I haven’t quite finished my second book for Avon and I’m thinking about starting the research on my next one. My next three books are all set in the time of William the Conqueror, but each one with a different perspective, each hero and heroine on a different side of the conflict.

The Bride Hunt will be released in a week (yay!) and it’s the story of two Normans, captured by Scots in northern England, and how they escape. The next, Saxon Lady, is a Harlequin Historical, and this one is the tale of a Saxon noblewoman who fights to keep her land from being taken by the Norman knight sent to conquer it. And her!

I’m still working on The Perfect Seduction, the tale of a young Norman woman who is rescued from Scottish raiders by a Saxon nobleman – her natural enemy. I’m hoping to finish it in the next day or so, then do a print-out and read it through and send it to my editor before my January 1 deadline. (Yikes! What am I doing, playing here!)

So, what’s next? I’m thinking about the Magna Carta and the life and times of King John of England. Think of Robin Hood and Sherwood Forest, the dreaded sheriffs, the crusades and Richard the Lion Hearted. I haven’t actually figured out who my characters will be – In my writing process, I can’t get too far into a new project before the current one is finished, but I always have a few ideas starting to gel so that I’m ready to go as soon as I put the final manuscript in the mail. Looks like in 2006, I’ll be starting the year off in the library!