The Stage Bride, 3rd and final book in the Daring Debutantes series,  is now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords! (Coming soon at other ebook outlets and in paperback!)

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Thomas Barclay has had a rough year, to say the least. After being jilted by the only woman he ever loved, he’s sworn off love for good, along with any semblance of respectability, by attempting to drink away his sorrows. However, when his meddling sister sends him off to the country to pull himself together once and for all, he finds himself trapped with the most vexing and obstinate creature he’s ever been forced to encounter.

Amelia Harding has more than overstayed her welcome at Ms. Denby’s School for Girls. At the ripe age of eighteen, she’s finally being forced to enter the marriage mart, which also means returning to her father–a prospect she refuses to even entertain. So she decides to run away to London to pursue a life on the stage. Unfortunately, her plans go awry and she finds herself in a carriage bound for the country in the company of a drunkard. A handsome drunkard, but a drunkard nonetheless.

Now they both must decide if they will continue to let their pasts define them, or if they will start anew in each others arms.

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I'm so excited to announce the release of my latest historical romance novel, The Gypsy Bride! The second book in the Daring Debutantes series, this extra-long novella is an exciting romp through Regency England--

Engaged to a reprehensible baron, Bianca Manning knows she must do something to escape her fate. She decides that a Romany camp is the last place her mad fiance would think to look for her.

The last thing Emilian Carrol needs is a spirited Englishwoman in his life, but he can't seem to say no when she begs to hide out in his tribe's camp. And maybe she's just the thing he needs to help heal his wounded heart.

Thomas Barclay, future Viscount Grantham, is bored to tears and looking for a distraction. When his old friend Baron Tisbury asks for help in tracking down his missing fiancee, Tom decides to make himself useful and goes in search of the wayward girl.

Caught between two worlds, Bianca must figure out which man holds the keys to her heart.

When I set out to write this romance series, I wanted to do something different. I didn't want to write another traditional, formulaic historical romance. I wanted to branch outside the norm, do things with my stories and my characters that probably would not have actually happened in Regency England, but that weren't completely outside the realm of possibilities. So you won't find magic or werewolves here, but you will find gutsy heroines, and heroes that you will fall in love with.

The Gypsy Bride is available now at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Smashwords!

And if you missed the first installment of the Daring Debutantes series, click here to find links for The Robber Bride!

We're mere days away from the release of the 2nd book in the Daring Debutatne's Series, The Gypsy Bride!

But before The Gypsy Bride, was The Robber Bride. And today I've invited my hero and heroine here for an interview so you can get to know them. Everyone, please welcome Phineas Dartwell, Earl of Leyburn, and-Oh, dear...

Jerrica: Lord Leyburn, where is Miss Barclay?

Phineas: How the devil should I know? Blasted girl keeps disappearing.

Jerrica: Well, she said she'd be here, and if I know Miss Barclay, she is a woman of her word-

Phineas: [scoffs] Clearly, you don't know Miss Barclay at all.

Jerrica: Well, perhaps we could get started anyway. I do have a few questions I wanted to ask you.

Phineas: All right...go right ahead.

Jerrica: I heard you've been working on a secret project in your studio. [Phineas blushes] Would you mind telling us the subject of the secret painting.

Phineas: Ahem. Well, then it wouldn't be a secret, would it?

Jerrica: That's true, but then again, I don't think you and I run in the same circles, seeing as you live almost 200 years in the past.

Phineas: Nice try, Mrs. Knight-Catania, but I am no fool. I know you have very close relationships with several people of my acquaintance, including one Victoria Barclay.

Jerrica: You're not a very trusting person, are you?

Phineas: My closest friend is constantly lying to my face and evading my company. How could I possibly have confidence in people I hardly know at all?

Jerrica: Point taken. All right then...if you won't talk about your paintings, will you tell me about your association with Lady Beecham?

Phineas: [nearly falls out of chair laughing] I will gladly tell you that I would rather have all my teeth pulled barbarically from my mouth than spend a single moment in the company of that woman.

Jerrica: [slightly taken aback] Goodness. Is she that bad?

Phineas: [levels me with an evil eye] You should know. You wrote her, didn't you?

Jerrica: [blushing] Oh, right. Sorry about that.

[Victoria rushes in, hair askew, color high in her cheeks]

Victoria: Have I missed anything? I'm so sorry I'm late. I was unavoidably detained.

Phineas: You ought to give warning to people when you're not going to be on time, Vickie.

Victoria: [rolls her eyes] What would you have me do? Send a messenger all this way to tell you I would be a mere five minutes late?

Phineas: Don't be obtuse, Victoria.

Victoria: I shall try to refrain from obtusivity in the future, my lord.

Phineas: [grumbles] Do you see what I put up with?

Jerrica: Now, now, let's not argue. Miss Barclay is here now, isn't she?

Victoria: Exactly. And isn't that what matters?

Phineas: Would it really hurt you to be a bit more respectful of other people's time?

Victoria: Have you a pressing engagement, Finny?

Phineas: Perhaps I do, but frankly, what I have to do is none of your concern.

Victoria: I never said it was, I-

Jerrica: Stop! [Phineas and Victoria turn to look at me] Perhaps it would be best if we continued this interview another day.

Phineas: [to Victoria] Now do you see what you've done?

Victoria: Me?!?! You're the one who won't stop harping on my timeliness-

Phineas: Or lack thereof, as it were-

Victoria: Yet look at all the time you've wasted scolding me when we could have been nearly done with this whole thing by now.

[Phineas glowers at Victoria; Victoria crosses her arms over her chest and gives him a haughty look]

Jerrica: All right...well, thank you both for being here today. It was...interesting, to say the least. But despite this interview-gone-wrong, I do hope our readers will check out The Robber Bride, available now in e-book and print formats at all major retailers!