Category: Butterfly Games
Aurora Taube at Finspång: The Hostess Who Made the Castle Famous
Posted on October 6, 2026 in Butterfly Games, Characters
It’s October, and if you imagine that it’s 1820, Jacquette and her family are about to leave Finspång Castle and return to Stockholm for the season. Why? The castle has tile stoves, but it is not well-heated, and the roads typically get muddy by late…
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More Than a Stereotype: Finding the Real Jacquette Gyldenstolpe
Posted on August 20, 2026 in Butterfly Games, Interviews, Jacquette
There is a problem one faces when writing about a woman who had an affair with a prince. Two hundred years later, it is very easy for the affair to become the whole story. That was certainly true of Jacquette Gyldenstolpe. When I first came across he…
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Finspång Castle: Inside Jacquette Gyldenstolpe’s Childhood Home
Posted on August 5, 2026 in Butterfly Games, Characters, Jacquette, Newsletter, Travel
Finspång Castle was more than Jacquette Gyldenstolpe’s childhood home. It was a noble estate, an industrial center, and a place that shaped the heroine of Butterfly Games.
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Literary Love Triangles: Team Oscar, Team Carl—or Team Jacquette?
Posted on August 5, 2026 in Butterfly Games, Favorite Authors, Movies, TV, Books, Newsletter
Book Two in the Butterfly Games series turns up the heat on Jacquette, Oscar, and Carl. Here are the literary love triangles inspiring the story.
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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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