After a substantial and very enjoyable break from writing, I’m back. And because I like to challenge myself I’m writing two books in parallel. Both are set in Edinburgh in the 1870s, and both have a Gothic theme, but there the similarity ends. Because I’m an arch procrastinator, and one of the books has no …
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Release Day for His Runaway Marchioness Returns
My latest historical romance from Mill&Boon is out today. HIS RUNAWAY MARCHIONESS RETURNS is a marriage of convenience set in the mid-Victorian period. Lily, my heroine, has been living in France forging a very unusual and slightly scandalous career for herself for most of her marriage to industrialist Oliver. Meanwhile, he has been focusing on …
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Countdown to Release Day
Only a few weeks before my new historical romance is released. His Runaway Marchioness Returns is set in 1876, and is a marriage of convenience story with a twist (as you’d expect from me!). Oliver and Lily have been married for ten years and lived apart for all of them. Oliver, a self-made man, has …
The Armstrong Family Tree – And All the Offshoots
UNDER THE MISTLETOE is my latest Christmas duet with Bronwyn Scott (and it’s out now, in case you didn’t know). When we first started talking about it, we both had ‘stray’ characters from other series whose story we wanted to tell. Bronwyn’s story, Doctor Peverett’s Christmas Miracle is the last in her Peverett’s of Haverstock …
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Snippets from a Writer’s Life
It’s a cliché because it’s true, the older you get, the faster life whirls you by, and since the pandemic changed the world, I feel like we are travelling at warp speed. I had barely touched down from my fabulous trip to Barcelona with my mum and sisters, and I was off on another trip …
New Release full of Christmas Magic!
UNDER THE MISTLETOE is a new duet of two short, linked Christmas romances, written with the lovely Bronwyn Scott. You can hear us talking about our books over on Tiktok here. Bronwyn and I first ‘met’ when working on CASTONBURY PARK and discovered that our writing style really chimed (though we’ve never, sadly, actually met). …
Most Intriguing News
Image @debbieharephotography At last, I can finally reveal that my second novel co-authored with my fabulous friend Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, will be released in March next year by Mills&Boon and Avon Books, and it has two fabulous covers. A MOST INTRIGUING LADY is a tale of scandal, seduction and secrets, with a sweeping …
New Release and a Giveaway (UK Only)
Out now in digital and paperback in the UK, REGENCY SECRETS is an anthology containing the first two books in my PENNILESS BRIDES OF CONVENIENCE quartet. The stories feature four sisters, which is something close to my heart, and in the first two, I also feature two hobbies close to my heart. In the first …
