Welcome!

I’m glad you came to visit. I’m Sheri Cobb South, author of more than twenty-five novels in a variety of genres ranging from Regency romance to young adult to historical mystery.

I’ve had a tough couple of years both personally and professionally, and haven’t kept my website up to date as well as I should have. I also discovered that the platform I used for managing my email newsletter had deleted my mailing list due to inactivity—after I missed the deadline (which I didn’t know existed) by one month. If you were on my mailing list, or if you’d like to be, I hope you’ll sign up using the handy form to the right.

In any case, I hope you’ll bear with me while I fill you in on my most recent projects. First of all, I wrapped up the John Pickett mystery series (or thought I did) with the release of In the Family Way. In this 12th book, John’s scapegrace father returns from Botany Bay, but it’s a short family reunion when Pickett senior’s body is discovered in a back alley.

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Next, I returned to my romance roots in a new Regency series centered on Bartholomew Fair, an annual event in London for more than seven hundred years. The Bartholomew Fayre trilogy follows the Fayre siblings, Penelope, Caroline, and Oliver, as they find love and adventure at the fair. The first two books, Fairest of the Fayre and All’s Fayre in Love and War, are now available. (Note: As of this writing, All’s Fayre is still contractually limited to Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited program. You can still get it in paperback, or look for it at other ebook vendors in mid-March.)

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What to look for in 2026:

I’m currently working on Book 3 in the Bartholomew Fayre series. The Faint Heart and the Fayre Lady features Oliver Fayre, private secretary to Lord Sparling, who dreams of a diplomatic career and his employer’s irrepressible daughter, albeit not necessarily in that order. Watch for it this summer.

Finally, just when I thought I’d finished the John Pickett mystery series, another story started niggling at my brain. Details are sketchy at present, but I hope to have it available in late 2026 or early 2027.