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The Wallflower's Christmas Surprise: A Regency Romance

A secret admirer, a Yuletide ball, and a desperate situation
(Previously published in the multi-author anthology, Sweet Christmas Secrets)
Violet Hambleton, parson’s daughter, botanical artist, and self-professed wallflower, wants a marriage based on love. A secret admirer who keeps sending her verse will reveal his identity this Christmas. It can’t be the man she loves. . . Sebastian, Viscount Stanworth—he’s heir to an Earl and seven years her junior.

Sebastian is an heir without a spare. The pressure from his family to wed soon is intense. If he doesn’t act fast this Christmas, he’ll end up betrothed to a bride of his mother’s choosing, not to the woman he loves. . . Violet.

Time is running out for Sebastian to disclose his secret. It must be revealed at the Yuletide Ball, but will Violet reject him? Is Sebastian destined to surrender to a loveless marriage? Or will verse deliver new hope this Christmas?

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Married by Christmas: A Regency Romance

Previously published in the multi-author anthology, 12 Rogues of Christmas.

Pressured to marry Mr Wrong, can she wed Mr Right by Christmas?
Orphaned heiress and debutant, Lauren Edwards, yearns for a loving husband, a home, and a family, but she’s in love with her guardian, who acts like a fond uncle. When Lauren discovers the earl to whom she is engaged will never relinquish his mistress, it’s time to take her future into her own hands.

Sir Oliver Masterton, Lauren’s guardian, wants to avoid the mistake his father made, of marrying a debutant, but he’s secretly in love with his ward.

Time is running out. Can Lauren convince Oliver to set aside all his pre-conceptions about marriage, outrun her pursuing relatives, and be happily married by Christmas?

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Love at Lost Lagoons

Love at Lost Lagoons is the third book in the linked Stations of the Heart Series. This 30,000-word novella can be read as a standalone.

He’s fighting bankruptcy. She’s avoiding marriage. Can they find love together and the answer to their problems?
Northern Australia, 1879. Reclusive bachelor Walter Jamison has spent years trying to make his struggling cattle station viable. His isolated life is disrupted by the arrival of Elizabeth Chesterfield, a young woman betrayed by her brother and determined to escape an arranged marriage. Walter gives her sanctuary while his property is cut-off from the outside world during the wet season and she learns to trust again. Walter and Elizabeth find love, while her guardian and her unwanted ‘fiancé’ camp on the other side of the flooded river. What will happen when the waters recede?

If you love sweet Victorian romance, then try this story set in colonial Australia in 1879.

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Love and Other Addictions

Love and Other Addictions is the second book in the linked Stations of the Heart Series. This 30,000-word novella can be read as a standalone or after Lord Muck and Lady Alice.

Can love overcome addictions?
Australia, 1873. Wealthy pastoralist and member of parliament, Robert Dysart, migrated to Australia to make his fortune. All he craves is his estranged father’s respect and believes he can earn it only through financial success and power…until he meets Edith Glendinning.

Edith, as an eldest daughter, is duty-bound to care for her widowed father and her siblings. Following her brother’s rescue from a London opium den, her father tasks Edith with accompanying Harry to an isolated pastoral property in Australia and to keep him drug-free. She longs for a husband and family, but instead must fulfil her duty.

Soon after arriving in Australia, Edith’s life is saved by the charming and attractive Robert and she dreams of a future with him; until she learns of his ruthless ambition to own her brother’s property. For their love to bloom, they must overcome their addictions—Robert must prove he cares more for Edith than for wealth and power, while Edith must choose Robert over her duty to her family.

If you love sweet Victorian romance, then try this story set in colonial Australia in 1873.

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Lord Muck and Lady Alice

Lord Muck and Lady Alice is the first book in the linked Stations of the Heart Series.

Can they turn their mismatch in a perfect match?
Widower James Forrester of Eldernell Station on the Darling Downs in rural Australia is a self-made man, a wealthy pastoralist and a member of parliament. He escaped from poverty by migrating to Australia after his family was thrown off their tenant farm in England by their local lord. Sneered at by the Australian gentry and called ‘Lord Muck’ because of his lowly beginnings and lack of education, James is determined his only child, Nell, will be educated as a lady so she fits into society.

Alice Lethbridge has escaped her demanding siblings, who treated her as an unpaid companion and nurse, to work as a paid governess in Australia. She arrives to find the children's mother has died and their father, a wealthy pastoralist, has taken to drink to forget his grief. When he tries to seduce Alice, she flees to the neighbouring homestead of James Forrester. He gives Alice sanctuary and offers her the job of educating his shy daughter in every accomplishment needed to enter society. Alice takes on the position and secretly decides to polish up her employer's etiquette also.

Just as the forces of colonial society unite to bankrupt James, he discovers Alice has a secret that undermines everything he thought he knew about her. How can Alice save James from financial ruin and win back his regard?

If you love sweet Victorian romance, then try this story set in colonial Australia in 1868.

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Runaway Christmas Bride

Award-winning Christmas novella (Romance Writers of New Zealand Koru Award, 2018)

Only a Christmas miracle could fix this mess.
Miss Amelia Fortescue, the only child of profligate gambler, Baron Fortescue, wants to marry for love, but her parents won’t wait for that. They need her as bait to land a wealthy son-in-law to pay off their debts.

Wealthy banker and former soldier, Major Adam Wellworth, fell in love with Amelia from afar. Before he could gain an introduction, Bonaparte escaped and Adam was forced to rejoin the army. Back in England months later, with an injury that’s proving hard to shake off, his love for Amelia hasn’t diminished. He seeks the Fortescue’s permission to court her, but it comes with conditions.

Adam invites the Fortescues to his estate for the Christmas week, so Amelia can get to know him. However, his plan goes horribly awry before they arrive, when Amelia’s parents tell her she’ll be married on Christmas Day.

Amelia’s not going to be forced to marry anyone, especially someone she’s never met, and who she believes is maimed and elderly. Instead, helped by a handsome gentleman, she becomes the Runaway Christmas Bride.

Can Adam escort Amelia to her great-aunt for Christmas without her discovering his identity? And how does he reveal his name afterwards without earning her loathing? It would take a Christmas miracle to fix this mess.

See the review of Runaway Christmas Bride by the Australian Romance Readers Association here.

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Gentleman Wanted

Is what a widow needs, really what she wants?
Widow Selena Hartnell is in deep in debt and faced with prison. Her managing friend, Barbara, Baroness De Ritz decrees Selena needs a wealthy husband – fast!
Guy, Viscount Rushcroft needs a wife to manage his six motherless children who are running wild.
Barbara decides Selena and the Viscount are perfectly suited, and launches into matchmaking mode. The outcome of her scheming surprises them all.

What reviewers are saying about the book:
“I really enjoyed and recommend this book as a "hard to put down" book, one that you really need to find out what is over the next page.” Helen Gee, www.amazon.com.au

“This wonderfully written story makes me truly appreciate the comforts of being a woman in modern times!” Reading is forever, www.amazon.com

“Clean, sweet and adorable! I very much enjoyed this easy to read, clean and sweet Regency romance.” Teri Donaldson, www.amazon.com

“A tale of mature love and second chances. This is a sweet romance that involves those not in the first flush of youth and can be read in an afternoon. Ideal for a rainy day or just a relaxing afternoon.” Cheryl, www.amazon.com

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SNOWED IN FOR CHRISTMAS

Can a carriage accident and a blizzard create a Christmas miracle?
After the death of his brother, Robert not only becomes Viscount Landers, but also gives up his army career and agrees to marry his brother’s beautiful fiancé to ensure the succession. When he’s snowed in for Christmas with his shrewish betrothed and her attractive, practical cousin, Eleanor Carlisle, Robert realises he’s engaged to the wrong woman.
Eleanor, the impoverished daughter of a disgraced army captain, has loved her cousin’s handsome and dashing fiancé from afar, until all three are stranded together.
As the temperature plunges, the heat is on Viscount Landers to untangle the ties of duty and the wishes of the heart.

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The Persuasion of Miss Jane Brody
'A Regency peer’s dilemma – how to marry a bluestocking?'

Passionate bluestocking Jane Brody, whose mother’s early death left her to raise eight siblings, campaigns to free women from society’s shackles of poor education, marriage and motherhood.
Jonathan Everslie, Marquess of Dalton, must marry. Jane is the only woman who doesn’t bore him, but her politics are dangerous.
When Jane's father dies suddenly leaving the family in poverty, the only way out is marriage to the wealthy and conservative Dalton. Can she give up her ideals to marry him and save her family? Does he dare risk his political career by embracing her cause to win her love?'

Heat level: Sensual

Finalist: Romance Writers of New Zealand Koru Award of Excellence (short category) 2014
Finalist: Australian Romance Readers Awards 'Favourite Historical Romance' 2013
Finalist: The CHATELAINE 2014 AWARDS for Women’s Fiction and Romantic Fiction
Second place: Steam eReads 'Some Like it Hot' Romantic Fiction Competition 2013

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Welcome!
I write Romance through the Ages - from the Regency era to youthful Australia. Jump into my action-filled, historical romances and journey with me in our favourite eras of British and Australian history.

IN PRODUCTION:

Regency Romance:
Christmas novella for 2023 - planning, 0% written

Ancient World Romance:
90% written

All Quiet on the Western Plains

'One war, two battle-scarred hearts, one chance for happiness.'

Outback Australia 1924: English nurse, Fleur Armitage, wants to escape all reminders of the Great War, which killed family and friends, by living as far from its reminders as possible, so travels to outback Queensland. Jack Edgarson is a pastoralist, war hero and damaged man. He lives in isolation, fearful he may harm someone.
Through a chance meeting, their lives become entangled and they come to share a love of the wide western plains, but dare they love each other?

Heat level: Sensual

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Journey's End on the Western Plains
(sequel to All Quiet on the Western Plains)

'Coming home can be harder than leaving.'

Outback Australia, 1924: Matron Marion Henderson of Idavale Private Hospital wants romance in her life and promises she’ll go out with the first man who asks. That man is Bill Carter, ex-pastoralist, ex-soldier, wanderer, whose guilt about leaving home for war has kept him from returning ever since. Marion wants someone reliable with whom to share her life, but Bill’s behaviour rekindles Marion’s memories of her war-damaged first husband.
Can they face their ghosts and create a future together?

Heat level: Sweet

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