Love is worth the risk
First the good news. The Defiant Daughter is now available for Pre-order. I can’t say how delighted I am. In less good news, after two weeks of dithering, I decided to cancel out of Romancing the Gold Coast. I am so sorry to let people down, but I am apparently just not ready to face […]
I travel. Sometimes I travel by boat, plane, or automobile. Sometimes I travel by book. Sometimes I explore the real world. This week I rambled through the Maida Pleasure Gardens with Mary Lancaster and Unmasking the Hero. The author describes it like this: Maida Pleasure Gardens, the neglected little sister of Vauxhall and Ranelagh, lurk […]
Overwhelmed by opinions and advice from family about her future, Fanny is relieved when Eli pulls her aside. For Eli’s part, it is job to make a recommendation to the earl about what assistance the estate can give her. She refers to her young siblings as “the duckings” by the way. *** Eli led Fanny […]
“Generally the person who is to grant administration is the bishop of the diocese , or his officer , where the intestate dwelled…” That is, not the civil courts but the ecclesiastical courts. Who might be the administrator? Generally next of kin—the son if he was of age. After that it gets very murky. Fans […]
Eli Benson is the hero of The Forgotten Daughter. Eli isn’t a duke. He isn’t a pirate, spy, or soldier. He’s a solicitor and the Earl of Clarion’s steward. He certainly doesn’t think of himself as a man of action. Unless of course, he has to be. This is an action scene from early in […]