I was born in north London into a family of journalist and writers, and started to read popular fiction when I was a teenager, picking up on regency romance from my mother, the Sapere Books author Alice Chetwynd Ley.

After a career spent teaching theatre in London and overseas, I landed happily in Devon twenty five years ago, close to where my grandmother grew up. Since then, I have also spent much time in Brittany, getting to know and love the region and its history. When I decided to write The Baron Returns, I chose to set my story in 1795, at the time of the rebellion in Brittany against the revolutionary regime of Republican France.

Intrigue, love and danger, and the clash of conflicting patriotisms became the subject of this first novel. With the books of my mother not far from my mind, I created a determined heroine who will not believe the suspicions surrounding the man she loves, and a hero who through hardship and survival has to decide where his loyalties lie. Out of that first novel, a compelling saga grew, published by Sapere Books.

The four novels of the saga are now all available, and you can read about them and also buy them here at Books .

Keep up to date too with the posts on the Blog here about the background to the novels of the saga, and do follow news about forthcoming books on my Facebook author page:

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