1–What is the title of your latest release? ARTFULLY YOURS 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? It’s a slow-burn Victorian romance about an art forger who gets dangerously entangled with the one man capable of seeing through her. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I’ve always loved Pre-Raphaelite paintings and they inspired me to write a series of books set in and around the late 19th century London art world. The first book, The Duke Undone, follows Lucy, a painting student at the Royal Academy. She wants to paint dazzling pictures and make a name for herself. With Artfully Yours, I imagined a heroine with a very different relationship to art. Nina never signs her name to anything she paints. As a forger, she exists in the art world’s shadow. Scenes take place in galleries and auction houses and museums, but also in the forger’s workshop, where she fakes Rembrandts with her brother. 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? I would, absolutely. I wrote Artfully Yours during the pandemic lockdown, when I was at peak loneliness and missing everyone. As a result, Nina feels more like a friend…

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE DUKE’S SECRET CINDERELA   2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?  Ever After meets the Regency! Saucy dowagers, quips, and dances under the stars abound!   3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place?  I’m a panster. So, after a plot talk with my editor Elizabeth Pelletier, I then did a lot of daydreaming, and the locations came to me from all the research I’ve done on the period.   4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life?  Yes. Charlotte is absolutely friend material. She’ll have your back, help you get stuff done, and make you laugh along the way.   5–What are three words that describe your hero? Passionate, honorable, determined, and undaunted.   6–What’s something you learned while writing this book?  I spent time learning about the original orphan asylums in London and that a specific color of blue was used for the uniforms.   7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? I never edit while I write the first draft.   8–What’s your favorite foodie indulgence? Cake. Almost all cakes.   9–Describe your writing space/office!  Well,…

Book Title:  ONCE UPON A STORM by Kimberly Cates Character Name: Captain Simon Harcourt   How would you describe your family or your childhood? Happy enough until I was nine.  As an earl’s son, I had the run of Everdene estate, a stable that was pure magic for a horse-mad boy.  My older brother and two sisters filled the nursery with fun.  When my mother visited our tenants, the village was my playground, and the lads there my partners in mischief. My father was grim, but he came to Everdene less and less over the years, his temper fearful (not that I ever flinched from it).  But the year I turned nine all hell broke loose.  My mother fled Everdene, trying to take my sisters with her.  Of course, father caught them.  Cassandra and Jane were sent to aunts in Italy, and mother… well, she vanished. Lucien and I were left with my tyrannical father who beat me whenever I spoke her name.  In time, I quit asking where she was, and my heartbreak turned to bitterness.  As Lucien said, Mother had always planned to abandon the two of us.   What was your greatest talent? Getting into trouble, taking…

1–What is the title of your latest release? KISSING THE HIGHLAND TWIN 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? When Lord Andrew MacGalloway agrees to attend a house party, posing as his twin, he does so with good intentions. But carefully laid plans tend to go awry when one is impersonating his brother. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? This is the fourth book in the series, and though it is a stand-alone, Stack Castle has been mentioned in every book thus far. Stack Castle is an enormous (fictional) medieval fortress and was styled after Alnwick Castle in Northumberland. 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? Oh, definitely, yes. Regenia is the sweetest person, clever and unpretentious. I’d love to chat with her over a cup of tea! 5–What are three words that describe your hero? Generous, Tenacious, and Adaptable. (of course, he’s handsome and swoon-worthy but those are very superficial descriptors). 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? I learned how to make a torch with tree pitch! 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? In the morning I usually edit what…

Contessa jolted awake to a banging noise. She sat bolt upright, head whipping side to side in search of danger. Her thoughts cleared as the noise came again and she realized it was simply somebody knocking on her door, if rather insistently. Contessa pulled on her dressing gown before padding over to the door and cracking it open. When she peeked into the hall, her jaw dropped in shock, and she immediately threw it wide. Standing in the hallway was Mr. Woodrow, dressed in shirtsleeves and looking rather the worse for wear. His hair stood out at all angles, and he swayed slightly where he stood, holding on to the doorframe for support. Most shockingly, his shirt was splattered in something dark. In the dim light of the hallway, Contessa couldn’t be completely sure, but she thought it was blood. “What happened?” she gasped. She might know the answer, but she was more concerned with why he had chosen to show up at her bedroom door in this state. “Don’t worry, most of the blood isn’t mine,” he responded, trying to sound nonchalant even as he gritted his teeth. Before Contessa could respond, he swayed again where he stood. Contessa…

1–What is the title of your latest release? WICKED IN MY BED 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? I’ve not thought of one! Sorry! 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? This book is the last in a Regency romance series based in London, so the setting was easy to use. 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? For sure! Daphne is an older heroine, and no nonsense, so we’d definitely be friends. 5–What are three words that describe your hero? Scarred. Grumpy. Loyal. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? This isn’t anything to do with the book, but I would NOT give myself a deadline through the summer school holidays. Finishing this book was hard! 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? I edit once I’ve finished, but I need to stop that because I often run out of time. 8–What’s your favorite foodie indulgence? Fruchocs. Probably on South Aussies will know what they are, but they’re delicious. 9–Describe your writing space/office! A small room, bookcases, desk, computer, printer, filing cabinets. I also have my book covers up on the walls…

O is for once upon a time, a fisherman’s daughter named Poppy Summers was trying to keep her family’s fishing business afloat. N is for the nets Poppy is cheerfully casting from her rowboat when she spots an unconscious man lying on the beach. E is for the enigmatic stranger who’s washed up on the shore. He’s big, handsome, and a duke—who can’t remember how he got the gash on his head.   D is for the deal that the man, Keane, offers Poppy. He’ll pay a generous sum if she lets him hide out in her cozy beach refuge while he searches for his attacker. U is for the unsolved mystery that Poppy and Keane are determined to get to the bottom of—which means taking secret trips to London, spending a day at the races, and attending a masquerade ball. K is for kissing, of course. E is for the emotions that Poppy didn’t expect to feel for someone like Keane: affection, admiration, and maybe even something deeper…   D is for the devilish dimple in Keane’s cheek. The one that *almost* makes Poppy forget all the reasons they can never have a future together. O is for the one personal question she permits Keane to…

Hey there! I’m Kimberley Woodhouse, author of A MARK OF GRACE. It’s the third and final book in my Secrets of the Canyon series and I’m SO excited to share a bit with you today! A is for Anniston – my heroine’s last name. An older single woman – she’s about to turn 35 – gasp.   M is for Marred – she’s been through a horrific time and feels disfigured. A is for Accident – there was an accident at the end of A GEM OF TRUTH (book 2) that is life-changing for Ruth. R is for Ruth – the heroine, head waitress, mentor, and mother hen. K is for killer – is there one on the loose?   O is for Ordinary – this is no ordinary Harvey House. The El Tovar is the crown jewel of the Harvey empire. F is for Frank – hero and head chef. He’s been a part of the series from the beginning.   G is for Grand – The Grand Canyon is the setting of the series. R is for Rim – The El Tovar hotel sits on the rim of the Canyon with a beautiful view. A is for Authentic…

To set the scene: LOVE ON THE LINE is the first book in Anabelle Bryant‘s new Vauxhall Voices series where forbidden love is the central focus and members of London’s aristocracy fall in love with outliers of Regency society. Lola York, the heroine, is a woman with a complicated past, on the run and working as a tightrope walker in Vauxhall Gardens. Theodore Coventry, Earl of Essex, is a man on a mission, searching for the individual who murdered his best friend. Through unavoidable circumstances, their paths become overlapped and their emotions collide. In this scene written in Lola’s perspective, they both realize that their desire for each other may be an unstoppable force even if it breaks all the rules.   It was shameful to ask for a kiss. Scandalous to be draped across a gentleman’s lap. All the etiquette rules and deportment lessons from her youth wasted and forgotten in the span of a heartbeat. But Lola didn’t care. Something beyond coherent thought had control of her now. She wanted. Wanted with an ache inside that could only be satisfied with his kiss and more. She stroked her tongue across his lips, taking his mouth as she gripped…

1–What is the title of your latest release? A LOVE BY DESIGN 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? A second-chance romance between a no-nonsense woman engineer and the cinnamon-roll earl who broke her youthful heart. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? The entire series, The Secret Scientists of London, is set in London in 1842-1843 – the early Victorian era. I wanted to set the series in a time of socio-economic and political flux, much like our own. 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? Absolutely! Margaret is much like the women engineers I know in real life – she is straightforward, task centered, and takes no guff. What’s not to like? 5–What are three words that describe your hero? Gorgeous, goofy, big-hearted 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? The most interesting part of my research was learning about how the original Thames tunnel was constructed and what happened to it afterward. 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? I always tell myself when I sit down to write that editing can come later, then spend the entire time self-editing. Sigh….