With a little over a week to go until the release of my uber-fabulous second novel Revealed (what? I’m trying to be promotional here), and as promised here are numbers 5 thru 1 of Ten Awesome Things about Revealed.

5. Hedge Mazes — I had the good fortune to spend a holiday in London once, and floated down the Thames to Hampton Court Palace. There, on a fantastic fall afternoon, I got lost in a hedge maze. For FOUR hours. The sun began to set, my friends came in and out looking for me. Needless to say, I have revisited this traumatic experience in my young life for my readers’ amusement. I hope you appreciate what I do for you people.

4. Frenemies – God bless whoever coined this term. They deserve the Nobel Prize in term-coining. It so perfectly describes that relationship between two people in the same set of friends, but are constantly in competition with each other. Just like Phillippa Benning and Lady Jane Cummings – and without that level of fierce competition, Phillippa might never have known the inside of a sarcophagus… much to her detriment.

3. Office Politics – Having had to account for every box of paper clips and stamps used in my day job, I can understand Marcus’s frustration with having to write requisitions for ink allotment (how is he meant to do that without any ink?) and make nice with the office manager, and run everything by the bosses. Is it any wonder he decides to break free from the restrictions of his position at the War Department, and do some investigating on his own?

2. Adventure and Derring Do – When Phillippa and Marcus get together sparks fly. Literally. Things just seem to explode around them. Pies. Hay bales. Middles class housing structures. Naturally this makes for some very exciting, very harrowing situations but never fear, because luckily…

1. Love Conquers All. — As well it should.

Revealed debuts on March 3rd, I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it, discovering these people and their world. Happy Reading!

Hi everyone! Revealed, my second release will be hitting the stores on March 3rd. That’s just about two weeks away, so until the big day, I thought I’d compose a list of why Revealed is a book worthy of one of your precious Saturday afternoons. So here is the top ten list of Awesome things about Revealed.

10. Pomeranians.
Little dogs are comedy gold. Little dogs that compromise their masculinity by wearing jeweled collars are, as the commercials say, priceless.

9. Horse Races.
Since writing this book, I got to learn how big a deal it was to win the thousand guineas on the Rowley Mile. Which, back in the day, was pretty cool.

8. Knee-high statuary.
So easily knocked over. Especially if you place them in groups of 42 or more.

7. Four and twenty black birds…
Baked in a pie. At an elite society banquet, Phillippa Benning and Marcus Worth find one heck of a clue to the whereabouts of Marcus’s enemy in pie much like the one from the nursery rhyme. And, its more difficult than you would think bake a pie crust large enough to hold 24 birds.

6. Marzipan
Who knew that almond cake would taste so yummy? Reggie Fieldstone, that’s who. And Phillippa is more than willing to buy young Reggie’s assistance with it.

That’s just the beginning of Ten Awesome things about Revealed. Check back next week for numbers 5 through 1…