RosemaryMorris.HistoricalNovelist

  Sunday’s Child, a Rosemary Morris #Classic#Regency Romance is Book 1 in her Heroines Born on Different Days of the Week Series.   Despite loss and past love, self-sacrifice, brutality, and honour, will it be possible for Tarrant, who fought in the Napoleonic wars, and Georgianne, whose father and brothers died in battle, to find happiness?   “The background, clothes, the food and drink, and etiquette of the day help to bring the story to vibrant life.”     With a firmly closed bedroom door the reader can enjoy the emerging romance.   https://bwlpublishing.ca/morris-rosemary To buy a book click on a book cover to be taken to your favourite online book store.   I love hearing from readers.   e-mail address is:- https://.srilekharach @hotmail.com   To read the first three chapters of her novels please visit her website:- https://rosemarymorris.co.uk With a firmly closed bedroom door, the reader can relish in the details of...

                                                    The Viscount and the Orphan by Rosemary Morris   Extract from Chapter One.   ”Dorinda sat in her strict guardian’s town coach, eyes shut, her head against the squab. The final scene and words from her favourite novel smuggled into the school by repeated themselves in her head. ‘Noble Lord Tancred knelt before Lady Amanda, who sat on a bench in her father’s secluded garden. His hair fair as barley glistened in the sunlight, and his eyes, the colour of a clear midsummer blue sky, shone adoringly as he clasped her small, white hand. “My true love, will you do me the honour of becoming my wife?” Her face suffused with blushes Amanda nodded. “My dear heart, I shall treasure you for as long as we live.” His face ablaze with love, Tancred pressed a kiss onto her ha...

    Genesee by Juliet Waldron   Genesee begins in 1761, when Mynheer Hendrik van Cortlandt, younger son of a wealthy, powerful Dutch family, leaves his resentful bride to   travel down the Mohawk River to Genesee. He is in pursuit of his fourteen-year-old sister, Alyda, who eloped with Black Wolf, a Senecca brave. His sister dead, he returns to the frontier with her infant daughter, and a load of beaver pelts. The novel moves forward to The War for American Independence, which has a profound influence on the baby, when she is a beautiful girl named Genesee aka Jenny.   Ms Waldron’s story which moves the heroine from privileged life in Albany New York, to the frontier, and   a Senecca camp. She experiences luxury, extreme hardship, captivity, and prejudice because she is a ‘half breed’. When Jenny and Captain Alexander Dunbar meet, they cannot foresee many severe trials that lie ahead. From the beginning to the end of this novel I hoped it would ...

  Betty-Ann Harris. 5* Review   The Viscount and the Orphan by Rosemary Morris   This classic historical romance erupts in Queen Anne Stuart’s reign in 1703. Gabriel, Viscount Cavanagh is bankrupt, his fortune wasted on mistresses, extravagance, and gambling. Orphaned, emotionally neglected, deprived of his inheritance and his own person by his grandfather, Adam Maynard, his only option to avoid disaster is acceptance of an arranged marriage proposed by Adam, a ruthless merchant prince. Adam summons his sixteen-year-old ward, wealthy Dorinda Davenport, from boarding school to be Gabriel’s bride. An orphan, she yearns for love. Well-educated, but naïve, she clings to her fantasy of a happy-ever-after marriage to a gentleman as handsome, and charming as her favourite fictional hero. Gabriel is the romantic hero of her dreams, but bitter disillusionment follows the wedding. A connoisseur of beautiful women, Gabriel conceals his distaste when he meets dumpy, sal...

    Today, the fifth of November I am posting a brief biography of Baroness Orczy famous for her series about the gallant Scarlet Pimpernel on my publisher’s Insider blog. I hope you will enjoy this insider blog about one of my favourite novelists. Please leave a comment if you enjoy it. Link: https://bwlauthors.blogspot.co.uk    

  Ms Waldron begins her epic romance, Angel’s Flight, during the American War of Independence at a ball in the Governor’s mansion in New York City, which twenty-four-year-old Angelica Ten Broeck attends. There, the intelligent, outspoken Dutch heiress, meets Jack Carter, who strides in wearing a black suit that stands out among a parade of officers in red uniforms and crisp, white wigs. When she meets this loyalist, of good breeding, who came from England to escape the consequences of a duel, they gaze at each other. ‘Tingling all over she watched his expression of pure masculine delight and, unaccountably, recognition’. Angelica, who supports George Washington, does not have a crystal ball in which she can foresee the important future she will share with Jack, a loyalist, whose self-confidence, and easy manner intrigues her. Preyed on by English Major Armstead, who she loathes and refuses to marry, during her journey on and along the Hudson to her home near Kingston, she...