With only one day until the new year (and our Orchid Affair excerpt!), here’s a blast from the very recent past, The Betrayal of the Blood Lily, which came out in January 2010. It doesn’t feel like it was that long ago, does it? Blood Lily will be back on shelves as a paperback, with [...]

As we reflect on the year past and the year to come, what were your favorite reads of 2010? Consider this a sort of Yearly Reading Round-Up….

With only two days to go until 2011, here’s a whisper from the very recent past, The Temptation of the Night Jasmine, which came out in January of 2009. The first book I wrote after I left the practice of the law, Night Jasmine was also the first to hit the New York Times Bestseller [...]

As we count down to January 2011, here’s a snippet from January 2008 and The Seduction of the Crimson Rose. I had thought this one would be harder to choose. Mary and Vaughn’s courtship occurs primarily through word-play as each tries to outsmart the other, leading to many moments of barbed quippage. As I flipped [...]

With four days until 2011, here’s a bit from fall ’06 and The Deception of the Emerald Ring. Although there are oh-so-many moments that delight me in the historical sections ofEmerald Ring (two words: sideburns and chickens), I decided to mix it up a bit and go with one of the Eloise and Colin bits. [...]

Hi, all! A friend of mine just asked me for recommendations for novels set in France between 1700 and 1789. Here’s the twist: it has to have a happy ending (meaning Through A Glass Darkly is right out). The first book that came to mind for me was Rosalind Laker’s To Dance With Kings. Any [...]

With five days to go until the New Year, let’s go back to 2006 and The Masque of the Black Tulip. I had a really, really hard time picking a favorite passage from this book. There’s just so much about Black Tulip that amuses me, from Turnip Fitzhugh’s appearance as a giant carnation to Geoff’s [...]

With six days to go until 2011, here’s a blast from the past, an excerpt from The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, which made its debut back in the snowy early days of 2005. This is my favorite bit from Pink, but please feel free to chime in with your own!

Since there are seven days between Christmas and the New Year and seven Pink Carnation books so far, I thought it might be fun to count down to a new year and a new book with a daily dose of Pink: one excerpt for every day, finishing up with a special advance chapter of The [...]

I know it’s tacky to re-gift, but I figured you wouldn’t mind this one. Two years ago, I decided it would be fun to write a novella as a holiday gift to my readers. So I did. Back in 2008, I posted the novella in serial form on the website, chapter by chapter, largely to [...]