Historical Romance and Mystery

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For the moment, a historical romance series set in Maine in 1919 with a gripping family mystery at its core, is occupying her time. 

Book one in the four-book series is out: Ravenswood Hall: An Elegy for an Enemy

“Didn’t you hear the rumors before coming here?”

The Great War has ended and Spanish Flu is decimating the population. Ravenswood Hall remains isolated from the world, poised at the top of a hill on an island off the rocky coast of Maine.

It is to this house that Emmaline West has traveled, bent on revenge. She has been left lame from polio, lost her home and her family, and one man is to blame--Garrick Coleridge, her dead sister's fiancé. But instead of the heartless monster she is set on killing, she finds a man tormented by a secret that he risked his life on the battlefield to escape.

The pandemic worsens on the mainland, trapping Emmaline on the island. When a member of the household is murdered, suspicion falls on her. Plunged into the shadowy lives of the Coleridge clan, Emmaline is forced to seek Garrick's help to clear her name. 

But this murder is only the beginning. Like peeling back the layers of an onion, the secrets of Ravenswood Hall are revealed and no one is safe. Is it one killer or several? Emmaline and Garrick enter into an uneasy alliance to find out - and to stay alive.

Historical Mystery Pre-Order Sale!

“April is the cruellest month” in T.S. Eliot’s 1921 poem The Waste Land because, as spring brought signs of new life and renewal, Europe was in a crumbling, dying mess in the wake of World War I. And the poet wasn't doing much better.

Wow. What a time. I love history and boy, did I fall down a rabbit hole digging into this time period. 

An Elegy for an Enemy launches on April 11 at 3.99 but you can preorder your copy for only 0.99 before it reverts to full price.

PRE-ORDER An Elegy for an Enemy HERE

“Didn’t you hear the rumors before coming here?”

Emmaline West arrives at Ravenswood Hall feeling she has nothing left to live for. She's lame after a bout of polio; she's lost her home, her parents and now her beloved sister, Selena, is dead.

She holds one man responsible: Garrick Coleridge, her sister's fiancé. He may have survived the Front, but Emmaline is going to make sure that he doesn't survive her.

But Ravenswood Hall and Captain Coleridge are not what she expected. When a member of the household is murdered, Emmaline is plunged into the shadowy lives of the Coleridge clan. 

The murder is only the beginning. Like peeling back the layers of an onion, the secrets of Ravenswood Hall are revealed and no one is safe. Is it one killer or several? Emmaline enters into an uneasy alliance with Garrick to find out - and to stay alive.

Snack-Size Romance!

 

Love at First Sight Short Romance Series

"Nice girls finish last."

- said no one ever. 

ABOUT THE SERIES:

She is nice and finishing last. He is not nice and finishing first. Trapped together and mistaken identities lead to love in this read-it-on-your-lunch-hour romance series that has a sensual heat level. 

Click the link to buy on Amazon or read in Kindle Unlimited

Nice Girls Finish Last Short Romance

When it is love at first sight....

Page-turning Gothic Romance Sale

We are all in the mood for a twisted page-turning Victorian romance, are we not? When the world outside your door is falling apart, run a bath, light a scented candle and escape to a world where dark forces drive men and women to perform dark deeds. 

You'll feel better about the present world when you're through. 

We don't have scented candles on sale, but we can supply the Victorian romance novel. 

Windemere Hall is in a Kindle Countdown Deal for the deeply discounted price of $0.99 from November 10, 2022 to November 17, 2022. 

Pick up your Discounted copy HERE:

Windemere Hall

Wait a minute! Intense, twisty gothic romance is not your cup of tea? You prefer a lighter historical set in an innocent time (which for us pre-dates the Internet). We've got you covered.

Stress Relief 101: 

Close door. Run bath. Light scented candle. Dive into The Jilting for free from November 9, 2022 to November 12, 2022. 

Free on Amazon, this romcom is set in 1987 when romcom ruled the movie theatres. It's a frothy tale of a girl who secretly loves her best friend and when he doesn't return the feeling, she decides to marry a guy who does, and then that guy leaves her at the altar! Hijinks ensue. 

Pick up your Free copy HERE:

The Jilting

Both series are in Kindle Unlimited if you have that subscription service. Enjoy the reads and forget about the world for a few hours. It'll still be there when you get back.

Have a blessed November!

Free Historical Romance on Amazon!

 Thee I Do Wed is free on Amazon from Sept. 20 to Sept. 24!

Download your free copy HERE

 

Thee I Do Wed kicks off the Foundling Brides of Brooklyn novella series. Four warm, funny romances set in New York's Gilded Age in which four orphans find themselves in marriages of conveniences with New York society's most eligible bachelors.

From the back cover:

Lilly Gryce has been a thorn in the side of Brooklyn Foundling Home for seven years. So when wealthy Julius Thorley comes seeking a bride in name only to protect his assets from bankruptcy, Lilly is put forward as a candidate.

Julius wants a bride, yes, but the headstrong hellcat he is shown--though she is beautiful--won't pass muster in old New York society. Lilly is equally unimpressed by the pedigree of her future husband--though he is remarkably handsome. 

Julius makes her a deal. He will reunite Lilly with her long-lost parents if she can pass for a society debutante long enough to save the Thorley estate. 

Lilly will give anything to see her parents again. She did not expect the price would be her heart.

New Romance Release - The Last Bride Standing

An arranged marriage between a sniper and a romantic. A cottage on Long Island. A leaky roof, a rat and yet only one thing will tear them apart.

Delphine Butterwick is the last of the four friends who grew up together in Brooklyn Foundling Home to be married off, and this time the bride is wed to a man she barely remembers. Captain Thomas Morrow has turned up to grimly do his duty and go through with the marriage arranged for them when they were children.

For Delphine who lives and breathes romance, Morrow is not what she had in mind when she declared a knight-in-shining armor was coming to whisk her away. 

Tom is equally unimpressed with his future bride. He's a serious soldier with a great purpose and she is an insensible dreamer who believes everything will simply work out.

To Have and To Hold, the last in the Foundling Brides of Brooklyn Series is available on Amazon (0.99) and in Kindle Unlimited. 

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Foundling Brides of Brooklyn - New Release!

 

RELEASE DATE: JUNE 1, 2022

CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER! 0.99 AND AVAILABLE IN KINDLE UNLIMITED

I TAKE THEE 

A girl on the brink of ending it all. A surgeon in need of a miracle. A marriage of convenience unites them until a secret divides them.

A Gilded Age novella series from Constance Kent:

Claire Jefferson was the least likely of the Brooklyn Foundling Home orphans to find a husband. Suffering debilitating pain, she's finally had enough when Dr. Benjamin Braithwaite arrives to examine her. Braithwaite is a brillant surgeon who failed spectacularly when a patient died during a surgical procedure viewed by a packed theater of observers. Claire submits to his experimental surgical technique and falls in love with the tall, quiet widower. 

When Braithwaite proposes marriage for the sake of her full recovery and to provide a mother for his young son, Claire enthusiastically enters into a marriage of convenience, believing she knows everything about her new husband. 

ALSO IN THIS SERIES:

COMING JUNE 8, 2022

FOUNDLING BRIDES OF BROOKLYN:

Set in 1890, New York's Gilded Age, four young women raised in Brooklyn Foundling Home are joined in matrimony for a variety of reasons to four handsome, clever and complex men, and find love against all odds. Lovers of Gilded Age romance will enjoy this warm, romantic  novella series. 

Foundling Brides of Brooklyn Historical Romance Series

RELEASE DATE: MAY 11, 2022

CLICK HERE TO ORDER: 0.99 AND IN KINDLE UNLIMITED

THEE I DO WED

Book One

 A Marriage in Name Only Romance

She wants to find her parents. He wants to save the family estate. Neither wants marriage, but in 1890 New York, it is the only choice they are given.

A Gilded Age novella series from Constance Kent:

Lilly Gryce has been a thorn in the side of Brooklyn Foundling Home for seven years. So when wealthy Julius Thorley comes seeking a bride in name only to protect his assets from bankruptcy, Lilly is put forward as a candidate.

Julius wants a bride, yes, but the headstrong hellcat he is shown--though she is beautiful--won't pass muster in old New York society. Lilly is equally unimpressed by the pedigree of her future husband--though he is remarkably handsome. 

Julius makes her a deal. He will reunite Lilly with her long-lost parents if she can pass for a society debutante long enough to save the Thorley estate. 

Lilly will give anything to see her parents again. She did not expect the price would be her heart.

ABOUT THE SERIES:

Foundling Brides of Brooklyn is set in 1890s New York, the Gilded Age. Four young women raised in Brooklyn Foundling Home are joined in matrimony for a variety of reasons to four handsome, clever and complex men, and find love against all odds. Lovers of Gilded Age romance will enjoy this warm, romantic  novella series. 

NEXT IN THE SERIES: DUE FOR RELEASE MAY 18, 2022

CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER

Smashwords Incredible Summer Winter Sale!

FREE on Smashwords from December 17, 2021 to Janunary 1, 2022. Click the link to be taken to our publisher page and scoop up your copies.

WRITEWOOD CREATIONS ON SMASHWORDS

Looking for more sizzle this holiday season? These Evelyn Ellis titles are available for FREE on Smashwords December 17, 2021 to January 1, 2022. Click the link below to be taken to our publisher page and scoop up your copies. 

WRITEWOOD CREATIONS ON SMASHWORDS

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Hot Medieval Romance Book Launch Day!

 Revealed in the Mist

The final installment in the Mortain and Bedwyr Trilogy

The shifter is no more. Sir Edryd Mortain has destroyed the potion that unleashes the beast he has within. When Isabelle Grey learns that her guardian Mortain has returned from France with his betrothed, she accepts her friend John Havoc's proposal of marriage. 

A chance, highly sensual, encounter brings Isabelle and Mortain together and a difficult choice is made. But when an unforeseen threat to Isabelle's life arises, Mortain must bring Bedwyr to life once more and in doing so, he risks losing his beloved forever.

Set in 1209 Wales, Revealed in the Mist is the final novella in a steamy trilogy about the noble Welsh knight, Sir Edryd Mortain and his alter ego, the depraved shifter Bedwyr, and their forbidden love for one girl. 

A short steamy read to warm up your lunch hour this October.

Buy it on Amazon or read for free in Kindle Unlimited

Erotic Medieval Romance available for Pre-order!

 Mortain and Bedwyr Book Two

Whispers in the Fog

Release Date: September 20,2021

Available for Pre-Order Now on Amazon

The shifter knight, Bedwyr, will risk everything to keep Isabelle Grey from harm, a passion that has tragic consequences for his alter ego, Sir Edryd Mortain. 

To protect his children, the noble knight drives his ward from the castle and from all hope of securing his love. At the home of Sir Hugo Blackwell, Isabelle tries to forget Mortain and his seductive darker self until Sir Hugo requests her assistance to open a mysterious casket from a dead monk. 

The monster that is released has an evil plan in mind for Isabelle, never realizing that Isabelle has a monster of her own.

Set in 1209 Wales, Whispers in the Fog is the second novella in a steamy trilogy about the noble Welsh knight, Sir Edryd Mortain and his alter ego, the depraved shifter Bedwyr, and their forbidden love for one girl. 

Whispers in the Fog

New Release! Erotic Medieval Romance in Kindle Unlimited!

 Hidden in the Shadows

She is forbidden. Chaste. The convent-raised daughter of his only friend and fellow knight, Isabelle Grey is also his ward. The nobility of his birth, the chilvaric code and his own tormented conscience constrains Sir Edryd Mortain from bedding her as much as the scarring on his face.

He cannot escape her. The girl has come of age and without a suitor, she must join Mortain's household. He is cold to her, repels her overtures of kinship, and watches her from the shadows. 

Unaware of the desire he harbors within, Isabelle wanders into her guardian's hidden apothecary one night after the household is abed. There she encounters the depraved shifter knight known as Bedwyr who reveals Mortain's secret. He has drank an elixir that has the power to overcome his conscience and deliver him his heart's desire. If Mortain cannot love Isabelle as a man, he will seduce her as a beast. 

Set in 1209 Wales, Hidden in the Shadows is the first novella in a steamy trilogy about the noble Welsh knight, Sir Edryd Mortain and his alter ego, the depraved shifter Bedwyr, and their forbidden love for one girl. 

PURCHASE OR BORROW IN KINDLE UNLIMITED

Look for Book Two: Whispers in the Fog - Due for release SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
Look for Book Three: Revealed in the Mist - Due for release OCTOBER 4, 2021

Edwardian Romance Novellas

Catherine Lloyd’s Edwardian Lovers Trilogy explores the intertwined fates of three families affected by a murder three years earlier. Set in a charming English village at the start of the “Gilded Age,” high society was controlled by strictly defined rules governing interaction between the sexes. Rules that are no match for three determined young lovers. Inspired by the hit television series, Downton Abbey, the trilogy contains warm love scenes written for a mature audience.

The Killer's Son  Find it on Amazon for Sale (0.99) or in Kindle Unlimited until February 2019

Disgraced Eden Mowbray arrives in Hertfordshire to spend the summer at her family’s country estate after exposing herself to gossip in London. As the son of a convicted killer, Wulfric Chaucer, her brother’s best friend, is even more of a social pariah. With everyone they know still in London for the Season, Wulf and Eden are thrown together and complicate matters even further by falling in love. With her parents strongly against a union with the son of a killer, Eden is faced with giving up a life of wealth and privilege, or giving up the love of her life.

 The Vicar's Son Find it on Amazon for Sale (0.99) or in Kindle Unlimited until February 2019

Toller Lawton has something Isolde Chaucer wants—a plan to get rich in the Yukon gold fields. The vicar’s son drinks too much, is rude and reckless but she’d put up with a lot to escape England and her family’s disgrace. However, Toller doesn’t agree his best friend’s sister is the sort of woman who can handle the wild lifestyle of the Klondike. She’s too prissy. She’d probably faint if she saw a man in his long underwear. When the vicar's reprobate son accidentally compromises Isolde’s reputation, she seizes the opportunity to convince Toller that she’s exactly the sort of woman who can handle wild men—beginning with him.

The Earl's Son Find it on Amazon for Sale (0.99) or in Kindle Unlimited until March 2019

Perdita Pollicott has few choices open to her in life when she arrives in Hertfordshire and meets the Earl’s son, Nash Mowbray. She’s going to marry a missionary and Nash Mowbray—well Mr. Mowbray can go to the very devil for all she cares. A sentiment they both agree on until Perdita is asked to read to the soldier who suffers from headaches since his return from the Boer War. Locked in with his private demons, Nash is shut down physically and emotionally until one night, caught in a lightning storm with Miss Pollicott, the Earl’s son crosses the line.

New Release! Sizzling Elizabethan Romance

Whew! The newest release in Catherine Lloyd's My Guilty Pleasure Series had us *ahem* chasing down our husbands....

THE TUDOR PRINCE

For Sale on Amazon (2.99) or Read it in Kindle Unlimited

Avery Weller is a player who flouts the law that forbids women on the stage. Her nemesis is Lord Nicholas Blackstone, Master of the Revels, a soulless bureaucrat who wields royal power over London’s theaters and has been hunting her for months. His pursuit is driving her into the poorhouse, until one day the handsome lord makes her an astonishing offer: fifteen pounds in exchange for becoming his brother’s companion.

Nicholas Blackstone has a stunning secret living in his attic at Blackstone Hall. His adopted brother, Sir James, is the last Tudor prince, grandson of Henry VIII and heir to Queen Elizabeth’s throne. A royal lineage so explosive, that Blackstone has been keeping James from society, waiting for the moment to announce his claim. But as his twenty-first birthday approaches, James is becoming restless. Driven by ambition, Nicholas takes an extreme step to bind the Tudor prince to him—offering up the girl he has secretly admired for months—Avery Weller.

FUN FACTS: A pound in the Elizabethan era was worth approximately four hundred dollars in today’s currency, and punishments for relatively minor crimes in Elizabethan England were horrendous and impossible to exaggerate!

Fantasy Romance for Mother's Day

Historical Fantasy Romance at an Introductory Price for Moms!

Sale ends May 30th. Do not delay downloading your copy of The Maiden Bride for this limited time offer of only 0.99! (Reg retail price is 2.99 and Free to Read on Kindle Unlimited)

The Maiden Bride

Endicott heirs have always taken Stark maidens for their brides. 

A blood oath forged eight centuries ago promised Helen Stark to Lord Weathersky Endicott in marriage from the day she was born. A poor girl with few prospects, the sinister implications of the ancient alliance are lost on Helen. The nineteen-year-old orphan bride-to-be arrives at Cragmoore Castle eager to meet her betrothed, sensibly trading love for the security of an arranged marriage.

Weathersky has other ideas—and a secret power. The handsome and brilliant Endicott heir is a warlock who has mastery over everything but love. He craves unlocking its secrets but he never will if he enters into a loveless marriage. The warlock has been studying arcane texts, seeking to break the oath and escape his fate. 

But eight hundred years of supernatural rule is not easy to overthrow. Weathersky finds he is drawn to Miss Stark to the point of passion. Is what he feels when he is alone with the maiden bride love or mere magic? Their wedding is in three days and Helen becomes more desirable with each passing hour. The blood oath is calling to him....

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The Maiden Bride is the third title in Catherine Lloyd’s My Guilty Pleasure series, standalone historical romances of emotionally-charged forbidden love. The novel contains scenes, language and themes intended for a mature audience. 

Heat Level: Warm to Spicy 

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My Guilty Pleasure Series Titles

The Pirate Lord     The Dark Regent

Kindle eBook Sale for St. Patrick's Day!

We have our green on all this week!

And to celebrate, The Dark Regent is on sale March 15 to March 22 on Amazon.com for $0.99! (reg. price $2.99) This is a Kindle Countdown Deal that you won't want to miss.

A forbidden love more powerful than either of them.

Eighteen-year-old Fawn Heathcote resisted her uncle’s advances for as long as she dared. Captain Crispin Wolfe, the rakish half-brother of Fawn’s aunt, became obsessed with his niece-by-marriage from their first meeting. From the moment he moved into the London mansion, he’s had one aim in mind—to bed her. Night after night, the captain visits her bedchamber, in the hope of being admitted. Fawn has always refused. Until one night, Wolfe arrives to deliver a devastating message and she realizes only her tormentor can save her. Fawn’s resistance to Crispin’s seduction gradually breaks down under his protection and, caught in his web, she soon discovers a secret side to her captor.

The Dark Regent is the second title in Catherine Lloyd’s My Guilty Pleasure series, standalone historical romances of emotionally-charged dark forbidden love. The novel contains scenes, language and themes intended for a mature audience. Sensitive readers are strongly cautioned.

Sizzling Historical Romance

Announcing the My Guilty Pleasure Collection

Here is what the reader can expect:

1. Standalone novels that don't require a commitment to a long series--one and done. 
2. Emotionally intense historical fiction. Addictive (betcha can't read just one)
3. A variety of settings and situations to explore those oh-so-familiar romantic tropes we adore. 
4. Great price. 2.99 or read it in Kindle Unlimited (KU)
5. Page-turning (not door-stopping) plots. 
6. Heroines who are neither feisty nor passive but real women who have a major problem on their hands.
7. Heroes who are neither alpha nor beta but real men who were doing just fine until she came along.

My Guilty Pleasure Titles

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New! Buy it on Amazon or KU Borrow

More to come in 2018! Happy Valentine's Day and good reading!

New Historical Romance Release! Arrrrg--Pirates!

The Pirate Lord 

A new Historical Romance novel for Kindle by Catherine Lloyd launches today at 2.99 and is available to read in Kindle Unlimited! (Fair warning, this special launch price ends in June so get it while you can.) CLICK this link to BUY or BORROW through Kindle Unlimited.

Wow, this book was fun to read and check out the gorgeous cover by Stunning Book Covers. So inspirational! We were swept away to Cornwall and an Atlantic Ocean crossing aboard the Black Adder. Here's a brief synopsis of this racy pirate romance novel: 

THE PIRATE LORD ~ Aristocrat. Rogue. Spy.

A curate's daughter with an iron will to survive. A ruthless pirate with a secret identity. Bronwyn Barlow and Captain Jon Stag clash wills aboard the Black Adder. With the life of Bronwyn's little brother at stake, a deal is struck--join the pirate captain in his bed at six bells each night that the Black is at sea. Set against the backdrop of a mad king and a revolutionary war in a far-off land, Bronwyn and Jon enter into a passionate world of discovery that leads to love and heartbreaking separation. 

The Pirate Lord is a standalone full-length novel and it is definitely on the steamy side so be warned: this ain't your grandmother's romance (although some of those were quite shocking...). The love story is intense, as we've come to expect from Miss Lloyd. We hope Bronwyn and Jon steal your hearts (a pirate pun!) as swiftly as they stole ours.

CLICK this link to BUY or BORROW through Kindle Unlimited!

Happy reading!

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