February Independent Releases

The independent releases from full RNA members...

Freda Lightfoot CANDY KISSES (Champion Street Market Series) ebook February 2012 £3.50 ‘Romance doesn’t come sweeter than this tale of love and chocolate set in the grimy streets of 1950s Manchester.’ Lancashire Evening Post Mary Nichols A LINE THROUGH CHEVINGTON Ebook 18 August 2011 £2.99 When they are left orphans and turned out of their tied cottage, fourteen year old Sarah Jane Winterday is forced to take her young brother, Billie, to the dreaded workhouse, but she vows it will only be a temporary refuge.  ‘One day I’ll be a lady,’ she tells herself. ‘One day I’ll wear silks and satins an’ ride in a carriage and people will look up to me and obey me the minute I open me mouth like they do Lady Chevington. Cookin’ an’ sewin’ an’ launderin’ jus’ won’t come into it.’ But Sarah Jane has a long journey to make before she comes anywhere near realising her ambition. Previously published as The Stubble Field. Kate Allan SNOWBOUND ON THE ISLAND ebook £0.84 After the break up of a long-term relationship Lisa escapes to the remote Isles of Scilly, twenty eight miles off the coast of Cornwall, for a new year reunion with old college friends. But as winter weather sweeps across Britain the airports close and only two people make it: Lisa and Dominic. She always thought him attractive and he still is, but he doesn't even seem to remember her. Snowbound on the Island is a short contemporary romance novella (10,000 words).  Victoria Connelly THE RETREAT AND OTHER STORIES ebook February 2012 £1.78 A collection of 12 short stories full of love, laughter and animals from the author of Molly's Millions and A Weekend with Mr Darcy. www.victoriaconnelly.com Mary Nichols PROMISES AND PIE CRUSTS Ebook 18 August 2011 £2.99 Nancy is a child of the London slums, a perky no-nonsense girl with the ability to laugh at the knocks life deals her.  Her sister is a whore and to save her from the same fate Lily takes her to work at a laundry which is no more than child slavery. Nancy runs away and makes a life on the streets, scavenging and begging, where she meets Billie Winterday, also a street urchin and they team up. ‘We’ll have a whole house to ourselves one day,’ he promises her when they decide to leave the streets and move into a rented room. ‘With six rooms and curtains at the windows and carpets on the floor.’ ‘I don’t reckon you oughta make promises,’ she says. ‘Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.’ ‘This one i’n’t.’ But when things start to go badly wrong, it seems Nancy is right… This is a companion book to A Line Through Chevington. Mary Nichols THE POACHER’S DAUGHTER Ebook 14 September 2011 £2.99 Kate was known as the poacher’s daughter in the village of Middleacre where she and her pa lived in a tinker’s caravan on the common. They all knew she was not the poacher’s real child, though few knew the mystery of how she came to be living with him. Josiah had told her he had found her abandoned as a baby, but was Josiah telling the truth? He loved her and she was devoted to him and did not question what he said until two mysterious men came to the village on the same day, both handsome, strong, self-possessed men, but so very different in every other way. Something was happening in the village, something important, something that would affect all their lives… www.marynichols.co.uk Margaret Kaine SONG FOR A BUTTERFLY ebook October 2011 From a chrysalis to a butterfly But can love emerge so perfectly? From a narrow religious home where makeup and dancing are forbidden, life for Megan Cresswell has always been bleak. In 1950 after the death of her parents, she struggles to exist on her meagre wage as a young paintress in the Potteries. Finally freed from the disapproval of her father, she starts to listen to friends’ advice; find a husband or endure a life of hardship and penny-pinching. Her search begins with the flirtatious Ben but she quickly realises he is a seasoned heartbreaker. Charismatic Nathan touches her heart only to return to America leaving her forlorn. Dependable Terry offers security but has the mother from hell! After Megan takes an extra job with the wealthy Celia Bevington her life is spent in two worlds, one of refinement and ease, the other amidst the earthy camaraderie of ‘the girls’ in the pottery factory . But only when the mystery surrounding her inherited silver hairbrush is solved, does she discover a shocking and tragic family secret.  And when she does fall in love  Will Megan have the courage to take the step that will transform her life?  http://www.margaretkaine.com

Jennifer Bohnet FRENCH LEGACY

e-book

February 2012

£2.64

If you refuse me and leave, you will have thrown away your son’s inheritance. With those words Nicola is blackmailed by Henri her ex-father-in-law, into moving to France with Oliver her young son.

Jennifer Bohnet FOR THE LOVE OF THE SEA

e-book

February 2012

£2.64

Widow of a professional yachtsman, Cassie Lewis is busy running the family boatyard in Devon. When catastrophe strikes, Cassie has to accept she can’t change the inevitable.

Benita Brown writing as Clare Benedict A DARK LEGACY
ebook
February 2012
£1.75
Of the three men in her life only she could decide who was her friend, who was her enemy, and who would be her lover 

Marina Oliver LORD HUGO'S WEDDING
ebook
February 2012
£3.99

When Hugo and Sophie are separated odd, sinister events occur, and they suspect an agent of Louis XIV who bears grudges against them both.

www.marina-oliver.net (many other Marina Oliver books available on ebooks...please see her website)

Nora Fountain VIENNA MASQUERADE

Originally published by My Weekly Story Library

Released 11 January 2012

Price: £0.87 inc. VAT or $0.99

On the death of her grandmother, Kristal Hastings reads the obituary of Baron Gustav von Steinberg, once her grandmother’s lover. Intrigued, she goes to Vienna in search of possible relatives. Rodolfo, a younger cousin of the Baron, is distinctly hostile despite the instant attraction between them. And surely he is promised to the fun-loving Gabi? Why does old Mathilde take an instant dislike to Kristal. And what kind of a joke was it to publish the obituary of a man who is very much alive, anyway?

Benita Brown writing as Clare Benedict DARK FUGITIVE
ebook
February 2012
£1.70
Laura forgets all her former problems when she finds herself snowed in with a man she believes to be a wife killer

www.benitabrown.com

Benita Brown writing as Clare Benedict THE BRIDES OF EDEN
February 2012
£1.70
Will Alison be able to overcome the family curse and find happiness with the man she loves?

www.benitabrown.com

Benita Brown writing as Clare Benedict DESIRE UNBIDDEN

ebook
February 2012
£1.80
Talented television presenter Heather Kerr finds ambition and love colliding when Luke Barron walks into her life 

www.benitabrown.com

Nora Fountain JILTED

Released 18 January 2012

Price: £1.99 inc. VAT or $2.99

Jilted by Tim, while dressing for her wedding, Sam’s first instinct is to escape. Tim has rushed off to Paris and into the arms of a former girlfriend. Where better for Sam to go than the empty villa in Lanzarote where she and Tim were to have spent their honeymoon?
Tim’s odious stepbrother, Adam, makes it perfectly plain that, in his opinion, she has brought the situation entirely upon herself. Why then does he turn up in Lanzarote? And why does he start being nice to her? She must be careful – it would be all too easy to fall for someone on the rebound, someone as attractive as Adam.

Nora Fountain RETURN  TO TUSCANY

Originally published by Robert Hale, also Thorpe Large Print

Released 5 February 2012

Price: £0.99 inc. VAT or $0.99

Verna’s visit to Italy is to pay her last respects to her young love, Gianni, before marrying Tim. Gianni’s mother, Maddalena, welcomes her, but Luke, Gianni’s devilishly handsome half-brother, is overtly hostile, blaming her for Gianni’s death and for wrecking his own career but at the same time is attracted to her. Franca, Maddalena’s god-daughter, hasn’t forgiven her for stealing Gianni’s heart six years ago, and now warns her off Luke. But why?
When Franca is kidnapped, Verna knows she must leave this beautiful place and go home to safe, reliable Tim. Why is she reluctant to go? Why is she relieved when Luke insists on her staying till Franca is found. Why would he want her to stay? Can he honestly believe she was implicated in the kidnapping? If Franca is found, can Verna bear to witness her reunion with Luke…