Elizabeth Keysian

USA Today Bestselling Author

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Lyon on the Loose: The Lyon’s Den Connected World

She fled a terrible mistake. Then her past caught up with her.
When scapegrace Miss Lissy Ashby faces ruin, she vows never again to trust a charming smile. But Fate has other plans. An ultimatum, a stolen carriage, and a forced overnight stay entangle her with her mother’s new secretary—a man with secrets of his own.

He was awful at spying. But...

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Beguiling the Baron: A Gothic Regency Romance of Secrets and Desires

A brooding baron.
A fearless governess.
And a secret hidden in the tower.

Beware reclusive barons. They are far more dangerous than they appear…

A man who lurks day and night in an eerie tower must have something to hide. So thinks Galatea Wyndham, governess to Lord Ansford’s lonely young daughter.

Galatea’s new employer is infuriating, stubborn,...

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The Lyon Rampant: The Lyon’s Den Connected World

She’s pretending to be respectable.
Tricking her way into a gentlemen’s card game isn’t Belinda Bellamy’s cleverest idea. Especially not when it’s at the Lyon’s Den, and one of the gamblers is a theatre owner who knows an actress when he sees one. Unmasked, Belinda’s ploy to raise enough money for Mrs Dove-Lyon’s services backfires badly. Instead...

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Jerry Abershawe: The Highwayman Who Haunted the Georgians No figure is more

No figure is more closely associated with the romance—and the reality—of the English highwayman than Jerry Abershawe. Although he died in 1795, twenty years before the Battle of Waterloo, his reputation lingered well into the Regency. Long after his execution, travellers passing Putney Vale could still remember the place where his body had hung in chains, and novelists continued to invoke his name as a byword for danger on the road.

Born Louis Jeremiah Abershawe around 1773, Jerry was no...

Every good hero needs a foil, right? Someone with whom to argue, someone who understands them, someone who shows them in a good light. Well, that's what Roland Chetwynd has been in both THE LYON AND THE LAMB and THE LYON RAMPANT. He's the younger brother of the hero of the former book and keeps getting into scrapes, and becomes a frenemy of Piers Darvill, hero of the latter book, both foiling his plans but also helping resolve his problems.

I liked Roland, relentlessly cheerful in the face of...

Some places never truly leave us. For me, one of those places is Framlingham Castle.

I first visited the castle as a child, and it seemed impossibly romantic and mysterious. I remember trees in the car park laden with what looked like magical golden apples. To a child, they might as well have belonged in a fairy tale, and I have never forgotten them.

My mother and I ventured onto the castle battlements. Neither of us was particularly fond of heights, and I distinctly remember the shiver of fear...

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