SOCIETY’S MOST DISREPUTABLE GENTLEMAN! The story of Greville Anders, brother of FROM WAIF TO GENTLEMAN’S WIFE heroine Joanna, now has a title and will appear in January 2011. No cover yet, but I’m told the “disreputable gentleman” himself will make an appearance…
Greville, who was fired from his job as estate manager and then abducted and pressed into the Royal Navy, returns after 8-month’s service at sea a radically different man. Eager to obtain his release and pursue an honest career, he has little interest in the idle Society he used to frequent. But despite his vow to reform his rake’s ways, how could he help but flirt with his host’s beautiful daughter Amanda? For her part, Amanda Neville has dreamed since childhood of becoming a brilliant Society hostess. She’s not about to risk that goal by dallying with a younger son of little fortune, no matter how scandalously attractive he might be!

THE RANSLEIGH ROGUES! I’m now working on the first of a series of stories about four cousins, best friends through childhood and university, whose destinies are forever altered by war and the love of one remarkable woman. The first of the Ransleigh Rogues will be Max Ransleigh, charismatic leader of the cousins, whose dream of a brilliant diplomatic career was destroyed by betrayal at the Congress of Vienna. Cut by his family and Society, while staying with his cousin Alastair, he’s accosted by Miss Caroline Denby, who makes him a most unusual proposition: ruin her, so she will not have to marry! Though amused and intrigued, Max intends to emphatically refuse…but there’s something so alluring about the unconventional Caro…