About Battle

I write Regency historical romance with the precision of a historian and the heart of a lifelong reader.

Before I wrote fiction, I spent my career as a historian and museum curator at state history museums, writing carefully and accurately about the real things people leave behind: artifacts, records, and the evidence of lives lived. I grew up reading Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, and Phyllis Whitney. I wrote romantic short stories as a teenager. A college professor told me I should write professionally.

I did not, for a long time.

When I came back to fiction at retirement, encouraged by my sister to write in the style of authors I had loved since childhood, I brought everything I had learned with me: a historian's eye for period detail, a curator's instinct for what matters, and decades of reading the best Regency writers who ever put pen to paper.

My Regency novels are set in a world I have spent decades studying. The social rules are real. The historical details are earned. And the women at the center of my stories refuse to be defined by what Society expects of them.

My first series, The Etonians, is a completed five-book Regency romance series. My second series, The Graces, follows Grace Trelawny and each of her five seminary pupils as they navigate propriety, love, and the quiet courage it takes to build a life on your own terms.

If you enjoy Austenesque fiction, intelligent heroines, and romance built on patience and letters rather than convenience, I think we will get along very well.