#2 The Flowers of Penruddock
Love in Season
Love in Season is a romantic fantasy novella set in the medieval-like kingdom of Penruddock. It is also included in The Flowers of A Romance Collection which was a Silver Medalist in the 2018 FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) President's Book Awards in the Romance Fiction category.Eighteen-year-old Lady Poppy Alexandra has fled an arranged marriage to a wealthy but elderly and very cruel duke. She ends up far away in Blencathra with only her precious stallion and a few coins in her pocket and is placed under the care of the widowed mother of the 28-year-old earl, Lord Reynard. The earl's sixteen-year-old niece Lady Sherley is accompanying her grandmother and uncle to the royal palace to be presented to the king and queen and begin a social season at court with the hope of finding a suitable match. They take Poppy along, but without a dowry no one will offer for her. Or will they, especially when she is nearly kidnapped and danger threatens her from afar?