My first series, which I call the Guilty Series, is composed of four books. In order, they are: Guilty Pleasures, His Every Kiss, The Marriage Bed, and She’s No Princess. My latest book, And Then He Kissed Her, is the first of a new set of connected books called the Girl-Bachelors Series, with heroines who earn their living and all live in the same Victorian lodging house.

I wanted a change, a new challenge. While I love writing books in a series, there is always a time when a writer has to shake herself up and do something completely different, and I felt the time was right to do that. I may go back and write more books in the Guilty Series, but only if I feel I can do something fresh. For now, I’m focused on the Girl-Bachelors Series.

It fit the concept of the Girl-Bachelors Series. In And Then He Kissed Her and the books that will follow it, the heroines are career women, and this phenomenon was unheard of for women who came from genteel backgrounds until the latter part of the nineteenth century. A series about girl-bachelors would have been impossible to set any earlier.

I always think about it, but I never do it. The reason is difficult to pin down. I think perhaps it’s because I always like my characters to have some angst. A messed up childhood, or poverty, or something tragic that they must overcome. They gotta have issues. But at the end of each book I write, I like to think the hero and heroine of that book are so in love, and so happy, and such great parents, that their children don’t have any of that angst. I like to think the children of my heroes and heroines have such happy lives they would be too boring to write about!