Elizabeth Ellen Carter - Author

Lady Alexandra Gedding is young, impetuous, and impoverished. And she just won’t take no for an answer. David Manston is a disgraced baron. The reasons for his disgrace is why he’s trying to keep her out of his life. Then strange happenings at the Geddings’ rundown Cornish tin mine add danger to their relationship, at the same time as Alexandra’s notorious godmother, Lady Abigail, comes into knowledge of David’s darkest secret. Spy Another Day is Book 3 in the series The King’s Rogues by Elizabeth Ellen Carter. Find it on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Pirkbf Elizabeth Ellen Carter: https://elizabethellencarter.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ElizabethEllenCarter Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elizabeth_ellen_carter/ Video: Business Communications Management https://bcm-online.com.au/ Music: Funk That Feelings by MoodMode, used under license from Storyblocks https://www.storyblocks.com/ Image: Ingram Image, used under license.

The third book in my Heart of the Corsairs series is something of a rollercoaster ride of emotions. Shadow of the Corsairs is a historical whodunnit, an action thriller about grief, loss, and betrayal. It's also about coming to terms with those things and finding a way to move on. A prequel to the first two installments in the series, it can also be read as a standalone. However, the tone of Shadow's ending and the cycle of the stories is best appreciated having first read Captive and Revenge. Read the blurb for Shadow of the Corsairs on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Z8XWYD Music: Media Music Group used under license from Storyblocks.com Image used under license from Ingram Image.

A hellfire club is certainly no place for a well brought-up young lady. But antiques expert Jade Bridges, the heroine in my romantic Regency thriller A Curio for the Count, is determined to locate the Thalatte clock for her client. So when the trail leads to the home of Lord Kingston Prendegast, she risks signing up as a serving girl at one of his dubious ‘parties’ so she can slip away to look around the house. The original 1718 Hellfire Club was actually a satirical ‘gentleman's club’ which admitted men and women as equals to eat, drink, and mock the establishment of the day. But the later version established in 1746 was much more the image we have of them today – a male domain of orgiastic excess featuring food, wine, and paid female ‘guests’. My favorite depiction of a hellfire club was in the 1966 episode of The Avengers titled A Touch of Brimstone in which Emma Peel and John Steed investigate a secret society re-enacting hellfire activities. It was so risqué that it wasn’t screened in the US and was partially cut for UK television, the entire episode remaining unseen until the 1990s. Find my novel A Curio for the Count on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3BHvQdI Music: Take Your Time by LiQWYD. Used under license from Storyblocks. Images: Masked Girl and Girl in Blue Dress licensed by Ingram Image.

Challenge accepted! Can awkward and self-conscious Lady Rosaleigh Ayres overcome her clumsiness? Perhaps the answer lies in dicing with the duke, Simon Quinn. There’s more to the game of backgammon than the roll of the dice… Find Dicing with the Duke on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3wCwshw Video produced by Business Communications Management https://bcm-online.com.au/ Music: Falling In Love by LiQWYD. Used under licence from Storyblocks.

Mean girls aren’t a modern thing – they’ve been around forever. The assembly rooms and ballrooms of Regency England were full of them looking to ruin their rivals’ day. For example – bitchy Lady Sylvia Haughton and her entourage of sharp-tongued harpies picking on socially-awkward Lady Rosaleigh Ayers in the historical romance Dicing with the Duke. Find it on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3wCwshw Video by Business Communications Management https://bcm-online.com.au/ Music: I'll Be With You by MoodMode. Used under license from Storyblocks https://www.storyblocks.com/ Image used under license from Ingram Image.

Simon Quinn comes to the role of Duke of Witherin after the untimely death of his cousin and best friend, Timothy. It’s a sad happenstance that colors his view of a title he never expected to inherit and a particular requirement that now falls on his shoulders. Find my novella Dicing with the Duke on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3wCwshw More about the story: https://elizabethellencarter.com/dicing-with-the-duke/ Video: Business Communications Management https://bcm-online.com.au/ Music: Ballero by Ardie Son. Used under licence from Storyblocks Audio.

Sometimes relationship get off to a rocky start. A light-hearted moment in a deadly serious story. Find Captive of the Corsairs on Amazon: https://amzn.to/40g2WMm Video: Business Communications Management. Music: LiQWYD. Used under license from Storyblocks.com Thumbnail image: Ingram Image.

Governess Olivia Collins’ last task for the Denton family is to sort papers and pack clothes at their Cornish manor after Squire Denton’s widow – his second wife - leaves for London. Then Olivia, whose 16-year-old charge is now too old for a governess, will be out of work. Alone in the house, what she uncovers as she helps settle the estate is the mystery of Squire Denton’s first wife and an earlier child whose existence has been erased completely. But why? Live and Let Spy is a historical suspense thriller set in Cornwall in 1804. It's the first novel in my series The King's Rogues. Find Live and Let Spy on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3WGi3g1 Books by Elizabeth Ellen Carter: https://elizabethellencarter.com/books/ Video by Business Communications Management | https://bcm-online.com.au/ Image used under license from Ingram Image. Music by Media Music Group. Used under license from Storyblocks.com

Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel is a tourist destination today. There are day trips and holiday cottages. But you wouldn't have wanted to stay there in the 1600s. Various villains occupied Lundy then, including Barbary pirates who raided ships leaving Bristol to enslave their crews and passengers for sale in Algiers. I enjoyed creating the athletic proto-parkour expert Gabriel Hardacre who joins a counter-raid on Lundy to rescue the woman he loves. The deWolfe of Wharf Street on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3SA2oh2 Video by Business Communications Management bcm-online.com.au Music: Tell the Truth by LiQWYD. Used under license from Storyblocks.com

Auction day at the Bridges’ sale room brings a mixed bag of items up for disposal from the simply unwanted to goods being converted to desperately needed cash. Impoverished nobility was not uncommon at any time in history – unfortunate circumstances or poor judgement could leave wealthy and titled families ‘on their uppers’ at any time. Jane Austen wrote about it in her novels Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasion. In the former, the Dashwood sisters and their widowed mother lose the family estate due to bereavement; in the latter, a family’s lavish spending leaves them in disastrous debt. In the late 19th century and into the 20th century, declining income from estates and sweeping societal changes led to the inability of the nobility to maintain lavish houses. The 1935 romantic comedy film The Ghost Goes West is an amusing take on the struggles of a laird besieged by creditors. Find A Curio for the Count by Elizabeth Ellen Carter on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3BHvQdI The Ghost Goes West on Archive.org: http://bit.ly/3HxSetc Audio: Take Your Time by LiQWYD. Used under license from Storyblocks. Image used under license from Ingram Image.

When writing a scene for A Curio for the Count in which antiques expert Jade and her brother Edward visit an elderly client to value his huge collection of clocks, I thought it logical that the man’s butler would be equally aged. Once I realized I was mentally envisaging him as similar to the decrepit retainer Henry from the 1936 crime comedy After The Thin Man, I couldn’t get the image out of my head. Interestingly, Henry the butler was played (uncredited, no less) by a pioneer of the American movie industry, Tom Ricketts. He played Ebenezer Scrooge in the first US film adaptation of A Christmas Carol in 1908, and directed one of the first films made in Hollywood. He directed dozens of silents before becoming a character actor. Find A Curio for the Count on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3BHvQdI Audio: Take Your Time by LiQWYD. Used under license from Storyblocks. Image used under license from Ingram Image.

To evade the ladies hoping to bag a duke, Simon Quinn heads for a quiet corner in the ballroom. But who should he find there? Perhaps it takes a wallflower to catch one! Dicing with the Duke is a Regency romance of wallflowers and backgammon from USA Today bestselling author Elizabeth Ellen Carter. Find Dicing with the Duke on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3wCwshw Video produced by Business Communications Management https://bcm-online.com.au/ Music: Falling In Love by LiQWYD. Used under license from Storyblocks. Image: Ingram Image. Used under license.

Sage advice for a young woman with difficult decisions to make after an unimaginable ordeal. The sequel to Captive of the Corsairs, book two of three in the series Heart of the Corsairs. Find Revenge of the Corsairs on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3YBd0OF Video: Business Communications Management. Music: Now by Himanshu Katara. Licensed by Storyblocks.