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The Shadowed Heart ~ Chapters 1-3

The Shadowed Heart, my new historical romance with a touch of paranormal is now available on Amazon/Kindle Unlimited. Read the first three chapters of Book 3 in the Magic in Italy Historical Romance series, featuring a clairvoyant Gypsy in Casanova's Venice. Chapter...

Twice Upon Time ~ Chapters 1-3

This month, I am excited to introduce my time travel/time slip romance Twice Upon Time on Amazon/Kindle Unlimited. Read the first three chapters of this time-slip historical romance set in Florence, Italy. Chapter One London February 1888 Sarah Longford slept in her...

Across Time ~ Chapters 1-3

Plummeted through time from one dangerous world to another, a brave woman may hold the power to change history ... but what if she fails? It is 1794, and Countess Adrienne de Beaufort is smuggling French aristocrats to England to save them from the guillotine. In a...

Pocket Politics

Life without pockets is HARD, and that is just one way that women have been discriminated against across centuries. I have lived pocketless over large stretches of my life, conforming to fashion. No more. Now that I spend my days in front of a computer and rarely see...

Women in History: Alma Mahler

Alma Mahler was one of the most interesting women in late 19th/early 20th century Vienna. Her (male) contemporaries also found her fascinating, and an astounding number of creative men fell victim to her charms—painter Gustav Klimt, composer Gustav Mahler, architect...

The Codpiece Conundrum

As an author of historical romance, I can assure you the devil is in the details. Readers are well educated and do not hesitate to call out an author when questioning the authenticity or accuracy of a story element, no matter how trivial. That makes it even more...