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CONVENIENTLY WED TO A SPY
​A daredevil rescue -
Imprisoned during the French Revolution, English spy, Lord Laurence Beaumont in finally rescued - by the courageous, beautiful Delphine St Clair. Back home in Cornwall, Laurence has no interest in the convenient marriage offered by a local landowner - until he discovers the bride in Delphine! With intense memories of their liaison dangereuse in Paris, Laurence knows theirs will be an unconventional union...but can he keep his promise never to be a spy again? 

​THIS BOOK WILL BE OUT IN MARCH 2022

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TO CATCH A RUNAWAY BRIDE
her first wedding was a scandal...
​Moments away from becoming a viscountess, Marietta Harrington realises that she cannot marry the man her father has chosen for her. Wedding guest Edmund Fitzroy whisks her away from the church...and as she gets to know this virtual stranger she's drawn into a delicious courtship. When Edmund mysteriously disappears, Marietta faces a terrible choice. Should she trust the man she lives, or submit to another arranged marriage?
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ENTHRALLED BY HER ENEMY'S KISS
​From feuding families...to an unlikely alliance


Jane Deighton's sister has eloped with the son of her family's sworn enemy. Determined to retrieve her at all costs, Jane is even willing to ask the man's formidable older brother, Lord Francis Randolph, for hep. On their journey to find the runaways, Jane and Francis reluctantly start gravitating toward one another, culminating in one sinful kiss! There families have been feuding for years, yet Jane can't help herself from being drawn to Francis's forbidden touch

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  • A VISCOUNT TOSAVE HER REPUTATION
  • Escaping from a marriage she didn't want, heiress Lucy Walsh falls straight into the arms of Christopher Wilding, Viscount Rockley - causing a scandal! Lucy's drawn to the enigmatic viscount, but he seems to think he's too cynical and mature for her. While she's under his protection the ton will gossip...and with her godmother on her way to fetch her Lucy is running out of options to save her reputation - and her heart! 

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RESISTING HER ENEMY LORD
A tale of war, betrayal and passion...

Despite her unhappy marriage, Catherine Stratton had defended her husband's castle for six years while he was at war. Now widowed, she must travel with John, her late husband's cousin, who had fought on the opposing side. Facing danger at every turn, she is stunned by the heat burning between them. Is this just lust, which will pass... or is the enemy lord a man she can trust and her future?​
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  • ​WEDDED FOR HIS SECRET CHILD

After a night of passion, Melissa Frobisher returns home in disgrace. She never expects to meet the father of her baby again. Then Lord Laurence Maxwell turns up suddenly. He's as dangerously attractive as ever and determined they wed for their baby's sake! Is Melissa foolish to want him to marry her for herself? But with her child's reputation and future at stake, what other option does she have?

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REUNITED AT THE KINGS COURT
Arlette Dryden has never forgotten William Latham, the Royalist soldier who accompanied her to safety while the Battle of Worcester raged. Or how her heart broke when he left. Now at the exiled King's return parade, stunned Arlette locks eyes with her charismatic cavalier again. She's still irresistibly drawn to him - but as both have convenient betrothals beckoning can their long-held passion conquer all?



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THE GOVERNESS'S SCANDALOUS SECRET
When penniless Linnet Osborne takes a job as a governess, she's shocked to discover her new employer is none other than Christian, Lord Blakely. They once shared a passionate embrace that almost forced them to marry. Christian is no less compelling now - so much so that Linnet is tempted to explore beyond those fleeting kisses. 

​But that would mean they would have to wed.

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A VOW FOR AN HEIRESS
With a bankrupt and crumbling estate, Lord Ashurst's situation is well known to the ton. He needs a wife, and she must be rich! He leaps at a marriage of convenience - to heiress Rose Ingram. She may be beautiful, kind and brave, but after discovering the truth about her past and family wealth, he's torn by his sense of honour.

​Should he marry her now?

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​​   CARRYING THE GENTLEMAN'S SECRET
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  •  Alex Golding had a duty to stop his brother-in-law's bigamous marriage. Bur when he saw the bride he offered what comfort he could to sweet young seamstress Lydia Brook.
 
Lydia has spent weeks trying to forget her brief encounter with Mr Golding - she knows the rich widower can never love her. But when Alex offers her the investment to open her own shop she can't say no. This time their passion is as unexpected as its dramatic consequences... she's expecting his baby.


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CAUGHT IN SCANDAL'S STORM



Caught in Scandal's Storm is the sequel to A Traitor's Touch. Characters that appear in A Traitor's Touch are mentioned and appear briefly in the final pages of Caught in Scandal's Storm, which can be read as a standalone book.

Ewen Tremain is the younger brother of Simon Tremain, the hero of A Traitor's Touch, who, as a fugitive, was forced to flee Scotland after the Battle of Culloden. Caught in Scandal's Storm picks up twenty years after the battle.

After eight years as a slave in  North Africa, Ewen Tremain returns to civilisation to forge a new life for himself, but he is haunted by the betrayal of a beautiful woman and the terrible suffering he endured at the hands of his captors. Only when he meets Alice Frobisher does he begin to feel that happiness is within his reach. But Alice, who is trying to come to terms with a disastrous betrothal which forced her to leave Paris to avoid further scandal, has issues of her own to deal with.

Both Ewen and Alice are beset with emotional conflicts that must be dealt with before they can emerge victorious in the battle for their love.

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ROYALIST ON THE RUN - AUGUST 2016

Years ago Colonel Sir Edward Grey broke off his engagement to Arabella, destroying their chances for happiness. Now the English Civil war has thrown them back together and fleeing for his life Edward needs Arabella's help to protect his son.

Lady Arabella Fairburn is reluctant to aid the man who spurned her, yet sees he is still honourable at heart. Together they escape to France, where Arabella must decide if she can take a chance on Edward and their rekindled passion once again.

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 A TRAITOR'S TOUCH

After a lifetime spent hating the cause, loving a Jacobite is out of the question for Henrietta Brody. But with Scotland ready for battle, her only chance for survival is to journey with her enemy, the dangerously handsome Lord Simon Tremain.


His protection awakens a forbidden desire in Henrietta. But torn between her past and her future, the Jacobite and the man, reason and passion, she must fight to resist this traitor's touch.

CASTONBURY PARK

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Castonbury Park - For lovers of Upstairs Downstairs and Downton Abbey.

CASTONBURY PARK is set in the Regency period and is a series of eight books written by eight authors. My book is number two in the series. I thoroughly enjoyed working on the project.

LIST AND NAMES OF THE BOOKS -

FLIRTING WITH RUIN - Marguerite Kaye
THE WICKED LORD MONTAGUE - Carole Mortimer
THE HOUSEMAID'S SCANDALOUS SECRET - Helen Dickson
THE LADY WHO BROKE THE RULES - Marguerite Kaye
LADY OF SHAME - Ann Lethbridge
THE ILLEGITIMATE MONTAGUE - Sarah Mallory
UNBEFITTING A LADY - Bronwyn Scott
REDEMPTION OF A FALLEN WOMAN - Joanna Fulford
A STRANGER AT CASTONBURY - Amanda McCabe

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SHORT GIVEAWAY - The Montagues' attitude to family is possessive and protective. They are a warrior clan defending what is theirs at all costs, their instinct being to hold on to what they have won. In the past, guests invited to Castonbury Park to partake of the Montagues' hospitality were open-mouthed at the liberality and display and fantastic wealth. Suddenly, with the death of one of the sons at Waterloo, another son, the heir, missing presumed dead in Spain and the arrival of a mystery woman with a child claiming to be the heir's widow and the child the heir to Castonbury Park - and the family finances in ruin, it is in danger of disappearing. This creates an inheritance issue which threatens the Montague dynasty.

The series has passion and intrigue. It is exciting, sensuous and sumptuously naughty. It has the lot.
Read it.
Allow yourself to be seduced by CASTONBURY PARK - the perfect treat for fans of the Regency.
 

THE HOUSEMAID'S SCANDALOUS SECRET - MY BOOK

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Ross Montague is a colonel in the East India Army. Raised at Castonbury Park in Derbyshire with his cousins the Montague children, he has come to look on the six siblings as his brothers and sisters. Ross is no celibate, but two things obsess him - India and the East India company. On receiving a letter informing him that one of his cousins has been killed at Waterloo and another - the Montague heir, listed as missing - and the Montague family in dire financial straits, bound by the ties of present and future relationship to the house of Montague, Ross has returned to England.

Having spent all her life in India, Lisette's parents have died of cholera and she is forced to return to England to earn her keep, but her heart remains in India. Before leaving India Ross saves Lisette from drowning. Because she is disguised as a native girl, he believes that is what she is.

In London Ross again meets Lisette. Although she is familiar to him he cannot remember where he has seen her before. Intrigued and attracted by her, when he learns she is to lose her position as lady's maid, he persuades his sister to take her on. Lisette engages his emotions at some deeper level, but Lisette is constantly reminded of her lowly position in life and that men of Ross Montague's ilk are not for the likes of her. To protect herself from his passions - and her own, she is determined to stay out of his way, and yet there is a bond between them which tugs at her heart.
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The Continuity piece:  The family traumas and some of the characters that appear in the other books will be present.


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