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Meet the author
Anna Kensington
Historian first. Romance writer by irresistible curiosity.
I write funny, spicy, historically accurate romances about complicated people falling in love during wars, rebellions, scandals, crimes, and other moments when romance was objectively a terrible idea.
Anna Kensington writes funny, spicy, historically grounded romance about complicated people making dangerous choices in carefully researched worlds. She has a particular passion for medieval romance, from sweeping Wars of the Roses love stories to the darker, stranger corners of Rogue History. A lifelong history obsessive with a degree in English Literature and a minor in History, she fell hard for Shakespeare young and never came up for air. What hooks her is not only the crowns and pageantry, but the strange human textures underneath: the forgotten queens, plague roads, vanished towns, and quiet revolutions buried in dusty margins where no one thought to look.
She writes from the Pacific Northwest, fueled by coffee, folklore, and a research habit that stopped being reasonable years ago. Her stories balance tenderness with hard truth, giving history back its humor, danger, desire, and deeply imperfect people. She shares her desk, and frequently the top of her head, with her family, three wildly entertaining dogs, and one devoted pigeon who is quite certain she hung the moon.
No saints. No villains. Only people, and the beautiful ruin they make of each other.
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Rogue History
Stranger, funnier, and sometimes bloodier romances for stories that refuse to behave respectably.
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The Muses
Every good story needs a muse. Anna has four, and not one of them is subtle about it. They turn up in every bond between her characters and the creatures who love them.
Lady Mildred
AKA Millie
A one-eyed marvel. Mischievous, neurotic, and loyal past all reason. Heart of gold, grudges of iron.
Lady Phillipa
AKA Phil
The fur-and-fury inspiration behind Mous. Sworn, eternal enemy of squirrels, locked in a rivalry she has no intention of ever winning gracefully.
Sir Oppenford
AKA Opie
A devoted boy. Devoted, chiefly, to snacks. He’ll insert himself into any scene where food might plausibly appear, which is all of them.
Attila the Hun
AKA Tilly
The real MVP of the writing desk. A Modena pigeon with eyes only for Anna, perfectly content to spend the day perched on a shoulder or the top of her head. Pigeons, it turns out, make astonishingly affectionate and devoted companions, and Tilly is proof.
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