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The Player - Rockliffe Series 3

Genres: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 12-15, 18+

B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree! Georgian romance with a daring masquerade, England 1776 106,000 words Tragedy drove him into unwilling exile. Death demands his reluctant return. In the decade between, he had answered to many names and amassed a variety of secrets. Now the actor known to Paris as L'Inconnu must resume his real identity and become Francis Adrian Sinclair Devereux, Earl of Sarre ... a man he no longer knows how to be and whose name,thanks to the malice of a friend turned enemy,remains tarnished by an old scandal. Revenge, so long avoided, slithers temptingly from the shadows. Grand-daughter of a wealthy wool-merchant, Caroline Maitland is not finding her Society debut either easy or enjoyable ... but to Marcus Sheringham, she is the perfect solution to his crushing mountain of debt. Knowing she will be married for her money, Caroline never believed she would find love; but neither did she bargain...

The Mesalliance - Rockliffe Series 2

Genres: History, Historical Fiction, Romance
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

Georgian romance and family skeletons, England 1775 101,000 words B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree he Duke of Rockliffe is thirty-six years old, head of his house and responsible for his young sister. He is therefore under some pressure to choose a suitable bride. Whilst accompanying his sister to what he speedily comes to regard as the house-party from hell, he meets Adeline Kendrick - acid-tongued, no more than passably good-looking and yet somehow alluring. Worse still, her relatives are deplorable - from Cousin Diana, a spoiled and ill-natured beauty, to devious and sadistic Uncle Richard. As a prospective bride, therefore, Adeline is out of the question. Until, that is, a bizarre turn of events cause the Duke to throw caution to the wind and make what his world will call a mesalliance.

A Splendid Defiance - Roundheads & Cavaliers 1.5

Genres: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 12-15, 18+

B.R.A.G. Medallion honoree, Global Gold Book Award 2025, Yarde book of the Year 2025! Stand-alone but connected to Roundheads & Cavaliers Romance and action set against the Great Siege of Banbury, 1644. 124,000 words. For two years, England has been in the grip of Civil War. In Banbury, Oxfordshire, the Cavaliers hold the Castle, the Roundheads want it back and the town is full of zealous Puritans. Consequently, the gulf between Captain Justin Ambrose and Abigail Radford, the sister of a fanatically religious shopkeeper ought to be unbridgeable. The key to both the fate of the Castle and that of Justin and Abigail lies in defiance. But will it be enough?

The Parfit Knight - Rockliffe series Book One - Rockliffe Series 1

Genres: Adventure, Historical Fiction, Romance
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 12-15, 18+

B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree! Georgian romance, England 1774 75,000 words When the Marquis of Amberley's coach is waylaid by highwaymen and his coachman shot, he is forced to take shelter at the first house he finds and is subsequently trapped there by a severe snow-storm. Oakleigh Manor is the home of Rosalind Vernon who lives alone but for her devoted servants and ill-mannered parrot, cut off from the outside world by the tragic result of a childhood accident. But Rosalind is brave and totally devoid of self-pity and it is these qualities which touch Amberley's heart. On his return to London, the Marquis persuades Rosalind's brother, Philip, to bring her to town for a taste of society, despite her handicap. But the course of Amberley's courtship is far from smooth.Philip Vernon actively dislikes him; Rosalind appears to be falling under the spell of the suavely elegant Duke of Rockliffe; and, worst...