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Ask Jane
Narrated by June deBorahae
Ask Jane
Narrated by June deBorahae
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Cedric Williamson made a fool of himself at the Newmarket races, deceived and cheated of his meager bankroll. When he throws himself upon the mercy of his wealthy Aunt Amelia, her companion, Miss Jane Gabriel, heartily disapproves of his rescue.
To her chagrin, Jane finds herself assigned to transform Cedric from a dedicated rakehell into the kind of responsible heir Lady Stockdale requires. Though he tries to warm her heart with gallant words, floral bouquets, and flattering attention, Jane deftly repels Cedric’s tactics and declares him a pest. Their only teamwork comes from mutual affection for the once pathetic racehorse with which Cedric had ruined himself.
Can the fate of a bedraggled filly become the basis for enduring love?
Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
To her chagrin, Jane finds herself assigned to transform Cedric from a dedicated rakehell into the kind of responsible heir Lady Stockdale requires. Though he tries to warm her heart with gallant words, floral bouquets, and flattering attention, Jane deftly repels Cedric’s tactics and declares him a pest. Their only teamwork comes from mutual affection for the once pathetic racehorse with which Cedric had ruined himself.
Can the fate of a bedraggled filly become the basis for enduring love?
Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
Also Available in Audible Edition
Narrated by June deBorahae
A STEAMY REGENCY:
ENCHANTING AURORA
She needs to lose her maidenly innocence; he needs to fulfill a wicked challenge. Will this short term arrangement give them both more than they bargained for?
This book is a new venture for me...a steamy story. If you prefer a sweet, traditional story, please try on of my other books. If you enjoy following the heroine's journey, give Aurora a try.
Below the first regency six novels I wrote for Kensington Zebra now available as e-books through Kindle and Kindle Unlimited.
Below the first regency six novels I wrote for Kensington Zebra now available as e-books through Kindle and Kindle Unlimited.
Five for Five!! The fifth and final book from my remaining Kensington Zebra library is now available...in trade paperback on Amazon Kindle or as an e-book from Kindle and free on Kindle Unlimited. They join the six novels above to complete re-publication of the stories I wrote for the late lamented series, Zebra Regency Romances. RIP.
The five below have wonderful covers by Lisa Messegee of The Write Designer. I sincerely thank Connie Miconi of Lucky13 Book Reviews for her editing and other assistance.
The five below have wonderful covers by Lisa Messegee of The Write Designer. I sincerely thank Connie Miconi of Lucky13 Book Reviews for her editing and other assistance.
"The Valentine Poem" was part of Zebra's collection My Only Valentine, published in 2003.
Miss Susan Kimball dreams of Italy and yearns to visit Rome someday. When she employs Gianni DeFerrante to teach her the Italian language, she learns the charming but enigmatic foreigner is even more skilled at engaging her heart.
Who among us doesn't occasionally yearn for sunny Italia, perhaps accompanied by that handsome suitor?
Miss Susan Kimball dreams of Italy and yearns to visit Rome someday. When she employs Gianni DeFerrante to teach her the Italian language, she learns the charming but enigmatic foreigner is even more skilled at engaging her heart.
Who among us doesn't occasionally yearn for sunny Italia, perhaps accompanied by that handsome suitor?
The Muddled Matchmakers is available on Amazon Kindle and Kindle Unlimited as a trade paperback and/or e-book.
The Muddled Matchmakers
The Story:
Widow Dawn Neville and widower Hugh, Lord Grayson, devote their lives to their small children. When their elderly fathers conspire to bring them together at the Weymouth seaside, Dawn and Hugh agree to pretend compliance with the matchmakers’ objective. But their pretense just might diminish sad memories and inspire a fresh promise of a loving future together.
The Story:
Widow Dawn Neville and widower Hugh, Lord Grayson, devote their lives to their small children. When their elderly fathers conspire to bring them together at the Weymouth seaside, Dawn and Hugh agree to pretend compliance with the matchmakers’ objective. But their pretense just might diminish sad memories and inspire a fresh promise of a loving future together.
Ask Jane, The Tables Turned, and Least Likely Lovers are now available as trade paperbacks and e-books on Amazon Kindle and Kindle Unlimited.
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In addition, I have written some novellas (pictured below), my participation in Dreamstone Publishing's recent anthologies alongside some favorite collaborators.
2023
2023
Below is the interior cover for my story, "Beyond Scandal," with the detail from a fashion plate in La Belle Assemblee, Walking Dress, May 1818.
Lady Beth's world shatters when her father marries her governess, spoiling her marriage prospects and making her a hostage of her selfish brothers and cunning aunt. Beth finds growing happiness only with Evan Lawrence, her childhood friend. But when he is involved in a worse scandal, how will they fulfill their mutual love and find a happy future?
Lady Beth's world shatters when her father marries her governess, spoiling her marriage prospects and making her a hostage of her selfish brothers and cunning aunt. Beth finds growing happiness only with Evan Lawrence, her childhood friend. But when he is involved in a worse scandal, how will they fulfill their mutual love and find a happy future?
2022
Here is the inside cover for my story, building on designs using actual details from period-published fashion plates.
2021
Regency Mid-Summer Madness was published in July 2021 on Amazon Kindle and Kindle Unlimited, to grab your copy for seven wonderful stories to finish of your summer reading...o linger into the Autumn. My contribution is below...
"Seaside Summer" is the story of Miss Veronica Montgomery, who prefers shun marriage proposals if she cannot find a man she admires. Her mother and sister Cecilia are determined to wed her to Jasper Endicott, cousin to Cici’s fiancé. When Ronnie falls in love with Captain Drew, a hotel manager, sparks fly, matching the fireworks above Weymouth’s harbor.
It's another story in which the hero is not a duke, not even a baronet...which is just another result of my boredom with the hundreds of pseudo-dukes and imaginary earldoms that Regency editors insist upon in their rules of romance writing. I say, not this time! Please let me know if you agree -- but please read it first.
My novella for Dreamstone's A Regency Christmas Together 2020 collection, entitled "Julie's Christmas Joy," is set in one of my favorite cities, Bath. Here is the story's cover.
Below, more novellas in anthologies. My contribution to 2020's Regency Spring: Secret and Soirees is entitled "A Hero for Harriet." It's a sequel to 2019's "Sarah's Summer Surprise" in Regency Summer Escape from Dreamstone Publishing.
Take a look at the ramblings on my blog (above at left) and please don't forget my other blog with Kristine Hughes Patrone & Louisa Cornell: numberonelondon.net
I enjoy musing on what I would wear 200+ years ago. The outfit above is from La Belle Assemblee,1814. I visualize my novella heroine Miss Harriet Ryder visiting the seaside spa of Worthing in just this ensemble. Here is the (long) description of the outfit borrowed, with permission, from the excellent website of my friend and fellow author Candice Hern, www.candicehern.com which is full of excellent information on her collection of Regency-era jewelry, scene bottles, reticules, and much more, including her fine selection of fashion prints.
“Autumnal Walking Dress: Jaconet muslin high dress, with a triple flounce of muslin embroidery round the edge, and slightly scalloped; a row of worked points surmounts the top flounce. The body is composed of jaconet muslin and letting-in lace; the former cut in broad strips and sewed full to the latter, which is about an inch in breadth; the body is made up to the throat, but has no collar : the shape is the same as last month except that the back is a little broader. Long sleeve of muslin and lace to correspond with the body. Spenceret of rose-coloured velvet of a form the most elegantly simple and tasteful that we have seen; it is very short in the waist, and tight to the shape; it is ornamented at top by a lace frill, and is cut so as to cover the bosom but to leave the neck bare. This spenceret is very much admired, and it is certainly truly elegant, but it owes its principal attraction to the corset over which it is worn, and certainly nothing was ever so well calculated to display a fine shape to advantage as the Circassian corset, which has been patronized and recommended with incredible celerity by ladies of the highest distinction, who are unanimous in declaring it to be the only corset ever introduced that has in every way answered the encomiums bestowed upon it. The superior ease, gracefulness, and elegance which it gives to the female figure, are too obvious to need a comment; while on the other hand, its beneficial effects upon the health are daily attested by ladies who rejoice in the success of an invention which has freed them from the tortures inflicted by whalebone, steel, &c. We must not omit to observe that the walking bonnet of this month, which is composed of white satin and rose-coloured velvet, and ornamented with a plume of white feathers, will certainly become general, as it is a most elegant bonnet; it is worn over a small white lace cap. Rose-coloured jane, or leather, boots, and Limerick gloves.
“The above dress was invented by Mrs. Bell, Inventress of the ladies’ Chapeau Bras, at her Magazin des Modes. No. 26 Charlotte-street, Bedford-square”
Thanks, Candice. I have searched for authentic pictures of a Circassian corset, but although there are many references when one googles the term, if there are pictures that agree on just what it was, I could not find it. I leave it to your imagination.