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About An Improbable Season
For fans of Bridgerton, a Regency romance by Rosalyn Eves about three young women, their big dreams, and a London Season gone awry.
When Thalia, Kalliope, and Charis set off to Regency London for their first Season, they each have clear goals—few of which include matrimony. Thalia means to make her mark among the intelligentsia and publish her poetry, Charis hopes to earn her place among the scientific elite, and Kalliope aims to take the fashionable ton by storm. But this Season, it doesn’t take long for things to fall apart. Kalli finds herself embroiled in scandal and reliant upon an arranged marriage to redeem her reputation, Thalia’s dreams of publication are threatened by her attraction to a charming rake, and Charis finds herself an unexpected social hit—and the source of a family scandal that her heart might not survive. Can this roller-coaster Season find its happily ever after?
An Improbable Season is a voicy, swoony regency drama about falling in love—with another person, with new opportunities, and with yourself.
About Beyond the Mapped Stars
A sweeping adventure, set in the late 19th century, about science, love, and finding your place in the world, perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys and Julie Berry.
Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Bertelsen dreams of becoming an astronomer, but she knows such dreams are as unreachable as the stars she so deeply adores. As a Mormon girl, her duty is to her family and, in a not too far away future, to the man who’ll choose to marry her.
When she unexpectedly finds herself in Colorado, she’s tempted by the total eclipse of the sun that’s about to happen—and maybe even meeting up with the female scientists she’s long admired. Elizabeth must learn to navigate this new world of possibility: with her familial duties and faith tugging at her heartstrings, a new romance on the horizon, and the study of the night sky calling to her, she can’t possibly have it all…can she?
About Blood Rose Rebellion
Born into high British society, Anna Arden has been groomed for a position she will never fill. Though a member of the Luminates—the ruling class who use magic to exercise power—Anna cannot perform the simplest spells. But sometimes, by accident, she breaks them. After drawing unwanted attention from the magical elite, Anna is sent from England to her family’s once powerful but now oppressed native Hungary.
Her life might as well be over.
But Anna soon realizes that nothing is as it seems. The people around her hold dangerous secrets—from her aloof cousin Noémi to the fierce and handsome Romani Gábor to the magic-wielding Luminates. The society she’s known all her life is crumbling into discontent. And her lack of magic may mean more than she imagines.
In the company of nobles, revolutionaries, and Romanies, Anna must choose: deny her unique powers and cling to the life she’s always wanted, or embrace her gift, spark a rebellion, and change the world forever.
Blood Rose Rebellion is the first in a new fantasy trilogy bursting with magic, romance, and danger.
Author Bio (short)
Rosalyn Eves grew up in the Rocky Mountains, dividing her time between reading books and bossing her siblings into performing her dramatic scripts. As an adult, the telling and reading of stories are still some of her favorite things to do. When she’s not reading or writing, she enjoys spending time with her chemistry professor husband and three children, watching British period pieces, or hiking through the splendid landscape of southern Utah, where she lives. She dislikes housework on principle.
She has a PhD in English from Penn State and teaches English at Southern Utah University.
Rosalyn is represented by Josh Adams of Adams literary.
Author Bio (longer)
Rosalyn decided she wanted to be an author when she was eleven and spent the next several years writing very bad poetry and indifferent short stories. She wrote her first novella in junior high (bad enough that she has blocked out most of it, though her sister likes to quote parts of it at her when she wants to torment her), and her first novel in high school.
She lost a little bit of direction in college—after revising her (very long) novel, she set aside creative writing to focus on school. She did spend a semester in England, which only inflamed a life-long Anglophilia, and spent three weeks afterward backpacking across Europe, where she encountered Budapest for the first time. She took a year-and-a-half hiatus to live in Hungary, where she fell in love with the people, the language, and the culture.
After graduating with a degree in honors English, she went to graduate school at Penn State, where she earned her MA and PhD in English (with an emphasis in rhetoric and composition). Not so incidentally, she met her chemistry professor husband there (he was a fellow doctoral student), and had her first kid just before writing her dissertation.
When her second child was little, she realized that the book she meant to write someday would never happen if she didn’t start now, so in between teaching college courses and wrangling children, she wrote a middle-grade novel that taught her a lot about writing but didn’t otherwise go anywhere. Her next book was a young adult fantasy that combined all the things she loved—19th century history, magic, complicated stakes. That book got her an agent and a book deal. The final book of the Blood Rose Rebellion trilogy Winter War Awakening hits shelves March 2019.
If you had told her when she was eleven quite how long it would take to finally publish a book, she might have been daunted. But she’s grateful for the journey.
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Book Testimonials
An Improbable Season
“An Improbable Season will delight fans of regency novels, containing just enough twists and turns to keep the familiar beats and tropes exciting. Eves pens compelling romantic moments, but the real strength of this novel is the depiction of the strong love the young women have for each other.” —Booklist
“I adored every page. It was a Little Women meets Pride and Prejudice romance that charmed and entertained me thoroughly.”—Kasie West, author of Sunkissed
“If you’re looking for your next Bridgerton-esque fix, it’s all too probable you’ll find An Improbable Season as utterly charming as I did.”—Jennieke Cohen, author of My Fine Fellow and Dangerous Alliance
Beyond the Mapped Stars
A *STARRED* review from School Library Journal: VERDICT An excellent addition to YA historical fiction collections for fans of Ruta Sepetys and Stacey Lee.
A Bank Street College of Education Best book, 14 +, for historical fiction.
Book Page: “Faith, family, race and gender are the earthly concerns that draw her down from the clouds, but as Eves expertly incorporates them into Elizabeth’s life-changing summer, Beyond the Mapped Stars takes flight and soars.”
Blood Rose Rebellion
“A magical tale unlike anything you’ve read before.” —Bustle.com
“VERDICT: Despite its 400 page length, this is an enjoyable, fast-paced read with a likeable protagonist with whom readers will identify”—School Library Journal
“This richly imagined historical fantasy enchants while contemplating sexism, classism, and how to best effect social change. Intrigue, action, and a star-crossed romance abound, propelling this trilogy opener to a heart-breaking, yet hopeful conclusion.”—Publisher’s Weekly
“Romance sizzles and deadly magic crackles in Rosalyn Eves’s
electrifying debut. Prepare to be spellbound.”—Julie Berry, award-winning
author of The Passion of Dolssa and All the Truth That’s in Me
“Everything I love in a fantasy: history, noblemen, magic, romance, and a
revolution. Blood Rose Rebellion had me charmed from the first
page.”—VIRGINIA BOECKER, author of The Witch Hunter