The Lady Julia Grey mysteries are set in Victorian times.
And being attracted to someone can blind you to their faults-even faults as grave as murder! Suddenly the stakes are much higher because in addition to justice being served, there’s a “happily ever after” at risk.
When you have romantic entanglements as part of the equation, it complicates things beautifully. My books are usually structured as mysteries with a definite problem to unravel or crime to solve, and there’s always a relationship aspect as well whether it’s a couple meeting for the first time or exploring where a connection is going to take them. What themes motivate your writing? I’m always interested in the second story-not just what’s happening up front, but the undercurrents and secrets. Looking through all your novels and novellas, I see mysteries and romance at the heart of the stories you tell. Thank you for being on A Writer of History, Deanna. To sample her writing, you can read the free novella, Whisper of Jasmine, a prequel to City of Jasmine downloadable from Deanna’s website. Readers selected Deanna as one of the top historical fiction authors in both 20 and, having read several of her novels, I can fully appreciate why. For obsession can prove fatal.and she is in danger of falling prey to more than desire. His allure is superlative, his dominion over the superstitious town, absolute – Theodora may simply be one more person under his sway.Before her sojourn is ended – or her novel completed – Theodora will have encountered things as strange and terrible as they are seductive. But all are outstripped in dark glamour by the castle's master, Count Andrei Dragulescu.Bewildering and bewitching in equal measure, the brooding nobleman ignites Theodora's imagination and awakens passions in her that she can neither deny nor conceal. She is bound for Rumania, where tales of vampires are still whispered, to visit an old friend and write the book that will bring her true independence.She arrives at a magnificent, decaying castle in the Carpathians, replete with eccentric inhabitants: the ailing dowager the troubled steward her own fearful friend, Cosmina. A husband, a family, a comfortable life: Theodora Lestrange lives in terror of it all.With a modest inheritance and the three gowns that comprise her entire wardrobe, Theodora leaves Edinburgh – and a disappointed suitor – far behind.
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