SEPTEMBER RELEASES

September brings a fruitful harvest of members’ new publications. Thank you to Sheila Riley for collating this amazing list of books.

                   

TRADITIONAL PUBLICATIONS

ANNA JACOBS

Saffron Lane

Hardback and E-book

Family/relationship fiction

Allison & Busby

21st September

Nell has come to feel very at home in her beautiful corner of Wiltshire with her partner Angus. What she could do with, however, is a challenge, and the prospect of bringing life back to an abandoned row of 1930s houses in Saffron Lane is just what she's looking for. Formerly used by the Government during WW2 and not returned till long after the war ended, they haven’t been touched since except to keep them weatherproof. She decides to start an artists’ colony with a gallery/café in one house to attract customers and bring in money to do the maintenance on their listed home.

One of the first artists to gain a residency is Stacy, lost and alone after a divorce she didn't see coming and trying her best to start over. The other is Elsa who is 76 and is battling her nieces who would force her into residential care. She needs to sell her large family home and longs for a new one where she can get back to her new career as an artist, with her paintings just beginning to sell.

When all their paths cross, the future starts to look brighter although not all goes according to plan. There is a big surprise waiting for them in one house and there are people in town who would rather knock down the old houses and put up a modern development.

KATHERINE GARBERA

Summer In Manhattan

Contemporary

E-Book and Paperback

HarperImpulse

21st September

When Cici Johnson falls for the charms of American big shot Rich Maguire, their drunken one night stand results in an unexpected pregnancy. Rich wants nothing to do with the baby or Cici, but she's determined to give their child the love of two parents on her own. Jason Hooper's spent his whole life wondering what family really means. In and out of the foster care system, he never gets too close to anyone; just in case they walk away. But then he meets Cici and he feels as if he's finally home. For both of them, the summer they share in Manhattan couldn't be sweeter. If only he'll let his guard down, Hoop's own happy-ever-after might not be make-believe anymore

ANNIE BURROWS

The Major Meets His Match

Romance

Paperback and E-book

Harlequin/Mills & Boon

September 

Wastrel, rebel, layabout…just a few of the names Lord Becconsall has hidden his quick intellect and sharp wit behind over the years. Recently titled, ex-military and required to wed, Jack views ton ladies with a cynical eye… Until he falls upon–quite literally–Lady Harriet Inskip.

  

ZARA STONELEY

Blackberry Picking at Jasmine Cottage

E-book and paperback

Harper Collins, HarperImpulse

22nd September

As the lazy days of summer ebb away and the hedgerows fill with rich, plump blackberries, Lucy Jacobs couldn't be happier.  She's feeling more and more at home in the small village of Langtry Meadows and has fallen in love with idyllic Jasmine cottage - not to mention gorgeous vet Charlie. But just as Lucy is thinking about putting down roots like the blackberries that grow in her garden, Charlie's ex returns and threatens to put a thorn in their perfect life...

SARAH MALLORY

Pursued for the Viscount's Vengeance

Paperback & E-book      

Mills & Boon

17th August

Viscount Gilmore believes ruining Deb Meltham is the only way to be revenged upon her brother. Not seducing her beyond repair, of course, he is not lost to all sense of honour. However, Gil hasn't counted on his feelings for Deb changing - nor her reaction when she realises he has been deceiving her from the start. Instead of shaming Deb, he finds himself risking his own life to save her.

KATHLEEN MCGURL

The Girl from Ballymor

Dual timeline/timeslip

Paperback and E-book

HQ

7th September

What would you sacrifice for your children?

Ballymor, Ireland, 1847

As famine grips the country Kitty McCarthy is left widowed and alone. Fighting to keep her two remaining children alive against all odds, Kitty must decide how far she will go to save her family.

Present day

Arriving in Ballymor, Maria is researching her ancestor, Victorian artist Michael McCarthy – and his beloved mother, the mysterious Kitty who disappeared without a trace. Running from her future, it’s not only answers about the past that Maria hopes to find in Ireland. As her search brings her closer to the truth about Kitty’s fate, Maria must make the biggest decision of her life.

  

MARGARET MOUNSDON

Island Magic

People's Friend Pocket Novel

Romantic Adventure

21st September

Vanessa Blake's sister Michelle asks her to take her place as dance hostess on a private yacht owned by the Petucci family, then promptly disappears. When an expensive ring goes missing on the yacht Vanessa realises she is high on the list of suspects. Taking refuge on the island of Santa Agathe she thinks she is safe until a valuable painting by local artist Severino, with whom Vanessa is staying, is stolen. 

Can Vanessa trust security chief Lorenzo Talbot to help prove her innocence or is he working off his own agenda?

JUNE DAVIES

As the Four Winds Blow

Paperback

Family / Romantic Suspense

F.A.Thorpe

1^st September

Isobel Blundell isn’t looking forward to her special birthday. 

Her archaeologist husband, Douglas, is in South America and she and their three children miss him sorely. On Isobel’s birthday, her mother, Ailsa, and sisters Kirsty and Dorrie travel to the Yorkshire Dales and join the family at Chimneys, their old brownstone house on the banks of Ferneys Beck. During the birthday celebrations, Ailsa presents Isobel with Douglas’s gift – an airline ticket! Overjoyed, Isobel sets off for a holiday with him at the dig. But heartache, danger, conflict and tragedy lie ahead for the whole family – Those at home, as well as Isobel and Douglas in Castildoro...

E-BOOKS

GEORGIA HILL

Christmas Weddings (Millie Vanilla’s Cupcake Café Book 3)

E-book

rom-com

Harper Impulse

29^th September

Cupcakes, Christmas and secret kisses. For fans of sweet romance.

JULIA IBBOTSON

The Old Rectory: Escape to a country kitchen

memoir/history food/cookery

E-Book & paperback

Endeavour Press

24^th August

"Written with her trademark wit and honesty" 

This memoir/recipe book/history of cooking documents falling in love with a house and the Victorian/post-Victorian kitchen.

SHERYL BROWNE

After She’s Gone – (Book 1 in the DI Matthew Adams thriller series)

Choc Lit (Death by Choc Lit imprint)

5th September

He’s killed your child and kidnapped your wife. What would YOU do? 

There’s evil and then there’s Patrick Sullivan. A drug dealer, pimp and murderer, 

there are no depths to which Patrick would not sink, and Detective Inspector Matthew Adams has found this out in the most devastating way imaginable. When Patrick’s brother is shot dead in a drug bust gone wrong, the bitter battle between the two men intensifies, and Matthew finds it increasingly difficult to hold the moral high ground. 

All he wants is to make the pimping scum suffer the way he did … the way Lily did.

But being at war with such a depraved individual means that it’s not just Matthew who’s in danger. Patrick has taken a lot from Matthew, but he hasn’t taken everything – and now he wants everything. 

SHERYL BROWNE

Deadly Intent – (Book 3 in the DI Matthew Adams thriller series)

E-book

Choc Lit (Death by Choc Lit imprint)

5th September

What if you and your family were at the mercy of a psychopath/a man with no conscience? Just when DI Matthew Adams thinks he’s left the past behind him, it comes back to haunt him once again; this time in the form of the Conner family. 

Like Matthew, the Conners have lost a child in tragic circumstances – and they’ve also found themselves in the hands of one of the most depraved criminals to walk the streets: ‘Dead-eyed’ Charlie Roberts, a drug addicted low-life with a penchant for extreme violence. Matthew’s greatest affinity lies with Daniel Conner, the brooding father who still blames himself for his youngest child’s death. But when Daniel’s wife and daughter are tortured and tormented by Roberts, can Matthew prevent him from completely ruining his own life for an act of revenge particularly when, once upon a time, that’s exactly what Matthew would have done too?  

SILVIA FORRESTER

Your Move

Romantic comedy

Endeavour Press
September

Two women. Two dreams. One big lesson in love.

With a passion for people and property, nothing gives newbie estate agent Gemma Cole more pleasure than matching buyers with their ideal homes. After a nomadic childhood with her ditzy mum, Gemma longs for nothing more than a pplace she can call her own. But with one modest income and meagre savings, will she ever be able to make her own home-owning dream come true? When Marcus, the new photographer, arrives at the estate agency, he’s the epitome of laid-back, festival chic. Sexy, laid back, festival chic. But Gemma dismisses him as another commitment-phobic, eternal student, just like her ex. However, looks can be deceptive. Marcus is reeling from a shocking family tragedy, one that’s left him as sole carer for an eight-year-old boy, as well as his scruffy dog. Will Gemma revise her opinion of Marcus, and will he trust her enough to reveal his family’s painful past? Pandora works at Perfect 10, a premier beauty and cosmetic clinic. Always effortlessly glamorous – with model-looks, bucketloads of confidence and bulging designer wardrobes – she appears to have it all. But Pan also has a spiralling spending addiction, a string of failed relationships, and still lives at home with her mum. Aged thirty-three. When her numerous credit cards are refused, Pan takes drastic action and joins dating website MillionaireMen.com. Will a super-wealthy guy be the answer to all Pan’s woes? And can she find one who’s sane, honest and not old enough to be her grandfather? Your Move is a lively romantic comedy, charting the blossoming friendship between modern heroines Gemma and Pandora, as well as the amorous entanglements that crisscross both their lives.

SUSAN WILLIS

The Girl In The Dark

Romantic suspense

E-book

Endeavour Press

30^th September 

When Kim goes to old friend, Sidney’s, photography studio to start a new food styling contract she meets his new assistant, Alex. Kim is catapulted from her mournful existence into an explosive romantic relationship with Alex. 

Sidney, however, is wary. He thinks, there’s something not quite right about Alex, and urges caution. Will Kim look back and wish she’d listened?

ELISABETH HOBBES

Redeeming the Rogue Knight

Medieval romance

E-book

Mills & Boon 

1^st September

The spy who sought refuge…

When injured spy Sir Roger Danby comes asking for shelter at her inn, Lucy Carew is wary. He may be strikingly handsome, but the disgraced single mother has learnt the hard way with men like him. Against her better judgement, she gives him refuge.

Sir Roger has never been at the mercy of a woman before, and he’s never met one as mysterious and bewitching as Lucy. He hasn't come looking for redemption, but Lucy is a woman who could reach in and touch his closely guarded heart.

Except for her infant son, Lucy has had enough of men and their sweet words, but there is something different about Roger and it might just be worth the risk to give into his love…

INDIE PUBLISHED

THE MAGNOLIA GIRLS (book 3, the Magnolia Creek Series)

Helen J Rolfe

Women's fiction

E-book

Indie published

14th September

Fall in love with Magnolia Creek, the small town that draws you in and refuses to let you go ... 

Carrie has it all: a stellar career, a gorgeous heart-surgeon boyfriend, and an apartment in the city. But when something happens that forces her to question her ability to do her job, the only way she can see through the mess is to get far away from everything. Carrie is thrust into a very different life in Magnolia Creek. She’s knee-deep in renovations at her house at the top of the hill; she’s sharing time and space with her ex, Owen; and newcomer, Noah, gets under her skin from day one. Meanwhile, her boyfriend, Lachlan, is doing everything he can to convince her she belongs back in the city with him doing the job she’s worked so hard to establish. Carrie never had time for anything apart from work but in Magnolia Creek it isn’t long before she strikes up a lasting friendship with Rosie, Gemma and Bella, and when a face from the past turns up offering forgiveness, Carrie realises that everyone needs a little bit of love and friendship in their lives.

ROS RENDLE

Flowers of Resistance

Historical thriller with strong romantic element

E-book

Indie

8th September

France 1940. Delphi, Rainier and their daughter Flora, must flee the Nazi advance. 

They go to the vineyard of Flora’s step-cousin Luca, in the Vichy Zone Libre

Despite Luca’s resentment of Flora, she is attracted to him, but there is a traitor among them and he is mysteriously absent much of the time.Then there is her employer, André, mayor, sponsored by the Nazis, but he is lonely after the death of his wife and young daughter. Should she spy on his activities, betraying his trust and friendship and putting herself and her family in danger? Resistance fighter or collaborator; petulance or passion; divided loyalties and discovered love. This is a love story and a thriller set during turbulent times in France.

Sheila Riley:

Sheila joined the RNA in 2004 as a new writer. Since then she has written best selling sagas under the name of Annie Groves for Harper Collins. A member of the Sandpipers, the North West chapter of the RNA, Sheila loves to catch up with writer friends at regular Southport lunches. Currently writing family sagas set in the immediate aftermath of WW2, Sheila explores the close-knit community of Liverpool Docklands, which hides many a family secret...

Collating the monthly publications list is another of her great pleasures, and her tottering T.B.R. list gets bigger every month! 

The new email address for Monthly Publications; releases@romanticnovelistsassociation.org 

Deadline for submission is 27th of the month, if possible

Thank you Sheila. We look forward to next month’s wonderful list.

AUGUST PUBLICATIONS

Another month and another batch of wonderful books from members of the Romantic Novelists' Association. Thank you to Sheila Riley for her diligence in collecting and compiling the list and cover images.

TRADITIONALLY PUBLISHED BOOKS:

LOUISE ALLEN

Marrying His Cinderella Countess

Historical Romance

Ebook, paperback and large print

Harlequin Mills & Boon

August 2017

Ellie Lytton is resigned to her life as the very ordinary, lame housekeeper to her half-brother and an author of children’s books. But when the high-handed Earl of Lytton arrives on her doorstep with shocking news she blames him, the man who has been haunting her dreams and fantasies, for the sudden change in her circumstances. He can escort her to her new home, she declares, and he reluctantly does so. His honour tells him he has to look after her – even if she fights him every inch of the way, especially when he declares that she must become his countess. Ellie knows it is only his sense of duty and her pride is not going to allow her emotions to dictate her answer, to allow herself a dream of Cinderella marrying her prince. Can two stubborn people finally admit to what is in their hearts? 

JO THOMAS

The Honey Farm on the Hill

Contemporary women's fiction.

Paperback and Ebook

Headline

24th August

We never forget the one who got away.

Eighteen years ago Nell fell in love in the mountains of Crete and life changed for ever.

Nell's daughter, Demi, has never met her dad. Nell never saw him again. When she gets the chance to return to the hilltop town of Vounoplagia - where everything began - Nell can't resist the urge to go back and find him. Working on a honey farm perched high up in the hills, there's plenty to keep her busy. And she will quickly realise the town harbours just as many secrets as she does. But if Nell's favourite romantic films are right, there's a happy ending in store for each of us. All she has to do is seek out the magic of the mountains...  Jo Thomas takes you there.

BELLA OSBORNE

Escape to Willow Cottage

Ebook and paperback

Avon, HarperCollins

RomCom

10th August 2017

Beth is running away. With her young son Leo to protect, Willow Cottage is the lifeline she so desperately needs. Overlooking the village green in a beautiful Cotswolds idyll, Beth sees a warm, caring and safe place for little Leo. When she finally uncovers the cottage from underneath the boughs of a weeping willow tree, Beth realises this is far more of a project than she bargained for and the locals are more than a little eccentric! A chance encounter with gruff Jack, who appears to be the only male in the village under thirty, leaves the two of them at odds but it’s not long before Beth realises that Jack has hidden talents that could help her repair more than just Willow Cottage. Over the course of four seasons, Beth realises that broken hearts can be mended, and sometimes love can be right under

your nose…

JEAN FULLERTON

Pocketful of Dreams

Paperback and Ebook

Atlantic

WW2 Saga

3rd August 2017

It's 1939, and the Brogan family of London's East End are ready to show Hitler what for. But things don't seem so rosy when rationing, evacuation and air-raids start to put this larger-than-life family to the test. When a mysterious young man arrives at the Brogans' local parish church, he provides just the dazzling distraction they need - and for eldest daughter Mattie, the promise of more than she'd ever wished for. But as the pair fall deeper in love, they are drawn into secret dangers, rife on the very London streets they call home. As the young couple race to protect the East End as they know it, can their dreams survive the darkening backdrop of war-time...?

ANNIE O'NEIL

Tempted by the Bridesmaid

Medical Romance

Traditional and Ebook

Mills & Boon

1 August 2017

A woman to unlock his heart?

The last time brooding Italian surgeon Luca Montovano saw bubbly heiress Francesca Martinelli was at his best friend's failed wedding. Sparks flew then, and now she's made a surprise appearance at his mountaintop clinic, bringing a much-needed whirlwind of laughter! Aristocratic Luca just wants to be left alone to care for his orphaned niece. The scars on his face reach right to his heart, and he's learned to push people away. Until Fran forces him to see the world through her eyes!

ANNIE O'NEIL

Taming His Pregnant Princess

Medical Romance

Traditional and Ebook

Mills & Boon

1 August 2017

"Hello, Beatrice." Face-to-face with the man she'd loved and lost two years ago, Dr. (and Princess) Bea di Jesolo knows she has no right to forgiveness, but she hopes they can call a truce for the sake of their patients. Pediatrician Dominic Coutts had always seen the woman beneath the royal fanfare that surrounded Bea: at heart, she was more surgical gown than ball gown. But loving her had cost him once. Could he risk his heart again—especially when he discovers her secret? 

RACHEL BRIMBLE

Ethan's Daughter

Romantic Suspense

Paperback and Ebook

Harlequin Super Romance

There's safety in solitude…isn't there? Single dad and best-selling thriller writer Ethan James has no problem being Templeton Cove's most famous recluse…until a surprise visit from the past plunges him into a real-life crime drama just as feisty nurse Leah Dixon barges her way into his world. Ethan's first priority is to protect his daughter. His second priority is to keep Leah out of this dark web—and that means out of his bed. Except Leah isn't going anywhere; she's afraid little Daisy is in danger. Ethan couldn't live with himself if anything happened to Leah…but pushing her away may be even harder!

KATE FIELD

The Truth About You, Me and Us

Contemporary women's fiction

Paperback and Ebook

Accent Press

25 August 2017

Sometimes the hardest person to be honest with is yourself…

Five years ago Helen Walters walked out on her ‘perfect’ life with the ‘perfect’ man.

Wealthy, glamorous and bored, she longed for something more. Now a talented artist with a small business, Helen creates crazy patchwork crafts to support her young daughter, Megan. Penniless, content and single, she is almost unrecognisable. But when her past unexpectedly collides with her new life, Helen finds herself torn. She knows what the easiest choice is, but is it what she wants?

TRACY CORBETT

The Forget-Me-Not Flower Shop

Contemporary romantic fiction

Ebook

Avon/HarperCollins

Evie is busy running the Forget-Me-Not Flower Shop and praying for an uplift in sales as soon as possible. She might be in the market of selling romance, but for Evie a new man is the last thing she needs! That is until plumber Scott Castillo turns up to fix her boiler. She’s definitely not interested. But then, why does she keep ogling his rather attractive forearms? She’s been fooled before - she isn’t about to fall head-over-heels for some smooth-talker, right? When he isn’t trying to balance paying the bills with caring for his sick mother, Scott has stepped in to help parent his 18-year-old nephew, Ben. Between that and working full time Scott doesn’t have time for romance. Until he meets Evie…

Love doesn’t always bloom the way you expect but for the customers of the Forget-Me-Not Flower Shop it might just be the perfect time for romance…

MOLLIE BLAKE

Guiltless - A Cheshire Love Story

Adult Romance Suspense

Paperback and Ebook

Black Opal Books

Date of Release  26th August

Managing Director of her own successful fashion house, Lauren Chandler should have everything going for her. But at twenty-nine, she finds herself single again, and bored.

Seeking a new challenge in her life, under the guise of saving her company money, Lauren embarks on a mission to model their latest range of lingerie herself. She just needs a photographer. When Byron Lord makes an unusual proposal, Lauren is adamant he won’t win the contract. Riddled with guilt, photographer, Byron Lord, embarks on a path he never wanted. OCD is only one of his unusual traits. As co-owner of Broadway Studios he is determined to provide job security to his off-beat workforce and he needs Lauren Chandler’s help to do so. Byron may have underestimated how far Lauren would be prepared to go. He had definitely underestimated how much she would demand of him. With an ultimatum of her own, Lauren gets far more than she bargained for.

But things rarely go to plan. Something isn’t right at the studio and Byron needs all his wits and courage to protect those around him and fight his own demons. To top it all, the question “what to do about Lauren Chandler” just won’t go away.

ELLIE HOLMES

The Tregelian Hoard

1st August 2017

Paperback large print

Romance

Linford Romance

With her engagement in tatters, Jonquil Jones, a Portable Antiquities specialist,

moves to Cornwall for a fresh start.  When a golden torc that has lain hidden underground for centuries is unearthed, she can feel her soul stirring with excitement. Is it a single find or part of an extraordinary treasure trove? It's Jonquil's job to find out.  But there is one problem: Sebastian Ableyard, who reported the find, is the man Jonquil holds responsible for the break-up of her engagement...

CAROL MCGRATH

The Woman in the Shadows

Paperback and Ebook

Accent Press

Historical Fiction/Romance

4th August

When cloth merchant’s daughter, Elizabeth Williams, is widowed at age of two and twenty, she is determined to make a success of her husband’s cloth business, but she has powerful enemies. When she meets Thomas Cromwell, ambitious merchant turned lawyer, Elizabeth finds a protector and is determined to marry for love this time round but it isn’t easy being married to the wife of an influential, headstrong man in Henry VIII’s London. Can love and respect survive in a city filled with ruthless people. Will a long concealed secret be their undoing?

LYNNE CONNOLLY

Fearless - The Shaws, Book One

Georgian historical romance

Ebook and paperback

Kensington

22nd August

When Lady Charlotte Engles receives an offer of marriage from an eligible suitor, she’s finally ready to let go of her long-held hope that her engagement to Lord Valentinian Shaw will result in marriage. For despite the betrothal their families made between them, Val shows no interest in leaving his reckless life behind in favor of one with Charlotte. But when her plea to end their arrangement ends in a heated embrace, suddenly Val seems reluctant to let her go… The last thing Val wants is a wife, despite how desirous his lovely bride-to-be has become. But when he discovers sweet Charlotte is planning to marry a dastardly man, he feels duty bound to keep her safe, even if that means making good on his marriage pledge. Then Charlotte is taken hostage by her dangerous suitor and suddenly Val is ready to risk everything for the woman who has won his heart.

JUDITH BARROW

A Hundred Tiny Threads

Ebook Paperback

Historical family saga

Publisher: Honno Press (17 Aug. 2017)

The prequel to the Haworth trilogy, this is the story of the parents of the protagonist, Mary Haworth in  in Pattern of Shadows, Changing Patterns, and Living in the Shadows.

It’s 1911 and Winifred Duffy is a determined young woman eager for new experiences; for a life beyond her well-off family and their prosperous grocer’s shop, a family ruled over by her domineering mother. On the opposite end of the social scale is Bill Howarth. His scars from a troubled childhood linger; he is an angry young man.. The only light in his life comes from a chance encounter with Winifred, the girl he dreams about and is determines to make his wife. But meeting her friend Honora’s silver-tongued brother turns Winifred’s heart upside down and they begin a love affair that Bill can only watch from a distance. But after a suffrage rally turns into a riot, Honora and Conal disappear. Abandoned Winifred has nowhere to turn but home. The Great War intervenes, sending Bill abroad to be hardened in a furnace of carnage and loss. When he returns he is unemployed and, desperate for money, joins the Black and Tans to quell the riots for Independence in Dublin. But all is not what it seems there and Bill deserts, still dreaming  of Winifred and the life they might have had… Back in Lancashire, worn down by work and the barbed comments of the narrow-minded townsfolk, Winifred faces difficult choices in love and life.

EBOOKS:

SHARON BOOTH

New Doctor at Chestnut House

Contemporary Romance

Ebook

Fabrian Books

12th August 2017

Is home a place—or a person?  

Anna's about to leave Bramblewick behind. She's due to marry her childhood sweetheart in a few weeks, and then she'll be heading to Kent and a whole new life. Connor's a new arrival in Bramblewick. He's bringing with him a whole lot of baggage, and he's doubtful that this small village on the Yorkshire Moors is the ideal place for him and his daughter, Gracie. It's not easy for Anna, watching Connor move into her family home and take over from her beloved father at the local surgery, but she's determined to help him settle in and adjust to rural life, so that the villagers get the doctor they deserve. Connor's not convinced. This country practice is very different to what he's used to, and the locals have some strange expectations of their GP. Protective of Gracie and hiding behind self-constructed barriers, Connor struggles to adapt to life in Bramblewick. Can Anna convince him that this is the place where he and Gracie can finally find happiness? And can she convince herself that leaving Bramblewick is the right move for her?

ABBEY MACMUNN

One Night in Kuala Lumpur

Erotic Romance

Ebook

Tirgearr Publishing

In search of inspiration, successful artist Ziva Clarke takes a trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her exhibitions in the UK have left her exhausted and she's had no fun in ages  - the exotic Far East could be just what she needs. Charmer Sam Tempest is visiting KL on business, but behind the impeccable suit and the wicked smile, he’s not a happy man. Duty bound to join his family’s international business, Sam longs to follow his

true passion—to carve wood sculptures. The two lonely souls meet by chance on a crowded street, and when it turns out they might not be the strangers they first thought, so begins a night of confessions, shared dreams and hot sex. Can one steamy night in Kuala Lumpur be the answer to both their dreams?

DEIRDRE PALMER, writing as ZARA THORNE

Escape to Sunrise Cottage

Contemporary romance

Ebook

Fabrian Books

1st August

When artist Violet Brooke leaves her engagement ring on top of a Chinese wedding cabinet and runs away from the trendy apartment in London’s Brick Lane, there’s only one place to go – Sunrise Cottage. All she wants is to cosy up in her rural retreat, get on with her painting, and forget about Jayden Fox, bad boy of the East End art scene – he’s certainly forgotten about her. The last thing she needs is romance. But then handsome antique dealer Max Finch shows up in the middle of a field and the problem is, he’s impossible to resist. As much as Max wants Violet to stay in the village, somebody else wants her gone, and they’re making sure she knows about it. But who? And why? Is this Violet’s cue to head back to London and pick up her real life? Or is Sunrise Cottage – and Max Finch – as real as it gets? 

NELL DIXON

Looking For Juliet

Medical Romantic suspense

Ebook

Clean Reads

18.7.17

‘More than her heart is in danger’

Looking for Juliet is the latest release from multi-award winning, best-selling novelist Nell Dixon. Dr. Neil Forrest’s introduction to Juliet, his new practice nurse got off to a fiery start in more ways than one. Juliet, and her small son, Charlie are hiding out from something or someone, but who and why? Neil quickly realizes that he has to leave his own past behind if he is to be there when it counts for Juliet, and for Charlie.

EVONNE WAREHAM

Summer in San Remo

Ebook

Choc-lit

Romantic Comedy.

18th July.

Anything could happen when you spend summer in San Remo …

Running her busy concierge service usually keeps Cassie Travers fully occupied. But when a new client offers her the strangest commission she's ever handled she suddenly finds herself on the cusp of an Italian adventure, with a man she thought she would never see again. Jake McQuire has returned from the States to his family-run detective agency.

When old flame Cassie appears in need of help with her mysterious client, who better than Jake to step in? Events take the pair across Europe to a luxurious villa on the Italian Riviera. There, Cassie finds that the mystery she pursues pales into insignificance, when compared to another discovery made along the way … 

GABRIELLE MULLARKEY

Four Riddles for Jane Austen (and her artful maid Tilly)

Regency historical

Ebook

Corazon Books

12 July 2017

At 31, impoverished spinster and keen observer of life Jane Austen uses her marginal place in society to team up with her loyal maid, Tilly Marshall, and unmask the malicious, vengeful and desperate in a world where money and status are all, not everyone is who they seem and secrets are worth killing – and dying – for. Along the way, Jane loses her heart, as well as coming close to losing her life. Full of witty dialogue, pacy action and memorable characters (above and below stairs), Jane and Tilly’s encounters cement their lasting bond and provide inspiration for Jane’s best-known works. Seasoned Janeites will enjoy references to some of her most beloved characters, but if you haven't read a word of Jane Austen before, it won't spoil your enjoyment of a devilishly twisty plot!

INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED:

LISA HOBMAN

In His Place - Sonic Idols Book 2

Ebook and paperback

Amazon

7th July

Four years after the tragic death of his brother Joe, Sonic Idols drummer Si Delaney still struggles to cope with what happened to the man whose shoes he subsequently filled. A forced hiatus from touring unleashes feelings he's tried hard to push aside, and Si knows he needs to seek forgiveness before he can ever truly move on. Determined to make amends he sets off in search of Joe’s fiancée, Allie. Can Allie help Si to realise he wasn’t to blame for the tragedy, or will he forever feel like an imposter in Joe’s place?