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I live in the beautiful Highlands of Scotland with my husband. I like chocolate, whisky, my Kindle, massed pipe bands, long leisurely lunches, chocolate, going places in my campervan, eating pizza in Italy, summer nights that never get dark, wood fires in winter, chocolate, the view from the study window looking out over the Moray Firth and the Black Isle to the mountains beyond. And chocolate. I dislike driving on motorways, cooking, shopping, hospitals.

The lovely lady in my avatar is Archduchess Clementina of Austria (1798-1881), Princess of Salerno, painted around 1839.

NOTE: I read Regency romances as well as write them, and I review them all on my website, or you can find them right here on Goodreads on my real-name account at Pauline ...more

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Mary, that was honourable of you to owning and notifying us about the error in titling Nell in The Widow. Lots of respect to you for that. I consider mis-titling Nell very minor to some obvious unresearched mis-titling I've often seen. When it's throughout entire story, for all the titled characters, should a writer feel obligated to make any corrections and release another version of the book?

Mary Kingswood I'm such a stickler for historical accuracy, especially titling errors, and I've criticised authors for not getting it right, so it would be hypocriti…moreI'm such a stickler for historical accuracy, especially titling errors, and I've criticised authors for not getting it right, so it would be hypocritical of me not to own up to my own errors.

As to being obliged to make corrections, I will always try to fix errors in my own books, and I've already corrected The Widow, but it's not always easy to do. Being self-published, I can upload a new version of an ebook or paperback very easily, but many of my books now have an audio version, and making changes to those once they're live is not easy (or cheap!). For any author with a regular publisher, there's no way they will agree to changes, unfortunately. In those cases, all an author can do is to learn from their mistake, and try to get things right in future books.(less)

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I only have two left! I need you to write more! When? XOXO

Mary Kingswood Lol, Sybil! I'm writing as fast as I can, believe me. In fact, there's a new one out today, Stranger at the Villa. And have you read all my novellas, …moreLol, Sybil! I'm writing as fast as I can, believe me. In fact, there's a new one out today, Stranger at the Villa. And have you read all my novellas, which are free to subscribers of my mailing list? There's one companion novella for each series, and a stand-alone. If you don't have them yet, hop over to my website at marykingswood.co.uk to sign up. (less)

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	The Widow (Silver Linings Mysteries, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 2,423 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stranger at the Dower House (Strangers, #1) 4.34 avg rating — 2,325 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Governess (Sisters of Woodside Mysteries, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 2,362 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lacemaker (Silver Linings Mysteries #2) 4.27 avg rating — 1,918 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Winter Chase (The Mercer's House, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 1,761 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stranger at the Grove (Strangers, #2) 4.40 avg rating — 1,657 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Painter (Silver Linings Mysteries, #4) 4.44 avg rating — 1,608 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Woodside (Sisters of Woodside Mysteries, #5) 4.42 avg rating — 1,566 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stranger at the Villa (Strangers, #3) 4.40 avg rating — 1,559 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Duke (Silver Linings Mysteries, #6) 4.43 avg rating — 1,518 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Review: Summer Campaign by Carla Kelly (1989)

A strange book, with some very unsettling mood changes, intermingling light-hearted banter with much more serious matters. Very enjoyable, despite that, although I wish the author had lightened the mood somewhat at the end.

Here’s the premise: Onyx Hamilton and her twin brother Gerald were abandoned at birth on the steps of a parsonage. The parson took them in and raised them, but when he died and

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“You are a woman, swept by emotion, and therefore not rational.”
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“It was hard to remember a time when he had not been helplessly in love with her, yet he had only known her a few short weeks. Such a brief time, yet now his life was incomplete without her.”
― Mary Kingswood, Lord Humphrey

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“If you were married to a man nearer to your own age, a marriage of equals—” “There is no such thing!” she cried. “A woman is always less than a man in the eyes of the world, and nothing at all in the eyes of the law and the church. A wife does not exist in her own stead, she is the property of her husband, her only purpose to provide him with children, if she can, and to ensure his comfort. To be subsumed like that… it is horrible, Laurence.”
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