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September 6, 2023
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September 5, 2023
An excerpt from a Gentleman Never Tells
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Order now A GENTLEMAN NEVER TELLS(Available now on eBook in the UK, releases Sept 28th on audio and paperback. Available Feb 2024 on all formats in the US & CA)The carriage starts rumbling along, and Taya pulls out a fan, wafting it leisurely in front of her face, blowing her unmanageable hair around her face. My God, what is she doing? I don’t know, but I’m beginning to think that the hair matches the owner. Unmanageable. Let it be known, that fan is not there to cool Lady Taya Winters down, for London is hardly boasting soaring temperatures today. No, that fan is a tool, and by God it works.
She gazes out of the window, smiling over the top of it, and I swallow, as Sampson declares his departure, virtually diving out of the window.
‘What the bloody hell are you doing?’ I blurt, practically lunging for his leg to save him from falling to the cutting stones. Of course, I miss it, for the man moves fast, and I look out of the window, turning my head to see up onto the roof.
He’s sitting up there, relaxed, taking in the view. ‘Such a waste to be cooped up like chickens in there,’ he says happily, turning his eyes to me. ‘Behave, won’t you, Melrose, while I am up here, and you are down there with my sister?’
I huff and pull myself back into the carriage, and I get as comfortable as one can in such a situation. Which is what, I ask myself. What is the situation? Just an attractive lady? I am used to those. But this one? Perhaps it is because she is forbidden, for everyone wants what they cannot have. I reach into my pocket to retrieve my story and distract myself by reading for a time, so I may ignore the rather pleasant feeling of her eyes on me. I frown, feeling around in my pocket. My heart begins to race. ‘Oh no,’ I murmur, scanning the floor at my feet. The bench either side of me. My lap. ‘Bugger it all, no.’
‘Looking for this?’
I peek up and find Lady Taya waving a foolscap folio before her face, the piece replacing her fan. I gasp and reach forward, snatching it from her grasp, and she recoils, surprised. My God, did she read it?
‘I’ll take that as a yes.’
I scowl to myself and tuck it away, looking out of the window. ‘I apologise, I did not mean to act so sharply.’
“What is it?’ she asks.
‘Private.’
‘Oh? You won’t tell me? Not even if I promise to keep it a secret?’
I peek at her, and she starts wafting that fan again, her smile hardly seen. Unmanagable! ‘Oh please,’ I say, unable to stop myself. ‘Your tactics are insulting.’ Does she think I’m that shallow? And then it occurs to me that perhaps she does. My God, does everyone think I am so shallow? One dimensional? That a seductive smile and a silent promise may influence me. I feel sick. Wait. What is she promising?
Frank!
She laughs, and it is like sweet whispers in my ear. ‘I do not have tactics, Mr Melrose. I’m simply curious.”
‘Well, my lady,’ I smile, and it is forced. ‘A gentleman never tells.’
‘Tells what?’ she asks quickly and strongly, coy, letting her smile loose. She needs to stop smiling at me immediately. And laughing. In fact, she shouldn’t talk to me or look at me either.
I raise my eyebrows and return to admiring the view, ignoring her question, but am disturbed from the challenge of pretending she isn’t here when she starts shifting in her seat. I peek out the corner of my eye, watching her, as she rootles in the top of her dress. What is she doing? I gulp, my eyes rooted on the creamy flesh of her chest, until she eventually pulls something out and unfolds it. She settles again, pulling a pencil from her pouch, and starts tilting her head back and forth, concentrating as she studies the paper, taking the pencil in every so often and flicking it here and there. I frown, craning my head to see what it is she is doing.
Her hand stills. She glances up. And I quickly divert my attention to the view. I can feel her smiling eyes on me, and I sigh, looking at her, making her aware that I am aware of her tactics, though why she is doing this is beyond me.
I scowl and she smirks. My God, she’s infuriating. I try to settle, I try so hard, but I continue to fidget terribly, the tension thick. Sexual tension?
‘So,’ she says, and I blink, snapped from my brief silent wondering. ‘What do you think to this marriage between my brother and your sister?’ she asks.
‘Is it not a trifle too late to be asking for opinions on this joining?’ I don’t look at her.
‘Perhaps,’ she muses. ‘But do you think it is a good coupling? I love my brother dearly.’
‘As I love my sister, too, my lady.’
‘Well, my brother is a duke. Our family is renowned.’
It is as if she thinks it her responsibility to look out for her brother. For Christ’s sake, her brother is an athletic, six-foot four-inch bison of a man, and she is a petite, slender, willowy female with, I realise now, an air of self-importance about her. ‘Your family, my lady, were renowned for being dead.’ She flinches, as do I. Did I just say that?
‘I beg your pardon?’
God damn me. ‘I mean …’ Hell, what do I mean? ‘My sister is a beautiful woman inside and out.’ I level Lady Taya Winters with a serious look, forcing myself to withstand the beauty which is now glaring back at me. ‘Our family owns the most successful newspaper in London, and soon beyond.’ How dare she question our position. Our worthiness. We’ve worked hard for it. I inwardly wince. Papa has worked hard for it. Eliza has worked hard for it. Me? ‘Stop the carriage!’ I yell, making Taya shoot forward abruptly when the horses skid to a stop.
‘Oh my!’ she shrieks.
‘Hell!’ Sampson shouts from the roof.
I catch Taya and ease her back onto her seat. ‘I think I shall walk from here,’ I say gently, getting out of the carriage, feeling suffocated by both the enclosed space and who is in it, and by my apparent shortcomings.
‘Mr Melrose, I didn’t––’
‘Good day to you, my lady.’
‘Where are you going, Melrose?’ Sampson yells, righting his splayed body on the roof.
I slip on my hat and start the long walk home, pulling my story out of my inside pocket and reading it for the thousandth time, getting tingles from top to toe once again. Imagine, I think, as I wander alone, how new eyes will feel reading it for the first time if I myself am awed? This is better. Air to breathe freely. My focus reset.
The nerve of that woman. Dislike her. I must dislike her, and she has given me good cause.
It will be a hell of a lot easier than lusting after her.
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September 4, 2023
Unlawful Men Book 5 has a title!
It’s Brad’s time!
And without further ado, I give you the title for book 5 of the Unlawful Men Series…
THE AMERICAN
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August 24, 2023
UK Signing Date Announced.
Join us for an exclusive JEM signing in her hometown of Northampton! We plan on keeping this more of a gathering rather than a traditional “queue and sign” event, where people can browse the store, the new collection, and chat with Jodi while she signs casually. We’re also planning a Q&A, if time allows.
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July 14, 2023
A Gentleman Never Tells – Available Now!
A Gentleman Never Tells is available on eBook in the UK now! The paperback and audio editions will release Sept 28th and release for the US is Feb 2024.
Some secrets are too scandalous to keep quiet…
Book 2 of the Belmore Square series is here!
It’s time to immerse ourselves in Regency London again with the eclectic residents of Belmore Square. Full of secrets, sins and scandal, there is never a dull moment. Take a breath and get ready for Frank & Taya’s story.
This is A Gentleman Never Tells.Frank Melrose is on the cusp of taking his father’s printing business global – the last thing he needs is the distraction of any woman, let alone the dazzling Taya Winters.
He’s under pressure from the newspaper to unmask the mysterious highwayman causing havoc in Belmore Square, but his infuriating clashes with Taya keep slowing him down.
What’s more, he’s sure that the highwayman is right under their noses – and that exposing their identity will not only end his story, but ruin his family, too…
The Fight to Resist her begins…
An excerpt from A gentleman never tells.
She keeps her attention forward, and my sense are bombarded by the most intoxicating scent. Lord above, what is that? I discreetly inhale through my nose, fighting off the dizziness. Honeysuckle. It’s honeysuckle, delightfully sweet. I find myself leaning forward, drawn to it, and she looks at me, tilting her head. I withdraw and swallow, as she removes her bonnet and shakes out her hair. Long, unruly hair. Hair that is unmanageable, I expect. She climbs in, I close the door, and make my way to another carriage. A safer carriage.
And I vehemently ignore the pulse that’s erupted inside my breeches.
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May 24, 2023
Cover Reveal!
I am so thrilled to share the cover for With This Woman – releasing in October this year. It is the second book of the This Man series told from Jesse’s POV. You can check out the first book, This Woman, here.
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Their whirlwind romance was intense, passionate, and fiery, but Jesse knew the woman he was falling for didn’t know who he really was. He tried to protect her from his past, protect himself from her leaving, but his fears were realized when Ava discovered his Manor—the heartbeat of hedonism and pleasure, the place where Jesse has lost himself for years in women and alcohol.
When she walked out on him, he was left lost and even more broken than before, the small taste of heaven he was given taken away.
But their unbreakable connection leads her back to him, and he refuses to lose her again. Except Ava’s only scratched the surface of his broken soul, and as their relationship intensifies and their love deepens, Jesse is pushed to the brink of insanity as his past creeps into his present and risks destroying his future.
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May 5, 2023
For You – Audio Book & Playlist
Hello, Audio.
There was a moment during my proof listen when I was in a salon having a pedicure. The poor lady who was working on my tootsies thought she’d hurt me when I sobbed in the chair. I couldn’t even talk to tell her I was fine. I wasn’t fine. So I just nodded.
Shane East and Billie Fulford-Brown did an incredible job bringing these characters to life. Incredible!
I’ll leave you to take a listen.
Have a wonderful weekend.
JEM xxx
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Since the day she married her husband, Lo Harper has watched her happy ever after slip away before her eyes. Feeling lost and alone, she’s stumbling through life, each day getting longer, harder, and more hopeless. She doesn’t know how much longer she can hold on. Until she meets a stranger who ironically becomes a lifeline after he nearly runs her down. He’s charming, kind, and he doesn’t pry. He’s just there, making Lo smile, distracting her, if only briefly. Because she will always return to the pain. To the heartbreak. To the unshakable guilt.
Luke Williamson is successful, content, and he keeps his relationships with women uncomplicated. But his simple, carefree life is turned up on its head the night a young woman walks out in front of his car. Drawn to each other for very different reasons, Lo and Luke forge an unlikely friendship that they both come to rely on. And yet while Luke shares his life with Lo, he knows she’s keeping hers from him. And as her truth unfolds, Luke slowly realizes that for Lo to have her happy ever after, he has to sacrifice his own.
So he must make the ultimate decision.
Keep Lo in his life as she is, a broken, shadow of a woman.
Or walk away and let her heal.
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April 24, 2023
SURPRISE RELEASE! For You – is available now.
This book. Oh man, this book. I absolutely do not mind telling you that it’s sat on my laptop for five years. Why? You might understand once you’ve read it.
This is me, JEM, but with less of an edge and more of a punch. Again, you will understand when you’ve read the story.
I hope you enjoy.
JEM xxx
This is…FOR YOU – A Novel
Since the day she married her husband, Lo Harper has watched her happy ever after slip away before her eyes. Feeling lost and alone, she’s stumbling through life, each day getting longer, harder, and more hopeless. She doesn’t know how much longer she can hold on. Until she meets a stranger who ironically becomes a lifeline after he nearly runs her down. He’s charming, kind, and he doesn’t pry. He’s just there, making Lo smile, distracting her, if only briefly. Because she will always return to the pain. To the heartbreak. To the unshakable guilt.
Luke Williamson is successful, content, and he keeps his relationships with women uncomplicated. But his simple, carefree life is turned up on its head the night a young woman walks out in front of his car. Drawn to each other for very different reasons, Lo and Luke forge an unlikely friendship that they both come to rely on. And yet while Luke shares his life with Lo, he knows she’s keeping hers from him. And as her truth unfolds, Luke slowly realizes that for Lo to have her happy ever after, he has to sacrifice his own.
So he must make the ultimate decision.
Keep Lo in his life as she is, a broken, shadow of a woman.
Or walk away and let her heal.
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March 20, 2023
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