by Jude Knight
When Ruth goes, she takes his heart with him. When jealous relatives lie about their time together, Val must face his past and win her back, not just for himself, but for the children he has come to love.
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Melting Matilda (A novella in the Bluestocking Belle’s collection, Fire & Frost, published as stand-alone in May 2021)
Sparks flew a year ago when the Granite Earl kissed the Ice Princess under the mistletoe. Matilda Grenford is a lady and the ward of a duchess, but the daughter of a famous courtesan. Charles, Earl of Hamner, seeks a countess of impeccable bloodlines, not one whose scandalous birth would offend every noble ancestor back to the Norman Conquest. But neither of them can forget that kiss.
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To Claim the Long-Lost Lover — The Diamond and the Doctor (this book)
Sarah Winderfield has refused dozens of marriage offers since Nathaniel Beauclair convinced her to run away with him eight years ago, and then disappeared without a word or a trace. But now she needs a husband. She has a child to love and to protect, and the child needs a father.
She does not expect to meet Nate when she ventures back into the marriage mart. Should she let him explain why he deserted her? Can she believe him?
Dragged back to England to feed his father's pride in family, Nate refuses to give into the man's demands that he take a wife. But his father mentions Sarah Winderfield, he rushes to London. Those who beat and abducted him insisted that she was to be married within the month, but she is still single. Surely they can find again the promise they believed in when they were young?
Through a labyrinth of old rumours and new enemies, two long-lost lovers must decide whether or not to claim one another, and win the bright future they both desire.
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Coming in September 2021
To Tame the Wild Rake — The Sinner and the Saint
The Marquis of Aldridge doesn't want to yearn for the sister of a friend from his raking days. Especially since she has rejected him in no uncertain terms. Charlotte Winderfield, niece of the Mountain King, keeps a secret that bars her from marriage, but even if she found the courage to trust, she would never trust a rake.
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The Golden Redepennings series
True love is rare and elusive, but they won’t settle for less.
Candle’s Christmas Chair (A novella in The Golden Redepennings series)
They are separated by social standing and malicious lies. He has until Christmas to convince her to give their love another chance.
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Gingerbread Bride (A novella in The Golden Redepennings series)
Mary runs from an unwanted marriage and finds adventure, danger and her girlhood hero, coming once more to her rescue.
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Farewell to Kindness (Book 1 in The Golden Redepennings series)
Love is not always convenient. Anne and Rede have different goals, but when their enemies join forces, so must they.
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A Raging Madness (Book 2 in The Golden Redepennings series)
Their marriage is a fiction. Their enemies are all too real. Uncovering the truth will need all the trust Ella and Alex can find.
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The Realm of Silence (Book 3 in The Golden Redepennings series)
Rescue her daughter, destroy her dragons, defeat his demons, return to his lonely life. How hard can it be?
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Unkept Promises (Book 4 in The Golden Redepennings series)
Mia hopes to negotiate a comfortable marriage. Jules wants his wife to return to England, where she belongs. Love confounds them both.
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Other Regency books
A Baron for Becky
She was a fallen woman. How could the men who loved her help set her back on her feet?
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House of Thorns
His rose thief bride comes with a scandal that threatens to tear them apart.
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Lord Calne’s Christmas Ruby
One wealthy merchant's heiress with an aversion to fortune hunters. One an impoverished earl with a twisted hand. Combine and stir with one villainous rector. (novella)
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Revealed in Mist
As spy and enquiry agent, Prue and David worked to uncover secrets, while hiding a few of their own.
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The Beast Next Door (A novella in the Bluestocking Belles collection Valentines from Bath)
In all the assemblies and parties, no-one Charis met could ever match the beast next door.
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Lunch-length reads: story collections
Hand-Turned Tales and Lost in the Tale
A double handful of short stories and novellas. Hand-Turned Tales is free from most eretailers. Try the range of Jude’s imagination one bite at a time, in a lunch-length read.
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If Mistletoe Could Tell Tales
A repackaging of six published Christmas stories: four novellas and two novelettes. Because nothing enhances the magic of Christmas like the magic of love.
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Hearts in the Land of Ferns
Five stories all set in New Zealand: two historical and three contemporary suspense. All That Glisters has been published in Hand-Turned Tales. The other four have all been published in multi-author collections, but never before in a collection of Jude Knight stories.
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About Jude Knight
I’ve always wanted to be a novelist. I was a good enough reader to see that the first two attempts (one when I was fourteen and one in my early twenties) weren’t good enough to publish. Then along came life. A seriously ill child who required years of therapy; a rising mortgage that led to a full-time job; my own chronic illness… the writing took a back seat.
As the years passed, the fear grew. I’d waited so long. If I never finished any of the dozens of novels I started, no one would ever judge them.
My mother believed in me, and on the way home from that great lady’s funeral, I realised I’d left it too late for Mum to ever hold a print copy of one of my fiction books. So I replaced the fear of finishing with the fear of not finishing, by telling everyone I knew that I was writing a novel.
In the years since I published my first fiction book just before Christmas in 2014, I’ve published eleven novels, as many novellas, a heap of shorter stories, and more novellas in group anthologies. I plan to keep going till I run out of years.
I write historical fiction with a large helping of romance, a splash of Regency, and a twist of suspense.
I then try to figure out how to slot it into a genre category.
I’m mad keen on history, enjoy what happens to people in the crucible of a passionate relationship, and love to use a good mystery and some real danger as mechanisms to torture my characters.
In my other identity as Judy Knighton, I’ve been a plain language consultant specialising in contracts, insurance policies, and financial disclosure statements. Fiction is more fun.
Website and blog: http://judeknightauthor.com/
Book blurbs and links: http://judeknightauthor.com/books/