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All the books were written to stand alone, but a family saga is loosely woven behind the individual books, with a mystery to unravel about hidden family secrets. The books are connected like this:
DEAR IMPOSTOR:
Featuring Gabriel Sinclair, the daring younger brother who was disinherited by
his family, and the beautiful and wealthy Miss Psyche Hill.
BEAUTY IN BLACK:
Gabriel's older brother John Sinclair, marquis of Gillingham, and young widow
Marianne Hughes, guardian for Louisa Crookshank. (Also a Merry Widow book)
WIDOW IN SCARLET is
another Merry Widow book, a parallel series, with our favorite 'fairy godmother'
character, the slightly wicked and witty countess of Sealey).
Back to the Sinclairs:
VISION IN BLUE: Miss
Gemma Smith, an orphan of unknown parentage, learns that she might be the sister
of Gabriel Sinclair and comes to London to find out the truth, meeting Captain
Matthew Fallon who seeks his lost sister Clarissa at the same ill-run orphanage
that Gemma once inhabited. Gemma makes friends with Louisa Crookshank along the
way. Both young women find romance and adventure--and even danger--before
they're done.
GILDING THE LADY:
Clarissa Fallon must lose the bad habits she learned during her less fortunate
years. Dominic Shay, the haughty earl of Whitby, bets a friend he can make her
the most admired lady of the season.
LADY IN WAITING:
Psyche's younger sister Circe Hill and Gabriel's friend David, earl of Westbury,
become involved in dangerous European intrigue that has followed them into
London's most select salons and ballrooms.
Note: These have all been published, but LADY IN WAITING and DEAR IMPOSTOR are
no longer in print and becoming hard to find.
SEDUCING SIR OLIVER:
the first book about the Applegate Sisters, Gabriel's newfound half sisters.
Juliana Applegate comes to London, meets a hunky amateur zoologist Sir Oliver
Ramsey and helps him chase an escaped monkey through Lady Sealey s elegant
London mansion. The monkey even lures Sir Oliver into Juliana s bed! Juliana and
Oliver come to the aid of Lady Sealey when she is threatened by a mysterious
peril from her past. Both passion and danger quickly spiral. . .
A LADY OF SCANDAL: Feb 2007. Ophelia and Cornelia, the Applegate twins, run away to London to go on stage and encounter danger, disgrace, and, of course, passion in the most unlikely forms of a gentleman thief and a vicar!