By day, I'm that quiet librarian who knows exactly where to find every forbidden text. By night, I write as Lady Poppy Hawthorne, crafting explicit tales of women who take what they want-whether it's a 17th-century French nun testing her vows, a 1970s feminist activist exploring new forms of liberation, or a 1990s Sunset Sizzle starlet discovering who really holds the power in Hollywood.

My stories span eras where desire defies decorum-from candlelit confessionals to sun-drenched Malibu pools-often with a delicious imbalance of clothed authority and vulnerable masculinity. Because history, like passion, is best told through hands-on research.