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The Modern Woman's Guide to Finding A Knight
As Sweet As Honey
The Lady Is A Spy
Heart and Hearth
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A Modern Woman's Guide to Finding A knight
Connie leads a double life. During the week, she is an up–and–coming designer and dressmaker, creating sleek, elegant gowns for the wealthy elite. But come the weekend, Connie becomes Lady Constance, a member of the House Felicitous at the local Renaissance Faire, creating beautiful historical garments for herself and her friends and teaching dancing to fair attendees. Fearing loss of business should her stylish clientèle discover her extracurricular activities, Connie keeps her professional life and her faire life carefully separate. However, everything changes when she’s saved from certain death by Sir Justin: a rising star in the joust and an actual knight in shining armour.
Behind his mask as Sir Justin, Dominic is confident and charismatic, but out of his armour, his courage fails him, and to his own horror he finds himself accidentally pretending to be his own best friend. Suddenly, he is in Connie’s life as two different men: the elusive Sir Justin who courts her over the internet and from behind a suit of armour and Justin’s ‘best friend’ Dominic who hangs out at her apartment and helps her move. The lie only grows bigger and Sir Justin finds himself faced with the most frightening challenge he can imagine: extricating himself from his lie and winning Connie’s heart as his true self.
But there’s something rotten afoot at the Faire, something that threatens its future, the community that has grown there, and even Sir Justin’s life. Will Lady Constance find the courage to step up and risk everything to defend her friends, save the Faire, and rescue her knight?
As Sweet As Honey
Chelsea Lambert is an unhappy receptionist, working for Honey, a glitzy dating website that she thinks is more than a bit sleazy. But she’s got bills to pay, especially if she wants to avoid her manipulative aunt’s clutches. She didn’t plan on spilling her views on Honey to the handsome stranger who rescued her from being late for work – and she certainly didn’t plan on him being the gold-plated sleazebag she was mocking – yet here she was, ready for the earth to swallow her up.
Neil O’Connell, a Californian businessman, thought New Zealand would be an idyllic escape. The perfect place to get some space, avoid his past and definitely to avoid complicated attachments. When he is the unwitting target of Chelsea’s vitriolic diatribe, he unexpectedly finds himself having complicated feelings, the exact kind he needs to avoid.
When Chelsea’s aunt puts pressure on her to find a rich husband for her cousin, Chelsea sees an opportunity. She proposes a deal to Neil: three dates with her glamorous cousin, who is the perfect match for him. And three date with her. Three dates to show she can’t be dazzled with dollars. Three dates to prove they don’t belong together. It’s just three dates. What could go wrong?
The Lady Is A Spy
Paris, 1625. Charlotte Menard wanted more than a life of needlework, boredom and loneliness – but she never expected to end up a spy! Facing a dire future as a penniless widow, she accepts an offer from France’s spymaster, Cardinal Richelieu: her security in exchange for being his spy at court.
Stealing letters, climbing through windows, nearly starting a war with England… it’s all in a day’s work when ferreting out the enemies of France. By her side is her childhood friend Gregoire, whom she had previously believed dead. Once the son of a Comte, now a petty thief, he too is in the cardinal’s clutches. His job? To protect Charlotte.
Together, they are thrust into the dangerous games of courtly intrigue. As their enemies close in on them, it’s down to Charlotte’s quick wit and cunning to unravel the plot before it topples the throne and robs her of everything she cares about: her friends, her independence, and her chance at love.
Inspired by the adventures of the Three Musketeers, The Lady Is A Spy is a rollicking romance of adventure, intrigue, banter and passion, the first in the Dangerous Ladies of Paris series.
Heart and Hearth
Addie didn’t expect to inherit a ramshackle bed and breakfast in a tiny town – let alone a magical one!
She’s sure a mistake has been made – her whole life, she’s been taught to avoid her witch heritage. Her arrival has stirred something in the old town and Addie finds herself wrapped up in a decades old mystery.
Spring is just arriving, bringing with it new growth: for the plants, for Addie, and for the nearly-forgotten town.
A novella length book set in Aotearoa New Zealand, part of the Witchy Fiction project.
