Welcome to the Age of Romance
When gentlemen dueled and slaves fought for freedom.
When pirates ruled the oceans, and soldiers still battled with cold steel.
When women were chattel, yet they swayed the fate of nations.
When words like honor and courage were common currency.
When love wasn’t always convenient, but an inconvenient love could change history.
The Honor of His Name
The Honor of His Name
The Honor of His Name
The Honor of His Name
The Honor of His Name
by Alice Von Kannon
Sometimes a marriage of convenience isn't as convenient as it sounds . . .
When her tiny duchy is threatened by warring nations all around her, Chantal Saint-Marcq, Duchess of Valenciére, is obligated by duty to marry a cold and distant stranger, Major Tristan Duroc, hero of Austerlitz and power player in the game of Empire.
When these two willful people collide, the cold intrigue of a political marriage leads to the most dangerous passion in the age of Napoleon!
Heart's Blood
Heart's Blood
Heart's Blood
Heart's Blood
Heart's Blood
by Alice Von Kannon
A sweeping historical tale of passionate love and harrowing secrets!
Captain Isaac McCallister has returned after five harrowing years of slavery in Algiers. His reappearance has rattled the city of Salem, America's wealthiest port city, especially the widow and two daughters of his dead step-brother residing in genteel poverty on his estate.
Alice VonKannon
Dolly Levi said if you're going to live hand to mouth, you better be ambidextrous, a motto for two writers who've been together for four decades, Alice VonKannon and her husband Chris Hodapp. Alice has done every imaginable writing job, from ad copy to cable-TV to a plethora of "For Dummies" books, on subjects from the Crusades to buying an RV. But what she writes for the sheer joy of it are the epic historical romance novels she's always loved. The result is a new trilogy, To Cross an Unbound Sea, three novels set in the early 19th century - Heart's Blood, Night's Bloom and A Price Above Rubies, which just won RWA's Hearts Through History Legend Award. She's incredibly excited over the reception they've been given, these three love stories, bound by family, playing out across three nations in conflict -Jeffersonian America, Napoleonic France and Regency Britain.
Alice has appeared on History, Discovery, and AHC channels.
Coming next in the Unbound Sea Trilogy
NIGHT'S BLOOM — coming IN January 2024
A PRICE ABOVE RUBIES — COMING IN February 2025
A PRICE ABOVE RUBIES — COMING IN February 2025
"Sexy, sweeping historical fiction with world-stage intrigue!” - Kirkus
Amelia 's all-consuming passion to be with François any time, any place, compels the young, hot-headed Yankee girl to follow the dashing French diplomat to Paris, ostensibly to attend a sophisticated girls' academy. But when his rescue of her from the scene of a riot leads to a night of unbridled passion, he must face an impossible choice regarding the young ward in his care—a choice more difficult than any adversary on the battlefield or the bargaining table has ever presented him with.
A PRICE ABOVE RUBIES — COMING IN February 2025
A PRICE ABOVE RUBIES — COMING IN February 2025
A PRICE ABOVE RUBIES — COMING IN February 2025
Winner - RWA Hearts Through History Legend Award
The War isn't really over just because the warrior came home . . .
Alice VonKannon goes hot writing as Stevie Prescott
"THESE WERE THE JOURNALS OF A REMARKABLE WOMAN, A WOMAN OF WIT AND INDOMITABLE SPIRIT..."
Hidden for two centuries, the diary of a sexual adventuress reveals the remarkable life of The Acolyte, Lady Létice Marie de Saint-Juste, the willful daughter of a wealthy planter on the island of Martinique. Young, headstrong Létice is sent to Paris by her father, to be sheltered behind the high walls of a convent school.
But the vessel carrying her to France is captured by Salé privateers, and Létice is set on an altogether different journey, into the alien world of the Ottoman Seraglio in Constantinople. She becomes Zarqa, the Blue-Eyed Woman, and her training for a new life in the harem begins. It will part a silken curtain to reveal a world unimagined. In a single, shattering night she becomes ikbal, a favorite, and from these heights she will learn the fearful weight of power within the Seraglio.
Hardened by tragedy, Létice escapes, back to a world that now seems just as alien to her. Lost in the elegant salons of Paris and London, she abandons the Old World for America, arriving in its capital of sudden, glittering wealth, New York, where she’s determined to build a new life. But her well-laid plans have not counted on Jack McClain, powerful, playful, contemptuous of any rules but his own. Jack is a gamesman of unmatched skill, and as their contest unfolds, this Acolyte will finally find the tender Master who will teach her how little submission resembles defeat.
Caution: This book contains explicit sexual encounters and is recommended for adults only.
My Georgette Heyer Project
I have a mystery.
It began in 2017 with my discovery at a Scottish bookseller's of a volume of Pierce Egan's 1823 revision of Francis Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, published at the tail end of the Regency period. The book itself was filled with handwritten notes and additions made by an unknown owner, and they were clearly the work of an author or a Regency period language enthusiast. Some of the handwriting resembled notes I had seen before.
The more I explored, the more I recognized, and the more I began to ask myself a serious question: Had I discovered the incomparable romance author Georgette Heyer's earliest personal slang dictionary with her own private additions?
The answer is a resounding ... maybe.
