Author’s Blog

Life is good!

We have new books to celebrate. While I have been absent from this blog, Duke in Name Only went live and got some much deserved attention on Facebook. The early reviews are terrific. This is an exciting story filled with adventure, danger, discovery, and romance…that holds your attention start to finish with a happy ending […]

Joining the Army in Portugal

This week I took ship and rambled to Portugal with Dorothea O’Toole who has recently wed to a colonel. The lives of the camp followers were, well, appalling in some ways. Yet those women are as cheerful as they are tough. They contribute heroically to the well-being of the troops without compensation and little respect. […]

A Ridiculous Idea

Jeffrey Graham leads a contented life a merchant seaman, owner, in fact, of a fleet of ships. His life is comfortable indeed. He is inclined to disdain England’s landed aristocrats with their inherited wealth. He has just concluded a pleasant house party, one organized to facilitate his pursuit of the Honorable Gemma Burke, daughter of […]

Visions of War

The hero of my novella for the Bluestocking Belles’ next collection is a physician who has struggled to return to normal after the horrors of Waterloo. They had no word for PTSD then, but that is what plagues him. ***** Adam kept to a rigid schedule seeing patients every day and seeking oblivion evenings for […]

Plain Speaking.

A scandal finds the Honorable Gemma Burke betrothed to a man she would have considered unsuitable just a day before. He is a commoner, a merchant, and of questionable background. Her older sister is a marchioness. Her younger is being courted by a viscount, the heir of an earl. Can she settle for less? Jeffrey […]