The Stepping
Series
Historical romance set between London, Algeria and Spain
What if love knew no boundaries?
If you’re craving a historical romance that focuses on the art of falling in love, redemption and forgetting the past more than scenes in the bedroom…
The Stepping Series is for you.
If you love Pride & Prejudice, Emma, Bridgerton (if it were closed-door) and Poldark…
You’ll feel right at home here.
Love only burns brighter when challenged.
A series that defies timelines.
Travel from Algeria to London in Stepping Across the Desert.
Travel from London to Spain in Stepping Across the English Channel.
And travel from Hyde Park to the South of the Thames in Stepping Across the Thames (coming fall 2026).
Steady, slow-burn romances set in Victorian England.
The Stepping Series explores love that defies the societal rules.
Whether it is forgiving the past in order to make for a more perfect future, asking if two cultures and two religions can truly find love or seeking a second chance, the Stepping Series will defy your expectations of Victorian Romance.
Can love rewrite their stories?
When Rowena, a young Englishwoman, finds herself torn from a life of privilege and thrust into slavery, her world is upended. Gifted one day to Mr. Sutton—an Englishman grappling with the immorality of owning another human being—Rowena takes it as an opportunity to get home.
Christophe plans to rid himself of the woman as soon as he can, but as they travel back to England, Christophe finds his heart more and more entangled with her. It's an affection that threatens to upend his life in English society, but one he can't shake. When she disappears, his heart is in tatters.
Once in London, where society is bound by rigid class and gender expectations, Rowena becomes the noblewoman she always was. But a chance encounter with Christophe pushes her to question if a love outside the rules of society can survive.
Meet the Characters
Rowena
Five years after being sold by her maid, Rowena finds herself in the mountains of Algeria where she is sure she will live out her life.
Until an Englishman appears who will change her fate forever.
He is her chance to return to England. Which she will take. Even if it means betraying him.
Christophe
Christophe is in Algeria for business. And to run away from his past.
He never expected his client to gift him a girl slave.
He never expected to fall in love with the girl and for her to runaway.
And he certainly never expected to find that slave girl in London as a baron’s daughter.
Synopsis
They thought marriage would be easy, but marriage is never convenient.
“The will says the house is ‘for you, your wife and children, Philip.’ But you have no wife. Therefore, the house is mine.”
It’s 1836, England. At only 33, Philip Daucer planned to explore the world, then settle down. But with his brother threatening his inheritance, Phillip is backed into a corner. Determined to save what he inherited—and beat his brother at his own game—Phillip sets out to find a wife.
In faraway Spain, Carmen Suárez is reeling from a failed relationship. Enter Phillip, a man who makes her heart soar. Tall, handsome and very English, he offers marriage and adventure—life in another country. Sadly, Philip is proposing they marry for convenience—he will offer her the security of marriage, if she helps him keep his house, Carmen accepts his terms.
But as they rush to solve their immediate problems, Phillip and Carmen open themselves to clashes over culture and religion. Putting love secondary to his inheritance, Phillip asks too much of Carmen. Disappointed, she considers returning to Spain.
When threatened with stronger adversaries than expected, Philip and Carmen must change course before one house and one secret add up to potential disaster. When their marriage becomes anything but convenient, can they let love win?
Meet the Characters
Carmen
Carmen is still reeling from being dumped instead of being proposed to by Dr. Miguel. All because he, as an eye doctor, doesn’t wish for a woman with poor eye sight.
Philip is handsome, clever and quite humorous. And possibly her last chance at marriage and motherhood. But moving to another country isn’t as easy as it sounds. As Carmen is about to find out.
Philip
Philip doesn’t believe in marriage, but he needs a wife in order to keep his inheritance.
When he meets Carmen during his travels to Spain, he is immediately smitten. But marriage, and love, are so much more than physical attraction. Something he is about to find out.
Let’s Start a New Chapter
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