Gentle stories that whisk you away.

Regency/Victorian

A Year in Cherrybrook -Revised books 1 & 2 available now!

Step into Cherrybrook, a fictional English country village, and relax with four sweet romances that take place in spring, summer, autumn and winter in the year 1839 to 1840.

Creatures of Habit

The Boy Next Door Returns

TAGS: late Regency, Christian/religious setting/themes but not inspirational, sweet, no bedroom scenes, Persuasion/Rupert Penry-Jones/Captain Wentworth, Beatrix, early Victorian

All Lawrie wants when he comes home to Cherrybrook after wartime service is to return to his gardening and peaceful country life; a life without taking orders. Instead, he finds his parents are as determined as ever to push him at their neighbours' daughter, Eugenia, whom he recalls as a bossy girl with a penchant for injured animals.

Eugenia is a creature of habit, determined to keep her life the way it is. She likes her independence, her animals and her flowers. Besides, Lawrie had been such an ordinary boy...

The last thing that either of them wants is to exchange their freedom for a marriage planned by their determined parents, but as spring turns to summer Lawrie and Eugenia begin to wonder, would it really be so bad for love to bloom where it was planted?

A Fair-Weather Friend

Is the Wrong Brother the Right Man?

TAGS: late Regency, Christian/religious setting/themes but not inspirational, sweet, no bedroom scenes, “John Thornton”, early Victorian, neurodivergent heroine

Reverend Lyle’s daughter, Marian, has a talent for sewing and a memory for details. Give her something to memorise, or sew, and she’s sharp as a pin. But when it comes to understanding men.… She's hopeless!

Marian’s ready heart tells her that newcomer Jonas Talbot is more than a fair-weather friend, he’s the man she can say “yes” to. But just when Marian is expecting a marriage proposal, Jonas disappears from Cherrybrook unannounced, leaving her hurt and confused.

When Jonas’s curmudgeonly brother John arrives to discover his brother’s whereabouts, he finds that Jonas has won the affections of the naive Miss Lyle. Well and good, for if Jonas marries Miss Lyle, it might save the Talbot family from another scandal it can ill afford. But soon John begins to doubt the wisdom of insisting upon the match for Marian’s sake…. and maybe even his own.

When threads are untangled and truths are told, what will come of summer love?

A Bird in the Hand

An Inconvenient Love

TAGS: late Regency, Christian/religious setting/themes but not inspirational, sweet, no bedroom scenes, Mr. Tilney, Mr. Bingley, early Victorian

Discreetly wealthy, Christopher Morton thought he would be content as the new vicar of Wellsey, caring for his mother and tending his parish, but money and respectability will not make up for his illegitimate birth when it comes to securing the affections of a baron’s captivating daughter, Miss Cherise Hamblin.

Cherise is far more passionate about art than marrying Lord Robert Penfield but according to her parents, a bird in the hand is worth two in a bush. While Lord and Lady Hamblin are hoping she’ll soon receive a marriage proposal from the viscount, a chance encounter between Cherise and the mysterious new vicar sparks an unexpected attraction.

Their secret friendship is soon in peril. Will small town gossip destroy them, or can art and fate bring these lovebirds together in time?

Medieval