Already His

Dear Reader letter

Dear Reader,

Already His is the second book in my series, The Caversham Chronicles, and I hope you enjoy Michael and Elise’s story as much as I loved writing it.

This book is special to me because the heroine and I have one passion in common. Horses.

Note that the type of horsemanship Elise practices in this book likely didn’t exist at that time in the form we would recognize it, even though Xenophon had written his book On Horsemanship around 350 BC, and Daniel Sullivan (d.1810) had already whispered his way across Ireland. Anyway I cannot, in all good conscience, write something my heart doesn’t believe is humane (i.e., the normal horsemanship practiced then,) so I didn’t do it. I believe in and practice safe and humane horsemanship, and cannot see any heroine I create doing otherwise. Elise also rides astride which women did do at the time according to my research. It was much more common in the countryside on the mainland, rather than in England itself, and women usually wore breeches of some sort under the skirts of their riding habit. Keep in mind that during this, my favorite period in English history, society believed it was undignified for a lady to ride astride. And when all a young lady had to recommend her were the size of her dowry, familial connections, and her reputation, they usually kept their reputations pretty spotless.

This summer, the third book in the series. Loving Sarah returns to the ocean, and you’ll find the preview first chapter at the end of this book. It’s the story of

Ren’s youngest sister who wasn’t in London during the events in this second book as she was too young, but she does make an appearance in the Epilogue.

Sarah craves adventure and thinks the three Seasons she’s had have been enough. She’s ready to settle into a comfortable spinsterhood. But first, there are a few things she wants to accomplish while she’s young enough to do so. One of those things is sail across the Atlantic in a race that her brother-by-marriage, Lucky Gualtiero, and his business partner, Ian Ross, are participating in. Knowing she will be sacrificing a great deal by doing it, she stows onto his ship waiting until after the start of the race to make herself known.

Except she didn’t make it to the right boat.

I would love to hear from you! So, if you have any questions or comments, I’m online at:

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Sincerely,

Sandy Raven