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
