Love's Perilous Road, a Bluestocking Belles Collection with Friends

It was a great honor to be asked to contribute to this wonderful collection!

Travel, house parties, smugglers, spies, a ghost--and a mysterious highwayman. Who is the infamous Captain Moonlight? And how many lives will he change--for good or for ill?

It's the autumn of 1817 and Sir Peter Somerville and his lady are hosting a house party at their estate near Brighton, while a pesky highwayman plagues the surrounding byways.

 

Love's Perilous Road features stories by Jude Knight, Sherry Ewing, Carolyn Warfield, Cerise Deland, Rue Allyn, Elizabeth Ellen Carter, Alina K. Field, and friends of the Bluestocking Belles Mary Lancaster, Meara Platt, and Barbara Monajem. (That's me!)  

 

Here’s a little blurb from my story in this collection, One Good Wager Leads to Another:

 

Widowed Thisbe Rose escapes her controlling father and moves into the haunted cottage she inherited. She’s not afraid of ghosts, smugglers, and highwaymen—but she’s not so sure about the oddest housekeeper she’s ever seen.

 

Former spy Gervaise Transom wagers a friend he can spend months disguised as a housekeeper without being caught. When Thisbe moves into the haunted cottage, he should leave, to protect her reputation—but he also must stay, to keep her safe.

 

Not only that, he’s sure he met her once many years ago…

 

Universal Buy Link: https://books2read.com/u/mqx0W6

 

 

Lady Rosamund is back...with a confession! Or two...

 

Lady Rosamund Confesses, a novella in the Rosie and McBrae Regency Mysteries, is available now!

It takes place immediately after Lady Rosamund and the Plague of Suitors.  

After the terrifying experience of confronting a murderer, Lady Rosamund retreats, along with her father and Gilroy McBrae, to the home of friends in the country for some much-needed relaxation. But before long, they find themselves embroiled in the affairs of a neighboring family, and soon this involves a corpse.

If this isn’t trouble enough, Rosie can’t figure out what McBrae’s intentions are—not to mention her own. Will he ask her to marry him? What will she reply? And what more must she confess before daring to say yes?

Universal Buy Link: https://books2read.com/Lady-Rosamund-Confesses

Here are a bunch of individual store links, if that's more convenient for you:

Amazon US https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0F8S69CV5

Amazon UK https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0F8S69CV5

Amazon Canada https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0F8S69CV5

Amazon Australia https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B0F8S69CV5

Apple https://books.apple.com/us/book/lady-rosamund-confesses/id6745990015

Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lady-rosamund-confesses-barbara-monajem/1147433925

Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/lady-rosamund-confesses

Angus and Robertson https://www.angusrobertson.com.au/ebooks/lady-rosamund-confesses-barbara-monajem/p/9798231310944

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1770662

 

 

The Wallflower Ruse -- out today!

 

Book #56 in the fabulous multi-author Revenge of the Wallflowers series!

Lord Restive wonders why Lucinda Belair grew up to be a grumpy wallflower—and now, because of a message in code, he is forced to suspect her of treason.

Lucinda wishes her childhood friend Restive hadn’t grown up to be a horrid libertine—and now, because of the coded message, she has to suspect him right back.

Soon, they are compelled to work together to save England from an unnamed disaster. But Restive is intolerably rude to Lucinda, and she longs for revenge – to show him she’s intelligent and capable and can handle whatever a patriotic Englishwoman must do.

Is this the opportunity for Lucinda the wallflower to bloom at last? Will Restive’s bad reputation forever stand in his way – or might Lucinda’s desire for revenge be replaced by love?

Available from various retailers via this link:

https://books2read.com/u/b60vRx

New Release! RETURN OF THE SCANDALOUS LADY

 

I'm thrilled to announce the release of Return of the Scandalous Lady, Book 4 of my Perilous Secrets series. I had great fun writing this story, as some of the characters appeared in previous books, and they were pestering me to write about them again. Frances, Lady Templestone was introduced in Book 3 of the series, The Infidelity Curse. She is the scandalous, socially unacceptable sister of Giles, Earl of Netherbroke. She, her son Lord Templestone, and her mischievous daughter Julia all play parts in a holiday novella, Embracing the Scandal. I was delighted to write about them again in the story where Frances finds true love at last!

Here's the blurb:

Years ago, Frances Templestone left her husband and ran away to France with a lover. Now she’s back, widowed and more mature, but mostly unrepentant. A social pariah, she stays out of sight while her daughter Julia has her first London season. 

Until Julia, who is as impetuous as her mother, sneaks out to a masquerade with an unsuitable man. Frances hastens to the rescue, and when she sees Julia about to get into a coach with a handsome stranger, she accuses him—very publicly—of being a rake who ruins innocent girls.

Soon she learns that Jasper, Lord Canterwell, is a respectable man. He wasn’t at the masquerade seeking an easy conquest. On the contrary—his daughter is missing, and he is searching for her everywhere. Aghast, Frances offers to help him. Rudely, he spurns her.

But Frances is determined and Jasper is desperate. Might a scandalous lady with a warm heart and a lively mind be just what a respectable gentleman needs?

Here's the buy link: https://books2read.com/u/49dOjX

And here's a link to a couple of excerpts: http://www.barbaramonajem.com/return-of-the-scandalous-lady.html