If you’ve been in my world for a hot minute, you might have realized I’m an escapist. I just returned from my first trip to London in what feels like donkey’s years. I’ve travelled to the U.K. at least a dozen times in the last [redacted number] of years. But this was the first trip…

If you’ve read Runaway Rogue or Keeping the Countess, you’ve probably picked up on the fact that I’m something of an anthophile (a person who has zero chill about flowers). Flower-giving has been a gesture of affection since ancient times, but as the estate system in Europe grew in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, a…