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 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 the nations at war 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!
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Heart's Blood
Heart's Blood
Heart's Blood
Heart's Blood
Heart's Blood
by Alice Von Kannon
A sweeping story of love and redemption to open a new romance trilogy, To Cross an Unbound Sea.
Book One, Heart's Blood, is the unforgettable love story of Captain Isaac McCallister, five years a slave in Algiers, and Eleanor Hampton, gifted artist and a woman of tenacious courage. Together they will discover all the possibilities of passion, including a love strong enough to face down the darkest secrets.
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 2025
A PRICE ABOVE RUBIES — COMING IN SPRING 2025
A PRICE ABOVE RUBIES — COMING IN SPRING 2025
Amelia never meant to fall in love with someone she could never have...
Book Two, Night's Bloom, continues the story of the Hampton sisters with the adolescent Amelia and her hidden, unshakeable love for the elegant French diplomat François Déguerre. It is the eve of Napoleon's coronation, and Captain Isaac McCallister has taken his new family to Paris for the summer. François, Isaac's dear friend, is a citizen of the world, a constant traveller for Talleyrand's foreign ministry. But his father, Guilliame Déguerre, Count de Montvilliers, becomes a frequent guest of the McCallisters and another close friend. When the family returns to Salem, Amelia is permitted to remain behind under the old count's protection in order to attend the Vevay Academy, the most prestigious school for women on the Continent.
But when the idealistic Yankee is sucked into the dangerous world of French politics, François must rescue Amelia from an ugly riot on the Esplanade des Invalides. It will end in a single night of passion, followed by a dawn of honorable resolution, and a determination the part of the count that Amelia will marry his son. But Francois will face a dogged battle to get the heastrong Yankee to the altar, despite his fears that Amelia could never copse with his life. But to his astonishment, his nineteen-year-old wife takes brilliantly to diplomatic life. And as the power plays of the French court draw them both into a dangerous world consumed by conflict and betrayal, François will be forced to make war, not diplomacy, to keep the woman who's become the other half of his soul.
"Sexy, sweeping historical fiction with world-stage intrigue!” - Kirkus
A PRICE ABOVE RUBIES — COMING IN SPRING 2025
A PRICE ABOVE RUBIES — COMING IN SPRING 2025
A PRICE ABOVE RUBIES — COMING IN SPRING 2025
The war isn't really over just because the warrior came home . . .
Book Three, A Price Above Rubies, brings the years of conflict to a close in the story of Major Ashton DeWare, returning to England in a violent Channel storm after a decade of war. When the frigate takes refuge in a sheltered bay, Ash, violently seasick, jumps ship, to find himself in one of the poorest, most desolate spots in England: Dorset, in the West Country. Ash is facing a long journey home and a new life when he arrives, for the utterly unexpected death of his brother has left him Earl Hawkston, a position he never expected to fall to him and one for which he doesn't feel suited.
Passing through a nameless village, Ash is appalled to encounter a drunken wife sale, but he's unable to resist rescuing the pathetic girl from the auction block. Fearful she'll fall back into the filthy hands he's just bought her out of, Ash now finds himself saddled with a bit more baggage. The girl, named Bronwen, is from another world, impoverished, ignorant, even her language nearly foreign to him. Yet a strange bond forms between them as they journey north to Hawkston Rood, on an adventurous road where Ash discovers that this fairy creature, with a deep connection to the land around them, is a person of courage and grit. He determines to send Bronwen to school, to give her a chance for a better life. The returning hero then struggles to take up his place, even offering marriage to the elegant beauty who would have become his brother's wife. Ash struggles, as well, to hide the darkness inside him, the airless vacuum of emptiness, until Bronwen's unexpected return forces him to face the deepest truth of his existence.
Winner - RWA Hearts Through History Legend Award
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. When young, headstrong Létice is sent to Paris by her father to be educated in a convent school, the vessel carrying her is captured by Salé privateers, and Létice is consigned to 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 in an Edinburgh bookstore 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, additions that were clearly the work of an author and historian researching the Regency period. And 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.
