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Chapter One 24th December 1817 Amelia Chilson was bored of red roses. She rethreaded her needle yet again with red silk and began stitching the edge of a petal. The sounds of her parents’ friends laughing came through from next door into the library where Amelia had slipped away to work. No-one would miss her …
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A book is a relationship between the reader and the words. It’s got nothing to do with the author. Plenty of readers of Six Weeks will enjoy it as a marriage of convenience story with an untrusting heroine and an arrogant hero. Whatever a reader’s opinion is, it is valid. The author is not the …
Chapter One 26 July 1865, London. Before “I have to marry a lord.” The last word stuck in Grace’s throat. Maurice paused, his teacup halfway to his mouth, and Caroline gaped at her. In the silence of her friends’ drawing room, she became aware of the sound of her own breathing and the rattle …
I’ve got a sexy, kinky short story coming out in The Big Book of Submission, volume 2. Listening to Her is a modern story (unusually for me), about two students. Arjun loves to listen and play-along to his sexy house-mate’s love life. When he hears her hurt a man, he swears it will be the last …
About a year ago I took part in a #pitmad twitter pitch competition, and *three* Entangled editors liked my pitch for Six Weeks with a Lord. It’s taken that long, but I am now officially signed up with Entangled for this book. 🙂 It’s going to be published in their Select Historical line, most likely …
On His Knees: A Sunday afternoon walk becomes an erotic trial when Jasper’s marriage proposal lures Rosina to test just how biddable he is. On His Knees is a sweet and spicy story of a Dominant woman in Victorian England and the man who serves her. It’s published in the Cleis Anthology, Best Women’s Erotica …
Aurora Floyd was written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon in 1863. The story is basically a romance-cross-mystery, with a hint of social commentary. Aurora has stunning black eyes and a dark secret. Two men (more actually, but only two that count), fall in love with her. Talbot Bulstrode is stuck in the mud aristocrat who wants …