Books

Completed Manuscripts and Works in Progress

THE TEMPTATION OF TULIPS (series project)

Amsterdam, 1636. Incited by her passion for curiosities, merchant's daughter Saskia Klasen attends seedy tavern auctions to bargain for tulip bulbs. Driven by his desire for a commonplace life after years at sea, explorer Bram Vanderveer returns to Amsterdam with marriage and family in mind. But when a chance encounter brings him into intimate contact with the rebellious Saskia, he determines to learn her well-concealed secrets—and to make her his own.

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TOUCH (series project)

London, 1854. A single heated kiss-of-debt throws mathematician Lydia Kellaway into a stormy relationship with the enigmatic Alexander Hall, Viscount Northwood. Desperate to keep her family's secrets, she fights his seductive intent at every turn. Yet as they begin to unravel the mysteries of each other's pasts, Lydia finds herself caught in a web of intrigue and passion far more complex than she could have imagined.

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WICKED SILK

Paris, 1789. A time and place where poverty, desire and the excesses of the nobility collide with a force that changes history forever. Linette Fournier, a young seamstress, succumbs to her passion for the revolutionary Christian Navarre—until the compelling Viscount de Lautrec attempts to seduce her with unimagined luxuries. When Linette discovers Christian hides a shocking secret that threatens to destroy everything he holds dear, including his own life, she is forced to fight a revolution of the heart.