My new medieval set in Scotland is called Lady With The Devil’s Scar and it is out in August 2012.

I love this book. The heroine is a woman who has been a pawn of the changing tides of politics and land ownership and the hero is a commander of the armies of kings.

I loved Isobel...her toughness, her vulnerability, her leadership, her isolation and her motivation to save her people and her Keep from harm.

I have put an excerpt on my website of their first kiss, harsh, raw, brutal and uncompromising. I hope you like it.

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I was asked to be a part of Harlequin the Historical Christmas anthology this year alongside two other wonderful authors, Marguerite Kaye and Annie Burrows. With the word governesswe were to fashion a Christmas story due out in November 2011.

Gift Wrapped Governesses is the result and I have given you an excerpt from my book below and links to the others to tempt you into buying it.

Christmas at Blackhaven Castle- Sophia James
Six governesses in three years have been harried from Blackhaven Castle by the unruly and motherless sons of the reclusive Lord Trey Stanford.

Lady Seraphina Moreton, the newest governess has heard all the rumours of course, but circumstances have reduced her to abject poverty and beggars do not have the luxury of being choosers.

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As the third brother in the Wellingham series Cristo is a dark, dangerous and lonely character. When Lady Eleanor Bracewell-Lowen is deposited without clothes on his bed in a Paris Chateau his whole world changes...

After one uncharacteristically wicked night, the once-reckless Eleanor Bracewell-Lowen now leads a safe and prudent life.
On his return to London's high society, Lord Cristo Wellingham looks different from the man she knew so briefly in Paris, but he is still as magnetic….

In his cold amber eyes Eleanor detects something she has seen mirrored in her own—longing. His touch invites passion, but this is a man who could destroy her good name with just one glance.

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Living in a gray world of silhouette, Lord Taris Wellingham conceals his fading eyesight from society. He has long protected himself from any intimate relationships.

Plain twenty-eight-year-old Beatrice-Maude Bassingstoke does not expect to attract any man, especially not one as good-looking as her remote traveling companion.

Forced by a snowstorm to spend the night together, these two lonely people seek solace in each other's arms. The passion they unleash surprises them both. Then a new day dawns..

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A paragon of virtue, Miss Lillian Davenport has an unrivaled reputation. So why has she offered to pay dangerous American, Lucas Clairmont, for a single kiss?

Lucas refuses to be molded by society and often walks on the wrong side of right, but Lillian's pure goodness and pale, correct life fascinate him. He senses that beneath the manners there's a woman of rare sensuality.

For Lillian, buying a kiss from Lucas has released a wildness within. Her ordered, virtuous world may never be the same again..

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Ordered to marry, Laird Lachlan Kerr thought a betrothal to homely, timid Lady Grace Stanton was hardly worth the trouble of protest. Yet, despite everything, he found there was something about her that was.brave.

All his life he had been surrounded by betrayal, and this woman, who believed there was still goodness in him, was special indeed.

Grace knew that the safety of her home depended on her betrothal - signed, sealed and delivered! Lachlan's strength and unexpected care of her were dangerously appealing. She could fall for this man with secrets in his eyes..

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Asher Wellingham, Duke of Carisbrook, was captivated by her! He had happened upon Lady Emma Seaton swimming naked and, beyond her beauty, had seen the deep curling scar on her thigh-- a wound that could only be the mark of a sword.

Who was this creature of contradictions? Something about her brought back tantalizing memories from the past. Her ill-fitting, threadbare clothes concealed the body of an angel, but what kind of woman truly lay behind her refined mask? Highborn lady or artful courtesan, she intrigued him and Asher wanted to possess both!

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The war-scarred Thornton Lindsay, Duke of Penborne, can scarcely believe the news when a beautiful stranger comes to London proclaiming to be his lover.

SECRETIVE

Caroline Anstretton is on the run and desperate. Her gamble that the reclusive duke won't leave the sanctuary of his home is lost when he coolly confronts her.

SENSUAL

Courtesan or charlatan, this mysterious, sensual woman intrigues Thorn. There's a vulnerability beneath her smile and easy laughter. Could she be the one to mend a life he'd thought damaged beyond repair?

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Lady Madeleine Randwick was his hostage, and a way to get under her brother's skin. As a player in the murky game of borderland politics, Alexander Ullyot, Laird of Ashblane, should have had no compunction about using her for his own ends. He should ruin her as surely as he wanted to ruin her brother.

And instead…instead he found he was complimenting her. Was it the firelight in her hair, the soft, low tone of her voice or her stubborn streak of independence? Alex saw danger ahead. Was he falling for the woman who was his means of revenge…?

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Nicholas is intrigued by the woman who saves his life and then vanishes. Queries as to her identity turn up the name of Brenna Stanhope, but every attempt to contact this beautiful lady is rebuffed.

Brenna has a dark secret she must keep buried, so she has built a world about herself where she avoids all male advances. Against her better judgement, this determined man keeps breaking through. Could she risk harming Nicholas's reputation by lowering her guard?

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