I can't believe it's so long since I've visited here! Winter has seemed long and dreary, full of deadlines and trying to get our new house into rights (my office is still basically a junk room, but it's getting there!) I have lots of books news!
Flora Flowerdew and the Secret of the Sarcophagus, Book 3 in my Victorian Mysteries series is out NOW! It was quiet an adventure getting Flora and her posse corralled and sent off to the Nile to find out who did in Aunt Imogen's old lover, archaeologist Lord Crosbie. I am a sucker for tales of desert adventure and ancient Egypt, to this was a fun tale to write. I hope you enjoy their adventures as much as I have! (and more info to come this week, I'm putting together a "history behind the scenes post)
1889. With the winter season, Flora's séance society is quiet and life looking dull. A late-night visit from the too-handsome Benedict, Duke of Everton, and his aunt Lady Imogen changes all that. Imogen's long-ago lover, the renowned archaeologist Lord Crosbie, is missing, and she fears the worst.
Flora agrees to accompany them to a mummy unwrapping at the British Museum to see if anyone knows about the disappearance. It's the shock of the town when Crosbie himself is found in the ancient sarcophagus—murdered! Adventure awaits when Flora, Benedict, Imogen, the faithful Pomeranian Chou-Chou, and Mary the Cockney maidservant, set off for Egypt—and find a large cast of suspects who all had good reason to send the archaeologist off to his own underworld...
The second book in my Regency "Matchmakers in Bath" series also came out this winter! Their Convenient Christmas Betrothal is a fun "will they or won't they?" make their pretend engagement real! Mary and Charles get their HEA at last. (and look for the third in the series How to Court Your Wife in October)
A festive romance to fool society…
But are they fooling themselves too?
Mary St. Aubin is a stellar matchmaker, but society has decided that, as a spinster, Mary can no longer be trusted with their matches! After watching her parents’ cold marriage, she refuses to wed for anything but love.
Then at a Christmas house party she encounters dangerously attractive Scottish laird Charles. He needs Mary’s help saving his ward from a reputation-ruining liaison with a rake. But when Charles’s own rakish past starts to get in the way, is there another match that must happen first…between Mary and Charles?
If you want to venture to the drama of Renaissance Florence, Betrayed by his Kiss is .99 right now. If Elizabethan England is your things, Murder at the Princess's Palace is 2.99
And, last but not least, the book of my heart, Secretary to the Socialite, a historical novel about icon Millicent Rogers and bohemian mid-century Taos, will be on sale in August!!! I am soooo excited for this one, it's been a long journey...
In the glittering world of mid-century America, Millicent Rogers is a woman ahead of her time—Standard Oil heiress, fashion icon, patron of the arts, wife, mother, lover to men like Ian Fleming and Clark Gable. Her beauty and intelligence captivate the world. But behind the scenes, she harbors secrets of ill health and loneliness that only one person knows—her secretary Violet Redfield. A quiet but artistic woman who left her Iowa farm family to pursue dreams of being a writer, Violet navigates a delicate balance between devotion to Millicent and her own dreams of independence.
As their lives become intertwined in a tangle of love, betrayal, and ambition, both women must confront the hidden costs of their powerful alliance. From lavish Hollywood parties to the mountains of bohemian Taos, Secretary to the Socialite explores this intricate bond between a woman of privilege and the one who keeps her world from falling apart.
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