Catherine, Villers just seemed to me like one of those guys who’s so good on paper but… I loved Gabrielle because she was human enough to fall for him a little and I loved her even more because she was wise enough not to fall all the way.

You must be the first reader who sees eye-to-eye with me with regard to Villers. Others have told me that Gabrielle was too hard to please: here comes this brilliant, rich, fashionable man, and he is so convincing when he says he loves her, and he wants to marry her, and it would be so much better for her daughter… The point is, Gabrielle has pretty good instincts, and she has become wise to the ways of the world.

As for other books, Book 2 (For The King?) should be out next year, and Book 3 will be a prequel to “Mistress of the Revolution.” Maybe not really a prequel, but you will meet the Montserrats again, just a few years before the birth of Gabrielle. Each of these books will be different from the other in style, and almost in genre, because I write for fun, and I don’t want to be stuck in a rut. They will all be historicals, though.

But maybe Book 4 will be the true sequel to “Mistress”: Gabrielle’s life in England, as she tries to navigate the world of the emigres et the trials of her personal situation. And it’s already half-written, thanks to the cuts I made in my manuscript!