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Meet Shehanne Moore

Today, I am thrilled to introduce Smexy Historical Romance author, Shehanne Moore, for my May author interview on LatinosUSA.

Shehanne and her literary hamstah friends have a great blog where they share all sorts of conversations about books, reading, and authors. You can read their latest post here: https://shehannemoore.wordpress.com/2026/03/14/eternity-jones-and-the-lure-of-undercover-excisemen/

Tell us a bit about Shehanne Moore and the history of your writing and romantic historical novels

Well I live in Scotland, indeed I’m a Scot born and bred and I put a lot of making up stories back to whiling away quite lonely hours as a child due to ill health. Books were something I devoured actually so I guess the logical outcome was story and silly little plays writing–constantly. Couple that with living in a town with the highest amount of cinemas per head of population in Europe and well… it was a lethal mix. I can hardly remember not writing actually–and not just my name either– and logically I’ve done freelance journalism, journal editing, toured a play I wrote–a historical– worked in girls comics. But behind it all my love was always for the past and historicals which led me to have a look at the historical romance market because it seemed a way in, seeing as historicals as in sprawling epics which I had boxes of were not popular.

What, or who, was the inspiration for Lady Fury?

-Now you’re asking, I don’t think there was any definite person or incident that inspired Lady Fury. Like that I’d been knocking about for a year or two trying to write a historical romance–not very successfully I have to say because I preferred sprawling epics–when suddenly the idea of a woman in her predicament flashed into my mind. And as always once the pairing got on the page, well, the spanners started being thrown in the works. I mean she was meant to be no end of respectable, he was meant to be an old friend, nobly prepared to help her out, so believe me, no one was more astonished than me when the suddenly pirate down on his luck hero alluded to business in Jamaica, he was prepared to blackmail her over.

What draws you to writing historical romantic novels?

Apart from the fact I don’t know if I’d be any good at writing something modern, my love of history and the past. We look across time but feelings, attitudes, behaviour, to name a few things, don’t really change. Do we have the same dreams, hopes and fears as our ancestors did? Probably, if we boil it down. We may not live as they did–it’s good to have plumbing for a start–but there’s things that don’t change, things we can identify with as I think you showed recently when you shared a poem about you and your mum leaving behind the life you knew for another one and how you till have and love each other all these years later. Universal things are timeless.

How do you go about doing research for your novels

In some ways I don’t. I start with a premise . Then I think where and what kind of leads. Then I start and hope for the best, often hitting the worst because I don’t have a clue where anything is going. Because I love the past, I probably read a lot of social histories of eras and places as opposed to the big ticket kind of events, because it is how people lived and did things that interest me. And there’s nothing I like better than visiting old places and

squirreling bits of them away, some to weave into a story, some to sit on the shelf. Finer details like an article of clothing, how letters were sent, etc, I will check in a book or online, if I am unsure, so I can be sure that if a plot point depends on something I’ve got I right.

What’s next for Sheyanne Moore?

Now you’re asking. Firstly a reissuing of a book I got my rights back on that I would like to put out the way I wanted it to be. Then a tying up of a few series actually, starting with my last series since that is a series I wrote for myself not a publisher, so I wasn’t ‘sewn’ to a series contract that way.

My review of The Unraveling of Lady Fury by Shehanne Moore

What Amazon says

Genoa 1820

Rule One: There will be no kissing. Rule two: You will be fully clothed at all times…

Widowed Lady Fury Shelton hasn’t lost everything—yet. As long as she produces the heir to the Beaumont dukedom, she just might be able to keep her position. And her secrets. But when the callously irresistible Captain James “Flint” Blackmoore sails back into her life, Lady Fury panics. She must find a way to protect herself—and her future—from the man she’d rather see rotting in hell than sleeping in her bed. If she must bed him to keep her secrets, so be it. But she doesn’t have to like it. A set of firm rules for the bedroom will ensure that nothing goes awry. Because above all else, she must stop herself from wanting the one thing that Flint can never give her. His heart.

Ex-privateer Flint Blackmoore has never been good at following the rules. Now, once again embroiled in a situation with the aptly named Lady Fury, he has no idea why he doesn’t simply do the wise thing and walk away. He knows he’s playing with fire, and that getting involved with her again is more dangerous than anything on the high seas. But he can’t understand why she’s so determined to hate him. He isn’t sure if the secret she keeps will make things harder—or easier—for him, but as the battle in the bedroom heats up, he knows at least one thing. Those silly rules of hers will have to go…

My review

I don’t read much in the romance genre so I wasn’t sure if I’d enjoy this novel, but I did. In fact, it was hugely entertaining. I loved the sassy, spicy character of Lady Fury who was well matched by ex-privateer, Flint Blackmoore, who is turns out to be a lot more sincere and decent that he initially apprears.

Lady Fury is in a pickle. Her husband is dead and she can only inherit from his wealthy family if she delivers an heir. Determined not to loose the societal position and wealth she has worked so hard to attain, Lady Fury sets out to provide an heir. She has carefully collected secrets about various potential ‘fathers’ and will use them to keep her plans and the paternity of the planned child a secret. The men are summons to her home where Fury auditions them for the part of father.

Unfortunately, Flint Blackmoore, a man with whom Fury has a passionate history, reappears as the servant to one of the potential fathers. Naturally, this upsets Fury’s carefully laid plans and she has to attempt to adjust them accordingly.

There are some steamy scenes in the novel but they are a natural part of the story and the book in its entirety was enjoyable. There is a lightness to Shehanne Moore’s writing that is very appealing and refreshing. Her research is evident and the time period in which her story unfolds is well described and interesting.

Despite the characters going through various heartbreaks and misunderstandings, this is an uplifting frolic of a romance which I thoroughly enjoyed.

Purchase The Unraveling of Lady Fury from Amazon US here: https://www.amazon.com/Unraveling-Lady-Fury-Shehanne-Moore-ebook/dp/B07MYMVRVD

About Shehanne Moore

Shehanne is a Dundonian by birth, stayed over the water in Newport-On-Tay for a while and now lives in Broughty Ferry, with her husband Mr Shey. She has two daughters and three very special grandies.

What hasn’t she worked at while pursuing her dream of becoming a published author. In addition to editing a journal, freelance journalism, jointly writing am alternative health book for Mainstream Press, and comic strip stories for girls’ comics, she also ran a private music and drama business for the best part of 30 years. She was thrilled to sell her first book, The Unraveling of Lady Fury to Etopia Press six days after subbing it

When not writing historical romance, where goals and desires of sassy, unconventional heroines and ruthless men, collide, Shehanne loves spending time with her family, hugging inn signs in her beloved Scottish mountains, playing the odd musical instrument, making driftwood art with driftwood collected from the shore, running a small theatre group and what in any other country, would not be defined, as hill-walking….

Find Shehanne Moore

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https://uk.pinterest.com/shehanne/

https://www.facebook.com/ShehanneMoore/

https://www.facebook.com/p/Shehanne-Moore-100045944605834/

About Robbie Cheadle

South African author, photographer, and artist, Robbie Cheadle, has written and illustrated seventeen children’s books, illustrated a further three children’s books, written and illustrated four poetry books and written and illustrated one celebration of cake and fondant art book with recipes. Her work has also appeared in poetry and short story anthologies.

Robbie also has two novels and a collection of short stories published under the name of Roberta Eaton Cheadle and has horror, paranormal, and fantasy short stories featured in several anthologies under this name.

You can find Robbie Cheadle’s artwork, fondant and cake artwork, and all her books on her website here: https://www.robbiecheadle.co.za/

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