True love is rare and elusive, but they won’t settle for less
Regency Society calls them the Golden Redepennings, because they seem to have it all: good looks, wealth, social connections, and a strong loyalty to one another.
Appearances can be deceptive. The family tree is replete with rakes and neglected wives, though each generation has one much cherished exception: a true marriage; a partnership of mutual love and respect.
The odds are not good for the cousins of Regency times, especially since Rick Redepenning won his Mary. Besides, each cousin hides wounds that make them unwilling to risk their hearts, until danger threatens the one person who tempts them to change their mind.
The Redepenning family tree
The Golden Redepenning series includes
- Gingerbread Bride (a novella) Book 0.5
Rick Redepenning and Mary Pritchard - Candle’s Christmas Chair (a novella) Book 0.75
Randal Avery and Minerva Bradshaw (neighbours to the Redepennings) - Farewell to Kindness Book 1
Stephen Redepenning, Earl of Chirbury, and Anne Forsythe
“And now… farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.” Alexander Dumas - A Raging Madness Book 2
Alex Redepenning and Eleanor Melville
“Envy is a raging madness that cannot bear the wealth or fortune of others.”
François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld - The Realm of Silence Book 3
Susan Cunningham and Gil Rutledge
“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved… the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.” George Eliot - Unkept Promises Book 4
Mia and Julius Redepenning
“… oaths and anchors equally will drag: naught else abides on fickle earth but unkept promises of joy.” Herman Melville - The Flavour of our Deeds Book 5
Catherine Stocke and Lucian Ogilvy
“It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.” Beecher - An Unpitied Sacrifice Book 6
Henry Redepenning and Valeria Izquierdo
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edmund Burke - Children of Wrath Book 7
Nathan Bexley and Samihah
“Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.” St Paul