Lissa Morgan

  Merry Christmas to all my internet friends, followers, reviewers and readers and all best wishes - and lots more books for your shelves! - in the coming year.  ✨ Nadolig Llawen i'm holl ffrindiau'r we, dilynwyr, adolygwyr a darllenwyr a phob dymuniad gorau - a rhagor o lyfrau i'ch silffoedd! - am y flwyddyn i ddod.  ✨    

I'm always thrilled to see my historical romance books translated into other languages and on sale in other countries, and the latest translation is out this month, in Germany.  The Warrior's Reluctant Wife - originally published by Harlequin Mills and Boon in August 2023 - will be out in German translation in e-book and paperback on 25th November, under the title  Feuermond in walisischer Nacht ( Fire moon in a Welsh night) , and is available from CORA Verlag, namely Harper Collins, Germany.  I do love the cover image and the descriptive and intriguing back cover copy...   Burg Llanbadarn, 1157. „Nein!“, möchte Rhianon schreien, als sie mit dem hochgewachsenen Kriegerfürsten Peredur vor dem Altar steht. „Ich heirate dich nicht! Ich kenne dich nicht, ich will dich nicht!“ Aber sie hat keine Wahl, und so wird die blutjunge Witwe die Frau des mächtigen Walisers. Doch die Nächte in ihrer Schlafkammer versetzen sie in Erstaunen: Nicht rücksichtslos nimmt er si...

It's been a long time since I've done a blog, due mainly to a house move, but I wanted to let you know about my next book, Alliance with her Renegade Knight, which will be out in summer 2025.  There have been some changes between this book and the last one. Firstly, I've stepped into a different historical period and location, and am setting this book and the next one, over the border in Shropshire during the Wars of the Roses.  I've always been interested in this period of English history and, living in Wales, I know Shropshire very well.    For Alliance with her Renegade Knight , I've chosen the lovely medieval town of Ludlow as the location, and the time period is the winter of 1459/60, which was a pivotal time in this dynastic conflict.   In October 1459, the Duke of York faced up to the royal army at Ludford Bridge just outside Ludlow, but for various reasons - mainly the reluctance of the Yorkists to actually take up arms against the King and a numbe...

This week saw the publication of book two in my Warriors of Wales series, namely Llywelyn's and Cristin's story.  These two were minor characters in the first book of the series, The Warrior's Reluctant Wife , and feature in a scene, early on in the book, when my heroine Rhianon's new husband, Peredur, is riding off to war. Her younger brother, Llywelyn, isn't riding with them, not because he's too young to fight but because his father considers him a coward. I knew as I wrote that line that Llywelyn was a fascinating character who needed a book of his own and that Rhianon's maid, Cristin, would be the perfect heroine for him.    UK edition, published 23rd May 2024   In book one, Rhianon talks often of her favourite brother, and how, after the death of their elder brother Rhodri, he has had to renounce the life of a monk upon which he was set to take up the sword instead and fight for his prince, the Lord Rhys.   Even in these small snippits of information...

Okay, I am a bit late posting a happy St David's Day  here, but as it isn't officially a public holiday in Wales - at least not yet - most people are celebrating it today, Saturday.  I imagine that many leeks and Welsh cakes are still being consumed even as I write, though sadly, this year, Dydd Gwyl Dewi Day has rushed up at me rather, and was gone before I knew it! My publisher, Mills & Boon, remembered however, and put together this fabulous image for my Warriors of Wales series - the daffodils are my addition!  The first in the series, The Warrior's Reluctant Wife , was out in September 2023 and the second, The Warrior's Forbidden Maiden , will be out in June. This second book features the Abbey of Ystrad Fflur (Strata Florida) where the Life of Dewi Sant was possibly preserved after the Normans demoted the mother church of Llanbadarn, where it was written by Rhigyfarch, son of Bishop Sulien. The story features the Life of another saint, almost as revered in th...

It's an unusual December for me this year, as I'm taking a little break from writing until January. My latest novel - The Warrior's Forbidden Maiden (sneak preview of the cover at the end of this post!) - was accepted by my editor at Harlequin Mills and Boon at the beginning of November, and since then I've been sitting back and mulling over the next project.  It's been a few years since I took such a long break from writing, and for someone who writes every day, it's been very strange. However, it has had exciting results. Before I started writing, I was always a voracious reader of historical fiction, and particularly the medieval period. Among my favourite books are those by Rosemary Hawley Jarman, set against the  Wars of the Roses - We Speak No Treason, The King's Grey Mare and The Courts of Illusion , the latter, to my mind, her best work.  I've had a desire to write about the Wars of the Roses for a while now, and after re-reading these wonderfu...