More from Jude Knight!

My author friend and fellow Bluestocking Belle, Jude Knight has two upcoming releases:

Thrown to the Lyon

Release Day October 30, 2024

When Dorcas Anderson saves Mrs. Dove-Lyon from being crushed by a passing dray it sets up a chain a series of events she could not have imagined. The grateful lady insists on presenting to her rescuer a tinder box containing three tokens. Each can be exchanged for a favor from The Black Widow of Whitehall herself.

She needs the first sooner than she expected, when her dead husband’s twin, brother to a powerful duke, has her and her four-year-old son arrested for theft.

When Mrs. Dove-Lyon asks him to help rescue a wrongfully arrested widow, Ben, the Earl of Somerford, is glad to aid Mrs. Anderson, whom he knew and respected when he was with the army in the Peninsula.

Dorcas uses the second token to enlist Mrs. Dove-Lyon in catching Ben’s attention, little knowing that Ben is already wondering if Dorcas is just the wife he needs.

Ben is too slow to declare his interest. Dorcas’s brothers-in-law threaten, and Mrs. Dove-Lyon may have the answer: Another marriage, this time to a man powerful enough to stand against a possibly malevolent duke.

The plan is set. A game of cards will decide the groom. Can Dorcas use the third token to change the odds? Anything can happen when a lady is thrown to a Lyon.

https://www.amazon.com/Thrown-Lyon-Lyons-Connected-World-ebook/dp/B0DGMYS3W9/

The Trials of Benedict

Release Day November 7, 2024

To wed her, he’d do anything. Even lose his heart!

When Alaric Redhaven is shipwrecked on the Isle of Claddach in the Irish Sea, he finds himself attending a most unusual house party. The Earl of Claddach is holding a set of trials to discover a worthy man to marry his daughter.

Lady Beatrice Collister, only child of the Earl of Claddach, is committed to choosing a husband who will be her consort when she is the island’s countess. But not one of the eligible gentlemen selected to enter the trials makes her heart race.

As Alaric strives to win the trials, and with them, everything he has ever wanted, he also faces a brother bent on revenge, a drunken villager, and a cousin with a mountain-sized sense of entitlement.

But only the man who uncovers the Heart of Claddach can win Bea as his bride.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJ9WB9WQ

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Thrown to the Lyon is a stand-alone romance, part of the Lyon’s Den connected world.

Jude’s contribution to the Lyon’s Den series include the following (plus the fairy tales they’re based on):

• The Talons of a Lyon – The Frog Prince
• Crossing the Lyon (in Night of Lyons) – Rose Red and Snow White
• Hook, Lyon and Sinker – The Little Mermaid
• Thrown to the Lyon – The Tinder Box

The Trials of Benedict is a stand-alone romance in Jude’s fairy tale series. Here’s more about those stories:

A Twist Upon a Regency Tale

The concept of this series was to take elements from traditional fairy tales and reinterpret them as Regency Romances, but with no magic, the fairy tale elements reinterpreted into natural happenstance, and the roles of hero and heroine reversed. As the series name says, A Twist Upon a Regency Tale. (Thank you to Caroline Warfield for suggesting the name.)

So far, the following are published or on preorder (story title then the folk tale that inspired the story):

• Lady Beast’s Bridegroom – Beauty and the Beast
• One Perfect Dance – Cinderella
• Snowy and the Seven Doves – Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
• Perchance to Dream – Sleeping Beauty
• Weave Me a Rope – Rapunzel
• The Sincerest Flattery – The Goose Girl
• Inviting the Wild – Little Red Riding Hood
• The Worth of an Earl (in Hot Duke Summer) – Aladdin
• Hold Me Fast – The Ballad of Tam Lin
• The Trials of Alaric – The Princess and the Pea