WINNER OF THE 2008 EPPIE AWARD FOR BEST HISTORICAL ROMANCE
When Kate Ashley finds herself the unwilling inheritor of the Thornton family estate of Seven Ways in Worcestershire, she could not have foreseen that along with the impoverished estate she, the respectable widow of a parliamentary officer, would find herself drawn into the last conflict of the English Civil War by her love for the royalist, Jonathan Thornton. Jonathan has returned from exile, carrying with him the vain hopes of the young King Charles II and the demons of his own dark past. In the aftermath of the battle of Worcester, Kate is caught between Jonathan and the man who has hunted him down over the years, the dour parliamentarian, Stephen Prescott. Jonathan comes face to face with his nemesis and learns the price he has paid for his long dead love; a secret that will change his life, and Kate's, forever.


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Kit Lovell is one of the King’s men, a disillusioned Royalist who passes his time between cheating at cards, living off his wealthy and attractive mistress and by plotting the death of Oliver Cromwell.Fleeing a sadistic and ambitious suitor, Thamsine Granville is alone, penniless and friendless in London. She has her own reasons for wanting Cromwell dead and when she hurls a piece of brick at his coach, she finds herself unexpectedly in the arms of Kit Lovell.Far from the world weary, benevolent rescuer that he seems, Kit plunges Thamsine into his world of espionage and betrayal. The world Kit has carefully built up begins to unravel as the plotting takes a serious turn and his own life is now on the line. Nor had he planned on falling in love with Thamsine Granville and when Thamsine falls into the hands of her vicious suitor, Ambrose Morton, Kit is torn by his loyalty to his master and his love for Thamsine.In rescuing Thamsine, Kit makes one last gamble and loses. The price he has to pay is the hangman’s rope…

The King's Man is available as an ebook from Kindle, Apple, Sony, Kobo, Diesel, Barnes and Noble or in any format from Smashwords.
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Alison's short stories have appeared in the following anthologies:

• In the Shadow of the Merlion (Angsana Press 2001)
• Not all Pink Gins (Angsana Press 2002)
• Beyond Words (Ada Cambridge Prize 2007)
• City Girls in Love (Romance Writers of Australia 2001)
• A Winter Affair (Romance Writers of Australia 1999)
• The Emerald Anthology (Romance Writers of Australia 2006)

Now all the short stories are together in one anthology available in all e-formats from
HERE and Kindle.


"The Promise", a short story set in the American Civil War, is available for download below.