Escape back to the 16th century...

The present can wait I want to escape into the past. 

I'm really grateful I can do that through my writing and the research I have to do.

Lately, I have been finishing up my latest novel: The Lady's Gamble. It will be available within the next month or so. This is the story of Lady Elizabeth Cromwell (née Seymour) sister to King Henry VIII third wife: Jane Seymour. 

It's my favorite novel to date, probably because I could relate to the family dynamics so much. There can be a lot of jealousy and fighting between siblings but there's also love and affection. 

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She caught my eye because of the intriguing turn of events her life took. From being married off to an obscure gentleman to becoming sister of the queen. She would go on to marry two more times but I focused in on the early days of her marriage to Geoffrey Cromwell, son of the infamous Thomas Cromwell. They both seemed to share the common fate of being overshadowed by their larger than life relatives. Despite coming from powerful families neither seemed to possess much of their own or at least not to the extent that others had.

​It was interesting to explore the shift in family dynamics when someone suddenly has everything to play for but everything to lose as well.