When not re-reading Jane Austen, sipping tea or mucking about her garden, Elizabeth Essex can be found at her computer, making up wonderful stories about people who live far more interesting lives than she.
It wasn't always so. Elizabeth graduated from Hollins College with a BA in Classical Studies and Art History, and then earned her MA from Texas A&M University in Nautical Archaeology, also known as the archaeology of shipwrecks. While Elizabeth loved the life of a working archaeologist, after writing and reading all those dry, dusty reports on ship construction, she would daydream about how lovely it would have been if only someone had fallen in love on just one of those ships. And so now she writes stories about just that.
Elizabeth lives in Texas with her family, in a house filled to the brim with books.
It wasn't always so. Elizabeth graduated from Hollins College with a BA in Classical Studies and Art History, and then earned her MA from Texas A&M University in Nautical Archaeology, also known as the archaeology of shipwrecks. While Elizabeth loved the life of a working archaeologist, after writing and reading all those dry, dusty reports on ship construction, she would daydream about how lovely it would have been if only someone had fallen in love on just one of those ships. And so now she writes stories about just that.
Elizabeth lives in Texas with her family, in a house filled to the brim with books.
Genres: Historical Romance
New Books
Series
Dartmouth Brides
1. The Pursuit of Pleasure (2010)
2. A Sense of Sin (2011)
3. The Danger of Desire (2011)
4. Up on the Rooftops (2022)
1. The Pursuit of Pleasure (2010)
2. A Sense of Sin (2011)
3. The Danger of Desire (2011)
4. Up on the Rooftops (2022)
Reckless Brides
1. Almost a Scandal (2012)
2. A Breath of Scandal (2012)
3. Scandal in the Night (2013)
3.5. The Scandal Before Christmas (2013)
4. After the Scandal (2014)
5. A Scandal to Remember (2014)
6. A Lady's Gift for Scandal (2022)
7. The Difference One Duke Makes (2022)
8. She Walks in Scandal (2022)
1. Almost a Scandal (2012)
2. A Breath of Scandal (2012)
3. Scandal in the Night (2013)
3.5. The Scandal Before Christmas (2013)
4. After the Scandal (2014)
5. A Scandal to Remember (2014)
6. A Lady's Gift for Scandal (2022)
7. The Difference One Duke Makes (2022)
8. She Walks in Scandal (2022)
Highland Brides
1. Mad About the Marquess (2016)
2. Mad For Love (2016)
3. A Fine Madness (2017)
4. Mad, Bad & Dangerous To Marry (2018)
aka Mad, Plaid and Dangerous to Marry
1. Mad About the Marquess (2016)
2. Mad For Love (2016)
3. A Fine Madness (2017)
4. Mad, Bad & Dangerous To Marry (2018)
aka Mad, Plaid and Dangerous to Marry
Kent Brothers Chronicles
1. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2016)
2. The Devil's Own Luck (2022)
1. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (2016)
2. The Devil's Own Luck (2022)
Omnibus
Dashing All the Way (2017) (with Celeste Bradley, Eva Devon and Heather Snow)
Betrothed by Christmas (2019) (with Jess Michaels)
Betrothed by Christmas (2019) (with Jess Michaels)
Collections
Non fiction
We (Heart) the Holidays (2015) (with Karen Akins, Donna Alward, D D Ayres, Sarah Castille, Tiffany Clare, Manda Collins, Lily Dalton, Darynda Jones and Kieran Kramer)
Elizabeth Essex recommends

For the Love of Hades (2013)
(Loves of Olympus, book 2)
Sasha Summers
"...a polished golden apple of myth and bittersweet romance."

Lady Vice (2015)
(Furies, book 1)
Wendy LaCapra
"LaCapra has crafted a high-stakes romance full of twists that will keep readers turning the page late into the night."
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