Allison & Busby signs two-book deal for Orchard’s ‘steamy’ Regency series

Allison & Busby has signed a two-book deal with début author Emma Orchard, the pen name for agent and LBA co-founder Alison Bonomi. 

Lesley Crooks, publishing manager, acquired world rights from Diana Beaumont at the Marjacq Agency. The Second Lady Silverwood will be published in April 2023 with The Runaway Heiress following in October 2023. 

The first instalment in Orchard’s “hot” Regency series follows Sir Benedict Silverwood who “needs a new wife, an heir and a mother for his young daughter”. Although the “outlandish” Kate Moreton is suggested, the idea begins to grow on Benedict while Kate has already been in love with him for years. The publisher continued: “When Kate steps into her new life as Benedict’s wife, sparks fly, though it becomes clear that there are incendiary secrets that threaten their fragile new life together. So, will he be able to love and trust the second Lady Silverwood?”