Full spoilers! Turn back if you haven’t finished. You know the footnote that nearly undid Lucien, and you know how it cracks. What the book never does is lay the actual history out straight. So here it is, cover off: three dates that refuse to stay apart, one journeyman nobody wrote down. Plus the part the book keeps quiet — the answer was a few minutes from the Palais the whole time, and she knew.
Read moreLucien was supposed to be the cold one. The angry spare who hates his brother for being born first. He refused, and when I finally sat with him and asked who he actually was, I understood what he’d done: he’d taken me with him. This is the post where I stop gesturing at a closed door and say it plainly. I have anxiety, and I gave it to a prince. The thirty years of not having a word for it, the way it gets misread as coldness, and what it meant to finally have him seen.
Read moreNicolas has read every room he's ever walked into correctly. So of course I wrote him a year where it doesn't matter. What the Crown Desires, Book 3 of the Sorvaine Series, is out 20 November 2026 — and he falls fast.
Read moreIsabelle Vauclaire was never supposed to come back. She was a Book 1 fixture, a name that had served its purpose. And then, somewhere in the middle of writing, the thought arrived that I couldn't put down: what if she doesn't leave. What if she's handed to the next brother. Here's how the woman who was meant to bow out became the only person Lucien could possibly end up with.
Read moreI said at the end of the last book that Lucien's face across a dinner table was doing more work than it appeared to be. This is the book where I show you what he was thinking — and where I finally talk about the quiet brother, the one question that was never asked, three dates that refused to make sense, and the parts of him that came from closer to home than I'm quite ready to explain. What the Crown Costs is out today.
Read moreBook 2 of the Sorvaine Series has a date, and I'm barely holding it together. What the Crown Costs is out 18 September 2026 — a spare prince, a bride nobody thought to ask, one arranged marriage neither of them wanted, and a slow burn I swore I'd never write again. (That's twice now. I have questions for myself.) Here's everything I can tell you without spoiling it.
Read moreI'll be the first to admit it: I'm not good at coming up with chapter titles. So I made a quick decision to do the cliché thing and use song titles instead.
Read moreA confession: I don't actually like slow burn. Left to my own devices I want people falling into each other at speed. But Julian and Imogen refused to be rushed.
Read moreOne crown. Four very different men in its shadow. Four roses that know more about where they're headed than they do.
Read moreI should say upfront that I'm not a royalist. I find the entire concept genuinely bizarre — the inherited power, the ceremony, the public money. I have never once looked at an actual monarchy and thought yes, this is a sensible way to run a country. And then I wrote a royal romance.
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