My stories are represented by Rebecca Strauss with McIntosh & Otis, Inc. Literary Agency.

UNRAVELING SECRETS - Victorian London

Set in Victorian London in the late 1800’s, UNRAVELING SECRETS is the first in a historical romance trilogy.

Modern and independent, Abigail Bradford has relied on only herself to protect her family for years. But when her father's murderer returns from the dead to threaten them again, she is desperate for help. She hires reclusive Viscount Stephen Ashbury, a man with his own dangerous reputation, to scare the thief away.

Cursed with the ability to read auras of good and evil after an electromagnetic experiment gone terribly wrong, Stephen hovers on society's fringe, keeping secret his unique skill as well as his occupation of solving impossible cases the law won’t touch. The persistent Miss Bradford with her unusual golden aura intrigues him and he reluctantly agrees to aid her.

In Stephen’s arms, Abigail discovers a passion she didn’t think possible but will do anything to explore. Unwilling to forfeit her independence, she offers Stephen an illicit affair although her heart yearns for more. He tries to resist the connection he feels to Abigail, afraid she'll unravel his secrets and despise him. But when he discovers the thief’s return is linked to his own past, Stephen must decide whether to reveal all or risk the chance for love.

BELIEVE IN ME - Thirteenth Century England
 
A determined lady seeks revenge for her mother's murder but her plan is cut short by the world-weary knight sent to escort her to a powerful bishop.  Though the knight is honor-bound to deliver her, he soon regrets his promise when the lady captures his heart. The knight and the lady must unite to overcome the bishop and his plan to use the lady's gift of the "healing touch", but the bishop has a dark secret that changes everything. 

TRUST IN ME - Thirteenth Century England

Lady Elizabeth Crefton, in a desperate attempt to save her half-crazed father, offers herself as wife to a lord whose hatred for her is surpassed only by his desire for vengeance.  While she's guilty of many things, she's not the treacherous seductress he presumes.

Ravaged by visions that have plagued him since childhood, Lord Nicholas de Bremont has vowed never to take a wife, though Elizabether stirs him beyond measure.  Determined to see his brother avenged, he agrees to her outrageous offer but adds a punishing stipulation of his own--he refuses to bed her. 

As they keep up the pretense of a marriage, Elizabeth guards her heart from the angry lord who appears to despise her, but his small acts of kindness crumble her defenses. Nicholas is terrified Elizabeth will unveil his dark secret.  When his visions divulge a villain who intends to harm her, Nicholas risks everything to save her and accept the trust and love that have been waiting for him all along.

AWARDS:
First Place - Historical - 2010 The Sheila Contest - Valley Forge Romance Writers
First Place - Romance - 2009 Pikes Peak Writers Contest

A VOW TO KEEP - Thirteenth Century England

A determined lady seeks a safe place to raise the orphan she loves only to lose her heart to a knight set on vengeance who is anything but safe. 

To fulfill a dying mother’s wish, Lady Alyna vows to raise the woman’s child.  Before she dies, the mother—a witch gifted with second sight—foretells Alyna’s future.  Those predictions seem to be coming true when Alyna’s father forces her betrothal to the traitorous Lord Tegmont who has no interest in the child Alyna has sworn to protect.

Sir Royce de Bremont, a knight with vengeance in his heart, kidnaps Alyna to prevent her marriage to his uncle, Lord Tegmont.  Crushing his uncle’s hopes of an heir is only the beginning of Royce’s plans to avenge the murder of his parents and reclaim his birthright.  But Alyna and her precocious son cause him to second guess those plans.

Lady Alyna soon realizes she’s fallen in love with the nephew of the man to whom she was betrothed.  Despite her fear, she knows she must fulfill the witch’s prophecy and confront the evil lord to help save the knight she and her son have grown to love.

Awards:

2^nd Place - 2007 Paul Gillette Memorial Contest – Pikes Peak Writers

2^nd Place - 2005 Put Your Heart in a Book Contest – New Jersey Romance Writers

Copyright 2012 by Lana Williams