Seductive Sleuths
Steamy Victorian romance mystery series.
Companion to the Count (Book 1)
Tropes: Victorian era, wallflower x rake, amateur detectives, secret identity, brooding artist, cat loving MMC, mistaken identity, sworn off love, autistic rep, reformed rake, mental illness rep
The only thing more dangerous than a secret is the man who holds it.
Saffron Summersby lost everything after her brother’s suspicious death: her dresses, her dowry, her place in society as a baronet’s sister. So when she sees her brother’s face in the latest painting from famous anonymous artist Ravenmore and realizes he might still be alive, she comes up with a plan: learn the identity of the painter, find her brother, and save her sister from marrying a brute in order to avoid financial ruin. She doesn’t expect her investigation to lead her into the den of a notorious rake.
After the death of his sister, Leopold “Leo” Mayweather, Viscount Briarwood, gave up his wild ways and devoted his life to art, particularly the distribution of paintings by the reclusive Ravenmore. So when he discovers someone is stealing the paintings and replacing them with forgeries, he decides to host an art auction to draw out the thief. He doesn’t expect a beautiful woman to storm into his life, determined to unmask Ravenmore.
Fearing Saffron will disrupt his plans, Leo nonetheless agrees to introduce her to Ravenmore in exchange for her help arranging the auction and quietly investigating everyone with interest in the final Ravenmore painting for sale. But as the guests arrive and passion sparks between the viscount and the impoverished lady, the two would-be lovers must navigate a series of suspicious accidents to uncover the truth before someone else they care about becomes the victim of dangerous sabotage.
Mentor to the Marquess (Book 2)
Tropes: Victorian era, sworn off love, emotional scars, matchmaker, marquess, scandal/compromised, villain on the loose, teach me how to love, romantic suspense, spicy bathtub scene, autistic rep.
She taught him about pleasure. He taught her about love.
A survivor of spousal abuse, matchmaker Olivia Heather, the Dowager Countess of Allen, devotes her time to preventing the young ladies of society from following in her footsteps—until a series of newspaper articles accuse her of murdering her late husband.
Her plan to use her feminine wiles to convince the man responsible for the attacks to stop is stymied when the man in question, the infuriatingly handsome Thellusson Vaith, Marquess Lowell, requests that she find a love match for his daughter.
Nonetheless determined to make him pay for his misdeeds, Olivia vows to ignore the attraction simmering between them—until she learns that he hasn’t bedded a woman since his wife’s death nearly twenty years prior. Unable to resist the sensitive, guilt-ridden marquess, she takes on a new role: Mentoring him in the ways of pleasure.
But when they discover letters that suggest someone is manipulating Thel’s daughter using the same techniques that Olivia’s husband once used against her, they must delve into Olivia’s wounded past and resolve old family conflicts before the marquess’s daughter is in danger and Olivia is arrested for a crime she did not commit.
Benefactor to the Baroness (Book 3)
Tropes: Victorian era, 40+ FMCs, older heroine, widow, forced proximity, only one bed (only one bunk on the ship), companion x employer, amateur sleuths, mutual pining, forbidden love, road trip, found family.
In a world of rules, surrendering to love is the only rebellion that matters.
Plagued by survivors’ guilt after escaping her impoverished childhood selling matchsticks, Fontaine Shepherd, the Dowager Lady Kerry, uses her position on the board of a charitable foundation to relocate starving orphans to the new world—until contact with the new office is abruptly lost. Fearing the foundation will discover she’s been clandestinely using funds to bribe workhouse owners to release children, she decides to travel across the ocean and re-establish communication herself.
Except the only captain who can transport her in time insists that she not travel alone.
Facing a lonely life after marrying off her nieces, Rosemary Summersby reluctantly agrees to attend a ladies’ charity group. There, she meets the vivacious Lady Kerry, who challenges her long-held beliefs of how a lady should look and act. Compelled by a desire to experience the excitement of which her niece often speaks, Rosemary accompanies the dowager baroness to a workhouse and witnesses the cruelty of poverty firsthand.
Then Lady Kerry stumbles into Rosemary’s cottage one night with an outrageous request: to travel across the ocean as her companion and help her uncover the mystery behind the missing orphans.
Unable to convince the dowager baroness of the dangers of her plan and remembering the sense of responsibility that drove her to accept three orphans into her life fifteen years prior, Rosemary decides to join Lady Kerry on her trip. But as the vast ocean and a noble mission stretches before them, a shared purpose and a single bunk ignite an unexpected passion that makes both women question what they truly want for themselves.
Fated Vampire Mates
A spicy historical paranormal romance series.
The Vampire’s Guide to Wooing a Dressmaker (Book 1)
Tropes: Victorian era, vampires, mistress to lover, bucket list, spicy mirror scene, strangers to lovers, age gap, fated mates, masquerade.
After fifty wearisome years of searching for his fated mate, vampire Cordon Shaw, Viscount Grayson, compiles a list of activities to complete before the lack of a mating bond kills him. In his pursuit of some sense of satisfaction, he stumbles upon a gorgeous woman who rebuffs his advances—and so he can’t resist relieving her of the box containing a beautiful scarf tucked in her pocket. Then he receives an invitation to visit the shop of the same woman whose name is carved on the lid of the item he stole.
Respectable dressmaker Kitty Carter is determined to make her business prosper, even if it means making sacrifices, such as not chasing after the handsome thief who harassed her in the market. When she learns the mistress of a viscount had a public fight with her modiste, she writes to the viscount directly to petition his patronage. Then he arrives with her stolen scarf wrapped around his neck.
She valiantly holds her tongue during the appointment despite his constant teasing, only for him to cancel the entire order and instead offer to pay her for each scandalous task she helps him complete. It’s an absurd proposition, but she cannot refuse, especially after a thug demands she repay the loan her parents took out to help her open her shop. But as steamy encounters in opera boxes and hedge mazes turn into awkward afternoon tea with her family and meeting his unusual siblings at midnight rituals, Kitty must decide what to prioritize: the allure of short-term pleasure, or the chance for enduring happiness.
The Vampire’s Guide to Wooing a Scholar (Book 2)
Tropes: Victorian era, vampires, Beauty and the Beast retelling, marriage of convenience, gothic castle, giant library, age gap, earl, penpals to lovers, he falls first, mutual pining, panic attacks.
The Vampire’s Guide to Wooing a Curator (Book 3)
Tropes: Victorian era, vampires, enemies to lovers, age gap, secret identity, vampire x vampire hunter, healing blood, forbidden romance.
Standalone novels
Marked for Harvest
Tropes: Small town romance, ghosts, medium, sentient tattoos, second chance romance, amateur sleuths.
Hunted by a creature that wants to consume the ghosts on her skin, Elena Cain flees to her family home to find her childhood friend, Chloe, floating face down in the pool. Accused of following in her mother’s murderous footsteps, she teams up with the one man who believes her, the victim’s brother…and her former flame.
Sebastian Castillo can’t forget the girl who broke his heart–even though her mother murdered his brother. So when he finds Elena with his sister’s dead body, he accepts her claims of innocence and together they unravel the tangle of secrets at the heart of their small town.
As the spark between them kindles into an inferno, they must choose between justice for Chloe and keeping Elena safe, before she becomes the killer’s next target.
Short Stories
Some of these short stories have been unpublished and are no longer available.
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