The ladyaureliaravenshadepresents’s Podcast

🕯️ For most of English history, the most dangerous woman in the room was not a queen or a spy. She was a widow. 🖤 Tonight Lady Aurelia Ravenshade, a widow herself, pulls back the velvet curtain on the gilded cage every widow in England had to escape. ⚖️📜 👑 Why Magna Carta had to promise, in writing, that no widow would be forced to marry, and why that promise came with a catch 💰 The widows who paid King John for the right to say NO 🔒 Coverture: the law that made a married woman of 1813 legally disappear 📰 How a widow came to own the most feared gossip sheet in London 🏰 Alianor of Hawksmere, and the gilded cage at the heart of The Gilded Cage 📖 A candlelit reading from the brand-new second edition And a bonus you will not want to miss: the Ravenshade books are now on Barnes & Noble 📚✨ 🔐 The Scandalous Hours: The Gilded Cage, Second Edition 🪶 The Scribe and the Shadow (Ravenshade Chronicles, Book Two) 🗝️ The Secret and the Shadow (Ravenshade Chronicles, Book Three) 💋 And where it all began: The Gossip and the Goddess, expanded second edition, on Amazon No spoilers. Only temptation. 😈 📖 Ask for them at your Barnes & Noble, or order online at barnesandnoble.com. ✉️ Want letters from Lady Aurelia in your own mailbox? Subscribe to The London Whisper at ladyaureliaravenshade.com ✍️ Want a signed copy? Visit the Ravenshade House shop on Etsy. The candles are lit. The shelves are full. Lady Aurelia is waiting. 🖤 Show notes: The Scandalous Hours: The Gilded Cage, Second Edition: Amazon and Barnes & Noble The Scribe and the Shadow (Ravenshade Chronicles, Book Two): Barnes & Noble and IngramSpark The Secret and the Shadow (Ravenshade Chronicles, Book Three): Barnes & Noble and IngramSpark The Gossip and the Goddess, Expanded Second Edition (Ravenshade Chronicles, Book One): Amazon The Ravenshade House Tarot: Secrets Behind the Velvet Curtain: Barnes & Noble The London Whisper letter subscription: ladyaureliaravenshade.com Signed copies: Ravenshade House on Etsy

🕯️ The doors of Ravenshade House are open, and Lady Aurelia is giving you the whole tour. 🕯️ No chapter reading tonight. No sneak peek. Tonight she pours the tea, lights every candle in the house, and tells you exactly who lives in her world, who is trying to burn it down, and what Ronda has been building behind closed doors. 🖤 In this episode: 🖤 Who Lady Aurelia really is: a Black woman of property, the owner of The London Whisper, and keeper of more secrets than the Bank of England keeps gold 🗝️ 🧛🏾 Julian, the man who walked out of a novel and into her parlor, and why every other gentleman is only ever a fling 🐺 The Blackwoods: Caspian, Celeste, and Lenora, the sister the forest stole 🐦‍⬛ Silas the crow, who steals buttons and cannot abide a liar 🏰 The Scandalous Hours: Alianor de Clervaux, Hawksmere Keep, and a cage with gilded bars 🩸 The Crimson Mechanism: a red ledger, a syndicate, and the men who were paid to keep records unread 🔨 The great rebuilding: three books torn down to the studs and raised again, and what is coming next 🃏 The tarot deck, the tea, the journal, and the letters that arrive with a wax seal This is the episode for new listeners who want to know where to begin, and for loyal readers who want to know what Ronda has been doing with all those sleepless nights. 🌙 ✉️ Want Lady Aurelia's letters in your own mailbox? Subscribe to The London Whisper at ladyaureliaravenshade.com 📖 The Gossip and the Goddess, expanded second edition, is in paperback now on Amazon. 📚 The Scribe and the Shadow and The Secret and the Shadow are in paperback through IngramSpark. 🛍️ Signed bundles and printables at the Ravenshade House Etsy shop. The candles are lit. The door is unlocked. Come in out of the fog. 🖤

Ravenshade House is officially alive again, and this time there is far more happening behind the doors than anyone can see from the outside. In this episode of Lady Aurelia Ravenshade Presents, Lady Aurelia invites her Ravens into the middle of the excitement as the books are being rewritten, new products are preparing to launch, the journals are taking shape, new characters are beginning to step forward, and the podcast itself is moving into a much richer and more immersive direction. 🕯️📚✨ The revisions to the books have become much more than simple edits. Lady Aurelia talks about returning to the manuscripts and realizing that certain characters needed more room, relationships needed more depth, and some emotional moments deserved to be fully explored rather than rushed past. The rewriting process is allowing Ravenshade House to become stronger, more layered, and more connected to the larger world now growing around the novels. 📖🖋️🖤 There is also tremendous excitement surrounding the new Ravenshade journals, especially the Dream Journal. These are not ordinary notebooks with empty pages. They are being designed as full experiences, with Ravenshade atmosphere, interactive elements, thoughtful prompts, and appearances from Silas, who naturally seems determined to have an opinion about everything happening inside the house. The Dream Journal becomes one of the most exciting pieces of the new collection as Lady Aurelia talks about capturing dreams before morning steals the details, noticing patterns over time, and preserving those strange little worlds that exist only while we sleep. 🌙💭📓🐦‍⬛ The new products are also becoming an important part of the Ravenshade experience. Fragrance, journals, hand-rolled incense, teas, drinking chocolate, correspondence, and other carefully curated pieces are being developed to feel as though they actually belong inside Ravenshade House. Lady Aurelia explains why she does not want products that simply carry the Ravenshade name. She wants every piece to feel intentional, atmospheric, and connected to the larger story. 🌹☕🕯️📜 And then there are the new faces. 👀 Lady Aurelia gives just enough of a glimpse to let her Ravens know that new characters are coming, but she has no intention of revealing everyone at once. Some may first appear through portraits, letters, Substack pieces, Instagram or Facebook reveals, music, or quiet references that may not seem important until much later. These new arrivals are bringing fresh energy, new perspectives, and enough disruption to make Ravenshade House much more interesting. Of course, it would not be Ravenshade without a little gossip. ☕🔥 Lady Aurelia hints that some characters are already becoming more complicated than they first appeared, certain relationships are moving in unexpected directions, and a few new arrivals may know things that others would very much prefer remain buried. Charm will not automatically be accepted as evidence of good character, troubled eyes are not a defense, and some of the most dangerous people in the house may simply be the ones willing to tell the truth. This episode also marks a major shift in the direction of Lady Aurelia Ravenshade Presents. The podcast is no longer simply about discussing the books. It is becoming another room inside Ravenshade House, where Lady Aurelia can explore characters, dreams, music, fragrance, correspondence, relationships, memory, creativity, new products, and all the hidden layers that make this world feel alive. 🎻🕯️🏰 🖤 Stay connected to Ravenshade House. Subscribe to the Lady Aurelia Ravenshade Substack for deeper correspondence, character introductions, private histories, journal news, product stories, exclusive writing, and the pieces that need more room than a podcast episode can provide. Follow Lady Aurelia Ravenshade on Instagram and Facebook for new character reveals, portraits, journal previews, product launches, fragrance, music, and visual pieces of the Ravenshade world as this new era continues to unfold. Pay close attention when unfamiliar faces begin appearing. Lady Aurelia is not inviting strangers into Ravenshade House merely for decoration. 🗝️🐦‍⬛🖤✨

🗝️🖤 I HAVE OPENED MY DESK, MY DIARY AND MY DREAMS TO YOU. 🖤🗝️ Ravenshade House is no longer only books. Tonight I walk you through the new Ravenshade House collection, room by room. 🕯️ The Rooms of Ravenshade Manor, a shadow work journal built as a walk through sixteen rooms of my house, from the Foyer to the forbidden East Wing. 🌙 The Ravenshade Dream Book, forty nights of visions, visits from the departed, and the dreams that seemed to know. 🃏 The Ravenshade Manor Tarot Journal, every card and every spread in my own words. ✉️ Letters From Ravenshade House, for invitations, confessions, and secrets sealed properly. 🐦‍⬛ Then the doors that are about to open: a Ravenshade tarot deck with the faces of the Chronicles, a tea collection with names I am rather proud of, a fragrance line, The London Whisper letters, and new books waiting in the wings. 📜🍵 Come in. Touch everything. Silas is watching. 🔑✨

🐺🖤 A WOLF CAME KNOCKING, AND I LET HER IN. 🖤🐺 London, October 1816. The year without a summer. The fog never lifts, the crops have failed, and on a wet Tuesday a woman everyone believed died three hundred years ago is standing on my doorstep, soaked to the skin, with a pack of wolves on her trail. 🌧️🕯️ Tonight I open the door on The Whisper and the Wolf, the newest Ravenshade book. You will meet Lenora Blackwood, the sister the family buried. You will hear about the Hunt, the Grey Father, and a tracker named Tobias Grey who should never have been let into my drawing room. 🌕 You will learn how a very cold summer gave the world Frankenstein and its first vampire story, and why I used my own newspaper as a weapon. 📰🗡️ Plus the Expanded Second Edition of The Gossip and the Goddess, and where this book sits in the Chronicles. 🐦‍⬛ And yes, Silas finally gets his entrance. Lock the door. Light a candle. Come in anyway. 🔑🌙