Is it wrong for a writer to fall in love with one of their characters?

To tell the truth, the Lady Emmeline series began life as a bit of a tongue-in-cheek challenge. The character, Lady Emmeline Cumberland, and her true love, Lord Augustus Fountberry, were fictional characters mentioned in my Blood Red Trilogy of books. I thought it would be funny 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 Emmeline, and then every single person in the story — heroes and villains alike.

I will have to revisit these books soon — 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…