An English Entanglement

(Gilded Age Belles Romance)

A comic illustrator with dreams of artistic freedom falls for a nobleman on the brink of financial ruin. Will Lucy find her place or lose her heart?

Lucille Van Zandt has always been more captivated by her whimsical newspaper strip, Lucy LaMode’s Fashionable Frolics, than Manhattan’s social whirl. Her parents insist she abandon her career as a comic strip artist and travel to London, where marriage to a titled gentleman could secure their place among the elite. Determined to play by her own rules, Lucy resolves to continue her illustrations in her new surroundings.

London’s aristocracy proves as elusive as New York’s famed Four Hundred. But Lucy is undeterred when she crashes an exclusive ball, catching the eye of the Marquess of Harlington, whose ancestral home is on the brink of ruin.

Frederick, Lord Harlington, sees Lucy’s creativity—and substantial dowry—as the solution to his financial woes. As their romance deepens, can Lucy pursue her artistic ambitions without sacrificing her heart? Will Frederick find a way to reconcile his feelings for Lucy with the crushing demands of his estate? Or must their aspirations force them to choose between love and their dreams?

A Venetian Vow

(Gilded Age Belles Romance)

When New York banking heiress Cora Hobart accidentally leaves her scrapbook behind in a gondola, she’s devastated. A year of sketches, secrets, and unfiltered thoughts, gone adrift on the Grand Canal. The journal was meant for her future self—a record of adventures, a chronicle of a life worth remembering. Losing it in Venice, just as she’s beginning to find her voice, feels like losing part of herself.

Ethan, Baron Radclyffe, never planned to read a stranger’s diary. Yet burdened by scandal, mounting debts, and the cost of shielding his exiled brother, he opens A Year in the Life of Miss Coralie Hobart, 1897 and is captivated. Cora’s voice is full of honesty and wonder. Her words guide him through the city as he learns to see Venice through her eyes.

When they finally meet, Cora is torn between gratitude and fury. Lord Radclyffe returned her journal, but not before reading every word! When it’s stolen again, this time, the cost is far greater than wounded pride. As an extortion plot threatens to expose her most private thoughts, Cora must choose whether to protect her heart—or entrust it to the one man who knows her best, line by line.

A Piccadilly Pursuit

(Gilded Age Belles Romance)

Jacqueline Mullinax is no typical high-society lady, growing up in St. Paul, Minnesota, where her family’s thriving vegetable canning business has catapulted them into newfound wealth. With their new home under construction, Jackie, her sister Nancy, and their mother escape to London for a summer abroad. There, she meets Lord Rafford de Moulton, the second son of a duke whose world couldn’t be more different than hers.

Rafford’s life is ruled by obligation, and he is determined to avoid any romantic entanglements that might derail his mission to preserve the ancestral estate. His older brother married for love, leaving Rafford to shoulder the responsibility of saving the dukedom.

He finds Jackie’s family’s canning empire distasteful and beneath him, yet he can’t ignore the solution she offers to his problems. The fortune she brings could secure the future of his estate, and soon, Rafford pursues a match with Jackie for all the wrong reasons.