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About Emily E K Murdoch
USA Today Bestselling author, Emily E K Murdoch, is read in multiple languages all over the world. You can enjoy my sweet romances written as Emily Murdoch, and my steamy romances as Emily E K Murdoch.
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I am a historian and writer, and have a varied career to date: from examining medieval manuscripts to designing museum exhibitions, to working as a researcher for the BBC to working for the National Trust.
My books range from England 1050 to Texas 1848, and I can't wait for you to fall in love with my heroes and heroines!
Follow me on twitter and instagram @emilyekmurdoch, find me on facebook at www.facebook.com/theemilyekmurdoch, and read my blog at www.emilyekmurdoch.com
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Blog postHello there! My name is Arjan and I’m (nearly) a second-year student studying English Literature at university.
I recently earned the opportunity to work with Emily for a week, thanks to an organisation called Arts Emergency. They help young people from underrepresented backgrounds connect with industry professionals in a field of their choosing, primarily through mentorships and work experience to help us “get a foot in the door”.
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Blog postI think if we’re honest, all of us know that we have only managed to achieve what we’ve achieved because of other people.
Whether that’s a practical helping hand, a bit of advice, encouragement, whatever it is…we are social creatures. Success, in any field, is because others have helped.
I didn’t know any authors when I was first starting out on my journey, and that’s why I was so excited to have the opportunity to mentor two young people through Arts Emergency’s work experien1 week ago Read more -
Blog postIf you thought Coral was bold, you couldn’t find a sister more unlike her: Emerald is the biggest wallflower in the ton and has a bargain with her mother to end the family search for her husband…
Yup, THE CONTRARY DEBUTANTE is out and you can click here to grab it now…
Welcome to book 3 in The de Petras Saga from USA Today Bestselling Author Emily E K Murdoch!
Emerald de Petras will not get married, and her rambunctious family cannot make her.
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Blog postOkay, I’m just going to come out and admit it: I have an obsession with Christmas.
I adore it! The food, the sense of excitement in the air, the joy at seeing my loved ones…I just love it. And that is how I have somehow managed to have…fourteen Christmas books coming out this year.
FOURTEEN.
Twelve of them are my new series, TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS, which is exactly what you’d expect! Aren’t these covers absolutely gorgeous? The first two are up for pre-order, and the3 weeks ago Read more -
Blog postI am so excited to reveal that the third book in my de Petras Saga is now available to pre-order, and for just 0.99!
You can click here to grab it now…
Welcome to book 3 in The de Petras Saga from USA Today Bestselling Author Emily E K Murdoch!
Emerald de Petras will not get married, and her rambunctious family cannot make her.
The definition of a wallflower, Emerald hates Society: all those people looking at her, judging her, pointing and gossiping about her f4 weeks ago Read more -
Blog postWhat’s in a birthday?
I have never really thought about birthdays that much – that sounds daft, but you’re born when you’re born, and that has always been the end of it.
I’ve never been the sort of person to think about my horoscope, my constellation, or even my birth year as affecting something about me.
But the more I write, I need to not only create new names (the bane of my life!) but also create new birthdays, and I’m starting to experiment with using constellatio1 month ago Read more -
Blog postHappy Christmas in July!
If you’ve never celebrated this, it’s a wonderful chance to escape the heat (or snuggle up, if you’re Down Under!), and lose yourself in a wonderful Christmas historical romance.
I’m celebrating by launching not one, not two, but three Christmas Regency novellas in one steamy boxset. Make sure you grab it now – or read for free in Kindle Unlimited!
Plunge into the fourth boxset of Regency romances in Emily Murdoch’s bestselling Ravishing R1 month ago Read more -
Blog postThis guest post is brought to you by Max Swinhoe, my sensitivity reader for my de Petras Saga series! Copywriter, Editor of withinReach Magazine and advocate of disability inclusion, Max is currently living nomadically; travelling and exploring the UK and Ireland with her husband in their van Gloria.
When you read a novel, you are immersing yourself in what it’s like to be inside another person’s head. You are simulating a social situation. You are imagining other people and the2 months ago Read more -
Blog postYou’ve waited, you’ve been patient – and now it’s out!
THE IMPOVERISHED DOWRY is out and you can click here to grab it now…
Welcome to book 2 in The de Petras Saga from USA Today Bestselling Author Emily E K Murdoch!
Coral de Petras is on the hunt for a rich husband, and she doesn’t care who knows it.
In her third Season and starting to attract the wrong kind of attention, a chance introduction with a duke (sadly penniless) throws her completely off balance. Sh2 months ago Read more -
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Desiring a Duke? Craving a Cowboy? Longing for a Laird?
This sweet and steamy collection of historical romance will transport you to a time when gentlemen were plentiful, and every scoundrel capable of seduction possessed a heart waiting to be uncovered.
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Miss Tabitha Chesworth is walking down the aisle for the third time, but never as the bride. Frustrated with being passed over, there's nothing that a well-born lady can do about it. But at four and twenty, she's starting to worry that this is her lot in life - until a fiery encounter with the Duke of Axwick.
Richard St Maur, sixteenth in his line, has sworn an oath never to marry. He's seen the damage of the male Axwick line, and he won't bring another gambler or drunkard into the world. Of course, that doesn't mean he can't have a little fun and there's no one he'd like to play with more than Miss Tabitha Chesworth. He's determined to have her. She's determined to hold out until a ring is on her finger. Sparks fly as this repeat bridesmaid takes on one of the most determined men of the ton.
Whose offer will eventually be accepted? Will the Duke of Axwick find his way into Tabitha's bed - or her heart?
This full length novel is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order. Read for Free with Kindle Unlimited!
Never the Bride Series
Always the Bridesmaid
Always the Chaperone
Always the Courtesan
Always the Best Friend
Always the Wallflower
Always the Bluestocking
The definition of a wallflower, Emerald hates Society: all those people looking at her, judging her, pointing and gossiping about her family. She won’t have it, and she’ll never marry and provoke even more tittle tattle.
She is hardly a debutante anymore, however, and her contrary ways forces her mother to make a desperate agreement. Emerald will attend ten more balls this Season…and then no more. She’ll be freed from her obligation to her family to marry, and that will be an end to it.
Delighted to find a way out, it was rather inconvenient that Robert Ainsworth, Marquis of Swindmore, decided she was a challenge.
After all, what recently divorced man didn’t want a challenge?
Following a humiliating divorce, he’s just about managed to keep quiet. Robert sees something in Emerald that no one else does. Wallflower, yes—but there’s something deep and passionate in those shy green eyes.
As Emerald tries to fight the growing attraction she knows can go nowhere, and Robert begins to realize his teasing flirtation is becoming so much more, there’ll be scandal despite both their best efforts before long.
Can a contrary debutante with no wish to marry and a Marquis with no faith left in love find something truly special?
This full length novel is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order, but is best enjoyed in sequence.
Read Free in Kindle Unlimited!
The de Petras Saga
Book 1 - The Misplaced Husband
Book 2 – The Impoverished Dowry
Book 3 – The Contrary Debutante
Book 4 – The Determined Mistress
Book 5 – The Convenient Engagement
That should be mistresses – after all, why limit yourself to one? Micah never saw the point in settling for anything less, considering it’s his sister and not himself who is the de Petras heir.
Babysitting his sister? Holding an actual baby? Isn’t there some sort of gambling den he can lose himself in?
Scorned by the other gentleman of Society and frustrated with the constant irritations of his family, Micah returns again and again to the only woman who wants nothing more from him than his weekly allowance. The trouble is, Catherine Tetlow has had enough.
Enough of being Micah’s Thursday evening; enough of making love then waking up alone; enough of being treated merely like a mistress by the turbulent handsome gentleman. She has a plan, and Catherine is determined to win not just the body, but the heart of Micah de Petras.
If only she did not have so much to lose with secrets of her own…
When a gentleman vows never to lose his heart and his favorite mistress challenges him to do just that, sparks will fly and hearts will be bruised as a couple who are certainly not a couple are both determined not to have their way – no matter the cost?
This full length novel is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order, but is best enjoyed in sequence.
Read Free in Kindle Unlimited!
The de Petras Saga
Book 1 - The Misplaced Husband
Book 2 – The Impoverished Dowry
Book 3 – The Contrary Debutante
Book 4 – The Determined Mistress
Book 5 – The Convenient Engagement
In her third Season and with the shock of her father’s shipping business collapsing in disaster, Coral makes the hard decision to forgo a love match and fall back on the plan she had as a child.
Marry for money.
But if Coral’s giving up a love match, she doesn’t just want to settle for any gentleman: she has a list. A list of all the qualities she will demand from her future husband—and publishes it in all the newspapers.
A chance introduction with a duke (sadly not fulfilling all the points on her list) throws her completely off balance. Her dowry is gone, but doesn’t that mean she should demand the absolute best?
The Duke of Glaenarm is handsome, charming, devilishly devoted to her. And imperfect. Damn. At least, that is what Edward Barlow, Duke of Glaenarm, is informed by Coral at Almack’s.
Amused by the fiery haired beauty who demands a husband who meets her lofty and unrealistic expectations, Edward decides to trick her into affection for him—proving that even if she believes him imperfect, she can fall in love.
But the more time they spend discussing her potential suitors, neither Coral nor Edward can control the desire pulling them together—and as the de Petras family’s outrageous behavior continues to threaten their respectability, it’s becoming more and more difficult for Coral to understand what she wants from life.
A respectable, boring, wealthy suitor who completes her list…or an imperfect duke that makes her feel alive?
This full-length novel is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order, but is best enjoyed in sequence.
The de Petras Saga
Book 1 - The Misplaced Husband
Book 2 – The Impoverished Dowry
Book 3 – The Contrary Debutante
Book 4 – The Determined Mistress
Book 5 – The Convenient Engagement
Welcome to book 1 in The de Petras Saga from USA Today Bestselling Author Emily E K Murdoch!
Three children later, she’s abandoned by her husband and is tempted to look elsewhere for love. But as the matriarch of her family and the one responsible for their reputations, she must try to keep the de Petras family respectable.
So when on the very day that her husband Jasper is declared dead - and she is declared a widow - he suddenly appears back in her life, right before she is about to take a lover, he has a lot of questions to answer…
Jasper de Petras knew there was no option but to abandon his family when the threatening letters started arriving – but after receiving paperwork that announces his death, it’s time to return home. Unsure whether the danger is past and determined to make Opal fall in love - and marry him - again, could it all fall apart before he’s able to convince her?
At the beginning of the de Petras Saga, join Opal and Jasper as they discover just how strong the bonds of love are – and what it takes to break them.
This full length novel is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order, but is best enjoyed in sequence.
Read Free in Kindle Unlimited!
The de Petras Saga
Book 1 - The Misplaced Husband
Book 2 – The Impoverished Dowry
Book 3 – The Contrary Debutante
Book 4 – The Determined Mistress
Book 5 – The Convenient Engagement
Book 6 – The Disrespectful Duke
Book 7 – The Overlooked Wallflower
Book 8 – The Runaway Elopement
Book 9 – The European Adventure
Book 10 - The Unexpected Proposal
Book 11 - The Determined Suffragette
Book 12 - The Scandalous Rumors
Book 13 - The Argumentative Bluestocking
Book 14 - The Forgotten Bachelor
Lady Prudence Lennox is of age, and tired of being treated like a child. Her brothers are married and settled but they still think of her as their baby sister, which is growing increasingly irritating.
Especially when the Reverend Michaels is visiting for Christmas.
He's only four years older than her but has never seen her as a woman before - and she's determined that this Christmas as they meet under the mistletoe, all that is going to change…
This novella is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order.
Read Free in Kindle Unlimited!
Never the Bride Series
Always the Bridesmaid
Always the Chaperone
Always the Courtesan
Always the Best Friend
Always the Wallflower
Always the Bluestocking
Always the Rival
Always the Matchmaker
Always the Widow
Always the Rebel
Always the Mistress
Always the Second Choice
(Note: This story was first published as part of the Dragonblade Publishing Boxed set O' Night Divine, December 2020)
Book 4 in the Never the Bride series is now available. Read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited!
Lady Harriet Stanhope grew up with her twin brother and his friends, never questioning their laughter or their games - but now she's a young lady, she's desperate for one friend in particular to see her in a different light.
But after twenty years of knowing each other, she's just the best friend, not a serious contender for the Duke of Devonshire's heart.
Montague Cavendish knows what is due to him and his family name, and he is not fool enough to wish for a love match. He'll find a pretty young thing with plenty of money, and that will be that.
Until Harriet - Harriet - breaks into his rooms to seduce him. He should resist her, he knows he should. But Montague had never imagined such perfection lay beneath the gown of his best friend.
He's determined to resist. She's sure that he will fall in love with her after one night of passion.
Mistakes will be made and confusion abound as friendship is put to the ultimate test.
Is it possible for two people raised as siblings to become lovers - and if it all goes wrong, what will be left of their friendship?
This full length novel is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order.
Never the Bride Series
Always the Bridesmaid
Always the Chaperone
Always the Courtesan
Always the Best Friend
Always the Wallflower
Always the Bluestocking
Harmony Fitzroy never expected to fall into the spotlight. Her musical talents finally recognized, despite her shyness she's offered an invitation: to participate in the Christmas Eve Concert at the Assembly Rooms in Bath. If only a fellow musician hadn't caught her eye, she'd be able to focus on the music.
David Navarre is everything Harmony knows she shouldn't go near; a gentleman of dark handsome looks, sparkling wit, and absolutely no money. But David has a secret - one he's left behind in Manchester, a scandal he doesn't want high society in Bath to discover. Especially Harmony.
His eleven pipers piping are drawing a crowd, but that's the last thing Harmony wants. She has to marry for money, but he's about to teach her how their bodies can play a new melody together…
This novella is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series which can be read in any order - but follow the numbers down for the best reading experience!
Note: This series is part of Dragonblade's Flame line, so this is a sexy, steamy, and scorching-hot read with multiple sex scenes. Be advised.
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Book 1 - Twelve Drummers Drumming
Book 2 - Eleven Pipers Piping
Book 3 - Ten Lords a Leaping
Book 4 – Nine Ladies Dancing
Book 5 – Eight Maids a Milking
Book 6 – Seven Swans a Swimming
Book 7 – Six Geese a Laying
Book 8 – Five Gold Rings
Book 9 – Four Calling Birds
Book 10 – Three French Hens
Book 11 – Two Turtle Doves
Book 12 - A Partridge in a Pear Tree
Indulge yourself in book 3 of the bestselling Never the Bride series. Read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited!
Lady Honora Lennox hasn't gone by that name in three years - not since she was abducted and forced to work in a brothel.
She's but nineteen and has given up on the world offering her anything of kindness. Until he walks through her door.
Josiah Stanhope, Earl of Chester, is exhausted with politics and games, deceit and lies - it's time for simplicity, and there's nothing simpler than the clear cut exchange of coin for pleasure. And yet there's something different about this girl. She knows how to please a man, certainly, but there's more to her. Something refined.
He's determined to find out the truth. She's terrified of destroying her family name. Tensions mount as wills clash and there can only be one victor.
Can Josiah ever prove himself as trustworthy, or will he fall back to old habits? Can Honora ever return to society after her fall from grace - or is his bed far more inviting?
This full-length novel is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order.
Never the Bride Series
Always the Bridesmaid
Always the Chaperone
Always the Courtesan
Always the Best Friend
Always the Wallflower
Always the Bluestocking
Follow each of the Fitzroy women as they cause nothing but scandal and intrigue across the ton and try to keep their exploits quiet.
It’s 1813, and twelve drummers drumming are about to bring love into Jemima's life…
Jemima Fitzroy is tired of being ignored by her loud, rambunctious family - especially as she attempts to campaign for veterans in a world that doesn't appreciate them.
Soldiers are returning home from Napoleonic France, and Captain Hugh Rotherham knows he will never be the same again. Not just because of what he's seen, but because of what he's seeing right now: a startlingly beautiful woman who stirs something so passionate in it, the drumming of his heart matches that of his regiment.
Jemima knows she shouldn't be meeting this soldier without her family's knowledge. Hugh knows he cannot cross the line from respectability to scandal.
It doesn't matter. Twelve drummers drumming will change their lives - and the rhythm that can tease out exquisite pleasure…
Meet the Fitzroy family: twelve cousins falling in love over Christmastime!
This novella is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series which can be read in any order - but follow the numbers down for the best reading experience!
Note: This series is part of Dragonblade's Flame line, so this is a sexy, steamy, and scorching-hot read with multiple sex scenes. Be advised.
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Book 1 - Twelve Drummers Drumming
Book 2 - Eleven Pipers Piping
Book 3 - Ten Lords a Leaping
Book 4 – Nine Ladies Dancing
Book 5 – Eight Maids a Milking
Book 6 – Seven Swans a Swimming
Book 7 – Six Geese a Laying
Book 8 – Five Gold Rings
Book 9 – Four Calling Birds
Book 10 – Three French Hens
Book 11 – Two Turtle Doves
Book 12 - A Partridge in a Pear Tree
Joseph never thought that becoming a vicar would separate him completely from his flock - and all marital prospects.
But this Christmas, he's back with his sister and thinking wistfully of the lady in his congregation that he cannot take his eyes off.
Who has suddenly appeared in Bristol.
Will he be able to escape the trappings of his position, and speak openly to the woman he loves?
This novella is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order.
Read Free in Kindle Unlimited!
Never the Bride Series
Always the Bridesmaid
Always the Chaperone
Always the Courtesan
Always the Best Friend
Always the Wallflower
Always the Bluestocking
Always the Rival
Always the Matchmaker
Always the Widow
Always the Rebel
Always the Mistress
Always the Second Choice
(Note: This story was first published as part of the Dragonblade Publishing Boxed set Star of Wonder, November 2021)
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