The Lady and the Secret Lord by Kate Moore
- Liz Flaherty
- Jun 18
- 3 min read
Welcome author Kate Moore to the Window today! She's here to talk about her latest book, which I highly recommend! Her email to me this week said this: It's that promising time of morning. Cool here. The cat and I have had our morning snuggle. I've handled a task or two
at my lap desk, and now it's time to walk the dog and go for our Friday "social," a gathering of dog people outside our local Cafe/Bookstore. We are blessed.
Sounds like a writer, doesn't she? Thanks for coming, Kate!
When do you feel most like yourself? Is it in doing work that you are called to do? Is it in the company of people who bring out the best in you?
That's the dilemma for the hero and heroine of The Lady and the Secret Lord, my first historical Romance with a detective hero. It's a stand-alone read in a connected series featuring the Duke of Wenlocke's "lost boys," now all grown up.
In 1835, a year after a great fire burned the old houses of Parliament to the ground, a warning note left at her kitchen door tells Lady Phoebe Marchmont to stop searching for her missing six-year-old brother, the Earl of Grafton. Phoebe dons a widow's disguise to move freely about London despite her youth and station, and goes to newly formed Scotland Yard for help.
Former beat cop Robin Jones jumps at the chance to work a case that could prove him worthy to join the ranks of Scotland Yard's first detectives. But dealing with independent-minded Phoebe Marchmont is more than he bargained for, and finding the missing boy takes him back to his youth as a street urchin among the Duke of Wenlocke’s lost boys with no family and no name.
Excerpt:
“What am I to call you?” he asked. His voice sounded rough in his ears.
Her chin came up. Her defiant gaze met his. “You mean if you decided to be polite and respectful and observe the distinctions of rank?”
He took a step toward her. “I mean,” he said, “if you decided to observe the proprieties that govern a lady’s behavior, that keep her reputation and her person safe, Lady Phoebe.”
“I don’t like lady,” she said. “It is a title tighter than this corset.”
He laughed. “That corset would fall off you without the padding.” He wished it would. He wanted to see her true waist, to measure it with his hands.
“That’s easy for you to say. You have no restraints. You come and go without anyone remarking your conduct or condemning it. No one requires you to hire a lady’s companion.”
“True,” he said. “A lady’s companion would be a most inconvenient partner for a policeman.”
She stepped out from behind the desk, advancing a little into the room. “If your brother went missing, you would not be obliged to hire a companion merely so that you could attend a musicale while other people searched for him. Well, I’ve had enough of that. Enough of well-meaning people telling me that I should abandon the search and have him declared dead so that I can return to society and take my place as a lady. So, no, you will not call me Lady Phoebe.”
Buy Links:
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-lady-and-the-secret-lord-kate-moore/1146165254?ean=9781966593034
Universal link: https://books2read.com/u/b5G2Vp
Author Website Link: www.katemoore.com
Facebook Page Link: www.facebook.com/KateMooreAuthor
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Goodreads Profile Link: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/141866.Kate_Moore
BIO:
A Californian, Kate taught English lit to generations of high school students, who are now her Facebook friends, while she not-so-secretly penned Romances. Inspired by Jane Austen, Kate writes stories of undeniable mutual attraction that bring honorable, edgy loners and warm, practical women into a circle of love in Regency England or contemporary California. Twenty-two books and many awards later, Kate is still excited to begin the day at her lap desk with stories to tell and a cup of coffee and a cat at her side. Life happens; books help! Kate lives north of San Francisco with her paddle-boarding husband, their yellow Lab and black cat, toys for visiting grandkids, an unruly garden, and miles of crowded bookshelves.
Liz, Thank you for having me on your lovely blog. It was a treat to be here!
Love someone who won't let anyone tell them what to do! I think our poor hero has his work cut out for him! I enjoyed your excerpt and wish you well with all your writing endeavors.
Am I glad I visited!!!! I'm buying this gem of a story! Completely hooked.
Thanks for being here today, Kate!