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🎻Playlist reveal 👻 Listen to my Spotify playlist “Spooky Classical for Halloween” while you read Once Upon a Moonlit Moor! Together they are sure to give you a swoony fright.

*When autumn settles over the Yorkshire moors, an ancient legend awakens.*

Centuries ago, two lovers attempted to elope, only to be torn apart by an angry father. The young man lost his head—and legend says he still drives his phantom carriage across the moonlit moors, searching for the woman he loved.

Once Upon a Moonlit Moor is a collection of historical romances about lovers divided by family, circumstance, distance, or time—and the enduring power of a love that refuses to die.

Out September 27 🎃
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#historicalromance #histrom #halloweenromance #bookplaylist by @_ardenconroy_

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I love writing families and am excited to give you a little preview of the Honeyfields from my new Honeyfields Hearts series 👀

Meet Lord and Lady Odstone and their three unruly children Julia, Helen, and Evander. None of them have a serious bone in their body, and enjoy parties sometimes a bit too much. If you don’t see them at the biggest party of the evening, you will find them at the theatre.
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#historicalromance #historicalromancebooks #bookstagram #romancerec #bookish by @_ardenconroy_

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9 months ago

🎩 New series coming in 2026!

Arden Conroy’s HOW TO CHARM A DUKE, HOW TO VEX AN EARL, and HOW TO FIND A LOST LORD, in the Honeyfield Hearts Regency series, pitched as for readers seeking the humor and banter of Sophie Irwin’s A LADY’S GUIDE TO FORTUNE HUNTING and the feminist themes of Evie Dunmore’s BRINGING DOWN THE DUKE, in which the unruly offspring of a baron and his stage actress wife find love among a textile mill and its unionizing women workers in 1870s Victorian England, to Kathryn Le Veque at Dragonblade Sweet Dreams, in a three-book deal, for publication in winter 2026.
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#bookdeal #booknews #bookstagram #historicalromance #romancebooks #bookstagrammer #books #romancereads #romancereader #historicalromancenovel #booklover #histrom #sweetromance #sweetromancereads by @_ardenconroy_

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🎀 Bodice, c. 1868, maker unknown, Palais Galliera

Cream embroidered tulle decorated with pink satin ribbons arranged to mimic a bolero.

https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/es/node/195521

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#1860s #victorianera #historicalfashion #victorianstyle by @_ardenconroy_

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🪻 Woman’s Dress, c. 1805-1810, maker unknown, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Ivory silk plain weave with multicolored silk embroidery in padded satin, buttonhole, and whipped running stitches and French knots

https://www.philamuseum.org/objects/86055

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#1800s #regency #regencyfashion #historicalfashion by @_ardenconroy_

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🌈 ball gown in cream silk faille with warp-printed, iridescent rainbow-cloud patterning

Ball gown, c. 1900, House of Worth, COUTAU-BÉGARIE
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#1900s #edwardian #historicaldress #historicalfashion #houseofworth by @_ardenconroy_

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🌟 evening dress, summer 1923, Boue Soeurs, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

silk (tulle, lace), lamé, metallic threads

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#1920s #historicalfashion #hautecouture #flapper #prohibition by @_ardenconroy_

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🍊 Dress of striped pink-orange silk.

Dress, c. 1866-1867, Madame Merlot-Larcheveque, Chicago Historical Society
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#1860s #crinoline #historicalfashion #victorian #19thcentury by @_ardenconroy_

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🖤 White silk with black lace overlay, black sequins, black bead

Bodice and Skirt - Dress, c. 1900, Suydam, Litchfield Historical Society

https://bento.collection.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org/record/cataloging/49F91DF5-0298-4EF0-90A7

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#1900s #historicalfashion #edwardian by @_ardenconroy_

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👻 Once Upon a Moonlit Moor is now live and available to read! This Halloween anthology is sure to give you a swoony fright, and is the perfect book to bring in spooky season. Swipe to see a small teaser to my story.

Read: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGZ1NR9J

Add to your bookshelf: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/257658749

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#historicalromance #histrom #agegapromance #halloweenromance #autumnromance by @_ardenconroy_

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✨ “Amanda “Minnie” Drexel Cassatt (1880-1954) was the daughter of Sarah Drexel Fell Van Rensselaer and the granddaughter of Anthony J. Drexel. She married Robert Kelso Cassatt, nephew of Impressionist painter Mary Stevenson Cassatt, in 1900. The couple had three children, two of whom survived to adulthood: Nellie Cassatt (1901-1901), Alexander Johnston Cassatt (1904-1985), and Anthony Drexel Cassatt (1906-1972). Minnie Drexel Cassatt died when her lit cigarette caused a fire in her apartment.”

https://drexelexhibits.omeka.net/items/show/33

Evening dress of gold and black brocade, beaded with blue and pearls. Gold lace inserts over satin underbodice. Worn by Amanda “Minnie” Drexel Fell Cassatt.

Evening dress, Winter 1921-1922, Callot Soeurs, Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection

Studio portrait of Minnie Cassatt wearing a black ballet costume, elbow-length black gloves, and a feather fascinator, undated, photographer unknown, Drexel University

Portrait of Amanda Fell Cassatt, c. 1910, Jean Charles Pierre de Chabannes la Palice, oil on canvas, Drexel University

#womeninhistory #1920s #1920sfashion #historicalfashion #dresshistory by @_ardenconroy_

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♥️ “This day dress features typical Belle Epoque styling. The influence of Art Nouveau can be seen in the sinuous “s-curve” silhouette with its gored skirt and gigot (leg o’ mutton) sleeves. The influence of Japanese prints and textiles is also present in the stylized Japanisme of the silk jacquard.”

https://hub.catalogit.app/fox-historic-costume-collection/folder/highlights-pre-20th-century-garments/entry/dress-791

Rust-colored silk brocade, velvet, and faille with off-white lace and black jet bead trim.

Dress, c. 1897, Oliver & Co., Robert & Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection
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#gildedage #belleepoque #artnouveau #historicaldress by @_ardenconroy_

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