The British Are Here!
Back in 2009, my novel, Fit to Be Tied, was released. It’s about a lady wrangler on an Idaho ranch and a British lord sent to America by his father after being wounded in WWI. I loved that story, and Cleo and Sherwood remain among my favorite couples. In fact, I had so much fun writing about those two that I really wanted to write more books around that culture clash.
So I wrote a proposal for a series called The British Are Coming. My publisher bought it in 2010, then decided they wanted me to do some contemporary romances instead. About five years later, a different publisher bought the series, then they defaulted. Back into the idea file the series went.
But in 2022, I knew I was going to write these books at last, and I am so excited to share the stories with you.
The British Are Coming series begins with a novella set in Victorian England (To Enchant a Lady’s Heart) where readers meet Adam Faulkner, the illegitimate son of the Earl of Hooke, and the gentlewoman he loves. That novella also introduces the three “Brits” who will come to America in the mid-1890s. Those featured characters are Sebastian Whitcombe, heir to the Earl of Hooke; his younger sister, Lady Amanda Whitcombe; and his artist friend, Roger Bernhardt.
Sebastian’s story, To Marry an English Lord, released this week. Despite there being an American heroine and a British hero from the aristocracy, the same as in Fit To Be Tied, this is a very different story from that novel from fifteen years ago. And I am not surprised. My characters become very real, living people to me, and every person has their own story to tell. Right? Sebastian and Jocelyn’s story is uniquely their own. As it should be.
To Marry an English Lord is my 91st release, coming forty years and one month after my first book released. I hope you will love reading it.
What others say:
“An absolute gem of a story! If you’re craving romance set against the vast beauty of the untamed west, then look no further. Filled with witty repartee and heartfelt emotion, Robin Lee Hatcher’s second installment in The British Are Coming series is guaranteed to please!”
– Tamera Alexander, USA Today Bestselling author of A Million Little Choices and Colors of Truth
“Go West, dear readers! I literally could not put this book down and was up much of the night delighting in the story world and watching the characters grow, both in their faith and in their love for one another. You’ll be encouraged in your faith, too, as you adventure with Viscount Willowthorpe to an Idaho ranch where he encounters businesswoman and ranch co-owner Jocelyn Overstreet, a woman like none he has ever met.”
– Stephanie Grace Whitson, author of Love at First Light
“Master storyteller Robin Lee Hatcher has penned an engaging sweet romance, laced with inspiration and a vivid depiction of our Wild West. The way the two main characters slowly discover their forbidden love and lean on God for guidance plucks at the heartstrings. The setting of a cattle ranch situated in an untamed landscape of rolling hills and mountains steal one’s breath. All the while, an unobtrusive portrayal of the bittersweet changing lifestyle of the American cowboy more than enchanted this avid history aficionada.”
– Linda Windsor, author of Irish historical romance series Maire, Riona, & Deidre
Here’s the blurb for To Marry an English Lord:
Sometimes love is a risk worth taking.
Sebastian Whitcombe, Viscount Willowthorpe, comes to America to experience the great Wild West for himself before it disappears for good. The adventure comes with a convenient bonus—it postpones his father’s edict that he take a wife from the British aristocracy. Sebastian isn’t so much against marriage as he is an arranged marriage to the wrong woman.
Jocelyn Overstreet hasn’t returned to her family’s eastern Idaho cattle ranch in six years. She’s far too busy managing the New York City offices of Overstreet Shipping. But when her older brother has a serious run-in with a bison, she returns to the ranch only to find the Overstreet home invaded by visitors from England, one of them a disturbingly handsome viscount who disarms her defenses at every turn.
Sebastian’s future lies in England where the Earl of Hooke is determined to choose his son a wife. New York City holds Jocelyn’s future with scant time for romance, much less marriage. The attraction between her and Sebastian seems doomed to fail.
Amidst the clash of their worlds, Sebastian and Jocelyn find that the risk of love, against all odds, might just be a risk worth taking.
I’m going to give away a set of paperbacks (the first to books in the The British Are Coming series) to one random winner.
To Marry an English Lord is set in eastern Idaho in the shadows of the Grand Tetons. The next two books in the series will take place, at least partially, in Yellowstone National Park. To be entered in the giveaway, just leave a comment answering this question:
Have you ever visited Yellowstone National Park and/or Grand Teton National Park? And if so, what was the favorite thing you saw there? If you haven’t been, what would you like to see if you could go?