Date Published: 2/7/25
woman, she does the unthinkable: she calls off the wedding.
Society calls her a jilt. Newspapers hint at scandal. Her father calls it her
final season.
Grace calls it the beginning.
Forced from London and into the countryside with nothing but her mother, a
crumbling estate, and a refusal to be defined by what was done to her, Grace
transforms their home into Miss Grace’s Seminary for Young Women. She has no
money, no experience, and no guarantee of success. What she has is an
unshakeable conviction that her life belongs to her.
Then Captain Marcus Chamberlain arrives to enroll his niece, Violet. A career
soldier with no plans to marry, Marcus finds himself drawn into a careful,
letter-by-letter courtship with the woman who discovers love for the first
time.
Set against the rigid social rules and quiet cruelties of Regency England, The
Jilt is a story about a woman who loses everything Society told her to want
and discovers, in losing it, exactly who she is.
each of her five pupils as they navigate Society, scandal, and the search for
lives that are truly their own.
The Graces Series, Book One
The Graces Series, Book Two
The Graces Series, Book Three
The Graces Series, Book Four
About the Author
I write Regency historical romance with the precision of a historian and the
heart of a lifelong reader.
Before I wrote fiction, I spent my career as a historian and museum curator at
state history museums, writing carefully and accurately about the real things
people leave behind: artifacts, records, and the evidence of lives lived. I
grew up reading Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, and Phyllis Whitney, among
others. I wrote romantic short stories as a teenager. A college professor told
me I should write professionally.
I did not, for a long time.
When I came back to fiction at retirement, encouraged by my sister to write in
the style of authors I had loved since childhood, I brought everything I had
learned with me: a historian’s eye for period detail, a curator’s instinct for
what matters, and decades of reading the best Regency writers who ever put pen
to paper.
My Regency novels are set in a world I have spent decades studying. The social
rules are real. The historical details are earned. And the women at the center
of my stories refuse to be defined by what Society expects of them.
My first series, The Etonians, is a complete five-book Regency romance series.
My second series, The Graces, follows Grace Trelawny and each of her five
seminary pupils as they navigate propriety, love, and the quiet courage it
takes to build a life on your own terms.
If you enjoy Austenesque fiction, intelligent heroines, and romance built on
patience and letters rather than convenience, I think we will get along very
well.
