by Beverley Oakley | Sep 6, 2025 | Coffee Thoughts, Coffee, Books & a Blog, Dragonblade Publishing
Caroline Weston has always been dismissed as frivolous—until her dearest friend Venetia faces a fate worse than death: marriage to the sinister Lord Windermere. When Venetia is kidnapped and her childhood friend Henry Ashworth rides to the rescue, Caroline knows she...
by Blog Coordinator | Jun 19, 2025 | Coffee Thoughts, Coffee, Books & a Blog
Benedict Fitzsimmons, the reclusive fourteenth Duke of Ashington, nurses a secret desire for his own sex he’d much prefer nobody ever found out about. Indeed, having only ever given in to his urges as a youth—and with disastrous consequences—he never imagined...
by Blog Coordinator | Jun 9, 2025 | Coffee Thoughts, Coffee, Books & a Blog
Twenty-two-year-old Simon White begs for a place on Captain Dinesh Martin’s pirate ship, the Arrow. When he proves hilariously inadequate at most tasks, he finds himself in the captain’s quarters as cabin boy, housekeeper, and bed warmer. Captain Martin...