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  Welcome to the 2022 Series: The Peveretts of Haberstock Hall This five book series features the intrepid social crusaders of Haberstock. Country gentleman-doctor, Alfred Peverett and his wife, Catherine, have raised five children in the belief that its their obligation to make the world a better place. Now, those five young adults are looking to take their place in that world and bring their ideals to fruition.  Lord Tresham's Tempting Rival (Nov. 2021) features Anne Peverett, the second oldest daughter, who comes to London with her knowledge in herbal medicine in order to empower people to take charge of their own healthcare. she meets her match, however, in traditional physician, Dr. Lord Ferris Tresham, who has concerns about putting that kind of power in the hands of the uneducated. But they discover while they disagree on somethings, they both share a passion for providing healthcare for the poor. When they combine efforts, they discover they can be more together than ...

 Happy New Year! The Cornish Dukes are behind us and it's time to welcome in the 2021 series, the Rebellious Sisterhood. The series features three female artists looking to make a mark on the world and live life on their own terms. Book 1 features Artemisia Stansfield, a woman seeking promotion to the rank of RA (Royal Academician) at the Royal Academy of the Arts. Set in 1820, right after the death of one of the original Academy founders, Mary Moser, Artemisia struggles to overcome gender barriers despite her talent. The second book, Revealing the True Miss Stansfield, features Adelaide, Artemisia's younger sister (March 1, 2021) and the third book, A Wager to Tempt the Runaway, features an itinerant artist named  osefina Ricci who is caught in a bet between Artemisia and Sir Aldred Gray (May or June 2021).  The stories are set in Seasalter on the Kent coast.  In this blog post I want to introduce to Seasalter as it was in 1820 when it was not much at all. It's prim...

Gool Peran! Or Happy St. Piran's Day.  It's not really St. Piran's day as I write this, but a few weeks after.  St Piran's Day is March 5th.  I thought this week I would give us a behind the scenes look at the first meeting of Penrose and Cassian in "The Passions of Lord Trevethow." Their first meeting takes place at the St. Piran's day fair in Redruth, not far from Hayle, where Cassian's family seat is located, and of course Penrose lives in Redruth. St. Piran, himself, was a 5th century Cornish abbot, and later a saint. He was Irish, and today he is known as the patron saint of Cornwall and of tin miners (which seems to go hand in hand).  In modern Cornwall, a lot of towns have their own St Piran's festivals, like Truro and Golowan, but Redruth is generally acknowledged as the home and founding place of St. Piran's day festivals.  The festivals have changed little over the centuries--consisting of street fairs, fair food, vendors and entert...

Welcome to the third installment of "behind the scenes" of Lord Trevethow. One of my favorite parts of the book is the London visit of Hawaiian Royalty, which was one of the highlights of that year's Season. This gives Pen a chance to 'see the world' without leaving London, and a chance for Pen and her father to confront their fears of strangers--although in her father's case, those fears become truth which creates an interesting dilemma about moving forward despite known risks. There were excellent records of the Hawaiian King's itinerary, from the hotel he stayed at, to the daily outings that he took, complete with dates and times, guests, and even the titles of plays and operas that he took in . In some cases, there was even detail down to the hour he would be somewhere. That's always a great find! In the book, Cassian takes Penrose to the Foreign Secretary's reception and the evening is just as historically recorded.  The Lifeguard band wa...

Lord Trevethow's passion--one of them at least--is to build a pleasure garden that bring experiences and the world to his small corner of Cornwall. One of the visions he shares with Penrose in the novel, is the vision of a Mountain, or a modern day roller coaster, like the ones he experienced on his travels through Russia and France (if you recall a brief reference from Unwrapping his Festive Temptation--Rosenwyn and Cador's novella, there is a mention of Marianne Treleven begging for tales of his travels and wanting to hear all about Russia). So, I thought I would share a little bit about the origins of the roller coaster here-- what would Cassian have seen and experienced? In the 16th and 17th centuries, Russians began the idea with ice slides or 'flying mountains'  and sleds that crash landed into a pile of sand.  https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/russian-roller-coasters   This article from Atlasobscura is confirmed in several other articles about the Russian M...

Cassian's story is here! February has passed in a whirlwind of hard work finishing up the 4th book in the Cornish Duke's series. Now, it is time to celebrate with the release of Book #2, The Passions of Lord Trevethow.    Cassian's story is complex. He's a man on a mission that is part legacy and part revenge. Still struggling to come to grips with his brother's death by misadventure, Cassian wants to make amends for his brother's errors by bringing jobs and economic diversity to Cornwall through the opening of a pleasure garden that would educate, entertain, employ and sustain the population.  There's only one catch: he needs land to build it on and the man holding the land refuses to let it go to anyone outside the family. Cassian's challenge: to become family by marrying the man's reclusive daughter. But before that can happen, Cassian meets an entrancing young peasant woman at the Redruth St. Piran's Day Fair and falls madly in love.  Now ...

This week I got my revision notes back for Vennor Penlerick's story, the very last one in the dukes' series, so I will going into the writing cave shortly for a couple weeks while I tweak this finale to the series into shape. But, before I do, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at the inspirations for the four heroes. It's hard to believe this time last year, the series was just beginning to take shape and now it's out there for readers!  So here's how it began. Eaton Falmage , Lord Lynford (heir to the Duke of Bude). He's meant to be a regional fellow, more concerned with what he can do at home for his people than the glitter of London, and with his own secret to hide, he'd prefer to stay out of Society's eye. While he didn't physically embody Aidan Turner, he did embody some  of the similar attributes of Turner's character, Ross Poldark. So, I started there for some inspiration about Eaton. Fun fact: about three months after I fin...

If you're interested in the progression of the series, here's a little time line with memorable events to guide your reading.  Nov. 30, 1822 Cador Kitto arrives in Porth Karrek. The night of the storm and subsequent BIG rescue by Captain Penhaligon and Emily Faulkner (as featured in Marguerite Kaye's "The Captain's Christmas Proposal," in An Invitation to a Cornish Christmas. Sun., Dec. 1, 1822 , First Sunday in Advent.  Cador Kitto attends church in Porth Karrek. Meets the Treleven family.Has lunch with the Trelevens and the Cornish ducal heirs are present. Dec. 24, 1822 , Cador Kitto performs his Christmas cantata at the Porth Karrek church. Eaton Falmage offers him the role of headmaster with the founding of the Cornish Music Academy in Porth Karrek. Eaton Falmage, heir to the Duke of Bude, and the Marquess of Lynford, makes the offer so that Cador can marry Rosenwyn Treleven. Jan. 1823   Rosenwyn Treleven and Cador Kittto  wed.They spend their h...

Happy New Year !  It's going to be a great year with the Cornish Dukes.  Introductions are in order so let me give you an overview to the driving concept behind the series.  The Cornish Dukes are a circle of 8 men-- The Duke of Bude and his son, Eaton Falmage (The Secrets of Lord Lynford), The Duke of Hayle and his son and heir Cassian Truscott (The Passions of Lord Trevethow), The Duke of Boscastle and his son and heir, Inigo Vellanoweth, and the Duke of Newlyn, Vennor Penlerick. This is a circle of fathers all hailing from Cornwall, all committed to social justice and reform and all committed to family, particularly the idea that a man should raise his sons. As a product of that mission, the four heroes in the series (Eaton, Cassian, Inigo and Vennor) have been brought up with a strong value of family and a strong commitment to their communities. They are not ducal heirs who believe it's their prerogative to while away their time wenching and wining in London! A stron...

After a great fall with the roll out of  An Invitation to Cornish Christmas, it's time to meet the Cornish Dukes, my 2020 series. Actually, if you've read the Christmas release, you've already met them! They were at luncheon with Rosenwyn Treleven and her parents that first Sunday in Advent. Eaton Falmage, Lord Lynford, is the one who encourages Rosenwyn and Cador Kitto to play for them after they ate, and Eaton is the one who gives Cador the music school (spoiler alert for those who haven't dug into Cornish Christmas yet!). Eaton kicks off the first of four books in the Cornish Dukes series with the Secrets of Lord Lynford, available as early as Dec. 19 on Amazon prime, Jan .1 everywhere else. https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Lord-Lynford-Cornish-Dukes/dp/1335505237.   Eaton has a secret, as you might guess from the title. While that secret has certainly shaped his life and his choices, he has not let it shape his morals, his ethics, and his sense of justice, or enjoym...

Tomorrow's the day! It's release day for Invitation to a Cornish Christmas. In anticipation of that, I wanted folks to have a chance to meet my charming heroine, Rosenwyn Treleven. You will recognize the physical inspiration below for Rosenwyn as the lovely Demelza from Poldark.  Rosenwyn is the oldest of  Sir Jock Treleven's six red-haired daughters. She's been to London for two Seasons and had some acclaim as an accomplished pianist until a scandal of the heart sent her back to Cornwall for good. That's fine with her. Unlike Cador Kitto, she loves her part of the world. Where he has darker memories of his childhood, she has glorious childhood remembrances of Porth Karrek. But this is not all the two clash over.  Her brush with the world has left her cynical of flirtatious, good looking men and she worries what such a man might intend during his time in Porth Karrek. The last thing she wants is Cador Kitto near her or her sisters. But the more she tries to warn ...

In "Unwrapping his Festive Temptation," my part of the Cornish Christmas anthology, readers meet Cador Kitto, a composer hired by Treeve Penhaligon (Marguerite's hero) to compose a Christmas cantata for Nadelik.  Cador is a local boy made good. Twenty years ago, he left Porth Karrek to study music, courtesy of Porth Karrek reverend who saw his potential, and he's never looked back for several reasons.  In fact, Cador never intended to return to Porth Karrek, but circumstances have conspired against him and now he needs to confront his past in order to embrace his future.  For this hero, I wanted to do something a little different from usual Bronwyn Scott heroes. Cador is not overly tall.  He's 5'9, slender in build, and has flowing, golden poet-hair as I like to call it. Toby Regbo's portrayal of Francis in Reign provides some inspiration for this particular look, a nice blend of a strong character with a poet's looks.  This blend made sense to ...

 You are invited to a Cornish Christmas, courtesy of myself and Marguerite Kaye! October 1 our Christmas anthology, "Invitation to a Cornish Christmas" will be available in North America via Amazon, Barnes and Noble and always through the Harlequin site. I am so excited about these stories. This anthology is our 4th collaboration together and I think it's the best so far.   I am pleased also to share that "Unwrapping his Festive Temptation," my story in the anthology, is my 50th Harlequin release, so this book is a double win for me! For the stories, we invented a Cornish coastal village called Porth Karrek, and it very well could look like something like this photo to the right. It has headlands upon which is one of the big manors owned by Marguerite's hero's family, the Penhaligons. The village is well-known for its beach, Karrek Sands and the quiet cove that lies at the bottom of the headlands. We gave it a main street--Budoc lane  with St. Piran...

"This book is truly beautiful, and it is one of the very best... I am so in love with it. I was utterly blown away with Fortis’s story"--Frankie Reviews  August comes to a close, so does this year's Bronwyn Scott series.  Allied at the Altar is complete with the release of Captivated by her Convenient Husband, book #4 in the series. This is a chance to close all the loops and learn what happened when Cam Lithgow walked into the tent in the Crimea in the epilogue to One Night with the Major.  The Reading Debutante declares, "Scott is a master of the genre."  Read their reviews and more  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43593340-captivated-by-her-convenient-husband

Still waiting to order One Night with the Major? Check out this review. It will totally convince you to get this book on your TBR pile. https://chicksroguesandscandals.wordpress.com/…/review-one-…

It's time for Cam and Pavia's story. Check out this great review to wet your whistle! Read the whole review here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43452483-one-night-with-the-major One Night with the Major (Allied at the Altar #2) by   Bronwyn Scott   (Goodreads Author) it was amazing   5.00   ·    Rating details  ·    1 rating   ·    1 review One daring encounter  Binds her to his marriage bed! Part of Allied at the Altar: In England, innocent tea heiress Pavia Honeysett has always been judged for her face or her fortune. She would much rather return to her uncle’s palace in India. So to escape marriage to the aged man her father has chosen, she will ruin herself! But her red-hot night with Major Camden Lithgow changes  everything . Suddenly, this stranger will become her husband… Gwessie Tee's Reviews  > One Night with the Major Want to Read Rate this book 1 ...

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Happy New Year! Happy North American Release day to Marriage Deal with the Viscount! I am so excited for this year's series and I hope readers are, too! This series features four couples who find themselves in marriages of convenience, starting with Conall and Sofia. 'I can protect you.' But she must accept his ring! An Allied at the Altar story: after an abusive marriage, Sofia is struggling to find acceptance in Society. So when dashing Viscount Taunton needs her investment for his business, she’s surprised by his strong, supportive nature. In Conall’s arms she discovers true pleasure. Yet to fully leave her past behind, Sofia must consider Conall’s offer of his full protection – in the form of wedding vows!   https://www.amazon.com/Marriage-Deal-Viscount-Allied-Altar-ebook/dp/B07DLBK4FG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1546106308&sr=8-1&keywords=marriage+deal+with+the+viscount Want to read an early review of the book? Check out this review from UK review...