 William Mainwaring is the rejected suitor of the heroine in A CHANCE ENCOUNTER; he is the hero of THE WOOD NYMPH
 Lord Edmond Waite is the villain of THE TRYSTING PLACE; Mary Gregg, Lady Mornington, is a minor love interest of the hero in A COUNTERFEIT BETROTHAL. Edmond and Mary are hero and heroine of THE NOTORIOUS RAKE.
 Jack Frazer is a cousin of the hero in THE FIRST SNOWDROP. He is the hero of A CHRISTMAS BELLE. His large family, headed by his grandparents, appears prominently in both books.
 THE GILDED WEB, WEB OF LOVE, and DEVIL'S WEB were a planned trilogy. They tell the love stories of two brothers and a sister. A PROMISE OF SPRING is a spin-off of the first book. Sir Perry Lampman and his wife, ten years his senior, minor characters in the trilogy, intrigued me so much that I had to tell their story in order to discover it for myself.
 Sir Gerald Stapleton is the hero's friend in THE IDEAL WIFE. He is the hero of A PRECIOUS JEWEL. See also A CHRISTMAS BRIDE below.
 Many of the same characters appear and reappear in DARK ANGEL, LORD CAREW'S BRIDE, THE FAMOUS HEROINE, and THE PLUMED BONNET, sometimes as minor characters, sometimes as heroes and heroines. See also A CHRISTMAS BRIDE below.
 A CHRISTMAS BRIDE brings together characters from each of the two sets of books above. The hero, Edgar Downes, is the brother of the heroine of THE FAMOUS HEROINE and has connections with all the other main characters in that series. The heroine, Helena, Lady Stapleton, is the villainess of A PRECIOUS JEWEL and stepmother of its hero.
 Freddie Sullivan is the villain of COURTING JULIA; he is the hero of DANCING WITH CLARA. Harriet Pope is Clara's companion and friend in DANCING WITH CLARA; Lord Archibald Vinney is Freddie's friend. Archie and Harriet are hero and heroine of TEMPTING HARRIET.
 INDISCREET, UNFORGIVEN, and IRRESISTIBLE tell the love stories of four close friends and former cavalry officers in the Napoleonic Wars. Two of their stories are combined, one in the main plot, the other in a sub-plot, in IRRESISTIBLE.
 Lady Emily Marlowe is the young deaf mute sister of the heroine in HEARTLESS; Lord Ashley Kendrick is the younger brother of the hero. Ashley and Emily are hero and heroine of SILENT MELODY
 Lord Ferdinand Dudley is the younger brother of the hero in MORE THAN A MISTRESS. He is the hero of NO MAN'S MISTRESS. Look too for a prequel to this series, soon to be written. It will be the love story of Lady Angeline Dudley (sister of Jocelyn and Ferdinand) and Lord Heyward.
 Lauren Edgeworth is the bride abandoned at the altar by the hero in ONE NIGHT FOR LOVE. She is the heroine of A SUMMER TO REMEMBER.
A new series of six books is in progress about the Bedwyns, a powerful family headed by the powerful Wulfric, Duke of Bewcastle, introduced in A SUMMER TO REMEMBER. His younger siblings are Aidan, Rannulf, Freyja, Alleyne, and Morgan. Aidan's and Rannulf's stories are already written with the working titles of ANOTHER DREAM and A STOLEN DREAM |