Book Unboxing Video for The True Confessions of a London Spy

I have a confession to make.

I love snow.

Not the “it’s March and it’s been snowing non-stop for five months and my car just slid off the road” snow. But in general, I love snow. Watching it fall, bundling up and walking through a snow-filled forest, making snow angels with my kids, drinking hot cocoa next to a fire with snow falling outside the window.

Mary Bennet doesn’t necessarily feel so positively about snow. In January and February of 1814 London received feet of snow (at one point, there were mounds of snow five feet high). It got so cold that the Thames River froze over and an ice fair was held on it. Which all is part of my book The True Confessions of a London Spy.

My advance copies of The True Confessions of a London Spy arrived, so I just had to unbox them in the snow.

The weather is practically a character in the book. Here’s a short excerpt of the first few chapters which gives a feel for the book and a taste of the snow:

When Miss Mary Bennet agreed to become a spy for the British government, she had not realised how many dead bodies the job would entail. True, since accidentally discovering a corpse on the beach in Worthing she had not seen any additional individuals bereft of life, but now she was headed to London for her first time in an official capacity, and she already had an appointment to call upon a corpse.

The carriage windows fogged with the warmth of their breaths. Despite pressing her feet against a hot rock, Mary’s toes felt frigid. She shifted closer to Fanny, one of her fellow spies, to better share the blanket they held over themselves. The other inhabitant of the carriage, a spy named Mr. Withrow, rubbed his gloved hands together.

Snow continued to fall outside the carriage, adding to the piles already on the London streets. A man stood on a roof, pushing at the two or three feet of accumulated snow. It fell heavily onto the walk and road below, to the anger of a couple who had walked into the snow shower.

The book comes out on March 1, 2022, but it is now available for preorder–links are on the main page on my website for The True Confessions of a London Spy. Preordering helps show initial support for the book and makes sure that the publisher prints enough copies.

And now, I should get back to editing book 3 in the series, which comes out late next year.