Her stories live in crumbling castles and candlelit war rooms, on rain-lashed decks and in drawing rooms where every smile hides a knife. The period changes; the mood doesn't.
Her debut series, The Caerhavens of Cornwall, follows one family and one drowned keep across two generations of the Cornish coast — candlelit gothic romance with a real mystery breathing under the dread. Book I, The Last Countess of Caerhaven, is out now; the sea is not finished with the family yet.
When she's not in the archives, she's probably reading about poisoners, arguing about the Brontë sisters, or planning her next ghost story for Christmas.
§ She believes history has teeth. Her books prove it.
I write about the poisoners, the spies, the women who burned the house down rather than live in it quietly. The men who sailed into storms because the thing chasing them was worse.
— R.B.