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The Evergreen Door of Vienna

Their first Christmas as husband and wife should be unforgettable. Unfortunately, someone else has arranged the mystery.

Louisa “Lulu” Penrose Cameron and her husband, Stuart, travel to Vienna hoping to enjoy their first Christmas together amid glittering lights, grand opera houses and the city’s celebrated holiday markets.

There are concerts to attend, pastries to sample and gifts to choose for the family and friends who will soon gather at their new home. At one...

The Golden Door of Capri

A priceless object has vanished. A golden door conceals more than an elegant room. And on Capri, nearly everyone has something to protect.

Louisa “Lulu” Penrose and her new husband, Stuart Cameron, arrive on Capri expecting a brief and thoroughly civilized escape. Between glittering sea views, elegant villas and invitations from Stuart’s well-connected family, Lulu is prepared to make a sincere attempt at enjoying herself without stumbling into another investigation.

The...

A missing heiress. A fortune about to change hands. And a white door above the harbor that may be the last place she was seen.

Back in rainy England, Louisa “Lulu” Penrose is attempting to concentrate on wedding plans when she learns that Lizzy Mortimer, a spirited young American heiress, has vanished while traveling on Mykonos.

Lizzy is due to claim a substantial inheritance, but the deadline is rapidly approaching. Unless she appears before the proper legal authority and signs the necessary...

The Green Door of Tuscany

A celebrated vineyard. An unusual new wine. And a green door standing between one family and the secrets it would rather leave buried.

Two months after her Santorini adventure, Louisa “Lulu” Penrose has settled once again into life at her aunt’s pink-doored villa in Positano. Her days are pleasantly occupied by books, cafés and the increasingly frequent attentions of Stuart Cameron.

Then Lulu befriends Anna Silvestri, a spirited young Englishwoman whose Italian family...

Return to the Greek islands in The Blue Door of Santorini, a witty 1950s historical mystery filled with secrets, rumors, and romance.

A door that opens onto a room is ordinary.

A door that opens onto nothing is considerably more interesting.

At the beginning of The Blue Door of Santorini, Lulu Penrose is looking across the cliffs when she notices a striking blue door set into a house high above the sea.

The door appears to lead nowhere.

Naturally, Lulu would like to know why.

This is precisely the...

There are worse places to become entangled in a mystery than Positano.

The scenery is magnificent, the cafés are plentiful and even the staircases seem determined to provide a dramatic entrance. Unfortunately, none of those things guarantee a peaceful holiday.

The Pink Door of Positano is the first book in my Doorway Series, a collection of lighthearted historical mysteries filled with travel, wit, romance and just enough trouble to make an otherwise sensible itinerary completely useless.

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Six Doors, Six Escapes and Several Reasons Not to Mind One’s Own Business

I have always found unique doors hard to resist.

A brightly painted door on a quiet street immediately raises questions. Who lives behind it? Where does it lead? Why is it the only pink door on the lane? And perhaps most importantly, why does it look as if someone has just disappeared through it, carrying a secret?

That curiosity inspired the Doorway Series, my six-book collection of lighthearted historical mysteries...

Between Shadows and Desire

The Art of Gothic Romance

There’s something irresistible about a love story born in the dark.

In Gothic romance, passion doesn’t bloom under bright skies — it flickers in candlelight, trembles through thunder, and hides behind the hush of an old house that holds too much.

That’s the heartbeat of the stories I love to read and now write.

My worlds are haunted not by ghosts, but by memory and longing. Every glance, every brush of fingertips carries the tension of...

Shadows, secrets, and slow-burn fire are coming this November.

There’s something about November—the way the air turns crisp, the light fades earlier, and the world seems to hush—that feels made for Gothic romance. It’s the season of candlelight, whispered secrets, and love stories that dance on the edge of danger.

This year, I’m stepping fully into the shadows with a new collection of Gothic Romance and Dark Romance short stories, novellas, and novels—each one exploring the ache of forbidden...