 2012. It’s another Regency, but very much ’with a twist’. No cover yet, but it’s available for pre-order and you can read more, with an excerpt on the book page.
What I’m Working On Now
Highlander
Working title The Taming of the Higland Shrew, this is an ebook novella, the story of Ross MacMaster and Catriona Mackenzie. In need of some cash to prop up the lands his ramshackle brother has let go to rack and ruin, Ross takes part in a claymore fighting competition.
But the prize purse comes with strings attached. Wily Laird Mackenzie whose intended new wife has no wish to be a step-mother, insists that the winner of his challenge takes with him not only his gold but Catriona, his daughter.
Ross needs the cash. Catriona needs a home. It’s a marriage of decided inconvenience where sparks fly but passion rages.
Set on the Isle of Jura (so once again close to my home in Argyll) in 1740, the story takes place five years before the last and fatal Jacobite uprising. This is a fast-paced, light-hearted and sexy romp with kilts, beautiful scenery and a relationship that has more cut and thrust than the claymore fight which triggered it.
The Three Faces of Lady Cressida
Not strictly speaking Regency, this book is set in 1828 when George IV was coming to the end of his reign. If you’re read The Governess and the Sheikh, you’ll have come across a very slight mention of Cressida, the middle of the Armstrong sisters. Cressie is much more interested in mathematics than marriage, and has refused to consider any of the eligible suitors her diplomatic father has produced for her. In the eight years which have passed since the previous book, Cressie’s stepmother has borne four sons and Cressie is in real danger of being sidelined as a mere aunt.
Enter Giovanni, an infamous Italian painter employed by Lord Armstrong to paint a portrait of his beloved sons. Giovanni is a Romantic in love with Art. Cressie believes only in Reason. Neither believe in love, but as Giovanni creates his unique vision of Cressie on canvas, they both discover that passion cannot be tamed by logic.