Love is worth the risk
Join Sara Adrien for the facts about Jews in Regency Society that lie behind her novel Margins of Love They dressed like the aristocracy.They dined in Mayfair.They spoke perfect English.But they were hiding everything that truly mattered. If you’ve read even a handful of Regency romances, you know the world well:Ballrooms.Dukes.Family names that carry centuries […]
Join Sara Adrien to learn the facts about Royal Ascot and her novel with Tanya Wilde, Dare To Tempt An Earl This Spring While researching my latest Regency romance, I was captivated by the history and grandeur of the Royal Ascot. Established in 1711 by Queen Anne, the Ascot quickly became more than just a […]
I hope you’re pleased with the return of Caroline’s Rambles. I don’t plan to post a weekly ramble as I once did, but between my stories and my travels I should have material to post about places, settings and cultures regularly. This week: Rome. I’m leaving tomorrow for one of my favorite cities, and I’m […]
Highlighting Historical Romance with Saralee Etter who gives us some of the facts behind one of the stories in A Legend to Love If I were going to invite a guest from any time in history to dine with me, my choice would be Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, also known as the Prince de Talleyrand, the […]
Highlighting the facts behind the fiction with Penny Hampson. Most of the action in A Bachelor’s Pledge, the third book in my Gentlemen Series takes place in Falmouth, Cornwall. Now, if you don’t know, Falmouth is a small seaside town on the south western coast of England. I chose this location because, during the Napoleonic […]
Highlighting the facts behind Historical Romance with Jude Knight. In Georgian and Regency England, women who had sex out of wedlock were regarded as ‘fallen’. (Unlike men who had sex out of wedlock, who were only doing what came naturally, according to the opinions of the time.) It’s hard to know how many of those […]
Highlighting Historical Romance with Barbara Monajem and the facts behind her newest release. I like to put little tidbits of historical detail in my stories—perhaps because that’s the sort of detail I enjoy reading, too. My new release, Lady Rosamund and the Horned God, takes place in the Lake District in England. I’ve been there […]
Highlighting Historical Romance with Patricia Kiyono on upheaval in Japan In the mid-nineteenth century, the country of Japan was in a state of unrest. Traditionally, the shogun, not the emperor, held the most power, and beneath him were the feudal lords, or daimyo. Emperor Komei had begun to take a more active role in political […]
Highlighting Historical Romance with Sherry Ewing who tells us how she stumbled onto Dover Castle. While doing research for my novella To Love A Scottish Laird that releases today, I went back in time to the years of Henry, the Duke of Normandy who married Eleanor of Aquitaine, and who would take the throne of […]