The Long Return is the second book of my new series, The Returned Lords of Grosvenor Square. It’s all about Lords who have been away for some reason who return to England and find things are not the same as when they left.

My only true love is gone. I only wish he knew how much I loved him

Arabella Marchmont was destroyed when she found out that Jacob died in the war.

It was her fault he was there in the first place. She just couldn’t take him seriously when he proposed, and before she could rectify her mistake he was already gone.

The agonizing wait for him to return began, but tragedy struck leaving Arabella to only wonder what could have been. Jacob was gone from this world, and life had to move on.

A long time later, when the Earl of Winchester proposes, everyone understood that it was time, finally even Arabella.

A simple life, free of heartache, might be just all that she could hope for.

But just as she starts to set her mind to the marriage, a familiar face limps back to Grosvenor Square.

Shockingly, her Jacob has returned, but is he even the same Jacob that left all that time ago.? Could he ever even be the same Jacob that proposed to her?

And even if he could be, was he already too late?

Welcome to the exciting world of Regency London!

– The Long Return

I am thrilled to announce the release of my new book, The Waiting Bride: A Regency Romance. It is the first book of a new series, The Returned Lords of Grosvenor Square. It’s all about Lords who have been away for some reason who return to England and find things are not the same as when they left.

“Earnestly awaiting your return,
Marianne Weston”

Every letter to Lord Philip Galsworthy from his waiting bride closed with the same words.

And they always made his heart sink.

He knew the words were not for him, but for their families who took great delight in reading the correspondence between them. In truth, Marianne had told him in secret, with great relief to himself, that she too was not excited by the long-held expectation of their marriage.

And so, by excusing himself through duty to King and Country, Lord Philip Galsworthy managed to hold off the wedding for a year with hopes that the two families’ interest in seeing them married would wane.

With more effort he also managed to extend his station in India for another year, and then another, but now there was nothing more he could do.

He had to return home, and the wedding plans would be already in motion by the time his ship saw the shores of England again.

Their ages would not permit any more postponements, and so it was time for him to return and fulfill his duty to house and family.

Only, his time away exposed a loneliness that he never knew was quite there. A loneliness that was only remedied by the regular letters from Marianne, which slowly turned his memory of her from the duty he was trying to avoid to the love he could not live without.

Cringing again at the closing to the last letter he received, Philip wonders if it’s possible for her feelings to have changed as well, or is his return still secretly dreaded by his now beloved Marianne.

– The Waiting Bride