Hey! It's Sil. Happy Wednesday. Hope you are having a beautiful day. Because this is a very shiny and bright day here at the blog. Why, you ask? Because I have something special for you all. And I do mean SPECIAL. VERY SPECIAL. You all aren't ready for the great things I have for you. 

Rose Lerner's upcoming title and the first book of her brand new duology, THE SEA MAY BURN, is ready to show off.

• First of all, we have a synopsis! F/F Gothic romance? Hells to the yeahs. 
• And then there is also a cover! When I first saw the cover, I absolutely fell in love with it at first sight. Definitely. 
• There should be a Rose Lerner Book Universe like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, right? The Sea May Burn is set in the Lively St. Lemeston universe so we know our favorite Rose Lerner characters are there? They might show up? Only time will tell *lol*

Goldengrove’s towers and twisted chimneys rose at the very edge of the peaceful Weald, a stone’s throw from the poisonous marshes and merciless waters of Rye Bay. Young Mary Palethorp had been running wild there, ever since her mother grew too ill to leave her room.

I was the perfect choice to give Mary a good English education: thoroughly respectable and far too plain to tempt her lonely father, Sir Kit, to indiscretion.

I knew better than to trust my new employer with the truth about my past. But knowing better couldn’t stop me from yearning for impossible things: to be Mary’s mother, Sir Kit’s companion, Goldengrove’s mistress.

All that belonged to poor Lady Palethorp. Most of all, I burned to finally catch a glimpse of her.

Surely she could tell me who cut the strings on the guitar I found in the music room, why all the doors in the house were locked after dark, and whose footsteps I heard in the night…

The Sea May Burn is a Jane Eyre retelling set in the Lively St. Lemeston universe. Book 1 in my Rye Bay f/f Gothic duology, I hope to put it out sometime this year.

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I discovered Georgette Heyer when I was thirteen, and wrote my first historical romance a few years later. My writing has improved since then, but my fascination with all things Regency hasn’t changed. When not reading, writing, or researching, I enjoy cooking and marathoning old TV shows. I live in Seattle with my best friend.

Are you all ready to see this gorgeous piece of art? Are you suuuuuure? Alright . . .