The turn-around time from submitting the manuscript to revision request to sending the revised book back was the shortest in my career–barely 3 weeks.  Usually in that length of time I’d still be chewing my nails, wondering what my editor thinks of the story and nervously awaiting her response.  I expect the exceptional speed has something to do with the fact that this is book 3 of the series and books 1 and 2 were due, and read, in December.

Whatever the reason, I was relieved that my editor was as pleased as I am with this story of earl’s daughter Lady Honoria Carlow, who flees London after a scandalous disgrace to take refuge with her aunt in Cornwall and try to figure out who engineered her ruin…and why.  Enter handsome Irishman Gabe Hawksworth, known locally as “the Hawk,” currently captaining a smuggling vessel for the army friend who saved his life, and suddenly Honoria finds that exile to the rugged Cornish coast seems much more appealing.

Though her aristocratic family would be appalled at her attraction to a low-born free trader, there’s something about the well-spoken Gabe that calls out to the free-spirited Honoria, even as Gabe wonders about the story behind the  unexpected appearance of this mysterious beauty.  Until an attraction that should never have been becomes a compulsion too strong for either of them to resist…

Tags: Gabe, Honoria, Regency continuity

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