Friday Celebration: Butterfly Games Is on Multiple Amazon UK Best Seller Lists
Posted on July 10, 2026 in Behind the Scenes, Book News, Butterfly Games
I just got some wonderful book news from the UK. Today, Butterfly Games appeared on multiple Amazon UK Best Seller lists, with both the Kindle edition and paperback reaching readers in categories close to my heart: 19th Century Historical Fiction and…
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The Fact and Fiction Behind Jacquette and Oscar’s First Meeting at Drottningholm
Posted on July 4, 2026 in Butterfly Games, Jacquette
On July 4, as America celebrates its 250th birthday, I’m thinking about another pair of birthdays—two young people born on the same day, two years apart, whose lives would become entangled in one of those relationships that history remembers. Jacquet…
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Women, Law, and Lawlessness in 19th-Century New York
Posted on June 28, 2026 in Butterfly Games, Events
New York City-area friends: please join me on Tuesday, June 30, at 6:30pm at Jefferson Market Library for a Historical Novel Society–New York Chapter panel, “Women, Law, and Lawlessness in 19th-Century New York.” I’ll be moderating a conversation wit…
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Axel von Fersen’s Last Days: Marie Antoinette, Jacquette’s Aunt Emilie, and the Real History Behind the Butterfly Games Prequel, The Marshal’s Warning
Posted on June 4, 2026 in Butterfly Games, Jacquette, Monthly Blog
If you have watched the BBC/Canal+ series Marie Antoinette—or seen it on PBS Masterpiece—you may have wondered about the handsome Swedish aristocrat who captured the queen’s heart. I’m Kelly Scarborough, author of Butterfly Games, a historical novel…
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Butterfly Games in the Hamptons: Featured in James Lane Post
Posted on May 27, 2026 in Butterfly Games
This Memorial Day weekend in the Hamptons, the weather was perfect—for reading. And ducks. Fortunately, in collaboration with Bedside Reading, the East End’s finest luxury hotels treated their guests to copies of Butterfly Games in paperback, ebook,…
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A Summer in Sweden (No Passport Required)
Posted on April 30, 2026 in Butterfly Games, Travel
You don’t actually have to travel to Sweden to wander its royal parks, step inside its palaces, or follow in Jacquette’s footsteps. Every summer, I start to feel it—that familiar pull toward travel. Longer days. Lighter evenings. The sense that somew…
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