Marguerite Kaye

The first three novels of my Hot Arabian Nights quartet are my take on the sheikh trope, featuring princely heroes who are all-powerful, remote, effectively ‘cloaked’, vulnerable only to their inconveniently unsuitable soulmate, the Western heroine. The harem, that exotic, sensual and much mythologised private inner sanctum plays a role, but my honourable heroes are … Read more

‘Scandal at the Midsummer Ball’ – Q & A with Marguerite Kaye and Bronwyn Scott Part Two   If you could turn the book into a movie, who would be your dream cast? Marguerite: I always cast my characters. For my hero, I picked Paul Walker from ‘Fast and Furious’, who had the sexy good … Read more

Questions for ‘Scandal at the Midsummer Ball’ – Part One   Share five things we’d probably never guess about you.  Fun, interesting or even embarrassing! Marguerite Kaye In my teens, I was the only punk rocker in my small town. Without access to ‘big city’ fashion products I had to be creative. I remember using … Read more

A lot goes into writing a book set in a different time, and for writers like Marguerite Kaye, the research stage is a journey separate from the book. Here, Marguerite tells us about the inspiration behind her newest Regency Romance – The Soldier’s Rebel Lover. “The two World Wars fought in the twentieth century demanded that … Read more

When I decided to write a First World War romance, I instinctively knew that letters should play a key role in the story. I was initially inspired by some of the more famous ones, those of the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfrid Owen, the letters which Vera Brittain wrote to her brother and fiancé, both … Read more