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Finalist- 2025 HOLT Medallion Award for Historical Romance They call them the Weatherby Wallflowers… After her mother's death, Eleanor Weatherby has had a hard enough time shepherding her three younger sisters through the world and running her father's household on a shoestring budget. But now her father, an eccentric naturalist who has always shown more interest in birds and beetles than his own flesh and blood, has sold their home so he could afford passage on an exploratory voyage around the world! Suddenly the four sisters dubbed the Weatherby Wallflowers don't even have a roof over their heads. Their only chance… Eleanor somehow manages to secure an invitation to the Countess of Milthorpe's house party, which buys them two weeks of shelter. Eleanor is firmly on the shelf, but her youngest sister, Philippa, manages to catch the eye of Felix St. James, younger brother of the Duke of Norwood. If Pippa can bring Felix up to scratch, it will draw them back from the brink of destitution. The man standing in their way… There's only one problem—Jasper St. James, the Duke of Norwood. He immediately marked Pippa as an upstart miss who was only after his brother's fortune. Jasper vows that he won't let Felix out of his sight. But at every turn he is foiled by Eleanor Weatherby, who seems as determined to promote the match as Jasper is to prevent it. As Jasper and Eleanor match wits, he discovers that she is impertinent, imperious… and impossible to resist. It turns out that sparring with a headstrong wallflower is more to this stern duke's taste than the milquetoast maidens he was considering for his bride at the start of the house party. Maybe one of the Weatherby Wallflowers will be marrying into the St. James family after all… if Jasper hasn't already ruined everything. A Wallflower Never Surrenders is a steamy, comedic Regency Romance. It was a finalist for the 2025 HOLT Medallion Award for Best Historical Romance, alongside Book 2 in the Weatherby Wallflowers series, Snowbound with the Scoundrel, which took home the award. Please be advised that it features open-door love scenes.

She has to defend her castle… with a little help from a handsome stranger! Aspiring archaeologist Catriona McCallister has always been the black sheep of her family. After all, what kind of lady spends her days wandering the moors in search of Viking treasure? Still, it came as a shock when, on the eve of their departure to visit Paris for Christmas, her family forgot her entirely! Catriona finds herself snowed in at the family castle, all alone. Not that she minds. It's nice to have a reprieve from her family's unrelenting criticism. But then, thieves descend on the castle, intent on stealing the Viking artifacts Catriona discovered on the moors! Catriona is determined to defend her treasures, but she's going to need some help.  There's only one person close enough to come to her aid—William Marley, the odd Englishman renting their gamekeeper's cottage. He's rumored to be a viscount. He's also rumored to have killed his betrothed with the shovel he carries with him wherever he goes. But desperate times call for desperate measures. And maybe the man known as the Sussex Shovel Slayer is precisely what Catriona needs. Home Unchaperoned is a holiday novella set in Regency Scotland that may remind you of a certain beloved Christmas movie. It features open-door love scenes. Please note that this story has previously appeared in the anthology How the Belle Stole Christmas.