For some reason I have three pen names and I’m stuck with them. Sara Bennett writes passionate historical romance and was at one time an author with Avon. Evie North writes historical romance at a higher heat level, so if you don’t want to be burned stay away from her. Sara Mackenzie writes paranormal and time travel romance, most notably The Immortal Warriors series. If you sign up to my Newsletter you only need to do so once for all three names. Please feel free to explore!
I have a new Sara Mackenzie novella coming on the 6th of November! This is part of the Immortal Warriors series. I loved the cover so much that I have also changed the covers for Secrets of the Highwayman and Passions of the Ghost.
Click on the Sara Mackenzie Books page above to go to my website for further news and an excerpt of the book.
I have a new Evie North series coming your way. Men in kilts this time. On the 17th November Highland Warrior will be available exclusively to Amazon. Then on the 1st of December Highland Heart is on sale. The other three novellas in the series will be out in 2020, dates to come.
These are 15k novellas, but packed with plenty of steamy, swoony goodness. And the covers!!
For more details click on the Evie North link above and go to my website there.
For some reason I have three pen names and I’m stuck with them. Sara Bennett writes passionate historical romance and was at one time an author with Avon. Evie North writes historical romance at a higher heat level, so if you don’t want to be burned stay away from her. Sara Mackenzie writes paranormal and time travel romance, most notably The Immortal Warriors series. If you sign up to my Newsletter you only need to do so once for all three names. Please feel free to explore!
Lady Lavinia Richmond is known as the Ice Maiden. A virtuous wife to her late husband Patrick, and a loving mother to her young son, no hint of scandal has ever been whispered about her.
But Lavinia has a secret that could ruin her.
Captain Sebastian Longhurst was a friend to Patrick Richmond and reluctantly agreed to father a child with Lavinia when Patrick proved to be incapable. He never expected to fall in love. Now he is back in Mockingbird Square, and he wants to claim what is his—Lavinia and his son.
Beautiful Lady Rose, the fiercely independent mistress of Somerford Manor, fears she may lose her home to roving raiders. As a lone woman—in a man’s world—asking for help from her Liege Lord, so instead, she reluctantly hires a bold Viking warrior, Gunnar Olafson, and his mercenaries to protect her undefended lands and people. Strong, muscular, and intense Gunnar takes her breath away, but she dares not trust him, especially when she barely trusts herself!
Gunnar is not what he seems. Posing as a hired soldier, he is duty-bound to expose Rose, whose actions have been seen as traitorous. Somerford is to be his reward. Gunnar quickly realizes Rose is the true prize. Now he’s trapped between his duty and his desire, revealing his deception to the woman who’s stolen his heart.
An Unexpected Passion
Young widow, Lady Jenova of Gunlinghorn knows she must marry again, but is unsure of the bridegroom that has been chosen. However, she knows she can trust her devilishly handsome childhood friend, Lord Henry, who now advises the King! When they are trapped together by a winter tempest, she and Henry shock themselves by surrendering to a wildly passionate indiscretion. And suddenly Jenova must rethink her wedding plans…
In case you don’t know, Mockingbird Square is a series of interlinked novellas telling the stories of the residents of a garden square in Mayfair, London. Enraptured is the story of Olivia and Rory.
Wealthy Olivia Willoughby has led a happy and untroubled life, so far. Then, on holiday in Scotland, she meets Rory Maclean. Rory is as untamed as the landscape about them. The last of his family, he’s the owner of a falling down castle and deeply in debt, and he has two wishes. One, to marry an heiress and two, find the Sword of the Macleans, a fabled weapon which carries with it the luck of the family.
For a time Olivia and Rory embrace married life and civilisation in London, and then Olivia learns the truth. That Rory organised their ‘accidental’ meeting and married her for her money. Furious with him, and yet still loving him, she follows him home to Scotland.
In the distant north, at Rory’s castle, anything is possible. Will love conquer all, or will Olivia return to Mockingbird Square, alone.
Here is an excerpt from the book!
“As you can see,” he gestured about him, “Invermar has been stripped down to the bare bones.”
“You can build on those bones,” she reminded him.
He smiled. “It will always be chilly in the winter, and drafty all year round. Imagine smoky fires and damp stone.”
She looked at him curiously. Was he trying to put her off? Send her home for fear of getting a cold, like his mother? She lifted her chin and gave him a bold look. “I’m thinking of warm beds and snuggling up close. Long dark winters with nothing else to do but lie in my husband’s arms.”
His gaze had sharpened. She had his attention now.
“I thought,” she added, “that Scotland was supposed to be romantic.”
For some reason he’d decided to dismantle her fantasies. “Our history is a grim affair. Battles and bloodshed and treachery. You shouldn’t believe everything you read in fiction.”
His voice, low and warm, stroked her senses. If he thought to chase her away then he was wasting her time.
“Do you know that your accent is stronger now you’re away from London?”
“Is it?”
“You’re different too. The same, but . . . different.”
“Am I?”
“I think, in Mockingbird Square . . . It was as if you were wearing clothing that did not fit you properly. You were uncomfortable. Was that to please me?”
He hesitated. “Yes.”
“Would you go back there?” she asked him, searching his face, trying to read his thoughts while hiding her own. “Could you? I think, Rory, you are not a man to be content away from all of this.” She waved a hand as if to encompass the loch and the hills and the isolated vastness beyond the castle.
“Perhaps I could stay in London for half the year, and you could stay here for half the year?” he suggested and she could see that he was deadly serious.
“Would you do that?” she asked him softly.
“Would you?”
They were stepping around each other, neither of them willing to speak what was in their hearts. She watched, wary now, as he stood up and came around the table to her chair. “Rory . . .” she murmured, as if to restrain him, but all he did was take her hands in his to help her to her feet. They were necessarily close together—the room was not wide—and gracefully he brought one of her hands to his lips and then the other as she watched, waiting to see what he would do next. Although she thought she already knew what that would be, if his quickened breathing was any clue.
“Let me,” he whispered, and bent his head.
My novella, Unforgettable, #1 in my new Mockingbird Square series, is now available for pre order at a special price. This is a thank you for all of my loyal readers. Click on the following to find the pre order page: Amazon USA / Amazon Aust / Amazon UK / Amazon Canada / Kobo / Barnes & Noble / Apple / Smashwords coming soon.
Lord Ashley Linholm and Juliet Montgomery were once deeply in love, but their families tore them apart. Now, 8 years on, Ash is thinking of marrying for the sake of an heir to his estate. His bride of choice is a relative of the Earl of Monkstead, but the earl is a great believer in marrying for love, and he persuades Ash to revisit his painful past.
Does Juliet still love him after all that has happened? Is it possible for them to find the happiness that was once denied them?
Unforgettable is the first novella in a series about the residents of Mockingbird Square, where the Earl of Monkstead likes to interfere in the love lives of his neighbours and bring about their happy endings.
Unforgettable, the 1st Novella in my new Regency series, Mockingbird Square, will be out in March. I loved writing it, and hope you will enjoy reading it. Unforgettable will be up for pre order very soon. I also have a very pretty cover I will be sharing with my readers via my Newsletter, so if you want a peek, be sure to sign up now.
Here is the blurb for Unforgettable.
Ash Linholm and Juliet Montgomery were once deeply in love, but their families tore them apart. Now, 8 years on, Ash is thinking of marrying for the sake of an heir to his estate. His bride of choice is a relative of the Earl of Monkstead, but the earl is a great believer in marrying for love, and he persuades Ash to revisit his painful past.
Does Juliet still love him after all that has happened? Is it possible for them to find the happiness that was once denied them?
Unforgettable is the first novella in a series about the residents of Mockingbird Square, where the Earl of Monkstead likes to interfere in the love lives of his neighbours and bring about their happy endings.
There’s also an added treat for fans of my Medieval series. Lord Ash Linholm is a descendant of Radulf and Lily from The Lily and the Sword.
I’m thanking all of you who signed up to my Newsletter by sending you a free short story. My Lady’s Adventure is very short, but there’s plenty of romance. Can two very different people admit how much they love each other and dare to dream of a happy ending? Meet Lady Samantha Cavendish and her faithful manservant Walter.
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To celebrate July 4th, I’ve teamed up with more than 50 fantastic authors to give away a huge selection of historical romance novels, PLUS a Kindle Fire to one lucky winner!
I’m giving away my book Led Astray By A Rake, which is the first book in the Husband Hunters Club series
I have a novella up on Amazon. Miss Debenham’s Secret is a story linked to the Husband Hunters Club series of books.
If you’ve read them you’ll remember Miss Debenham’s school, where the five girls met. Well this is her story.
I am running a contest to celebrate the release of Wicked Earl Seeks Proper Heiress, the final book in my Husband Hunters Club series. Every week in February I will be giving away an ebook.
Week 1 will be the 1st book in the series, Led Astray by a Rake
Week 2 A Most Sinful Proposal
Week 3 To Pleasure A Duke
Week 4 Sin With A Scoundrel
All you have to do is send me an email telling me the name of the series!
My final book in the Husband Hunters Club series will be out in late February/early March. Wicked Earl Meets Proper Heiress is the story of Rufus, Earl of Southbrook, and Lady Averil Martindale, and a story full of excitement, humour, and romance it is!
It will be an Impulse ebook, but I love snuggling up in bed with my eReader these days.
Hope you are all looking forward to it as much as I am 🙂
I have published two Sara Mackenzie stories in an ebook called STEPPING BACK. The first story was previously published in The Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance in 2009, and the second story, THE EAST WIND, was published in 1994 in Summer of Love, an Australian anthology. If you want to take a look, go to Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EXXCSGE I should have the book on Smashwords in a few months, if you prefer them.
Enjoy 🙂
Two paranormal stories, Stepping Back, and The East Wind
This is just to let you all know that Kindle will be promoting Led Astray By A Rake in their monthly Big Deal promotion, starting 19th July and going until 4th August. If you haven’t read the Husband Hunters Club series, this is the first book and a good place to start.
Link is http://www.amazon.com/Astray-Rake-Husband-Hunters-ebook/dp/B002AP9G8U/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1368753157&sr=1-1
It sure has been a while since I posted here. I do keep people up to date on facebook, of course.
I am about to dive in to the final rewrites on my final Husband Hunter book, before I send it off
to my lovely editor at Avon. It feels a little bit sad to be finishing, but good too. At least all
of the girls will have their HEA.
Oh, and I’ll be blogging on Booktopia in Australia next month, but more on that later.
Don’t forget Lizzie My Love, another of my older books now republished as an ebook. This is an Australian story set in the early days of Sydney and New South Wales, about a young girl who travels from England with her sister to start a new life. But Lizzie finds a great deal more than she bargained for when she meets Zek, a wealthy landowner who employs her to run his household.
My Lady Imposter, one of my very early books written under the name Deborah Miles, has a new cover!
Very nice, I think. What do you think?
This is a Medieval book about a young girl who must learn to play the part of an aristocrat.
Abit of My Fair Lady perhaps?
I’m on the final book in the Husband Hunters Club series, Averil’s story.
I should be able to post the first chapter soon, so keep an eye out.
The hero is Rufus, Earl of Southbrook, and he has a scar. What is it about
a man with a scar?
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