Doris Lee asked Grace Burrowes:

I also wonder if Gareth's story was the only one in the men's stories (Lonely Lords, True Gentlemen and Jaded Gentlemen combined) that occurred during the Napoleonic Wars, considering that several years passed before Andrew's story began. Why couldn't you have kept all their stories within the Lonely Lords series? Surely the men in the smaller series were all lonely as well.

Grace Burrowes You're absolutely correct that Gareth is the foundation swain, the guy whose story begins my Regency (ish) world, though he pre-dates Andrew by 4 years. I'm not sure what you mean by "all their stories," unless you mean fold the Windhams in with the other dozen or so Lonelys to make a series of 20+ titles. The choices of which book to start with, what to call the series, in what order to present the books, and how many series to create from them, were not mine. There was a sense that Darius was the book to start the Lonely Lords with, so the next books to come out after him were the ones most closely relating to him. The result was both the Windhams and the Lonely Lords felt like they started in the middle--because they did--but I got voted down.

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