About the Book
Book: Lady Wynwood’s Spies, Volumes 1-3 Box Set
Author: Camille Elliot
Genre: Christian Regency Romantic Suspense
Release Date: April 23, 2024
Pride and Prejudice meets Mission: Impossible in this Christian Regency Suspense with slow-burn romance and a touch of the supernatural.
Recovered from her harrowing marriage, Lady Wynwood’s peace shatters as a nefarious secret society linked to her past emerges. She seeks the aid of Mr. Sol Drydale, an old friend with ties to a shadowy arm of the government.
They gather a circle of trusted individuals with unique skills:
- A botanist with deadly aim with a bow and arrows
- An unconventionally trained female medic and chemist in a field dominated by men
- A cat burglar who also happens to be a viscount’s son
- A spy searching for answers to the mysterious death of his brother
- An ex-soldier haunted by regret and self-loathing
- A human lie detector desperately protecting lies of her own
- The most covert phantom agent working for the Crown
- All led by a nobleman keeping dangerous secrets (who feels like he’s wrangling cats)
To protect their loved ones, they must race to stop a treasonous brotherhood, whose dark secrets could enable Napoleon to win the war.
Lady Wynwood’s Spies, volume 1: Archer
An ex-spy and a spinster botanist must find a murderer—with ties to both their families—whose uncanny alchemy could turn the tides against the war with Napoleon.
Lady Wynwood’s Spies, volume 2: Berserker
The team searches for their missing comrade before a crazed murderer finds him first.
Lady Wynwood’s Spies, volume 3: Aggressor
When French spies land on British soil to steal the ingredient for a powerful alchemical potion, Lady Wynwood’s team falls under attack from the toxins they unleash.
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My Thoughts
This series of books is serial, like a television show. Each book has a complete story, but also an overarching story that continues through the whole series. It is intriguing and I wanted to keep reading to find out what was behind everything. I found the books to be well written, although from the second book to the third book, the way that Jack was informed of the location of Mr. Ackett changed. If I had not just read the books back to back, it might not have stood out as much. I like the biblical faith thread in the books and how the characters are growing and changing. I look forward to reading the rest of the series.
About the Author
Camy writes Christian Contemporary Romantic Suspense as USA Today bestselling author Camy Tang and Christian Regency Romantic Suspense as USA Today bestselling author Camille Elliot. She grew up in Hawaii but now lives in California, where she knits antique knitting patterns and is learning Japanese.
More from Camille
What inspired me to write the Lady Wynwood’s Spies series:
While I love Regency Romances and Jane Austen’s books, I also really love action movies. When plotting the rest of the series, especially in light of Sol’s clandestine job for the Crown, I realized that I really wanted to do a mash-up of Mission: Impossible in the Regency era.
So I created Sol’s team of agents, some who used to work for the Foreign Office as spies and some who are civilians with unusual skill sets. And, of course, there will be lots of romance for each of the team members, as well as lots of action and suspense.
What exactly is an epic-length serial novel?
Originally I had written The Spinster’s Christmas, a Christian Regency Romantic Suspense, as a stand-alone novel, and I had planned more stand-alone novels with Lady Wynwood and Sol as minor characters in each of them. However, as I began planning the series past that first Christmas book, I realized the storyline was becoming longer and more complex.
I fought it for a while because it would have been a really long series—I even tried writing the next book as a stand-alone novel, but I wrote almost 90,000 words and I hadn’t even gotten to the 25% mark in the book!
So I decided to structure the series like a Japanese light novel series, in which each book has a complete story arc, but there is an underlying story arc that runs through each of the volumes and isn’t resolved until the end.
This is similar to the serial novels being published in the U.S., but those tend to be smaller installments of around 20,000 words, while each of the volumes in my series is around 100,000 words.
I have already plotted the entire series and it will be 12 volumes, plus 3 prequel novels (The Spinster’s Christmas, The Gentleman Thief, and Lissa and the Spy). At the moment, I’m writing volume 10.
I hope you enjoy my latest Regency series!
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Giveaway
To celebrate her tour, Camille is giving away the grand prize of a Special Edition Paperback of Lady Wynwood’s Spies, Volume 1: Archer and a Regency-style ribbon bookmark!!
Be sure to comment on the blog stops for extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.
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