Maya Rodale
Maya's Booklist
The Writing Girl Romances
Girl Reporters, Regency style.
A Groom of One's Own
The Negligent Chaperone Series
Girl Reporters, Regency style.
The Rogue and the Rival
The Heir and the Spare
Darcy
Darlington and the Diamond of Desire
An exclusive novella featuring the love and adventures of amateur sleuth Darcy Darlington.
Who
is The Negligent Chaperone?
Her
name is Lady Eldora Palmerston. She was “born” when
I realized that Emilia, my heroine in The Heir And The Spare certainly
wouldn’t just show up to London alone in search of a husband—she would
need a connection to the ton, and so her aunt, a widowed Viscountess, was
created.
One of the things I love about historical romances is all the ways that authors scheme to get the hero and heroine alone together, when societal rules of the time dictated that such a thing was just not done (at least not without serious consequences). So how could I conveniently get rid of the chaperone from time to time? By making her oh-so negligent! But I did not want her to be stupid, so I made her smart. Very smart. She knows everything about everyone in the ton, and, with a soft spot for romance, she also knows just when to leave the room.
Her name, Eldora, was provided by my very dear friend, Mark.
