I'm excited to announce that the Kindle version of my new historical romance novel Love and Literature (Book 1 in a new series) is now available for preorder. Those of you who've read The Mist on Brontë Moor know about my love for the Brontës, so it will be no surprise that my new book is a homage to Charlotte Brontë's The Professor, which was published posthumously in 1857. Although not as well-known as her other books, The Professor is a story close to Charlotte's heart and is based on her experiences as a pupil-teacher at the Pensionnat Heger in Brussels.
Below is a description of Love and Literature. Grab your preordered copy for 99 cents!
The only adventure Violet Greyson has ever known has come from books, but that all changes when her father dies, and she moves from remote Dartmoor to London. There, she finds her purpose amongst the pioneers of women’s education and begins a new life as a teacher’s assistant at one of England's first academic ladies’ colleges. Love is the last thing on Violet's mind as she embarks on her new venture, but the harder she works to prove her worth to her capricious classics master, the more attached she becomes to him.
Byron Thomas, schoolmaster at the prestigious St. James’s Independent School for Boys, set out in life determined to be different from his brutish father but became disillusioned and bitter after typhus took his beloved wife and infant daughter. Beset with pain, he sets his sights on a marriage of convenience to the headmaster’s stepdaughter. But his plans become muddled when he agrees to teach a course in the classics at a new ladies’ college. Drawn to his intelligent and fiery assistant, Byron struggles to maintain a proper master-student relationship as she begins to chip away at the shield that guards his heart.
Will love derail Violet’s and Byron’s plans for their futures, or will it bring them the happiness they thought out of reach?
