A government spy falls in love with a radical playwright who is conspiring against the monarch.

Peggy Stewart, the eldest daughter in a prominent Edinburgh family of lawyers, judges, diplomats, and spies, is on a mission to transform society by contributing her feminist plays to a Jacobite uprising — until Tom Calderwood, a lowland baron and codebreaker for the Crown, uncovers the conspiracy and vows to stop it. A faux courtship that turns real, a masquerade that sparks scandalous rumors, and a London street festival that goes horribly wrong, make for an intimate but ill-fated pairing. When Tom’s aristocratic patron — the Prime Minister’s chief spymaster — opposes the match, the couple must decide whether duty or passion will hold sway.

Second in the series Loyalties and Conspiracies. Set in 1730s Cambridge, London, and Edinburgh. Based on the families who inspired Walter Scott’s Bride of Lammermoor.

Awards for The Secret Writings of Peggy Stewart

2022 Put Your Heart in a Book Contest, New Jersey Romance Writers: Third Place, Historical Romance.

2021 RAMP Mentee: Selected for RWA’s Romance Author Mentorship Program. Mentor: Susana Aikin.