Location: United Kingdom
Member Since:
July 23, 2009
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Cari Hislop
Biography
I’m an American married to an adorable English Goblin who makes me laugh every day. I’m an artist with a degree in fashion design, but I’ve always been a story teller. Stories are everywhere; in every scent, every glimpse out of the corner of the eye. The most magical moments of my life have been born of ‘what if?’.
I’ve been making up stories as long as I can remember, but I was ten before I 'wrote' my first story. It was a romance - the young girl’s parents are killed by a plane falling on their house so of course she moves to England. Don’t ask me where she got the money or the passport!
I knew I wanted to grow up to be an author. All my artistic talents converge on my favorite subject: people. I find both individuals and general humanity endlessly fascinating.
My genre: Regency romances (historical romances set in late Georgian England)
Rated: PG13 (PG13 as in 1985)
Style: Each of my stories tend to have their own humor depending on the character's personalities, but they always make me laugh. My plots are character driven and my stories evolve with the characters. Other than the hero and heroine somehow ending up together at the end, I never know what will really happen in the story until it happens.
Note: After much deliberation I decided to use English spelling rather than American English spelling in my stories. This will sadly irritate some people, but the USA is the only country to use American spelling while the rest of the English speaking world uses English spelling.
I don't think of my books as a series, but all my characters inhabit the same Regency Universe. Most of the main characters are either related or know of each other so my stories often intertwine.
If you ever have any questions about my stories or would like to receive an e-mail to let you know I've finished a book please e-mail me at... cari.hislop@regencyromancenovels.com
Happy Reading!
Cari Hislop
I’ve been making up stories as long as I can remember, but I was ten before I 'wrote' my first story. It was a romance - the young girl’s parents are killed by a plane falling on their house so of course she moves to England. Don’t ask me where she got the money or the passport!
I knew I wanted to grow up to be an author. All my artistic talents converge on my favorite subject: people. I find both individuals and general humanity endlessly fascinating.
My genre: Regency romances (historical romances set in late Georgian England)
Rated: PG13 (PG13 as in 1985)
Style: Each of my stories tend to have their own humor depending on the character's personalities, but they always make me laugh. My plots are character driven and my stories evolve with the characters. Other than the hero and heroine somehow ending up together at the end, I never know what will really happen in the story until it happens.
Note: After much deliberation I decided to use English spelling rather than American English spelling in my stories. This will sadly irritate some people, but the USA is the only country to use American spelling while the rest of the English speaking world uses English spelling.
I don't think of my books as a series, but all my characters inhabit the same Regency Universe. Most of the main characters are either related or know of each other so my stories often intertwine.
If you ever have any questions about my stories or would like to receive an e-mail to let you know I've finished a book please e-mail me at... cari.hislop@regencyromancenovels.com
Happy Reading!
Cari Hislop
Where to find Cari Hislop online
Books
Once Upon a Wager
by Cari Hislop
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 81,010.
Language:
British English.
Published: August 30, 2016.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Regency
For Lord Finley, the London season is supposed to be about pleasure, but every season without fail, his pleasure is disturbed by the harpy, Miss Theodora Sheffield. For nine years the woman with moss-green eyes has turned every season into a battle of wits. This year, Finley is determined to avoid the woman, except he can’t seem to evict her from his thoughts, which makes him loathe her even more.
Dancing the Maypole
by Cari Hislop
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 136,650.
Language:
British English.
Published: March 29, 2013.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Family sagas
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Taller than most men, Isabel de Bourbon has rejected numerous proposals of marriage. There is only one honourable man big enough to be her flesh and blood hero. A private scribbler of romances, Isabel has been penning the adventures of Pierre, a literary doppelganger of Peter Smirke, Viscount Adderbury.
Introducing Smirke
by Cari Hislop
Price:
Free!
Words: 8,850.
Language:
English.
Published: December 20, 2010.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Romance » General
(4.33 from 3 reviews)
This free short story is an introduction to John Smirke, who is the main character in my full-length novel, An Unlikely Hero.
This story is recommended reading prior to reading An Unlikely Hero.
An Unlikely Hero
by Cari Hislop
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 65,260.
Language:
English.
Published: December 20, 2010.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Romance » General
(4.33 from 3 reviews)
John Smirke’s black marble heart has an insatiable need to be loved and admired, but his only developed talent is causing creative misery. Outside his immediate family he’s universally hated. The word love has no emotional definition in his brain while the word romance can only be conceived as a state of heightened sexual pleasure...
Redeeming a Rake
by Cari Hislop
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 73,290.
Language:
English.
Published: December 20, 2010.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Psychological
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Geoffrey Lyndsey Grayson, the thirteen Duke of Lyndhurst, is trapped in an emotional winter. His childhood dream of finding love is frozen under thick sheets of ice along with his heart. He feels nothing but discomfort as he passively waits for death to end the nothingness. He knows it's too late for love...
Taming the Shrew
by Cari Hislop
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 24,030.
Language:
English.
Published: July 31, 2009.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Regency Romance. The wealthy Miss Juliana Browne has a number of problems; she’s twenty-five, her hair is red, she’s on the shelf. Her only known admirer is Hervey De Vere, a freckled orange-haired fortune hunter who looks eighteen. After three years of continuous snubs, he’s still chasing her with endless offers of gallantry and proposals of marriage.
The Invisible Husband
by Cari Hislop
Price:
$0.99 USD.
Words: 40,300.
Language:
English.
Published: July 29, 2009.
Categories:
Fiction » Humor & comedy » Black comedy
(4.29 from 7 reviews)
Miss Eve Venables knows nothing about the man who’s persuaded her parents to deliver her to a country church in the middle of the night, not even his name. Four men in black hooded cloaks escort Eve up the aisle where she’s married by proxy to a man named Adam Harold Damian Latham, sixth Earl of Latham. The name Latham is familiar, but she can’t remember why...
The Hired Wife
by Cari Hislop
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 76,730.
Language:
English.
Published: July 25, 2009.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Crime
(3.80 from 5 reviews)
A Regency Romance. Marshall Godfrey the 8th Viscount Raynham needs a wife, but all efforts to acquire one through normal channels have failed. Time has run out. His twin sisters are being launched into society, but he can only hear sounds close by. He plans to hire a woman to hover at his shoulder and repeat into his ear what people are saying, but he can’t take a secretary into polite society.
A Companion for Life
by Cari Hislop
Price:
$2.99 USD.
Words: 64,150.
Language:
English.
Published: July 24, 2009.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Psychological
(4.25 from 4 reviews)
A Regency Romance.
Penryth Bowen knows Lily Leigh is in need of rescue, but saving her means making her his wife. He’s undecided until he discovers Lily has been battered black and blue, but true kindness is a condition that requires self knowledge of one’s motives and an understanding that even well meant actions can have unforeseen consequences that are anything, but kind.
Lucky in Love
by Cari Hislop
Price:
Free!
Words: 33,430.
Language:
English.
Published: July 24, 2009.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Regency, Fiction » Humor & comedy » General
(4.00 from 16 reviews)
A Regency Romance. Lord Warenne accepts a wager to court a desperate old maid he’s never seen and have his marriage proposal rejected in front of witnesses. He knows he’ll win; he’s lucky. But sometimes good luck is really bad luck wearing a tawdry wig and lots of face paint. Fate flips its coin. Lord Warenne finds his world upside down when he realises that sometimes to win is to lose.
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