Romance through the Ages

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I'm an award-winning writer of historical romance. I write 'Romance through the Ages'. My books are set in Britain from the Roman invasion to the Regency period and in Australia from the 1860s to the 1920s. Jump into my action-filled, historical romances and explore love and life in your favourite eras of British and Australian history.

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March 2025 Release

The Celtic King's Daughter: an Ancient World Romance
Release date: March 28, 2025
Buy link: https://books2read.com/u/3nkge5
Ebook available from most ebook retailers.
Print version available via Amazon.

An invading army, a captured enemy, and an unexpected love.
43AD: The despised and dreaded Roman army invades Britannia, determined to crush the Celtic tribes and claim their land for Rome's empire. Sorcha is devastated when her father, the Durotriges’ king, is killed during battle against the Romans. She yearns for revenge.

Instead, when the enemy marches towards her hillfort home, intent on conquest, Sorcha is commanded to lead her clan’s women and children to safety. On the way, she captures a Roman cavalry officer and is persuaded to spare his life and hold him as a hostage.

Lucius Gallus Antonius has been raised to serve Rome. Achieving his family’s ambition to enter Rome’s senatorial class rests with him. He must prove himself as an outstanding leader to Vespasian, commander of the Second Legion, and return to Rome in glory as one of the conquerors of Britannia.

His capture jeopardizes not just his goal but also his life. Lucius must escape and rejoin the army of Vespasian, to share in its victory as it imposes the will of Rome on the barbarian Celts.

But first, Sorcha and Lucius must work together to defend the new homeland of the displaced Durotriges people as they face mounting threats from their enemies. Soon, Sorcha begins to forget that the beguiling Lucius is her enemy—while Lucius comes to admire the beautiful and indomitable Celtic woman.

Can they fight their growing attraction, or will they surrender to it? And if they yield to their desires, will the fates allow them happiness?

The Celtic King’s Daughter, book #1 of The Divided Isles Saga, is a spicy M/F romance novel featuring: enemies to lovers, forced proximity, and forbidden love tropes. Perfect for fans of historical romance, action-adventure, and lovers torn by duty and desire. For an enhanced reading experience, read Beginnings, before The Celtic King's Daughter.

The Divided Isles Saga, commencing in the first century AD, follows the lives and loves of the Celtic queen, Alina, (featured in the prequel Beginnings) and her female descendants over generations. Each book is set in a time of division in Britain caused by invasion, civil war, cultural or political differences.
 
Other books in The Divided Isles Saga:
~Romano-Britain series~
Beginnings (free prequel)
Sons of Rebellion (Book #2) forthcoming
The Rebellious Daughter (Book #3) forthcoming
~Viking era~
Enthralled (Book #3) forthcoming
~English Civil Wars era~
Charity’s Cavalier (Book #4) forthcoming
 
Find your copy of The Celtic King's Daughter here.

January 2025 Release 

Beginnings: an Ancient World Romance
Release date: January 1, 2025
Buy link: books2read.com/u/3LXaJN (FREE)

AD 22. In Albion, island of the Celts, grows a forbidden love…
Two decades before the Roman invasion of Celtic Albion, or Britannia as the Roman’s called the island off the coast of Gaul, a love is born. Alina, daughter of the chieftain of the Durotriges settlement of Dun Limen, is duty-bound to serve her tribe, so when she’s chosen as the bride of her people’s king, Arthmael of the mighty fortress of Mai Dun, she feels honoured.

​Until she meets Garamaros. She didn’t expect to fall in love with a man from another tribe and of a different rank. Alina yearns for the Belgae craftsman with the muscled body of a blacksmith, the deep melodic voice of a minstrel, and a personality that charms everyone. He’s a man who possesses the artistic skills of the greatest goldsmiths of the Celtic world. A man who looks at her with hunger and cherishes her in ways she craves. A man whose touch ignites her body. Alina knows she will love no other man as she loves him.

Garamaros is the son of a druidess and a Belgae blacksmith. He’s been accepted by the Durotriges tribe and has found acclaim as a master goldsmith. When he falls in love with Alina, his only desire is to fulfil all her dreams for the rest of his life, but that’s impossible because she promised to the King of the Durotriges.
Alina must marry her people’s king, forsaking the man she loves. Accepting that Alina is lost to him, Garamaros vows to protect her from afar.

Will their love affair end in life-long despair or will they find a happy ending? 

Beginnings is the prequel to The Divided Isles Saga. This novella is a spicy M/F love story featuring: love at first sight and forbidden love tropes.
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The Divided Isles Saga, commencing in the first century AD, follows the lives and loves of the Celtic queen, Alina, and her female descendants over generations. Each book is set during a period of division in Britain caused by invasion, civil war, or religious, cultural, or political differences.

The Divided Isles Saga:
~Romano-Britain series
The Celtic King’s Daughter (book #1)
forthcoming books: 
Sons of Rebellion (book #2)
The Rebellious Daughter (book #3)
~Viking series~
Enthralled
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Find your free copy of Beginnings here.

Christmas 2024 Release

The Regent's Secret Matchmakers
Release date: December 17, 2024 
Buy Link: books2read.com/u/bzk5On
Print version available via Amazon

1819. A war widow, a former spy, and two fugitive wallabies.
Prudence Hartwell lives on a meagre income after the death of her husband injured fighting the hated French at Waterloo. She wants a quiet life in the country. Her plan to nurse her lonely heart and limited budget by filling her days with gardening and her evenings with knitting goes haywire when the Prince Regent gifts her with a wallaby from his menagerie to “provide you with endless entertainment in your new abode”. The bizarre beast keeps escaping to the lush grass of the estate next door, owned by her landlord, Luc de Certain, a French émigré with a doubtful past and a glib tongue.
 
After fighting Napoleon’s regime as a spy, Luc De Certain, travelled Europe after the war in search of emotional healing. He’s back in England to enjoy a peaceful country life at his childhood home. That is, until The Regent foists not only a wallaby but also a needy tenant upon him in the form of the delightful widow, Madame Hartwell. Hopelessly attracted to Prudence despite all his fears, he plans a flirtation with her during the long winter, but she is persistently resistant. Merde!
 
Luc and Prudence find their Antipodean charges are wayward and highly resourceful escapees, determined to be together.

Can Prudence keep her wallaby at home and avoid Monsieur de Certain, who makes her feel far too much?
 
Will the wallabies help Luc win over the widow, who could heal his tortured soul?
 
And can they achieve their goals by Christmas day?
 
The Regent’s Secret Matchmakers is a sweet M/F Regency romance novella featuring: love at first sight, forced proximity, and enemies to lovers tropes. It can be read as a standalone story.
 
The Oxford Friends Series comprises:
#1 The Wallflower’s Christmas Surprise
#2 The Kidnapped Christmas Bride
#3 The Regent’s Secret Matchmakers

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September Release

The Temptation of Reverend Francis Brody  
​Release date: September 24, 2024
Get your copy here.
Print version available via Amazon
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A love that defies society’s rules.
Actress Clarissa Bartlett craves fame and fortune on the stage. After years of struggle since she left the Duke Street Orphanage, she’s achieved theatre acclaim at Covent Garden.
When her aunt takes a wealthy lover and decides it’s time for Clarissa to take one too, Clarissa turns to the only person willing to protect her.
The earnest Reverend Francis Brody is the only man she trusts and her total opposite.
Francis ministers to the Covent Garden parish while he awaits a promised living in Hampshire, and avoids Miss Fanny Hodges, the woman everyone thinks he will marry.
When the beautiful Clarissa seeks his help to avoid an unwanted liaison, he can’t refuse her safety in his home. Suddenly, his ordered and respectable life is thrown into chaos.
As their enemies unite to destroy their reputations and their careers, Francis offers Clarissa his protection in a marriage of convenience.
Soon, they’re finding it hard to resist their attraction to each other and starting to believe they may be a match made in heaven…until their hopes for a future together are shattered.
Can they find a way to stay together when so many circumstances are forcing them apart?
The Temptation of Reverend Francis Brody is a spicy but sweet M/F Regency romance featuring: love at first sight, opposites attract, forced proximity, marriage of convenience, and forbidden love tropes.
Find your copy on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited here.
Print version available now.

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IN PRODUCTION:

Ancient World Romance Series: The Divided Isles Saga 
(release in 2025)
Sons of Rebellion (final editing for July release)
The Rebellious Daughter (final editing soon)

Regency romance:
The Temptation of Reverend Francis Brody (The Brody Family Series #2)
For release date on non-Amazon platforms:  2025 (date tba)

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