The fashions, cosmetics, and coiffures of these few decades are sumptuous and beautiful, and change drastically in this short period of time. Shifting sands under the foundation of the privileged class. In English Society, the first tiptoes toward the idea of marriage for love. I have always been fascinated by the late Georgian era: the Regency era and the 2-3 decades leading up to it. Why does this time period appeal to you so much as a writer? That sounds like so much fun! Many of your books are set in the Regency era and the larger Georgian era. After a string of missteps renders their new marriage even more of a disaster than they feared, it is up to Lucas’s best friends, the Gents, to help the disparaging couple salvage their future together. But when their parents announce that he and Julia are to be married, he’s horrified. When Lucas returns to the family estate and realizes his neighbor actually despises him, he’s baffled. Julia and Lucas grew up as neighbors and friends, but after a falling out have drifted apart. Love cannot.” That is the very heart of this tale. The tagline for this book is “Marriages can be arranged.

What can you tell me about the first book, Forget Me Not, which just came out in September? Those friends are known amongst themselves as “The Gents” and that is where this series was born. As I began planning what would be a late-Georgian era story featuring Julia and Lucas Jonquil, it became quickly apparent that the stories of Lucas’s tight-knit group of friends and their efforts to secure a happy ever after needed to be written as well. From early on in my writing of the Jonquil Brothers’ books, I knew I wanted to write their parents’ love story. Eden: I have a Regency-era series that followed the romantic misadventures of a family of brothers, the Jonquils, and throughout this series reference is repeatedly made to their late father and their parents’ courtship. Shauna Kosoris: What inspired your new book series, the Gents? Sarah is represented by Pam Pho at D4EO Literary Agency. She holds a bachelor’s degree in research and happily spends hours perusing the reference shelves of her local library. Combining her obsession with history and her affinity for tender love stories, Sarah loves crafting deep characters and heartfelt romances set against rich historical backdrops. She is a two-time “Best of State” Gold Medal winner for fiction and a three-time Whitney Award winner. Eden is a USA Today best-selling author of witty and charming historical romances, including 2019’s Foreword Reviews INDIE Awards Gold Winner for Romance, The Lady and the Highwayman, and 2020 Holt Medallion finalist, Healing Hearts.

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