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Freed by Love is a short romantic suspense novella set in a medieval-like fantasy world. Lady Violet of Ramey is a member of the lesser nobility and has been married three times to successively higher-ranking noblemen. All three marriages ended in her widowhood, but the last may end her freedom. Fleeing her husband's castle the same night someone murders him, Violet is assumed guilty by many based on circumstantial evidence. She must stand trial. If she is returned to Ravensworth Castle, the verdict is decided before she ever sees a judge. Her family is able to arrange her trial in their ...

Forged in Love: A Romance Novella is also available in The Flowers of Penruddock: A Romance Collection which was selected as a Silver Medalist in the 2018 FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) President's Book Awards in the Romance Fiction category. A new village blacksmith, a bachelor in his forties, even one who is as quiet and serious as Henry is reported to be, might well be of interest to any unmarried 40-year-old woman if it weren't that he was so apparently contented in his singlehood. The truth be told, it put the cheerful and witty Penny quite at ease around him, ...

Love in Season is a romantic fantasy novella set in the medieval-like kingdom of Penruddock. It is also included in The Flowers of Penruddock: A Romance Collection which was a Silver Medalist in the 2018 FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) President's Book Awards in the Romance Fiction category. Eighteen-year-old Lady Poppy Alexandra has fled an arranged marriage to a wealthy but elderly and very cruel duke. She ends up far away in Blencathra with only her precious stallion and a few coins in her pocket and is placed under the care of the widowed mother of the 28-year-old earl...

Emily, the Beekeeper's Daughter, is a romance novella set in the medieval-like fantasy kingdom of Penruddock. Sir Robin, a common-born knight, comes to Borrowdale Valley in service to the widowed earl of Borrow. The earl's youngest daughter, Lady Grace, who will come of age in a few months, is immediately taken with Robin and sets her cap for him. She decides she wants to persuade her father to arrange a marriage between her and Sir Robin. The other young knight at Borrowdale, Sir Andrew, is also a common-born knight. He was wooing Lady Grace before Robin arrived, but her interest in Robin ...

Love in Two Acts is an inspirational romantic fantasy novella set in a medieval-like world. Marigold is 22 years old and has been the companion and sometimes protector of her 18-year-old cousin, Princess Rozabela, since they were children. When Rozabela's carriage cortege is attacked on its way to a neighboring kingdom for her royal wedding, Marigold takes charge and takes on the role. She pretends to be her cousin and becomes the captive bride of a son of the king of a rival kingdom, even though her life may be forfeit if they learn that she isn't the princess. Past feuds and present ...

Love, Ever Strong is the story of a love which begins in childhood but doesn't reach fruition until years later. It's also a story of healing and change. Rose and Conor were orphans who were raised together as friends and playmates since she was 2 and he a boy of 10. When Conor is 16, he leaves their rural home to find his way in the world, not expecting to see Rose ever again. Twenty years later, their paths cross again, but life has treated them each very differently. Battle-weary and motivated by revenge, Conor is nothing like the heroic figure of Rose's romantic girlhood memories. Or is...

Cousins, One and All is a Jane Austen fan fiction fantasy romance "mashup" based on characters inspired by Pride and Prejudice but with an alternate storyline focused on their offspring. The sons of Mr. Wickham and Col Fitzwilliam join the daughters of Mr. Darcy, Mr. Bingley, and Mr. Collins for a two-week holiday in The Lakes of northern England. During the second week, two of them (Ben Wickham and Lottie Darcy) disappear for three days. When they return, they explain their absence as due to a fall into a ravine while they were out hiking and being picked up by a gypsy and taken to his ...

Devyn Rose, The Innkeeper's Daughter is a sweet romantic adventure set in the fantasy world of the medieval-like island continent of Penruddock. It is also included in the collection The Daughters of Penruddock. The first part of the novella tells the story of the founding of a small hamlet called Andro's Nook by servants from the royal palace in Tenby. The second part picks up on the suspenseful drama encountered by one of their descendants as she uncovers criminal activity near the village. The problem is, one of the criminals is a young man to whom she is attracted. Devyn Rose has just ...

Edmund, A Knight of Selby is a historical fantasy set in a medieval-like land known as the kingdom of Penruddock. Young Edmund sails away from his home in southern Selby, a region of Penruddock, and a marriage his parents have planned with the daughter of their long-time friends who live in northern Selby. Instead, he joins the Palace Guards and embarks on his long-held dream of becoming a knight and a knight commander and fighting for Penruddock. Twenty years later, he and a force of men-at-arms are sent to a far colony to rescue the widow and children of the colonial governor, who was ...

Set in the medieval-like fantasy world of Penruddock, Fiona, The Navigator's Daughter is a romantic historical fantasy novella. It is also included in the romance collection The Daughters of Penruddock. Sixteen-year-old Fiona and her mother Anwen meet a little girl at a convent hospital. The little girl is named Alfreda and she's the daughter of an earl who is off at a war. She has also recently lost her mother and is torn by grief. Fiona cheers her up with puppets and they become good friends. Later, Fiona meets Alfreda's nineteen-year-old brother, Adrian, a knight who was also at the war ...

Dunstan, A Knight of Crozby is a romantic fantasy set in a medieval-like land called Penruddock. It is part of a planned collection of romance novellas featuring male protagonists that will be called The Knights of Penruddock. Dunstan is a common-born knight originally from the region of Crozby in the kingdom of Penruddock. Orphaned as a child, he enlists as a man-at-arms at the age of sixteen and travels to a colonial outpost to defend it against attacks. After twelve years, he won not only the rank of knight but also that of knight commander. He's finally ready to return to Crozby and ...

Denisa, The Castellan's Daughter is an inspirational romantic fantasy set in the medieval-like island continent of Penruddock. When Denisa is a child, she's betrothed to Karsten, the young, orphaned son of friends of her parents. He leaves his homeland, the kingdom of Corby, to start a profession on a nearby kingdom where he went to school to learn to be a scribe, so he can return one day to marry her when she's of age. He's kidnapped by slave dealers and sold eventually to the king of another distant kingdom. Ten years after he was enslaved, he has the opportunity to return to Corby, but ...

Love, Savory and Sweet is part of The Flowers of Penruddock collection which was selected as a Silver Medalist in the 2018 FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) President's Book Awards in the Romance Fiction category. Although most of the novellas in this collection are set in a medieval-like time frame, Love, Savory and Sweet takes place later in an early industrial age-like setting. Lady Krysantha is a young widow with a son, a large mansion in the city, and just enough of an annuity to pay for living there. If she's going to provide her child with the future his father ...

Love, Royal and True is a romantic historical fantasy set in the medieval-like world of Penruddock. It is also included in the award-winning collection Flowers of Penruddock which was a Silver Medalist in the 2018 FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) President's Book Awards in the Romance Fiction category. Queen Hyacinth, now in her early sixties, reflects on her romance with and love for King Adelard to whom she was promised in marriage at birth. Although their marriage eventually took place, it wasn't until after many obstacles were overcome including her murdered father ...