To tell the truth, the Lady Emmeline series began life as a bit of tongue-in-cheek nonsense. The character, Lady Emmeline Cumberland, and her true love, Lord Augustus Fountberry, were fictional characters mentioned in the Very Northern Series of books. I thought it would be fun to write a book within a book, so if anyone went looking for The Curse of the Pirate (Emmeline’s first adventure as read by Dr Charlie Hart) it would actually exist. However, as so often happens when writing, characters emerge from the page and develop passionate lives and depths all of their own. One book led to another and I fell in love with every single person in the story — heroes and villains alike.

I will have to revisit these books as well — for a good tidy up, and to then turn them all into audiobooks. I’m nothing if not a sucker for punishment. Watch this space…

Pride and Prejudice meets The Scarlet Pimpernel…

Lady Emmeline Cumberland is a hero for the twenty-first century, caught up in the historical sweep of the early nineteenth century. She’s an extraordinary woman who fights like a pirate and rides like a Cossack— embracing love and deep friendship but never running from danger.

Naive but never fragile, we watch Emmeline grow and develop over the six-book series until, amidst the smoke and blood of the Battle of Trafalgar, she must face her greatest-ever challenge…