Doubtful Bride has replaced The Matfen Affair and I'm currently working on re-editing The Gavington Affair which will become Runaway Duchess.

I have yet to make a cover for the Duchess.  There seems to be a dearth of pics of Victorian ladies but I'll find one somewhere - if I have to use my grandmother's picture, that would be authentic, wouldn't it? Not that she was a duchess...

Gardening has been a major thing in my life this year. It is the first year we haven't gone to France but the journey to the Dordogne has grown less and less appealing over the last three or four years. We've had French weather here in our own back garden this year, so I should think we have still had our ration of vitamin D. On these hot days we are just lying around like the proverbial loppy dog. Sometimes we give up and go inside to be cool. Unheard of, I know. But not going to France has certainly given me time to think about and do something about my books, so that cannot be bad.