About Celeste Latimer

Celeste Latimer believes that love is the most important thing in the world, with the possible exceptions of a good cellar, a firm mattress and a lawyer who returns calls.

She writes spicy romantic comedies on the principle that sex is far too serious a subject to be left to serious people. Civilisation, after all, was built on two foundations: the rule of law, and somebody lying about a fake engagement to get through a family wedding. Her books are concerned chiefly with the second.

Her heroines are intelligent, solvent and armed with spreadsheets. Her heroes are handsome, competent and wrong about nearly everything, which is to say, men. Together they discover that romance is like government: expensive, badly organised, conducted largely in cupboards, and somehow still worth doing.

Readers should expect open-door heat (five chilies, adults only), consenting grown-ups behaving badly, and a happily ever after that arrives with the inevitability of a tax bill, though considerably more fun.

Her series include Wexmoor Weddings, Hollin Cross and Lantern Reach.

Celeste is a pen name. The woman behind it has read the classics, disagrees with most of them, and would like to point out that Mr Darcy could have saved everyone four hundred pages by simply taking his shirt off in chapter two.

Spicy rom-coms for grown-ups. Hot, funny, happily ever after. 18+