When Prince William and Kate Middleton got hitched a few years ago, Avon Books invited three historical romance authors—Stephanie Laurens, Gaelen Foley, and me—to contribute to some royal wedding-related anthologies. The first of these was, fittingly, Royal Weddings, which included “The Jilting of Lord Northwick,” my first effort, in many years, to write a short story. I set the story on the day before Queen Victoria’s marriage to Prince Albert. That tale must have worked out all right because I was invited to join the same stellar author lineup for Royal Bridesmaids.
Avon has recently reissued this anthology with a lovely new cover. If you missed it the first time around, you might want to check it out. Then you might want to take a look at some of my forthcoming blog posts dealing with the historical background.