After sailing the seven seas with the King’s navy for most of her life, admiral’s daughter Mary finds London hard to take, and her grasping aunt and nasty cousin even worse. A trip to find other relatives to live with brings dangers aplenty, but also Rick the Rogue, once a midshipman on her father’s […]
Chapter One “I don’t run away. I run towards,” she had told Rick the first time he retrieved her for her father, the admiral. That was half his lifetime ago, when she was nine, and he was a young midshipman of nearly fourteen. He sat on his horse for a moment, watching her trudging down […]
Traveling with her father’s fleet has not prepared Mary Pritchard for London. When she strikes out on her own, she finds adventure, trouble, and her girlhood hero, riding once more to her rescue.
Now available AT THE SAME PRICE as part of the box set, Holiday Escapes. Heaps of bonus reading.
Here’s a sneak preview of my Christmas novella, to be published in a Bluestocking Belle box set. Usual disclaimers apply: I’m still writing the first draft, so later ideas might mean rewriting this bit, and it needs editing and proofreading. But I’m loving Mary, and Rick is another nice guy. I do enjoy writing nice […]
As I type this, midnight 31 October was 14 hours ago where I am. And as the globe spins and midnight reaches other places around the world, the Bluestocking Belles first box set, Mistletoe, Marriage, and Mayhem is reaching those who have preordered it. Thirteen hundred are on Kindles, iPads, and other devices as we speak. […]
What better time to fall in love than during the magic of a family-centred festival? Jude has collected six published Christmas themed stories to produce ♥If Mistletoe Could Tell Tales♥.
Contents comprise novellas ♥Gingerbread Bride♥, ♥Candle’s Christmas Chair♥, ♥A Suitable Husband♥, and ♥Lord Calne’s Christmas Ruby♥, and stories from the Tales collections, All that Glisters and Magnus and the Christmas Angel. The collection won’t, probably, interest those who already have most of those books, but Jude is also be selling the new one, ♥Lord Calne’s Christmas Ruby♥, as a stand-along ebook novella.
Eleanor poured Lord Henry another cup of tea. With the continuing war, he seldom had time away from the Horse Guard to spare an hour for an old friend of his dear deceased wife, and she was enjoying catching up on news of Susana’s children. Eleanor often saw her goddaughter, Susan, now married to a […]
Her Grace of Haverford paused in her journey at a property just outside of Oxford. Rambling and comfortable, and small by the standards of the houses where she was lady and chatelaine, it was a place she stopped at as often as possible. Dr and Mrs Wren always made her welcome. Dr Wren had been […]
Holidays, relatives, pressure to marry—sometimes it is all too much. Is it any wonder a woman may need to escape? The heroines in this collection of stories aren’t afraid to take matters into their own hands when they’ve had enough.
Are you looking for some holiday reading? I have some novellas and some collections for you. Click on the title to go to more information plus buy links. Jude’s Christmas books Paradise Regained In discovering the mysteries of the East, James has built a new life. Will unveiling the secrets in his wife’s heart […]