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Christmas in July boxset!

Happy Christmas in July!

If you’ve never celebrated this, it’s a wonderful chance to escape the heat (or snuggle up, if you’re Down Under!), and lose yourself in a wonderful Christmas historical romance.

I’m celebrating by launching not one, not two, but three Christmas Regency novellas in one steamy boxset. Make sure you grab it now – or read for free in Kindle Unlimited!

Plunge into the fourth boxset of Regency romances in Emily Murdoch’s bestselling Ravishing Regencies series – Christmas edition! Each of these books has spice at its heart and a heart ready to lose, heroes in pain and heroines acting out of the ordinary. There are no ballrooms here… This collected stories promises hours and hours of steamy hot reading…

Kidnapped with a Knight
A man disowned by his family and a woman with absolutely no interest in him – and their kidnappers have left them all alone…

Christmas with a Czar
A man who claims to be a prince and a woman forced to play along – but the real secret must be revealed before Christmas Day…

Advent with an Archduke
A man who disappeared a year ago – and the woman forced to welcome a stranger at Christmas…

These books are steamy forced proximity Regency romances with happily ever afters, no cliffhangers, and are a series that can be read in any order. It’s time to get ravished…

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READ NOW: Give Him a Chance

We often forget how many Regency and Victorian ladies were passionate campaigners for justice – and so I just had to write a historical romance with a wild heroine like that! Read this book NOW – for free in Kindle Unlimited!

Lady Lucy Chance is on a mission—earl’s daughter notwithstanding, she is going to change Britain’s justice system forever.

Which is why she’s protesting in a court room. What she hasn’t expected is for the judge to give her personal custody of her own criminal—a Mr. Bernard Dixon who’s too charming for his own good and surely a bounder to boot.

In fact, Mr. Bernard Dixon is no criminal—he’s a spy infiltrating Britain’s prisons to gain information for his handler Hovell, who inexplicably hasn’t arrived to save him. But that’s fine, because now he’s living with the Earl of Lindow and his remarkably beautiful daughter.

All Lucy has to do is reform the ‘criminal’ into a polite member of Society, and not fall in love with Bernard. All Bernard has to do is not let slip that he’s a spy, and not fall in love with Lucy.

But as passions rise and secrets become mingled with half-truths, danger comes to Lucy’s door and Bernard has to make a choice between facing his past, and revealing that he might just be in love with her after all…

And after a shock betrayal, will Lucy give him a chance?

This novel continues the highly anticipated Chance family drama, with sixteen cousins and triple the problems. Tropes include: mistaken identity, secret identity, spies, found family, secrets and lies, Pygmalion, and of course, Emily E K Murdoch’s tried and true method of sizzling, joyful romance.e.

This full length novel is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order.

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Did you know my books have been translated?

I’m so excited that many of my historical romances have been translated! Whether you speak French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, or Brazilian Portuguese, there are now Emily E K Murdoch historical romances that you can read in that language.

Here are the quick links for you to enjoy!

Thank you so much for your support. Without readers like you, I wouldn’t have the opportunities to have my books translated in more languages, in turn reading more readers. I am so fortunate!

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Have you read my series ‘The Gambling Dukes’?

If you adore a found family series set in the Regency era, then my series The Gambling Dukes is the one for you! The series revolves around two dukes and two duchesses, four friends who decide to make their own way in the world – and the entire series is in Kindle Unlimited, so if you’re a member you can read all four books for free…

Georgiana, Dowager Duchess of Cartice, is not a woman to underestimate.

And that’s exactly what he’s done. Fynn Monroe, investigative journalist, has decided that the gambling club I’ve founded with my three friends has to be stealing money from someone. So what do I do? Hide away, pretend scandal won’t destroy us? No. I’ve invited him to our country estate, where there are no secrets to find and just an irritatingly handsome journalist to entertain.

Peregrine, Duke of Markham, is not a man to trust.

And that’s exactly what my friends have done. The other three members of the Gambling Dukes, they trusted me—and now I’m thrown out, lost, alone, and desperate. So what do I do? Avoid the gossip sheets, hide from Society? No. I’ve found a beautiful heiress, certain that I can trick her into marriage and save myself from financial ruin. Precisely why I allowed Lady Briar Weatherford to get under my skin—and under my clothes—I couldn’t say…

Delilah, Dowager Duchess of Rotherwick, is not a woman to forgive.

And that’s exactly why when I see William Parry years after he betrayed me, there is absolutely no possibility of me allowing him back into my life. So what do I do? Give him the Cut Direct, refuse to meet his eye at Almack’s? No. I need his help to save the Gambling Dukes, the club I’ve formed with my three friends, and I’ll do anything—anything—to help my friends. Precisely why I’m allowing William Parry back into my life—and my heart—I couldn’t say…

And there is another book in the series – so click here to see them all!

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The summer is (finally!) here!

I don’t know about you, but after the last few months, I have really needed summer. I wanted warm mornings with bright sunshine, lazy humid afternoons sipping a gin and tonic in the shade, and balmy evenings around a BBQ with friends and family.

And readers: we are finally there!

I don’t want to jinx it, because I know how quickly English summers can suddenly become downpours, but I think we can finally enjoy some warm weather.

Which means we have some big decisions to make: what book to read next?

No matter how long your To Be Read (TBR) list is, I hope you’ll give one of my books a try. Whether you like steamy (look for Emily E K Murdoch) or sweet (read Emily Murdoch), there’s always a Murdoch romance for you.

Check out my full backlist here!

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Do you take books on the beach?

Okay, it’s a controversial question this week: do you take books onto the beach?

There will be some people who are adamantly against this. They loathe the idea that their books could get dirty or dishevelled in any way, and in the main, I have to be honest and admit that I am in this camp!

Books are precious. They become companions to me and accompany me on some of the most adventurous moments of my life…and they are the friends I can curl up with under a blanket when I don’t want to leave the house.

I wouldn’t allow my friends to get damaged!

…having said that.

I also have to admit that there is a very rich joy in reading on the beach. Sunshine, sand, the sound of the waves breaking on the shore…the only two things you need alongside that is a book and a cool drink of your choice.

When I was a child, my parents would buy me a book from a charity shop for every day of the holiday. Each morning I would wake up and there would be a new book waiting for me on the carpet. Being able to take it to the beach to enjoy was such a huge part of my childhood experience.

So: I guess I fall into book camps. Books on the beach, yes, but usually a duplicate copy if it’s a book I really love 😅

What about you – are you the sort of person who takes books to the beach?

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PRE-ORDER NOW: Give Him a Chance

We often forget how many Regency and Victorian ladies were passionate campaigners for justice – and so I just had to write a historical romance with a wild heroine like that! Pre-order this book NOW – for just 0.99!

Lady Lucy Chance is on a mission—earl’s daughter notwithstanding, she is going to change Britain’s justice system forever.

Which is why she’s protesting in a court room. What she hasn’t expected is for the judge to give her personal custody of her own criminal—a Mr. Bernard Dixon who’s too charming for his own good and surely a bounder to boot.

In fact, Mr. Bernard Dixon is no criminal—he’s a spy infiltrating Britain’s prisons to gain information for his handler Hovell, who inexplicably hasn’t arrived to save him. But that’s fine, because now he’s living with the Earl of Lindow and his remarkably beautiful daughter.

All Lucy has to do is reform the ‘criminal’ into a polite member of Society, and not fall in love with Bernard. All Bernard has to do is not let slip that he’s a spy, and not fall in love with Lucy.

But as passions rise and secrets become mingled with half-truths, danger comes to Lucy’s door and Bernard has to make a choice between facing his past, and revealing that he might just be in love with her after all…

And after a shock betrayal, will Lucy give him a chance?

This novel continues the highly anticipated Chance family drama, with sixteen cousins and triple the problems. Tropes include: mistaken identity, secret identity, spies, found family, secrets and lies, Pygmalion, and of course, Emily E K Murdoch’s tried and true method of sizzling, joyful romance.e.

This full length novel is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order.

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Join my mailing list – get a free book!

You know what’s great about joining my mailing list?

Nope, not that you’ll hear from me and discover what I’m working on.

Nope, not that you’ll get heads up on discounts from me and my author friends.

Yup – it’s that you’ll get a free book!

All you have to do is sign up here 🥰

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How do I decide what to write?

This is honestly the question that I am asked about most often: how do you choose what to write?

And I’m afraid there is a very unglamorous answer.

Firstly, my writing schedule is planned months, sometimes years in advance. For example, at the time of writing, I have publishing contracts for books that will publish in 2025, 2026, and 2027…and that 2027 contract? I signed it in 2023.

So when it comes to thinking about what I want to write about on a daily level, the answer is – I have contracts to deliver!

Secondly, however, I chose to enter into those contracts in the first place, so how did I choose them? Well, I think naturally in series. I think about themes or groupings that I’d like to write about. For example, my popular and successful Chances series started off with the idea of four brothers, all completely different, who all found love in completely different ways. When I realised I just couldn’t stop thinking about them, I knew that I had to tell their stories.

And thirdly and lastly – and here’s the unglamorous bit – I look at what is selling! Yes, I adore writing, but I wouldn’t be able to keep doing it if I wasn’t selling books. So I need to keep an eye on the market, and what readers like are you saying, to make sure that what I’m writing is going to appeal.

And there we have it! Did anything in this blog post surprise you? Let me know in the comments!

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Have you read my series ‘The Governess Bureau’?

If you adore long historical romances with a little mystery thrown in, then you should absolutely be reading my series The Governess Bureau. Each book is half again the size of my other Regencies, and in every one, the governess heroine has to solve a mystery – and the entire series is in Kindle Unlimited, so if you’re a member you can read all six books for free…

When a governess of great talents is required, there is only one place the nobility of England go: the Governess Bureau.

It was why Miss Meredith Hubert had worked so hard to gain her place there. Finishing with the Earl of Marnmouth’s children, she is about to be given her next assignment – a Duke called Alfred Carmichael with a reputation to maintain and a half-brother who needs controlling.

When a governess of great talents is required, there is only one place the nobility of England go: The Governess Bureau.

And one of the most trusted? Miss Anne Gilbert. She’s known for keeping her employer’s secrets, and when she is selected by the Earl of Clarcton, that is precisely why. Because the Earl, Timothy Lexington, has secrets. Secrets he has worked hard to keep from the world for the last two years. While scandal waits in the wings, Clarcton Castle has entire wings that are shut off and the Countess is nowhere to be found.

When a governess of many languages is required, there is only one place the nobility of England go: the Governess Bureau.

Of course, Miss Elizabeth Fletcher doesn’t broadcast that information – nor that she is an expert in the care of twins. All she wants is a duke assignment. Stuart Morton, Lord Galcrest, gives her the nickname ‘the mouse’ when he hires her as a joke for his friends, he’s never taken life seriously and doesn’t want to start now. But when they arrive, bickering, at the home of the duc d’Allaire, everything changes. There’s a mysterious rift between their hosts, and both Elizabeth and Stuart are plunged into situations neither can control…

And there are three more books in the series – so click here to see them all!

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READ NOW: Don’t Fancy Your Chance

When a rake isn’t all what he seems, and a woman he’s overlooked suddenly catches his eye, a battle of wits – and wills – is about to begin… Read this book NOW – free in Kindle Unlimited!

Lord Alexander Chance has a reputation he doesn’t deserve—and one he’s trying to avoid.

That’s the trouble with allowing your friends to bed widows in your name; it keeps scandal from their door, but marks you out as the biggest rogue in Society.

Alexander never minded, but now he’s got Lady Marjorie Dalton, prim and proper and hater of liars, in his sights, and all of a sudden this rakish reputation is not helping his seduction techniques: it’s hindering him.

Lady Marjorie Dalton can hardly believe the scoundrel of Society is attempting to seduce her, and she is asbsolutely, definitely, positively not going to fall for it.

Even when Alexander opens up and is vulnerable about his past.

Even when he reveals he cannot offer marriage yet with no income, but wants to.

Even when they get trapped at an inn during a storm and she asks him to ravish—wait a moment.

Lady Marjorie had never fancied Alexander’s chances, but her walls are crumbling and only a terrible scandal can force them apart.

When it does, will Alexander be brave enough to face Society…or lose his love forever?

This novel continues the highly anticipated Chance family drama, with sixteen cousins and triple the problems. Tropes include: rake/wallflower, only one bed, redeem the rake, and of course, Emily E K Murdoch’s tried and true method of sizzling, joyful romance.

This full length novel is a steamy Regency romance with a happily ever after, no cliffhangers, and is part of a series that can be read in any order.

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Have you read my series ‘Ravishing Regencies’?

My first ever Regency romance series is eight years old, can you believe it? The entire series is in Kindle Unlimited, so if you’re a member you can read all fourteen books for free…

Lord George Northmere is tired of his lonely existence, and makes the radical decision to go against the ton and society’s rules, and seek out comfort in the arms of a courtesan. But in all his thirty years, he has never met anyone quite like the fiery Miss Florence Capria.

After travelling to England to seek her fortune – leaving behind the shame of her family – she has found nothing but boredom and servanthood. Resigned to return to Italy empty handed, Florence seeks out a ship to take her home…

This book is 0.99, and is in Kindle Unlimited.

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Alexander, the Duke of Caershire, wasn’t expecting to drag a half-drowned woman from the Thames, but there seems little to do but help the bedraggled woman home.

Teresa Metcalfe, courtesan to the rich and famous, knows a fool when she sees one, but her instincts to rob him melt away as she discovers just why he was walking the docks that night…

This book is in Kindle Unlimited.

Pierre d’Épiluçon never expected to leave France, let alone flee for his life. After losing control of his vessel, the twenty-eight-year-old noblesse is rescued by a fisherman’s daughter.

Helena, desperate to escape her own version of entrapment of dreary familial expectation, tries to nurse Pierre back to health and their opposing status – and political views – collide. The growing attraction between them, of course, seems to have just one cure…

This book is 2.99, and is in Kindle Unlimited.

And there are twelve more books in the series – so click here to see them all!