New Release: Of Lies and Earls! (A sale and extra scenes)
May 15, 2025 5:00 pm
Happy May!
I am back so soon with my newest release. Yes, Of Lies and Earls is finally out and you can buy it or read it in Kindle Unlimited.
It's steamy, it's angsty, it's romantic and full of witty fun.
If you enjoy the following tropes, you'll love the book:
- Single father/Guardian
- Governess/Housekeeper heroine
- Virgin Hero! (yes, it's a first for me writing a virgin hero as well)
- Class difference
- Forbidden love
- Secret identity
- Possessive/Protective Hero
- Masquerade
- Angst + Longing
- Wit + Fun
And there are a few familiar faces that show up from previous books! (Let's see if you can spot them all)
Jacob, the Earl of Caldwell, is many things—a botanist, an entomologist, an industrialist, and, if he’s being honest, a complete disaster of a guardian. He barely remembers to eat, let alone raise the three children suddenly thrust into his care. What he needs is a housekeeper who is competent, invisible, and entirely uninteresting.
Honoria Hartwell is none of those things. What she is, however, is a liar. Hiding in plain sight as a housekeeper is the safest way to escape her horrid past. But when the lure of her old life proves too irresistible, she takes one reckless risk and... finds herself in the arms of her employer.
Now, Honoria is trapped between two lives and drowning in a web of lies. When her past finally catches up with her, will the man she has started to love come to her rescue or abandon her to her fate?
If you've finished the book, you already know that there're a couple of deleted scenes in there. You can read them here!
Let me know if you think they shouldn't have been cut.
If you haven't read Book 1 in this series yet, now is the time to do it. The timelines overlap, so it's better read in order.
Lady Lydia Lawless is a thief. Her family fortune? A lie. To start a new, honest life, she needs to steal one last thing—a family heirloom from a charming viscount.
There’s just one problem.
The viscount is a man from her past. And to steal the jewel… she’ll have to get him naked.
Viscount Arthur Thornton has many regrets. Letting go of his first love is the greatest. Now, fate gives him a second chance… But if he claims it, he risks losing everything.
Including life as he knows it.
For those who have already finished the book, tell me, what was your favorite part? And whose book from the side characters are you most excited for?
Melissande Monroe gets her story next... And if you've read Gone with the Rake, you know that she is closely related to one of my other previous heroes! (Hint: it's Hades... Ok, that wasn't a hint...)
I will be revealing the cover for the book very soon, for now, here's a tease:
Miss Milessande Monroe is infamous.
As the daring proprietress of London’s most notorious gaming hell, she thrives on scandal. So when she wagers she can capture any man’s heart—even that of England’s coldest, most reclusive marquess—it’s just another outrageous bet... until the game spins out of control, and the marquess becomes the one man she can’t outplay... or afford to lose.
Nathaniel Blake, the Marquess of Rivendale, has no interest in society’s games.
He’s in London to retrieve the only thing left of someone he loved—and lost. But to get it back, he’s forced to work with the devil herself: Miss Monroe. A brazen, maddening woman, impossible to ignore. Or evade. Or outwit. She just. Won’t. Go. Away. And maybe... he doesn’t want her to.
What begins as a simple game soon turns dangerous, forcing Melissande to choose between everything she’s worked so hard to achieve—and her heart.
Have you read my installment from the Rake Review series? Mad Duke March can be read any month of the year!
But this month it is on sale for $1.99!!!
Buy now
Whisky. Plenty of it. Keep it coming…
That’s all that Alexander Blackwood, the notorious “Mad Duke” of London, desires. Determined to waste his life away, he manages to offend even his closest friends. But when he carelessly ruins Miss Emily Fitzwilliam while in a drunken stupor, he finds himself chained to the only woman in England who refuses to fear or fawn over him.
It was the best day of her life… Until it wasn’t.
Emily Fitzwilliam loses everything when she is scandalously ruined by the most notorious rake London has ever known. And worst of all, the bounder refuses to marry her! But the wicked Duke who destroyed her life is about to discover that payback is hell.
A hasty marriage neither party wanted is about to become a passionate battle of wills as two warring hearts are destined to become one flesh… whether they like it or not.
Recommendations from my friends:
Richard Clark doesn't need a woman.
A good thing, too, since no one would marry him. A bastard with hands rough from work, women want him only for a good tumble. Until the one woman who's always set him aflame returns for his brother's wedding. The infuriating chit has pleasure on her mind. And revenge. He likely deserves her revenge, but he'd do anything to give her pleasure...
Beatrice Bell needs no man.
Unless it's to take a lover. And her friend's house party wedding offers the perfect opportunity to do just that. If she can escape the disapproving glares of Mr. Richard Shaw, her one-time friend and long-time enemy. He separated her sister from the man she loved, and Beatrice will never forgive him.
Even if he does kiss her like she's sunrise itself.
Even if he's good with children.
And excellent at apologies.
And has that lovely lock of hair curling right over one eye...
Even if she enjoys arguing with him more than she enjoys a pleasant conversation with... anyone else. He seems to like it, too. And the old animosity sparks into something deliciously different. In this novella-length Regency romcom, hate is familiar, but love is so worth it.
Cheers,
Sadie
