Dear Readers,

Have you ever read one of my historical romances? If you like the strong, sexy heroes, you simply have to check out A Dangerous Love, on sale April 1, 2008. Emilian St. Xavier is one of Derbyshire’s most powerful noblemen, but he is an outcast and an outsider. Wherever he goes, there are scornful whispers behind his back. His past is no secret. His mother was a Roma, and she raised him until the age of twelve. Then a rumour abruptly tore him from her side, and brought him in shackles to Woodland, where he was told he was going to become and Englishman and the next viscount…

He is as English as any half-blood can be. He graduated Oxford with the highest honours, and three years after inheriting the ruined estate, all debts have been erased. Woodland is, in fact, prosperous and thriving. Immersing himself in estate affairs, he has no personal life except for casual sexual liaisons. But then he learns of his mother’s murder at the hands of an English mob and his world implodes…

Ariella de Warenne is eccentric. She is a great heiress, but she has been allowed to spend her life in libraries and museums. Now twenty-four years old, she lives in London at a family home, often alone. She has no interest in marriage or men—she can thin of little worse than becoming a brood mare like most wives of the day. Besides no husband would allow her to dress like a man and attend her favourite lectures at Cambridge, or have lawyers and radical dissidents as friends. Ladies are expected to be pretty ornaments, and she has no intention of ever being an ornament for anyone. But when the gypsies set up camp at Rose Hill, she is instantly intrigued by their enigmatic, dangerously seductive vaida. And even though he warms her to stay away, she is drawn to Emilian like a moth to a flame. Only when it is too late does she realize she has been his revenge…

Theirs is an epic romance of great tragedy and even greater triumph. I was shocked to learn how the Romani were treated over the centuries, of the bigotry and hatred directed at them, even in Britain.

I’ve been writing about the de Warenne family in different centuries for many years now. This is a great dynasty where the men are powerful, privileged and passionate—and to love once is to love forever.

Happy Reading,