Lissa Morgan

My next book for Harlequin Historical ~ Mills & Boon Historical - An Alliance with his Enemy Princess - is an enemies to lovers story set in Wales in 1091, a few decades after the Norman Conquest.  It's set close to home too, as was my debut, The Welsh Lord's Convenient Bride , but this time it's almost on the doorstep, in the lovely and remote Dysynni Valley just over the mountain!     The cover design team at Harlequin have created a stunningly beautiful cover, which really conveys the emotions of my characters Gwennan and Rolant in the scene that changes everything for them - as well a capturing my hero's gorgeous green eyes. It is so exciting to share the cover with readers on my social media platforms and website this weekend.      And this week too, just to put the icing on the cake, my author copies arrived! If I continue to be fortunate enough to write historical romance for the next decade, or even more, I don't think I'll ever lose the thrill ...

In writing my current book - The Warrior's Reluctant Wife , due out in August 2023 - I've been stuck, not so much in a saggy middle, but a tangled middle, spending the last two or three weeks getting more and more entangled.  This is my third novel for Harlequin Mills & Boon and, like my debut, is a marriage of convenience story, though set slightly earlier in 1157.  The location is the lovely Dyfi Valley, more specifically the estuary and nature reserve of RSPB Ynys Hir. Here, in 1156, the Lord Rhys, prince of Deheubarth, constructed a motte and bailey castle to guard against attack from Gwynedd.  It was lost, briefly, when the Anglo Normans came back in 1158 and Ceredigion was fought over for the next decade. But Rhys triumphed and - forging a personal as well as political relationship with Henry II - ruled supreme in Deheubarth for the next thirty years until his death in 1197. He was buried in St David's Cathedral, where his tomb can still be seen. The tree-covere...