Uncovering the Governess’s Secrets
Four graveyards and a murder
Marianne, on the run from an asylum, is hiding in plain sight, disguised as a demure governess. Rory, policeman turned private investigator, has been commissioned to find her. Is he her nemesis or her saviour? A standalone Gothic romance set in Edinburgh exploring the dark underbelly of Victorian morality.
#EdinburghGothic #secretsandlies #buryingthepast
Revelations of the Carstairs Sisters
Two sisters, damaged in very different ways, a close encounter in a shower, and a cat called Frank
Two heroines determined not to be constrained by Victorian convention, corsets and crinolines. Prudence, physically scarred in a childhood accident, literally lives her life behind a veil, and cultivates her passion for plumbing! Beautiful widow Mercy is living in the shadow of the false notoriety inflicted on her by her dying, embittered husband. Step forward, an earl who doesn’t want the job, and a Scottish engineer who doesn’t give a damn.
#plumbingnewheights #turningonthesensualtap #sistersinnameonly
Penniless Brides of Convenience
Three sisters and their aunt, four marriages of convenience, four very unlikely happy ever afters.
Aunt Kate seems to her nieces to have the ideal life, married to a permanently awol Government spy. Practical seamstress Eloise is the first to follow her example in a platonic arrangement with another spy. Wannabe chef Phoebe finds her convenient husband in an Affair to Remember tribute story. And then there’s Estelle and her haunted ‘convenient’ husband in an Irish Gothic with echoes of Rebecca.
#favouritefilmreferences #sisteract #thespywholovedme
Matches Made in Scandal
Four scandalous women assist four desperate men to solve four very different problems in four different countries
The mysterious Procurer is a woman who specialises in making the impossible possible, giving women who are down on their luck a second chance at life. The men who come to The Procurer in need of original solutions to their very particular problems pay highly for her unique services. A Russian count seeks a herbalist; a French self-made man requires a temporary wife; an Italian aristocrat has need of a card sharp. And in the final book, The Procurer’s own past returns to haunt her.
#sistersaredoingitforthemselves #missionimpossible #transeuropesuccess
Comrades in Arms
What does a career soldier do when there are no more wars to fight?
Jack Trestain, Wellington’s code breaker, has become reclusive, broken by his experiences in the Peninsular wars. Scot Finlay Urquhart, on the other hand, seeks new thrills to replace the danger of combat. A French woman in search of her past and a Spanish partisan rebel, provide them both with the distraction they need, and a dilemma they don’t.
#SoldierHeroes #becarefulwhatyouwishfor #nakedswimming
his runaway marchioness returns
An industrialist who doesn’t want to be a marquess. A theatrical agent who doesn’t want to be a wife
Oliver and Lily were secretly married ten years ago and haven’t seen each other since. Lily is intent on divorce, and Oliver is intent on avoiding the obligations he has recently inherited, which include making a ‘good’ marriage. Both are independent, determined to continue to dance to their own tune. But first, they must dance together in the full glare of society.
#victorianmusicahalls #givingitallaway #theatreandtheatrics
a forbidden liaison with miss grant
FSet in Edinburgh during the tartan-fest visit of George IV, a one night stand with a difference leads to unexpected and inconvenient consequencesour graveyards and a murder
Constance has a secret identity and a secret mission. Scottish widower and self-made man Grayson has devoted himself to his children and his business. Passion brings them together, but neither have either the time or inclination for the complexities and compromises that falling in love entails.
#meninkilts #kingsinpinktights #scottishclearances
outrageous confessions of lady deborah
A notorious widow who is secretly a notorious author meets a philanthropic thief
Lady Deborah, branded cold and selfish, relishes her double life as the author of spicy novels. Ex-soldier Eliot has also re-invented himself, as the house-breaker everyone is talking about.
#unconventionalHEA #payback #stealingnotstealing
