Author Note

When I sat down to write Lady Folbroke’s Delicious Deception I had a pretty good idea of the communication problem between the two main characters. But beyond that there was nothing but a gray area, and a lot of silence. If Emily had friends, she wasn’t telling me. And other than drinking and fighting, Adrian didn’t seem to have much of a social life. The more people I added, the more likely these two were to come to an understanding before I could start their story. It was a conundrum.

And then John Hendricks arrived and sorted out my plot for me. As always, he was timely and efficient, hovering just on the edge of the plot, stepping forward when I needed him and disappearing when I didn’t.

It was a thankless job. But I had birthed him into an era when he had no reason to expect anything more than being a secondary character. And yet I liked him. I thought he deserved better. When he decided to storm off at the end of my last book I was eager to know where he’d end up.

Then I met Drusilla. And that explained everything.