Award-Winning Books

Stay tuned for details about when the award-winning debut series Hollie House will be published. Read on to learn more about the books in the series: Impropriety, Duplicity and Audacity.

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Hollie House

Impropriety

He reminds her of a past better forgotten and a future she knows can never happen.

Lady Olivia Brawley despises Society and its hypocrisy. After her late husband abandons her, she sees firsthand how merciless the ton can be, but rather than wallow, she fights back. She opens her home, Hollie House, to ladies like herself and makes restoring their irreparable reputations her life’s work. So when a scheming fortune hunter compromises Lucy Monroe, Olivia knows she can help the young lady, even though doing so brings her face-to-face with the man who witnessed the most humiliating night of her life.

Alexander Monroe vividly recalls how Olivia dismissed him the night he defended her honor. No way should someone so haughty and infamous be entangled with his sister. Just because he has struggled to find his place in Society doesn’t mean he will jeopardize his family’s name by aligning them with the notorious widow. He is more than capable of championing Lucy without interference, even though he finds it difficult to resist the only woman who has ever beguiled him.

When Lucy’s nemesis shows how desperate he is to marry her, Alexander and Olivia strike an unlikely alliance to find her a more suitable husband. Surely, they can put their history and mistrust aside for two weeks to help Lucy. Less certain is whether they can fight the attraction growing between them. For the more they are forced together, the more he can’t imagine life without her, and the more convinced she is that they must stay apart.

2022 winner for pre-published Regency in the Romance Through the Ages contest

Duplicity

Their betrothal might be pretend, but their love is becoming unexpectedly real.

Badly injured in an attack, Lady Katelyn Harlow awakens in Hollie House to find herself surrounded by strangers who have vowed to protect her. Hiding her identity, she wants only to recover so she can gain her inheritance and independence on her twenty-first birthday. Six weeks is all she needs to escape an unwanted betrothal, secure her freedom, and save her only remaining family member. The last thing she needs is help from a well-intentioned lord who has appointed himself her protector.

Edwin Bailey, the Baron of Minevear, has hightailed it to Hollie House to escape, at least temporarily, his mother’s matchmaking machinations. The last thing he wants is the complication of the mysterious “Kate,” but when he realizes her past overlaps with his own, he will stop at nothing to help her, especially if it means exacting revenge upon their shared enemy. Keeping her safe for a few weeks shouldn’t be that hard. And where better to hide in plain sight than at one of his mother’s infamous house parties?

The plan seems foolproof until a misunderstanding leads his mother and her guests to assume Katelyn and Edwin are betrothed. Suddenly, their harmless duplicity is fraught with consequences as an impetuous attraction threatens to become the very thing they both have sworn to avoid at all costs: love.

Audacity

Can a night of passion shared for all the wrong reasons end in a future destined for all the right ones?

Discovering her fiancé tupping his mistress – at their betrothal ball, no less – Lady Brianna Carmichael is disillusioned and angry. What’s worse, her fiancé refuses to break the engagement when her father and godfather won’t relinquish their stakes in a prized horse that is part of her dowry. Determined to end the betrothal herself, Brianna decides to ruin her reputation, escaping to London’s underbelly in search of an old friend now known in Society as the Duke of Debauchery.

As owner of Covenant Garden’s most revered pleasure palace, Rafe St. John, the Duke of Drakemyre, has soiled the family name in every way possible, and still it is not enough to punish his grandfather. So when Brianna, his grandfather’s goddaughter, shows up at his private club asking him to sully her reputation, he bows to his desire for vengeance – and for her. Although he has sworn never to step back into Society, he realizes one night of passion has become his undoing and one lady his obsession, forcing him to question whether something greater than revenge could tempt him out of the darkness.

Brianna has no desire to trade one libertine for another, but when she flees, she soon discovers she has underestimated her partner in debauchery.