Dear Readers,
I hope you have enjoyed the first book of my First Comes Love series. I had tremendous fun dreaming up and writing Lyon and Adeline’s story. It’s always a challenge to mix a hero’s and heroine’s inner conflicts with the external trappings of their lives and make it all develop into a sexy, satisfying romance. In this book, the story gave me a couple of mischievous little girls to help.
The sinking of the Salty Dove and The Seafarer’s School for Girls have no particular historical reference. Both are completely from my imagination and, therefore, I felt free to write about them as I did for the sake of this story. The downing of a ship at sea seemed the perfect way to have three young and beautiful widows in Society all at the same time. Though a boarding school for girls wasn’t common during the Regency, it was a touching way to show how a charitable act of kindness can transform someone’s life.
In our modern times it’s often difficult to understand the strict rules of behavior Regency Society placed on ladies while having relatively few for gentlemen. Many of the rules are restricting for an author who writes historical romance, but as always, I try to conform to most of the dictates of Society at the time, while filling my stories with all the passion a romance deserves. And I love sharing my stories with you.
I hope you will be watching for book two in my First Comes Love series, Gone with the Rogue, and the third, How to Train Your Earl.
I enjoy hearing from readers. You can e-mail me at ameliagrey@comcast.net, follow me on Facebook at Facebook.com/AmeliaGreyBooks, or visit my website at ameliagrey.com.