My current series is called Children of Empire.
Series
Blurb
Children of Empire
Three
cousins, driven apart by a deceitful woman rebuild their lives in the far
corners of the Empire. Love will bring them home, if only they have the courage
to embrace it.
The Renegade Wife, Book 1
Desperate and afraid, Meggy Blair will do whatever it takes
to protect her children. She’d hoped to find sanctuary from her abusive husband
with her Ojibwa grandmother, but can’t locate her. When her children fall ill,
she seeks shelter in an isolated cabin in Upper Canada. But when the owner
unexpectedly returns, he’s furious to find squatters disrupting his
self-imposed solitude.
Reclusive businessman Rand Wheatly had good reason to put an ocean
between himself and the family that deceived him. He just wants the intrusive woman gone, but it isn’t long before
Meggy and the start breaking down the defensive walls he’s built. But
their fragile interlude is shattered when Meggy’s husband appears to claim his
children, threatening to have Rand jailed.
The only way for Meggy to protect Rand is to
leave him. But when her husband takes her and the children to England, Meggy
discovers he’s far more than an abuser; what he’s involved in endangers all
their lives. To rescue the woman who has stolen his heart, Rand must follow her and
do what he swore he’d never do: reconcile with his aristocratic family and
finally uncover the truth behind all the lies. But time is running out for them all.
***NOTE*** To celebrate my new release, this
book will be free July 24-16
The Reluctant Wife,
Book 2
When all else fails, love succeeds…
Captain Fred
Wheatly’s comfortable life on the fringes of Bengal comes crashing down around
him when his mistress dies, leaving him with two children he never expected to
have to raise. When he chooses justice over army regulations, he’s forced to resign
his position, leaving him with no way to support his unexpected family. He’s
already had enough failures in his life. The last thing he needs is an
attractive, interfering woman bedeviling his steps, reminding him of his
duties.
All widowed Clare Armbruster needs is her brother’s
signature on a legal document to be free of her past. After a failed marriage,
and still mourning the loss of a child, she’s had it up to her ears with the
assumptions she doesn't know how to take care of herself, that what she needs
is a husband. She certainly doesn't need a great lout of a captain who can't
figure out what to do with his daughters. If only the frightened little girls
didn’t need her help so badly.
Clare has made mistakes in the past. Can she trust Fred now?
Can she trust herself? Captain
Wheatly isn’t ashamed of his aristocratic heritage, but he doesn’t need his
family and they’ve certainly never needed him. But with no more
military career and two half-caste daughters to support, Fred must turn once
more—as a failure—to the family he let down so often in the past. Can two
hearts rise above past failures to forge a future together?
The Unexpected Wife,
Book 3
The Duke expects work to
heal him. He doesn’t expect to face his past and find his future in China
Charles
Wheatly, Duke of Murnane, accepts an unofficial fact finding mission to the
East India Company’s enclave in Canton, China on behalf of the queen. He anticipates
intrigue, international tensions, and an outlet for his grief over the death of
his young son. He isn’t entirely surprised when he also encounters the
troublesome offspring of his mentor, the Duke of Sudbury, but the profound love
he discovers for the determined young woman is unforeseen and untimely. Charles
certainly doesn’t expect to also face his troubled marriage in such an exotic
locale. The appearance of his estranged wife in the company of their
enemy throws the entire enterprise into conflict, and tensions boil over when the woman he loves is put at risk
by his wife’s scheming—and the beginnings of the First Opium War.
Zambak Hayden seethes with frustration. A woman her age has occupied the throne for over a year, yet the Duke of Sudbury’s line of succession still passes over her—his eldest—to land on a son with neither spine nor character. She follows her brother, the East India Company’s newest and least competent clerk, to Macau to protect him and to safeguard the family honor—if she also escapes the gossip and intrigues of London and the marriage mart, so much the better. She has no intention of being forced into some sort of dynastic marriage, and she may just refuse to marry at all. The greed and corruption she finds horrifies her, especially when her brother succumbs to the lure of opium. She determines to document the truth. When an old family friend arrives she assumes her father sent him. She isn’t about to bend to his dictates nor give up her quest. Her traitorous heart, however, can’t stop yearning for a man she can’t have.
As an epic historical drama unfolds around them, both Charles and Zambak must come to terms with a love that neither expected.
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