Historical Romance

Spies, Secrets, and the Romance of Espionage: A Love Letter to X Company

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If you haven’t heard of X Company, you’re not alone—but you’re missing out. This Canadian World War II spy drama combines gut-twisting espionage with quiet, powerful romance in a way that still haunts me years after watching. The storytelling is sharp, the characters unforgettable, and the romantic tension? Off the charts. Don’t let the soft-focus promo poster fool you—this one pulls no punches.

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Boudicca: The Celtic Queen Who Dared Rome

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Boudicca wasn’t just a queen—she was an inferno wrapped in iron. After the Romans flogged her and assaulted her daughters, she rallied her tribe and scorched a path through Roman Britain so fierce, it still smolders in the national memory. She’s not just part of history—she is history. And maybe, just maybe, she shares blood with Arthur himself. The stories blur. The legends tangle. But oh, what a tale they tell.

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The Devil’s in the Details—and It Might Save Your Life

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Passing for local could be life or death. A British spy in WWII might lose everything over the way a button was sewn, or how he held up three fingers. It’s the tiniest details that betray us—on the battlefield, in foreign lands, or even just trying to order coffee after moving countries. Trust me: I’ve lived it. The wrong Tuesday nearly gave me a migraine.

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Love Letters Across Time: A Romance Author’s Take on the World’s Oldest Message in a Bottle

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Imagine strolling along a beach, hand in hand with your love, the salty breeze curling around you, the sun dipping low on the horizon. Romantic, right? Now, imagine bending down, picking up an old glass bottle, and discovering a 132-year-old message inside.

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Are Historical Romances Really Dead This Time?

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I first was drawn to historical romances because of two things.  One was, absolutely, the dresses.  A woman looks so much more womanly in some of the dresses she gets to swan around in, depending on which historical period you get to write in.  And with her breasts and waist emphasized the way most of

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Weekly Update: New Boxed Set, Discord, and join my Street Team

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If you’re reading this post as an email and the formatting is weird, try the blog post instead. In today’s update: I’m Aiming for Less Emails In a further attempt to reduce emails, I’m also going to go back to grouping news items together once a week. The prevailing wisdom for many years has been

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Odds and Ends — three books returning to full retail soon

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Next Saturday, the 10th, three unrelated romances are shifting from their old pricing to the full retail price of $4.99.  The first book is Varkan Rise, which is the second book in the SF romance series, Interspace Origins.  I can’t tell you why this book alone out of the series is still sitting at the

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Fresh Historical Romance!

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It’s been a long road to get here, but His Outrageous Proposal, book 4 in the spin off historical romance series, Scandalous Family–The Victorians, is finally released on all bookseller sites today. I’ve had some lovely early reviews for it already: Since the story of Alice’s parents (Marriage of Lies, from the Scandalous Scions series)

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Last chance to pick up these historical romances at half-price

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We slashed the prices of the entire Scandalous Scions historical romance series when COVID first broke out, so that the newly unemployed and everyone stuck at home during the lockdowns could afford some great reads when they really needed the distraction. But as the pandemic is officially over in most countries (even though COVID still

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