It's always fun when writing a hero to decide his characteristics - for all my top ten essentials on what he needs to have, the variation beyond these is enormous. As it should be, men not being all the same, but this time I have found inspiration for not one but two heroes in the same picture above: a portrait of the cicisbeo. The cicisbeo was a courtly lover, and particularly popular in Venice high society, but he was not expected to be a physical lover at all. Charming,

So My Lady Governess comes out today – hurrah!!! I am joyous! Tam and Marina are unleashed upon the world, and I hope they make some people as happy as they have made me. Thus ends 2017 on a very high note, before 2018 comes in with more books on the way. The next one is almost finished and very different; my next hero may be Army, but he is not an iron-clad haughty Crusader like Tam. Not that Tam is as invulnerable as he would like to portray, which has just made me sta

It isn't a truth universally acknowledged, perhaps, but it still is one: while the redheaded heroine is always in vogue, romance novels have a distinct lack of heroes the same. There are Titian girls, auburn girls, and tempestuous flamingly red-haired girls, yet want a ginger leading man, you'll be looking hard. I have come across a couple. There was a great Mills & Boon I read with a heroine called Kitty Anderson, where the hero was a lovely, laidback Rufus who kept making