Ruth A. Casie's Blog

Today, Wednesday, October 22, 2025, we’re turning the recent release of A Vow for the Viscount into something truly delicious — a progressive literary feast! Each “course” unfolds on a different platform, serving up gossip, games, secrets, and a touch of romance. Think of it as a banquet of stories, with you as the honored guest.

Gossip is free. The story? $3.99 and worth every vow.

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The feast begins early… but no worries if you’r...

Some stories come from questions that won’t let me go. What if the love of your life returned on the eve of your wedding to another?

That’s where Mary-Ann Seaton’s story begins in A Vow for the Viscount. She chooses a safe, steady path forward… until Quinton Hollingsworth, the man she thought lost to war, walks back into her life.

When I was writing this book, I found myself asking: what do we do with the promises we make when the world conspires to break them? Can love survive silence, distance...

It’s official. We’ve entered the Espionage Regency HR Era, and I am not sorry.

Sometimes, inspiration strikes like a thunderclap.

Other times, it arrives as a spam email from your fictional HR department.

This week, I opened my author email and discovered a very serious-looking message titled:

RUTHACASIE Employees Performance Appraisals | Staff ID: ruth

Inside was a link (I didn’t click, don’t worry) and the warning:
Note all names highlighted in red indicate employees to be terminated.

I laughe...

People often ask me: Why historical romance?

I could give you the tidy answer… that I love history, that I adore romance, and that blending the two feels as natural as breathing. All true. But the honest answer? Because the past is brimming with secrets, and I cannot resist eavesdropping.

History is full of facts, yes, but it also leaves delicious gaps. No one recorded what the Earl whispered to his beloved as they waltzed across a candlelit floor. No one scribbled down the words a young widow ...

Eleven years ago, I stood at the front of a sultry New York lounge called Madame X and gave my very first reading at Lady Jane’s Salon, founded by Hope Tarr. It was equal parts thrilling and terrifying, and I carried the memory with me ever since.

This weekend, I had the joy of returning to Lady Jane’s — this time in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, at the delightful Cat’s Meow. Two wonderful authors read before me: Misty Simon, with her cozy romantic mysteries, and Chantal Mer, with her witty and heart...

One masquerade. One proposal. One vow that changes everything.

Every story begins with a question, one that lives quietly in a writer’s mind until characters begin to answer it for themselves.

With A Vow for the Viscount, the question that haunted me was this:

What happens when a man bound by duty begins to want something… more?

Not more responsibility. Not more tradition. But more life. More heart. More her.

Quinton Hollingsworth believes himself a man of duty. He’s lived by the rules of honor,...

If you’ve read even one book in the Barrington’s Brigade series, you’ve met him.

He’s not the hero of the romance, but he’s always in the middle of things. Calm in chaos. Unshakable when others falter. With one glance or one quiet word, Reese Barrington can bring a roomful of dukes to order, and if you ask his fellow Brigade officers, they wouldn’t have it any other way.

But before there was a brigade, before there was war, there was a duke at a crossroads… and a woman who changed everything....

Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of joining readers in the Cerise DeLand Tea Room for a Facebook takeover celebrating the release of A Redemption for the Baron. It was a joyful, whirlwind hour full of questions, giveaways, and behind-the-scenes fun. But there was one moment I keep coming back to—the kiss.

Every story has a turning point. For Thomas and Bridget, it wasn’t a declaration or even a conversation. It was a kiss. A single moment when everything they were—bruised, brave, broken, h...

They were never meant to fall in love. But fate had other plans.
Secrets forged them. Love redeemed them.

A Redemption for the Baron is now available.
At a house shrouded in secrets, Lady Bridget McConnell and Captain Thomas Grenville uncover more than a murder.
As they race to expose a hidden Order, desire flares between them.
But the truth comes at a cost—and redemption may demand the one thing they v...

Some stories arrive slowly, one whisper at a time. Others insist on being written.

A Redemption for the Baron was the latter.

From the very beginning, I knew Thomas Grenville would have a difficult path. He carries the weight of mistakes—some his own, some inherited—and he’s the sort of man who feels his honor more deeply than he’ll admit. This book is his reckoning. Not just for the actions he regrets, but for the man he still hopes to be.

And then there’s Bridget.

Bridget McConnell is the kind of...