Historical Books
Smith & Gracie: Victorian Detectives
Book One: Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
– a foray into the world of Historical Adventure
When fate throws Lady Arianna Gracie and Captain Jedidiah Smith together, necessity draws them into an alliance built upon deception and desire…
RELEASE DATE: 2026
This novel is currently being entered into competitions; as well as being submitted to agents – therefore no extracts are being shared here at this present time.
HOWEVER, here is my first attempt at the BLURB for the back of the book – just to offer a feel of what’s to come!
Lady Arianna Gracie, a young, headstrong, Yorkshire heiress, and a charismatic, Scottish army officer, are drawn together by the design of a dying man.
Coming from opposite ends of the social spectrum of late Victorian Britain, they find themselves unlikely allies as they battle to protect Arianna’s heritance – the lucrative Trident Estate – from the sinister scheming of the wider Gracie family.
As survival and desire draw them ever closer, they combine their complementary skills in detection to defend all that they hold dear. And, as the bond between them deepens, so does the challenge to keep their relationship purely professional.