Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. This author also writes under the name Francesca Shaw. I have had my nose buried in a history book - fact or fiction - for as long as I can remember, but even more important to me are the places and the objects that conjure up the past. My first attempt at historical fiction at the age of eight was three pages of improbable medieval drama set in the local castle. With a degree in geography and archaeology I love to try and 'read' the landscape and the buildings in it for clues about the past. Virtually any place can trigger ideas for plots, but I am particularly inspired by Venice, Burgundy, Mediterranean islands and the Hertfordshire and Norfolk countryside. I live in England in a village in Bedfordshire with my long-suffering husband. He is not sure whether to be flattered or alarmed to be told he is the inspiration for all my romantic heroes! Whenever possible we escape to our cottage on the North Norfolk coast where Percy, the bossy pheasant, allows us to share the garden. My resolution every time I start on a new plot is to plan it carefully, make copious notes first and write lots of drafts in a disciplined and orderly manner. What inevitably happens is that the story starts to write itself in my head until it gets completely out of control - meanwhile my study floor becomes a sea of open books, prints and maps and I am found sitting in the car at traffic lights, muttering dialogue. At that point I have to start writing, knowing full well that the hero and heroine are going to take over and sabotage all my attempts at discipline. It is, after all, their story.
Series
Books
From Ruin to Riches
2013
Least Likely to Marry a Duke
2019
Surrender to the Marquess
2017
Loving the Lost Duke
2017
Unlacing Lady Thea
2014
A Model Debutante
2005
The Viscount's Betrothal
2006
Regency Pleasures
2005
The Swordmaster's Mistress
2017
Contracted as His Countess
2019
The Hazardous Measure of Love
2021
The Society Catch
2004
A Proposal to Risk Their Friendship
2021
Practical Widow to Passionate Mistress
2010
Beguiled by Her Betrayer
2014
A Mistletoe Masquerade
2012
The Dangerous Mr. Ryder
2007
The Officer and the Proper Lady
2010
Disrobed and Dishonored
2009
The Viscount's Dangerous Liaison
2018
Stagecoach Travel
2014
A Most Unconventional Courtship
2007
The Duke's Counterfeit Wife
2021
Time's Perilous Desire
2023
Beach Hut Surprise
2020
The Earl's Intended Wife
2004
Seduced by the Scoundrel
2011
Rumors
2013
Walks Through Regency London
2014
Married to a Stranger
2011
Marrying His Cinderella Countess
2017
Walking Jane Austen's London
2013
The Unexpected Marriage of Gabriel Stone
2016
Tarnished Amongst the Ton
2013
Seduced by Love
2013
The Outrageous Lady Felsham
2008
A Rose for Major Flint
2015
Regency Mistletoe
2012
Vicar's Daughter to Viscount's Lady
2010
Virgin Slave, Barbarian King
2007
The Piratical Miss Ravenhurst
2009
His Housekeeper's Christmas Wish
2015
An Earl Out of Time
2017
His Christmas Countess
2015
The Earl's Reluctant Proposal
2021
The Lord and the Wayward Lady
2010
The Shocking Lord Standon
2008
The Marriage Debt
2005
Scandal's Virgin
2014
The Earl's Practical Marriage
2018
A Kiss Across Time
2018
A Marquis in Want of a Wife
2020
No Place for a Lady
2007
Moonlight and Mistletoe
2006
The Notorious Mr Hurst
2009
Innocent Courtesan to Adventurer's Bride
2010
The Georgian Seaside
The English resorts before the railway age
2016
Snowbound Wedding Wishes
An Earl Beneath the Mistletoe / Twelfth Night Proposal / Christmas at Oakhurst Manor
2012
The Earl's Mysterious Lady
2022
A Chance On Love
2014
A Rogue for the Dutiful Duchess
2023
Scandal in the Regency Ballroom
2013
Not Quite a Lady
2007
The Bride's Seduction
2006
His Convenient Duchess
2022
Lady Ambleforth's Afternoon Adventure
2012
A Lady in Need of an Heir
2018
Forbidden Jewel of India
2012
The Many Sins of Cris de Feaux
2016
Auctioned Virgin to Seduced Bride
2011
Love's Vengeance
2021
Ravished by the Rake
2011
One Night with a Rake
1998
The Earl's Marriage Bargain
2020
The Disgraceful Mr. Ravenhurst
2009
Regency Slang Revealed
Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue & Later Versions - Organised & Indexed
2016
