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There’s a New Lyon in the House!

On May 30, 2026

Dearest Gentle Reader:

It has come to this reporter’s attention that there might just be a new Lyon’s Den member who might be in search of a wife! Rumor has it that Mrs. Dove-Lyon is currently making a small fortune, not from her gambling establishment, but her side hustle as Society’s matchmaker.

Yes, dearest Reader, you read that correctly. For a substantial fee and with the right connections, the Black Widow of Whitehall will most certainly find a suitable match for even the most questionable of reputations, not that Captain Gideon Tyler isn’t a man of wealth. But as a second son of the late earl, he might have a harder time finding a match with a woman who can overlook his scar received during the war.

Still… he’s been seen recently at the Lyon’s Den tables with more frequency and, given his losing streak, he might find himself in debt to the Black Widow of Whitehall. We all know what is sure to happen after that.

Stay tuned to your reliable Teatime Tattler for more news on who just might capture Captain Tyler’s eye.

Belle Sherry Ewing shares this little tidbit on her latest release, No Ordinary Lyon: Lyon Den Connected World. Read on to learn more about this exciting Regency novel.

No Ordinary Lyon:
Lyon’s Den Connected World
By Sherry Ewing

Sometimes you choose love… Sometimes it chooses you.

Captain Gideon Tyler, a second son and former soldier, has returned scarred from the war. Years of lost memory make it hard for him to rebuild his life. His mother adds to the burden, expecting him to marry. Him! With no title and a flawed memory!

Then comes a chance encounter at the Lyon’s Den.

Miss Violet Barnet considers herself forward thinking and independent. But when her cousin Patience makes a deal with the notorious Mrs. Dove-Lyon to find Violet a husband, she goes along with the plan.

Mrs. Dove-Lyon arranges several meetings with gentlemen, but none of them are the man she met briefly and cannot forget.

Over several meetings at the Lyon’s Den, the connection between Gideon and Violet continues to grow, but someone else is working against their relations. When Violet is put in sudden danger, Gideon steps up and offers his protection.

Can Gideon and Violet overcome the obstacles put before them, to allow love at first sight to fully bloom in their hearts?

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Bluestocking Belle Sherry Ewing has been with the Belles since they first formed. She picked up her first historical romance when she was a teenager and has been hooked ever since. An award-winning and bestselling author, she writes historical and time travel romances to awaken the soul one heart at a time. When not writing, she can be found in the San Francisco area at her day job as an Information Technology Specialist. You can learn more about Sherry and her books on her website where a new adventure awaits you on every page at https://www.SherryEwing.com or on the tab above here on the Belles’s site.

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A New Feature

By Bluestocking Belles

On May 9, 2026

In Teatime Tattler

The editor is pleased to announce a new feature, “On-dits From Abroad,” bits and bobs we receive in letters from loyal readers taking the waters or on a Grand Tour.

A note from the spa at Baden-Baden tells us Lady M K-S over imbibed one night and had to be rescued from the sulphur spring. Reports are she will be staying over several months restoring her health and dignity.

A shocked reader reports she attended two balls in Paris and almost swooned over the scandalous dress, outrageous flirting, and volume of traffic to and from dark alcoves. We are sending a reporter to investigate.

Meanwhile in Rome, and excitable lady believes she spied the missing Baron R, who disappeared from London two years ago. He was seen leaving the gardens of the Santa Spiritu Convent neatly dressed with a respectable woman on his arm. None of those details match our memory of the baron, even less the down on his luck major he was when he disappeared. We doubt this report.

About the Book

Hmmm. Baron Ross does indeed languish in Rome, ignoring a tarnished title, his honor in tatters. Will love and promises help him piece it together again?

When a little brown wren of an Englishwoman bursts into Jamie Heyworth’s private Hell and asks for help, he mistakes her for the black crow of death. Why not? He fled to Rome and sits in despair with nothing left to sell and no reason to get up in the morning. Behind him lie disgrace, shame, and secrets he is desperate to keep.

Nora Haley comes to Rome at the bidding of her dying brother who has an unexpected legacy. Never in her sunniest dreams did Nora expect Robert to leave her a treasure, a tiny black eyed niece with curly hair and warm hugs. Nora will do anything to keep her, even hire a shabby, drunken major as an interpreter.

Jamie can’t let Nora know the secrets he has hidden from everyone, even his closest friends. Nora can’t trust any man who drinks. She had enough of that in her marriage. Either one, however, will dare anything for the little imp that keeps them together, even enter a sham marriage to protect her.

This new edition of Dangerous Secrets, fully edited and updated with a new epilogue will be launched in July 2026. The first edition was a prize winning best seller.

About the Author

Award winning author, Caroline Warfield, grew up in a peripatetic army family, and the need to travel never left her. After a varied career (largely around libraries and technology) she retired to the urban wilds of eastern Pennsylvania to be closer to family and to write. She remains a traveler and adventurer, enamored of owls, books, history, and beautiful gardens (but not the act of gardening).

Caroline calls her books family-centered romance, and this one is no exception. Family makes her characters what they are, for better or worse. She takes them as they are, scarred and wounded, and sets them on their path to their own happily ever after, because love is worth the risk.

Soli Deo Gloria

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A Village With A Long Memory

By Elizabeth Donne

On May 2, 2026

In Teatime Tattler

Dear Mr. Clemens,

There was a time when Chadwick Hall was home to a proud family. The Prescott ancestral estate was sought after for employment, the owners being fair and honorable people. Many among us served them in some capacity, whether within the home, upon the grounds, or carting deliveries to their property.

Twenty years ago, its new master cast a blight upon the family’s reputation and appalled the villagers with his treatment of one of their own. And then, as if nothing had happened, he returned to London without the consequence of his actions following him. He revisited Chadwick Hall as it suited him, brazen in his conduct, having learned nothing of honor or accountability.

Five years passed. A long overdue confrontation occurred. I need not speak of it. Those of us who have lived here all our lives know what happened. Prescott went too far. We know all too well the blame he carries. Folk here were deeply angered at this greater injustice. While he cared not what he had done, the family could no longer bear the shame of it. The Prescotts departed Chadwick Hall, never to return.

Only, now they are back. The fiend is not among them. Instead, his son resides at the Hall. A son who is every miserable inch the man his father was.

We who remember it all wish it to be known that the evils that were committed here are not distant enough in the past, nor will they ever be. The wound is raw. We see what manner of man is back amongst us. We watch. But we will not be silent any longer. This time we will protect our own. This is a warning and a promise.

With an eye ever upon them,

Someone who knows the truth.

Duke and Destiny, a novella

In the Dukes in Spring anthology

When Cassandra Richards, a lady’s companion of questionable birth, meets a man and his horse on a stormy afternoon, two love stories unfold. One will reveal her past and show her how to escape the attentions of a not-so-gentlemanly gentleman. The other… Well, let’s just say you’ll be hearing it from the horse’s mouth.

Released on 26 April

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Elizabeth Donne writes award-winning sweet Regency romance, a natural outpouring of a lifelong love affair with English literature.

Although Elizabeth has lived in Cape Town, South Africa for most of her life, she has traveled to 5 continents and loves to learn about local culture. In 2015, Elizabeth moved to Iowa with her husband, their two children, two cats, and their African bush dog.

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A Shocking Reminder and a Dire Warning!

By Barbara Monajem

On April 4, 2026

In Barbara Monajem, Bluestocking Belles, Teatime Tattler

One of our intrepid reporters, while on a walking tour near the coast of Lancashire, came upon a shocking sight. We feel it to be our duty to recount his experience – and thus to remind well-bred English ladies of the consequences of abandoning their virtue.

If, dear readers, you plan to visit that delightful area of the north, do not, we beg you, visit an inn known as the Diving Duck. It is patronized by the lowest sort of common people. Many of them are smugglers, who go to the Diving Duck to drink and carouse after a successful smuggling run. But that’s not the worst of it!

What will make you cringe with horror are not the smugglers, but the lady who plays the piano in the coffee room and sings vulgar songs. As if that were not bad enough, she resides in the Diving Duck and is exceedingly friendly with the patrons. Why, we all ask, would a lady demean herself in such a way?

The answer is sadly obvious. She has lost her reputation. In other words, she is ruined!

Our reporter recognized her as Miss D. W., cousin of the well-known rake, Lord G. He attempted to speak to her, but she ignored him most rudely. He then questioned the patrons of the inn about her, but their response was hostile to say the least. He was obliged to make his escape in a hurry!

What does their defense of the lady mean? We hesitate to conjecture further, but surely a ruined lady should retire to a life of loneliness and penitence, rather than expose her folly to a rightly censorious world! Has she no shame?

It seems not. Poor, foolish Miss D. W.! She serves as a dire warning to any lady tempted to misbehave. In the end, degradation and misery are the fate of those who step off the path of virtue!

Love and the Shameless Lady

Disgraced lady Daisy Warren serves ale in a tumbledown inn, sings crude songs for the smugglers, and writes romantic novels in her spare time. Shunned by her own class, she’s resigned to her lowly life—until someone tries to kill her.

Gentleman spy Sir Julian Kerr noses out seditionists and traitors. When he visits the inn to investigate two suspicious Frenchmen, he meets the lovely but hostile Daisy. He doesn’t intend to get involved with her—but then he learns that someone is threatening her life.

He must find out more—it’s part of his investigation. He needs to protect her—he’s a chivalrous man. More than anything, he just wants her. But will Daisy’s bitter past allow her to risk love again?

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A Sneaking Reporter

By Bluestocking Belles

On March 21, 2026

In Teatime Tattler

Note to one Shadrack Gumpfile from his sometimes employer, Sam Clemens at the Teatime Tattler

Sparky,

Drop what you’re doing lurking around in Hamstead. I have a better job for you. Turn your tail around and head for Oxford.

We’re getting a whiff of something juicy out of there. Some woman has been causing talk by pretending to be a scholar. She’s irritated some fellows, tried to gain entry to the library (as if they’d let a woman in), and had an altercation with a high class book seller.

Now we’ve heard rumors she isn’t at all what she should be and is carrying on with a local man just back from the late war. What makes it good press is the woman in question is none other than the daughter of the Duke of Sudbury. Sudbury! As high a stickler as they come.

This one should be easy. Hang out in the pubs and seamier establishments. Students have notoriously loose mouths and should spill what they know, what they guess, and the worst possible interpretations.

But move quickly. The woman’s brother is the Marquess of Glenaire who will come down on us like a hammer if he finds out. We need to get the article out there before he does.

Sam

About the Book: A Lady’s Honor

She may be skirting scandal in the opinion of some, but Lady Georgiana has her own code of Honor

A little Greek is one thing; the art of love is another. Only one man ever tried to teach Lady Georgiana Hayden both. She learned painfully, a young age to keep her heart safe. She learned to keep loneliness at bay through work. If it takes a scandalous affair to teach her what she needs to complete her work, she will risk it. If the man in question chooses not to teach her, she will use any means at her disposal to change his mind. She is determined to give voice to the ancient women whose poetry has long been neglected.

Some scars cut deeper than others. Major Andrew Mallet returns to Cambridge a battle scarred hero. He dared to love Georgiana once and suffered swift retribution from her powerful family. The encounter cost him eleven years of his life. Determined to avoid her, he seeks work to heal his soul and make his scholar father proud. The work she offers risks his career, his peace of mind, and (worst of all) his heart. Can he protect himself from a woman who almost destroyed him? Does he want to?

Even poetry, with its musical lyrics and sensual traps, is dangerous when you partner with the love of your life. In Regency Cambridge it can lead a lady quickly past improper to positively scandalous.

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