Fiction Friday: Ladies of Intrigue

3 Tales of 19th-Century Romance with a Dash of Mystery

Shh. Listen. Hear that? Those sweet little chimes playing a newborn nursery lullaby? Yes indeedy, it is time to announce the arrival of a new book baby: Ladies of Intrigue. This is a collection of 3 novellas formerly scattered about in different anthologies but now coming to you under the guise of one big beautiful book cover. Want to see?

And here’s a blurb:

Can truth and love prevail when no one is as they appear?
 
The Gentleman Smuggler’s Lady
Cornish Coast, 1815
When a prim and proper governess returns to England from abroad, she expects to comfort her dying father—not fall in love with a smuggler. Will Helen Fletcher keep Isaac Seaton’s unusual secret?
 
The Doctor’s Woman (A Carol Award Winner!)
Dakota Territory, 1862
Emmy Nelson, daughter of a missionary doctor, and Dr. James Clark, city doctor aspiring to teach, find themselves working side by side at Fort Snelling during the Dakota Uprising. That is when the real clash of ideals begins.
 
A House of Secrets
St. Paul, Minnesota, 1890
Ladies Aide Chairman, Amanda Carston resolves to clean up St. Paul’s ramshackle housing, starting with the worst of the worst: a “haunted” house that’s secretly owned by her beau—a home that’s his only means of helping brothel girls escape from the hands of the city’s most infamous madam.