Category: Book snippet

My heroine moved to Barnsley Cross to hide from the world. However, the residents keep calling on her, encouraging her to step outside and experience life. “Are you coming tonight?”Not you too! Maida resisted the urge to blow out a breath of frustration. The topic of her attendance at the assembly had opened a flood...

The hero, Bartholomew de Courcy, has led a sheltered life. An only child, his mother has kept him home and under her watchful eyes for most of his twenty-four years. A mishap when he was thirteen reiterated why he should always trust his mother, so he has never rebelled—until now. He has one summer away...

Bartholomew de Courcy, surveyor, develops a headache. He dismisses his helpers and seeks the shelter of the trees clustering thickly around a stream. Unexpectedly, he encounters a trespasser on this private land. The trees were thicker here on the descending side of the ridge, smoothing out where Webb’s fields lay in flat rows. Bart followed...

This snippet is from Bedroom Eyes, Book 2: Song of Love. Nate Fairchild is ungraciously awoken by his clerical brother Jonathan. He’s been found passed out in the St. George’s Cathedral vestry. “Maybe he will drink himself to death, and I will inherit,” Jonathan said, not for the first time. “Is this the fifth, the...

This is from Bedroom Eyes, Book 2: Song of Love. Augusta “Gus” Rudhall will be ordered to London for the Season despite wanting nothing more than to stay in the country with her beloved pig, Madge. Gus’s heart lived outside her body in the form of Rudhall Grange. Part of her would wither to ashes,...

This is a bit long, but this scene is the first of many that slowly draws Maida Locke out of her self-imposed prison. From my currently editing, and soon to-be-published Bedroom Eyes, Book 4: Uncovering Love. It was a gray summer day, and Maida sat by the double windows in her bedroom reading a letter...

This is a scene from Bedroom Eyes, Book 2: Song of Love. Lord Nathaniel Fairchild, the hero, has agreed to marry his childhood friend’s sister, Maida. Sir Jacob Locke leaves to fetch his sister from the country. However, during his friend’s absence, Nathaniel has compromised a young woman at a London party and must call...