Just a Few Pics for Fun

 A little something different. I've been looking through the photographs of my travels over the past couple of years and discovered these, I don't think I have posted them before, but I thought they were truly adorable. Did you believe in fairies when you were little? If so, these will make you smile. The were taken during the winter on a walk at Hardwick Hall. The trail was filled with lovely little fairy homes and toadstools. Look inside the little fairy house at the detail there, it's hard to believe the whole thing is just a few inches tall.

There is a link on the left to my other pics of Hardwick Hall or just click here. My Pics of Hardwick Hall

A little about my series of Seductive Regency Romances

 

How one thing leads to another.

A little about how my series of Seductive Regency Romances came about.

When I wrote The Aloof Marquess, it was intended to be a single story, I had no idea that I would be writing more of them and that it would become the first of a series. I enjoyed the way Ellena, after her sudden marriage to a man she barely knew, determinedly coaxed James, her aloof marquess, into opening up. But by the end of the story I had fallen in love with the marquess’s two best friends and felt that they deserved their own stories too. In The Enigmatic Earl, Richard Merilstone unexpectedly falls in love with an unsuitable girl, and in The Volatile Viscount, Drake Warfield’s father—much to his very animated and volatile disgust—insists he marry a blue stocking, and she is no ordinary young woman.

I thought the three stories would be the end, but when I finished writing The Volatile Viscount, I began thinking about the other characters in the books. Lord Aiden Renford made only a very brief appearance in The Volatile Viscount but somehow I was drawn to write his story. And it had to be an unusual one. Thus came about The Curious Curate (and the Opera Singer), although he appears as a curate, he has merely been sent--at his father’s insistence--to assist his Reverend Uncle for a year to curb his roguish London ways, after which he is free to do as he pleases. But only a week before his year is up, he has an unexpected encounter with a lovely opera singer.

The gathering of Aiden’s family at the conclusion of this book led me to wondering about Aiden’s playful twin brothers. And thus Twin Rogues in Winter came about. Two mischievous rogues snowed in at a winter house party? Surely there will be some love matches amid the playful winter games? Starting with the girl hiding under one twin’s bed.

The next book, just out, features one of the girls who didn’t get a match at the Wilmington’s winter house party in Midnight in the Garden with Eros, and her match is one of the most unusual. A talented artist and sculptor whose creations grace the gardens of Wilmington Hall is asked to paint the fiery Miss Diana Wilmington.

The Seductive Regency Romances are playful, light and sensual romps that are meant to leave you smiling. Each is a complete love story and can be read as a stand-alone.

But in order they are: The Aloof Marquess, The Enigmatic Earl, The Volatile Viscount, The Curious Curate (and the Opera Singer), Twin Rogues in Winter, and Midnight in the Garden with Eros.

Click this link to the page here within my blog for more info: My Books

Why not to take one of my history quizzes while you are here, I have designed three just for fun. (listed on the left) Also you can look around my site at some of the pics taken on my travels all around England in the past couple of years to some fabulous historical sites. Just in case you’ve been feeling a little cooped up lately.

Thanks for visiting,

Milly Jane Maven

Just Published--Midnight in the Garden with Eros

Midnight in the Garden with Eros

A Seductive Regency Romance

 

An eagle-eyed artist with a checkered past, a bored country Miss, a cat called Artemis, caverns, and a ‘Greeks and Romans’ costume ball.

From humble beginnings to the height of fame, talented painter and sculptor John Ivers Mason is the toast of London. Tall, lean, handsome, and in possession of a pair of startling pale blue eyes and jet black hair, he is sought after not only for his skill and artistry, but his incredibly striking good looks.

But John’s lowly Newcastle background has made him cautious. While he is invited to many ton events as a celebrated artist, he is not truly a part of that world. Until he unexpectedly falls in love with a young woman who is.

Asked by her father to paint the fiery Miss Diana Wilmington at their country estate, he agrees—on one condition—that he be allowed to paint her for his own gallery too.

Diana is no typical member of the beau monde. She is feisty, stubborn, opinionated and definitely no shrinking violet. Almost perfect for him in fact. Except that he swore he would never marry.

But rules are made to be broken. Aren’t they?

 

Assuming she is alone in the garden, Miss Diana Wilmington is quite annoyed when in a rare whimsical moment she beseeches the newly arrived statue of Eros for a love match, and is overheard by none other than the statue’s amused sculptor himself. John Ivers Mason. The man is infuriating. But intriguing.

Although she is not usually of a whimsical mindset, Diana’s sister and several of her friends have recently married and she is feeling a little left out. Her father is not a fan of going to Town, and prefers to invite Town to him by creating his own entertainments at Wilmington Hall. And while she has no intention of succumbing to ‘wedded bliss’ with one of the stuffy, boring London fops who so often frequent their house parties, she doesn’t want to become an aging spinster aunt someday either!

But now the infuriating artist will be staying to paint her. And there is so much more to the talented artist than meets the eye.

Here are the links:

Midnight in the Garden with Eros  UK

Midnight in the Garden with Eros  US

Midnight in the Garden with Eros  Australia

Midnight in the Garden with Eros  Canada