*All novellas can be read for free with Kindle Unlimited!
Hot Duke Summer–featuring my novella, Dilemma over a Duke
This anthology has eight novellas which are inspired by summer movies. I took my inspiration from MOONSTRUCK, where my heroine Evie is betrothed to one brother–yet she falls in love with another! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZYVZS4L/
One Magic Night
Aidan Flynn isn’t a rogue, instead modeling himself after his grandfather, the Duke of Savernake, who will leave Larkhaven to Aidan—if he weds in the next two weeks.
Lady Larissa Warren’s amoral family has prevented her from making a suitable match. Now, her father has told her to find a husband at tonight’s annual Savernake Stag Ball—or she must wed the ancient Lord Langdon.
Aidan decides Larissa is the one, but she has no interest in marrying an infamous Sinning Flynn. Will Aidan convince Larissa he is nothing like his rakehell brothers and win the auburn-haired beauty’s hand? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BPZKSH49/
The Duke That I Want
A duke who has no interest in love. A lady who will only wed for love. Will Elizabeth convince Philip life is better with love?
Major Philip Ware unexpectedly becomes the Duke of Dewberry. He has vowed never to love a woman but will wed in order to provide a ducal heir.
Lady Elizabeth Sutton sees the love match her brother made. Though she has taken the ton by storm and has countless offers of marriage, she will only wed for love.
Can Elizabeth persuade Philip life—and marriage—can be better with love?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQ8B42XF/
The Bridge to Love
An unnamed ghost haunts a bridge crossing the Medway River, seeking help from newlyweds
who promise to right a 500-year-old wrong …
Elric de Bergville of Windsong goes against his father’s wishes and weds his childhood
sweetheart, Lady Anne Glanville, at the center of the bridge which connects their families’
properties. But the lovers are betrayed, cruelly separated by death and time, forced to walk the
earth separately, within sight of one another.
Lady Iris Langley returns to Glanbury, her father’s country estate, after a decade of living in
London and encounters the Medieval ghost she befriended as a child. Iris learns the ghost is
named Anne but can find no record of what happened to her. In despair, she turns to Crispin
Bergville, her childhood friend and now Earl of Windthorst, whose estate, Windsong, lies across
from Glanbury, separated by the Medway River.
Sparks ignite between the pair and soon Iris and Crispin are betrothed. When the couple
discovers initials inside a heart carved into the center of the bridge connecting their families’
estates, they believe it is the key to unlocking Anne’s story. The pair vows to learn the truth and
find a way to set Anne’s spirit free.
Will Iris and Crispin be able to solve the mystery—or will Anne and Elric be doomed for all
time?
https://www.amazon.com/Bridge-Love-Alexa-Aston-ebook/dp/B0BGJPCT1C/
A Very Historical Holiday Collection
*This limited time boxed set features four of my Christmas novellas. Two spring from the St. Clairs series and feature Luke & Caroline (Starlight Night and The Twelve Days of Love). Yuletide at Gillingham features Reid & Ashlyn from Soldiers & Soulmates, while Season of Honor comes from The Knights of Honor and focuses on Geoffrey & Merryn.
12 Days of Love: A St. Clairs Christmas Novella
12 gifts of love—with the best for last …
Inspired by the lyrics from The 12 Days of Christmas (a chant and not yet a song during Regency times), Luke St. Clair, Earl of Mayfield, is determined to give his beloved wife of eight years, Caroline, a Christmas she will always remember.
Caroline has fond memories of the chant from her time in Boston with her beloved Aunt Evie, for whom Caroline’s bookshop is named. Luke locates a copy of the book where the lyrics to The 12 Days of Christmas were first published and has their four children memorize the lines to chant to their mother. He then plans, as the lover in the song, to present his countess with twelve different gifts during the Christmas season.
As the twelve days progress, Luke gifts Caroline with a new present each day. His final gift is the best of all, one that changes their family—but not the love between this couple. https://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Days-Love-Regency-Holiday-ebook/dp/B0B5K7Z6TJ
Yuletide at Gillingham
One boy abandoned by a greedy, gambling father …
Another boy watches his father slowly dying …
A lasting friendship that will see them through the hard times—and beyond …
Christmas is coming to Gillingham, the country seat of the Reid Baker, Duke of Gilford, and
home to Dunwood Academy, a school for boys run by the Duchess of Gilford. Ashlyn is with
child after their recent marriage and all seems right in their world—until two visitors bring
upsetting news.
One is Viscount Dalworth, whose son, Thomas, is a new student at the academy. Shy and
withdrawn because of his mother’s recent death, Thomas is finally coming out of his shell,
thanks to his friendship with scholarship student Edward Pickens. The viscount is on the prowl
for a wealthy wife and chooses to attend a house party during the holidays, informing Ashlyn
that Thomas is an inconvenience and he must remain at school during the Christmas holidays.
The other visitor is the local doctor, who brings heartbreaking news of Edward’s father, a local
farmer who is dying of winter fever. Because of their situations, the young friends will remain
with Reid and Ashlyn over their Christmas break.
Though heartbreak occurs, both Edward and Thomas mature and their friendship will endure for
many Yuletides to come. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B5MDRNKN/
The Lyon’s Lady Love
On the night of her come-out, Lady Emma Spencer learns her father has bilked numerous peers. Not only is she humiliated, but her father flees England, leaving Emma penniless and homeless. She finds work as a companion and years later, she winds up with a fortune. All she lacks now is the children she so desperately desires. That means finding a husband—and she turns to The Black Widow of Whitehall, Mrs. Bessie Dove-Lyon, who pairs women touched by scandal with men in desperate need of money.
Upon his father’s death, Marcus becomes the Earl of Rutherford and finds he’s bankrupt, thanks to his father losing the family fortune to poor investments and gambling. Though Marcus had wanted to wed for love, he turns to an infamous matchmaker, who arranges a marriage for him. Lady Emma Spencer is everything he dreamed of in a woman, and Marcus gallantly refuses to discuss her past, telling Emma he is her future.
But secrets have a way of coming out and Marcus learns he’s married to the one woman he never would have chosen.
Can Marcus put aside the ghosts of the past and accept a future with his wife? https://amzn.com/B0877BPCLL
Diana (The de Wolfes of Esterley Castle Book 1)
A woman whose reputation was destroyed. A powerful earl who longs for children. Can they ignore the raging gossip and find happiness together?
Lady Diana de Wolfe’s curiosity about kissing led to her ruin before she ever made her come-out in London. Banished from her home by a furious, disappointed father, Diana gives birth out of wedlock to twins and supports her family without help until her parents’ deaths. Her brother, the new Earl of Reston, welcomes her back into the family fold and takes Diana to London, hoping she can make a match—and demanding she keep silent about her children until she’s lands a husband.
Oliver Ward, Earl of Merrifield, raised his siblings after his father’s tragic death and his mother’s subsequent madness. With his brother at university and his sister making her come-out, Oliver is ready to find a wife and start a family of his own. His good friend, Lady Merrick, whom he almost wed, promises to help him find the right woman.
Meeting shortly before the London Season begins, Oliver is drawn to Diana’s spirit and beauty. Her attraction for him only grows when he learns about her precocious twins and he is determined to make her his.
Will the rumors regarding Diana’s past mistakes doom this couple in society’s eyes—or can love overcome gossip and save them both?
*Diana occurs after the events written about in Alexa Aston’s bestselling St. Clairs Trilogy—Devoted to the Duke, Midnight with the Marquess, and Embraced by the Earl. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09HN8YQTB
Derek (The de Wolfes of Esterley Castle Book 2)
He loved her—and was blindsided when she wed another man …He refused her—and now her life is no longer her own …
Lady Amelia Ward is ecstatic that her brother, the Earl of Merrifield, has just married for love. Amelia, who is in her first Season, now wants the same for herself. Though ton marriages rarely involve love, she has seen what a difference it’s made in Oliver’s life and she won’t settle for anything less—especially because she’s already in love with her new brother-in-law—who thinks her a featherbrain.
Derek de Wolfe, the new Earl of Reston, has seen his older sister, Diana, wed to Lord Merrifield. Now Derek’s ready to return to Northumberland because he has no plans to wed for several years, preferring to focus on changes he wishes to make at Esterley, his country estate. In truth, he’s running away from his growing attraction to Amelia, his new sister-in-law, whom he knows believes in love.
When Amelia decides to make Derek jealous, her plans backfire. She finds herself wed to a stranger who’s a known rake and her unhappiness grows when she realizes the kind of marriage they will have.
Will Amelia find a way to escape a union that should never have occurred and if she does, will Derek be waiting for her? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09HN67L2R
Thea (The de Wolfes of Esterley Castle Book 3)
Major Adam Ashbury arrives home to learn he’s a marquess and then suddenly a duke. Determined to put the war behind him, he longs for a family—and love.
Lady Thea de Wolfe misses her London Season after breaking her leg and her first public outing is to a funeral—where she meets the Duke of Durham.
A house party soon brings the couple together, where their growing attraction takes root, despite other young ladies vying to become the next Duchess of Durham, and Thea’s guardian doing his best to keep her from kissing anyone.
Especially the Duke of Durham. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09HN79SQC
Rise of de Wolfe: Prequel to The Knights of Honor
1321 A.D. – After her brother’s death at the Battle of Bannockburn, Elia de Wolfe is sent to the royal court to serve as a lady-in-waiting to Queen Isabella. The granddaughter of Patrick de Wolfe, known as Nighthawk, and great-granddaughter of William de Wolfe, the Wolfe of the North, Elia is fiercely proud of her heritage and yearns to return to her home after years of fostering with the queen. When she learns her father is
determined to keep her far from the border troubles with Scotland, Elia makes plans to return home.
Ferand de Montfort lost his young wife and son in childbirth and seeks a new bride—this time, one of his own choosing. He travels to London and is captivated by Elia de Wolfe, a spirited and intelligent woman. Elia convinces Ferand to escort her home, understanding she will be in his debt. Ferand hopes collecting that debt will include making Elia his wife.
Elia’s increasing reluctance to reach home springs from her growing attraction to Ferand. She is torn between remaining loyal to her family and losing her opportunity for true love.
Join Ferand and Elia on their journey across England as they find love and unite two great English families, the de Montforts and de Wolfes, in this exciting prequel to The Knights of Honor medieval romance series. https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Wolfe-World-Pack-Book-ebook/dp/B09J1YKYCS
Starlight Night: A St. Clairs Christmas Novella
A child from the streets … A couple with love in their hearts …
After her mother’s death, six-year-old Lucy is sold by her father to Driskell, a drunk who forces her and two orphans, Jem and Boy, to work the streets of London as pickpockets. When Jem is killed in a carriage accident, Lucy and Boy run from their brutish owner. Separated from Boy as they flee, Lucy must now learn how to survive on her own.
Luke and Caroline St. Clair, Earl and Countess of Mayfield, are still madly in love after several years of marriage and have a growing brood of three children whom they adore. They also own the popular Evie’s Bookstore and Tearoom. It is here Luke first encounters a small child all alone, peering into the store’s windows, hungrily eying the books on display. Though young and seemingly innocent on first glance, he quickly realizes that she is an old soul and a street urchin who must live by her wits and learns she is an orphan who belongs to no one.
In the midst of celebrating the Christmas season with their family—and with love in their hearts for a child who needs them—can Luke and his countess convince a young, untrusting girl to become a part of their family? https://bit.ly/DB-StarlightNight
Season of Honor: Geoffrey & Merryn’s First Christmas (a Knights of Honor Christmas Novella)
In the midst of celebrating their first Christmas together, Geoffrey and Merryn de Montfort are summoned to their stables, where a young woman is about to give birth on the most holy of all nights. Will her baby be the Christmas miracle a couple at Kinwick longs for? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SLQYW4N/
God of the Seas (Prequel to The King’s Cousins)
1263 A.D. – Melisent Winchester grew up in a convent, orphaned at so young an age that she can’t remember her parents. When a dying nun confesses that Melisent is her daughter, she also reveals that Melisent is a love child, the result of a liaison between the nun and England’s king. Because of political turmoil, Melisent’s life is now in danger. An unnamed knight spirits Melisent away and places her on a ship bound for Cornwall, where she’ll wed a Cornish baron.
As commander of the band of English pirates known as Poseidon’s Legion, Godwin Trenoweth is a man feared by all. When his crew stops to plunder a vessel, little cargo is aboard, but something of great value is found locked in a cabin—King Henry’s bastard daughter. Godwin takes the fiery-haired beauty captive, planning to ransom her to both the king and her intended husband until Godwin decides he wants the beauty for himself.
When Godwin learns he was sold as a boy to the brotherhood of pirates he now commands so that his greedy uncle could claim the earldom Godwin should have inherited, he seeks not only revenge, but a way to leave his pirate life behind in order to offer Melisent a better life.
Will Godwin and Melisent find his uncle and claim a new life—or will Lord Stephen de Blays claim Melisent for himself? https://www.amazon.com/God-Seas-Pirates-Britannia-Connected-ebook/dp/B07LHB36XD/