French Spies

Cerise DeLand joins us this week with facts about the Napoleonic wars that demanded spies planted in Britain. The true bits in my novel, LORD HALSEY’S TEMPTESTUOUS MINX,  provide motivation and the central problem for my characters, Inès Bechard and Evan, Lord Halsey, to solve. In 1805, after the victory at Trafalgar, Bonaparte’s turn of […]

Ewww Leeches!

Highlighting Petie McCarty’s research into Regency medicine and the use of (shudder) leeches. Coming from a scientific background and career, I’m no stranger to research so I eagerly dove into research for weeks for each of my novels before the first draft ever started, checking everything from habitat and indigenous species to climatic conditions of […]