Clean Medieval Romance

Love in Season is a romantic fantasy novella set in the medieval-like kingdom of Penruddock. It is also included in The Flowers of Penruddock: A Romance Collection which was a Silver Medalist in the 2018 FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) President's Book Awards in the Romance Fiction category. Eighteen-year-old Lady Poppy Alexandra has fled an arranged marriage to a wealthy but elderly and very cruel duke. She ends up far away in Blencathra with only her precious stallion and a few coins in her pocket and is placed under the care of the widowed mother of the 28-year-old earl...

She’s a snarky food blogger who just taste-tested her way into the 15th century. He’s a disgraced knight with a secret spice rack and a temper hotter than dragon’s breath. When Rachel Carter opens a cursed medieval cookbook (thanks, eBay), the last thing she expects is to wake up in a crumbling castle face-to-face with a scowling, unfairly gorgeous knight who accuses her of being a spy. Worse? He’s holding her phone like it’s a witchcraft relic. (Okay, fair.) Sir Tristan de Valois was once England’s most celebrated knight until betrayal left him exiled, penniless, and (most ...

Hemsworth is the only home Leah MacRae has ever known — but she has never quite felt at home in it. Found twenty-one years ago on the kitchen doorstep, wrapped in a plaid no one recognized, named only by a slip of vellum tucked into her shawl, Leah has lived inside the kindness of the Duchess and the brusque distance of the Laird, building a small good life in the stillroom: feverfew tinctures, mullein for the lung-poultices, a ribbon that has long stopped matching her gown. The kitchen-lasses still call her Leah Left-Behind when she is not in the room. She has, for twenty-one years, ...

THE PRESENT Successful matchmaker Brianagh O’Rourke believes in happy-ever-afters – just not her own. Though she thrives on helping her clients find the partner of their dreams, her own dreams remain firmly in her head, not in her life. She's fine loving only her business–at least, that's what she tells herself when she agrees to her lackluster boyfriend's proposal. THE PAST Laird Nioclas MacWilliam has big problems: His power-hungry, exiled father wants him dead, his clan is pressuring him to marry to secure a strong alliance, and he's been betrothed to the mystical O'Rourke daughter...

She studies history. Now she’s trapped inside it. When museum curator Harper Ainsley touches an ancient psalter glowing in a London archive, she’s thrown into England, 1215, days before the signing of the Magna Carta. No phone. No way home. And no idea who to trust. The de Warenne family believes she could be a spy, a witch… or something even more dangerous. Only Sir Geoffrey de Warenne, the brilliant but guarded strategist tasked with uncovering her secrets, sees beyond the impossible story. Harper knows what’s coming. Civil war. Betrayal. Bloodshed. She knows kings will fall and ...

Dragons, Knights, and Forbidden Love! This slow-burn romance has it all! They call him the Dragon Lord. The hero who killed the Dragon King, and Anna wants nothing to do with him...at least at first. Anna’s love got killed while fighting the dragons, and when the opportunity comes to leave the town of Willowfore and her broken heart behind, she takes it. She becomes the Dragon Lord’s assistant steward. While at first, she thinks his Lordship is cruel and unforgiving, she soon learns there is more to this man than meets the eye, but a difference in station keeps her from expressing her ...

Scottish pride, forbidden love, and a secret that could topple a king—this is Highland romance at its breathtaking best. Eleanor has spent her life as a humble stable hand at Ingledew Castle, never knowing she carries royal blood—or that the lord she serves plans to use her as a pawn. When she’s sent north to be groomed as a princess and forced into marriage with King George, she seizes her only chance at freedom and escapes into the Highlands disguised as a boy. Keir McKelvey, a fierce Highland warrior betrothed against his will to the daughter of a rival clan, is already entangled ...

*Newly Revised Edition 2025 Clara is running away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself at the castle and washing walls as a maid. With an unexpected turn and a bump into the King, one of the most handsome men she has ever beheld, she ends up being employed as Princess Ellen's handmaiden, which only makes it harder to stay away from His Majesty and the feelings that are growing between them. After all, a maid is not fit for a King. This dual POV story is the final chapter from The Scarred King where both couples finally get their Happily Ever After. ENJOY! *This is a clean romance...

She was the woman the village called when their bairns were sick — and the woman they crossed themselves against, when walking past her gate. Sorcha is twenty-eight. She has lived alone at her mother's healing cottage at the foot of the holy mountain for twelve years, since she was sixteen and chose to come back to it instead of being kept by anyone. She counts to sixteen and back when the day is hard. She knows the weight of every plant in her stillroom and the name of every child she has caught into the world. She does not know what to do with the man standing in her rain at the half-...

In a bid for vengeance, Thomas Schmidt abandoned the dream of a peaceful existence and assumed a double life. By day, he was the respected and trusted royal bookkeeper. In his free time, he was the infamous bandit, Rumpelstiltskin. But one more heist and his revenge on the king responsible for murdering his family would be complete. Everything was going according to plan and he had it all under control. That is until he met Greta Fischer. Greta longed for adventure, but being the daughter of a poor miller, she assumed her dreams were out of reach. After escaping a terrifying encounter with ...

From the day the Fates decided he would be the warrior to train and lead a group of time-traveling clansmen, Reilly O’Malley has been certain of everything. He’s gone into every battle, verbal or physical, knowing that he will be victorious. Rescuer of many, protector of the O’Rourke clan, knight in shining armor―he lives up to all the titles with the full confidence of a man who knows he will live forever. Gwendolyn Allen has been in love with Reilly, her best friend, since she met him more than a decade ago. But dreams of a happily-ever-after are dashed when Gwen finally accepts ...

An English heiress in the Scottish Highlands is an unexpected occurrence, but there might be more to this situation than initially apparent. Calum Shaw, the local sheriff, has a straightforward mission: to maintain order in his area. He's reluctant to enforce the constraining Tartan and Dress Act of 1746 and is equally unenthusiastic about dealing with the defiant Highlanders who continuously oppose the laws, regardless of their perceived injustice. The last thing he wants is complications. Enter Lorna Sutherland, who embodies complication. This determined Englishwoman has unexpectedly ...

She was searching for history. She found her destiny. Archaeologist Emma is researching an ancient stone circle in Vermont when a freak event sends her tumbling through time. She lands in 1745 Scotland, in the middle of a hostile Highland clan who believe her modern clothes mark her as an English spy. Lachlan MacLeod, the clan’s formidable laird, is suspicious of the strange woman who appeared in his hall. His clan’s most sacred relic has been stolen, and he can’t afford to trust an outsider. But Emma’s knowledge of their history is uncanny, and her courage is undeniable. To save ...

A Highlander seeking revenge. A passionate Lady seeking true love. When they meet, they will soon realize that their search is over. Lady Gabby MacKenzie has always sought adventure outside the beautiful but boring castle she was born into. Her free-thinking and daring nature has always caused her family trouble. When she is to marry her childhood friend, she will be forced to choose between her family and her desire for true love. However, the war with the Highlanders will change the plans laid out for her. A horde of barbaric soldiers invades her home. Their plan to rape and kill everyone...

Colin O'Rourke is expanding Celtic Connections, his matchmaking business, to the UK and Ireland. However, its success is threatened before it opens its doors when a prominent UK gossip columnist publishes a slanderous article column about his company. The columnist agrees to retract her article...if he can successfully match her stubbornly-single niece. Eleanor Carberry is content with her life as a London bookshop owner. She has everything she needs―books, tea, and an aunt who is more like a mother. When her aunt asks Ellie to be the company's first client, to determine if the company ...

He took on a mission to bring her back. Now it's his own heart she holds hostage… When Lady Barrie St. Claire loses her father, Lord Huxley immediately demands she marries him. Barrie makes her escape and heads for Scotland, seeking the only man she can trust, a good friend of her father. She could never have thought her life would be on the run after the death of her father… Kyle MacLaine, a Scottish mercenary, is hired by Huxley to find his runaway bride. Soon he realizes that things aren’t what he was led to believe. His original plans have changed and now Kyle has to trust his gut...

A twist of fate left Aidan MacWilliam, younger brother of a medieval Irish laird, trapped in the future. Though he’s become a successful entrepreneur in the twenty-first century, Aidan still can’t banish thoughts of the world he left behind. In search of distraction, he heads to New York to scout a publicity manager for his cousin’s matchmaking firm, Celtic Connections. Emmaline Perkins is the perfect candidate. A PR expert and closet medievalist, Emma has always put work before her social life. When her ex-fiancé resurfaces and threatens her livelihood, her home, and ultimately her ...

Sleeping Beauty was asleep for a hundred years. What did she dream about? Princess Emerald of Somnus planned the perfect ball for her sixteenth birthday. She even modeled it after the midnight masquerades that she and her sisters secretly attended. Everything was perfect…until a poisoned spindle threw her into a deep sleep with vivid dreams of an unknown land: modern England. In a world of smart phones and cockney, Emerald knows she must be dreaming, especially with her hypoesthesia and strange power over plants. Lost and confused, Emer is welcomed by the Honorables Caden Seaver and Mica ...

What do you do when your worst enemy turns out to be your most trusted ally…? And the love of your life… Catherine cannot believe her luck. The only daughter of the Elder Lord Flynn, she finds herself in the Highlands, a prisoner of her worst enemy. Prisoner of the very people who killed her brother. She must escape this awful place. And that man guarding her! He doesn’t seem to be like the rest of them… but he is a Highlander and Catherine will get revenge on all Highlanders. Declan has already survived a fierce battle. Although young but still a member of the McCall Clan, he ...

*Updated revisions (2024) Scarred from his past, Rollan is judged by his appearances, making every woman of his court flee from his very presence...until Princess Ellen arrives. Ellen has her own scars and feels a connection to the King in a way that she has never felt before, but Rollan's pride and cruelty might ruin everything. For both of them. This story will take you through a journey of love that has never been told before. *This book is a clean romance.