The Bluestocking Duchess (Heirs in Waiting Book 1)
Her good friend...
Is suddenly a duke’s heir! Miss Jocelyn Sudderfeld is working at
Edge Hall, indulging her love of translating ancient texts with her
librarian father—and evading the need to marry! She’s always enjoyed a
teasing friendship with estate manager Mr. Alex Cheverton. Until he
unexpectedly becomes the duke’s heir. Now his first duty is to marry a
suitable debutante, not consort with an earnest bluestocking like her…
So where does that leave their friendship?
Heirs in Waiting
One day these Oxford gentlemen will inherit estates, titles and wealth.
But for now, they’re forging their own paths in life…and love!
UPCOMING:
BOOK TWO: THE RAILROAD COUNTESS - JULY 2021
Shut out from doing anything
useful by his controlling father, Crispin D’Aubignon, heir to the Earl
of Comeryn, chooses to pursue railroad and canal investments rather than
mark time attending boring London Society events. Using a small
inheritance whose funds are already under his control, he follows the
Parliamentary bills and independently visits proposed routes and sites
to decide which he will invest in. Along the way, he meets Marcella
Cranmore, business-minded daughter of a railroad tycoon—who believes
aristocratic investors are a useless species that must be humored.
Miffed at being dismissed so cavalierly, Crispin sets out to prove her
wrong...
BOOK THREE: THE ADVENTURER BARONESS
Gregory Lattimar is heir to Baron
Lattimar (and brother to Pru and Temper, from A MOST UNSUITABLE MATCH
and THE EARL’S INCONVENIENT WIFE.) Since leaving Oxford, Gregory has had
to take over the running of the Lattimar estates, a job his reclusive
collector father has simply ignores. Checking up on the sources of the
antiquities the baron spends vast sums on, Gregory encounters Charis
Dunford, the free-spirited daughter of an adventurer who travels the
world, selling in a small London shop some of objects he collects in
order to fund his journeys. Gregory expects to encounter, if not
deference, at least cooperation from the lady who runs the
shop—certainly not a dressing down for his ignorance about the treasures
her father discovers. Committed to restoring a family reputation
already tarnished by his notorious mother and his unconventional
sisters, Gregory has pledged to marry an eminently proper Society
maiden. The last thing he needs is to find himself captivated by a
shopkeeper...
Julia
Justiss
Julia
Justiss grew up breathing the scent of sea air near the colonial town
of Annapolis, Maryland, a fact responsible for two of her life-long
passions: sailors and history! By age twelve she was a junior tour guide
for Historic Annapolis, conducting visitors on walking tours through
the city that was a hotbed of revolutionary fervor. (Annapolis hosted
its own tea party, dispensing with the cargo aboard the "Peggy Stewart,"
and was briefly capital of the United States.) She also took tourists
through Annapolis's other big attraction, the United States Naval
Academy. After so many years of observing future naval officers at
P-rade and chapel, it seemed almost inevitable that she eventually
married one.
But long before embarking on romantic adventures of
her own, she read about them, transporting herself to such favorite
venues as ancient Egypt, World War II submarine patrols, the Old South
and, of course, Regency England. Soon she was keeping notebooks for
jotting down story ideas. From plotting adventures for her first
favorite heroine Nancy Drew she went on to write poetry in high school
and college, then worked as a business journalist doing speeches, sales
promotion material and newsletter articles. After her marriage to a
naval lieutenant took her overseas, she wrote the newsletter for the
American Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia and traveled extensively throughout
Europe. Before leaving Tunis, she fulfilled her first goal: completing a
Regency novel.
Children intervened, and not until her husband
left the Navy to return to his Texas homeland did she sit down to pen a
second novel. The reply to her fan mail letter to a Regency author led
her to Romance Writers of America. From the very first meeting, she knew
she'd found a home among fellow writers--doubtless the largest group of
people outside a mental institution who talk back to the voices in
their heads.
Her second goal was achieved the day before her
birthday in May, 1998 when Margaret Marbury of Harlequin Historicals
offered to buy that second book, the Golden-Heart-Award winning novel
that became THE WEDDING GAMBLE. Since then, she has gone on to write
fourteen novels, three novellas and an on-line serial, along the way
winning or finalling for historical awards from The Golden Quill, the
National Reader’s Choice, Romantic Times, and All About Romance’s
Favorite Book of the Year.
Julia now inhabits an English
Georgian-style house she and her husband built in the East Texas
countryside where, if she closes her eyes and ignores the summer
thermometer, she can almost imagine she inhabits the landscape of "Pride
and Prejudice." In between travelling to visit her three children (a
naval officer son stationed in Washington, DC, a textiles and design
major daughter who cheers for University of Texas at Austin, and a
mechanical engineering major son also at UT Austin) keeping up with her
science teacher husband and juggling a part-time day job as a high
school French teacher, she pursues her first and dearest love--crafting
stories.
To relax, she enjoys watching movies, reading
(historical fiction, mystery, suspense) and puttering about in the
garden trying to kill off more weeds than flowers.
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