The Little Red Regency Dress, With Stunning Ruby Necklace!

In the Regency romance The Spinster and the Earl Lady Beatrice wears a spectacular red gown with a set of ruby earrings and necklace.

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A reader wrote to me and said it reminded her of Scarlet O’ Hara’s gown in Gone With the Wind.  But I think it looked more like these Regency gowns:

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Castles and spooks on Irish hills

When I wrote the first book in The Honorable Gentlemen series, The Spinster and the Earl, the setting, I decided, had to match the tempestuous romance between an impoverished, ex-army hero with a saber scar, the Earl of Drennan, and  his  next-door neighbor, the hot tempered, Lady Beatrice O’Brien, a self-made, Irish heiress.

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(If you look carefully you can see the scar on his cheek).

This meant adding a spooky castle situated high up on a hill, cursed by the fairies (daione sidhe), but not completely beyond salvaging.

I had been to  the southwestern part of Ireland, Dingle (see above video) where Irish Gaelic is still spoken and walked the paths leading to beehive huts and half-ruined castles. The fog and folklore were incorporated into my books, inspiring me later when I wrote the trilogy, which takes place primarily in Dingle, Ireland.