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.

MAY PUBLICATIONS

Thank you, Sheila Riley, for compiling another wonderful selection of members books due to be published during May.

TRADITIONALLY PUBLISHED

Fiona Harper

The Other Us

Print & e-book

HQ

4th May 2017

If you could turn back time, would you choose a different life? Maggie’s worried her twenty-year marriage to Dan has gone stale. With a college reunion Maggie’s worried her twenty-year marriage to Dan has gone stale. With a college reunion approaching, she can’t help wondering about Jude Hansen, the old flame who asked her to run away with him the same night Dan proposed. When she wakes up one day in her twenty-one-year old body, she has the chance to find out. A glitch in time has given her the opportunity to live her life again. Now she stands on the threshold of two very different possible futures –- but does she only have one chance at happiness? Perfect for fans of One Day, The Versions of Us & Miss You

Carol MacLean

Heart of the Mountain

Paperback

Thorpe  (Linford Romance series)

May 2017

Burnt out emotionally from her job as a nurse, Beth leaves London for the Scottish Highlands and the peace of her aunt's cottage. Here she meets Alex, a man who is determined to live life to the full after the death of his fiancee in a climbing accident.

Despite her wish for a quiet life, Beth is pulled into a friendship with Alex's sister, bubbly Sarah-Jayne and finds herself

increasingly drawn to Alex.

Gwen Kirkwood

Moorend Farm

Large Print

Ulverscroft

April 2016

William and Emma Sinclair have settled at Moorend Farm in Yorkshire.

They have found happiness together with their growing family and believe they have left the shame of their past behind them.

William works hard, determined to improve the run down farm and to provide a secure inheritance for his family, and so prove himself without any help from his embittered mother. When Emma takes Jamie and Meg to Scotland to visit all the family welcome them warmly, except Grandmother Sinclair. She takes the opportunity to sow seeds of doubt and insecurity in Jamie's young mind by telling him he is not a Sinclair. Does she really intend to cause the worry and unhappiness which causes Jamie to run away from home?  

Mary Wood

Tomorrow Brings Sorrow

Paperback & e-book

Pan Macmillan

May 18th 2017

You can’t choose your family

Megan and her husband Jack have finally found stability in their lives.

But the threat of Megan’s troubled son Billy is never far from their minds.

Billy’s release from the local asylum is imminent and it should be a time for celebration. Sadly, Megan and Jack know all too well what Billy is capable of . . .

Can you choose who you love? Sarah and Billy were inseparable as children, before Billy committed a devastating crime. While Billy has been shut away from the world, he has fixated on one thing: Sarah. Sarah knows there’s only one way she can keep her family safe and it means forsaking true love. Sometimes love is dangerous. Twins Theresa and Terrence Crompton are used to getting their own way. But with the threat of war looming, the tides of fortune are turning. Forces are at work to unearth a secret that will shake the very roots of the tight-knit community . . .

Will Sarah have a chance at a future, and what will become of Jack and Megan? One thing’s for sure: revenge will be sweet.

Ellie Holmes

The Spanish Galleon

F.A. Thorpe Publishing

1st May 2017

A centuries’ old mystery waiting to be solved …

Broken-hearted Madison Morley hopes Cornwall will be good for her soul what she isn’t expecting is to be pitched into a centuries’ old mystery: the hunt for the treasure of a Spanish galleon. Accompanying her on her quest is Cornishman Luke Ryder who is as handsome as he is exasperating. Can the couple work together to solve the clues and locate the galleon’s fabled cargo? And will Madison discover something more precious than gold and silver along the way – a new home for her heart?

Elaine Everest

The Butlins Girls

Paperback and e-book

Pan Macmillan

4th May

They escaped their pasts, for the adventure of a lifetime . . .

'Molly Missons gazed around in awe. So this was Butlins. Whitewashed buildings, bordered by rhododendrons, gave a cheerful feeling to a world still recovering from six years of war. The Skegness holiday camp covered a vast area, much larger than Molly expected to see.’

Molly Missons hasn't had the best of times recently. Having lost her parents, now some dubious long-lost family have darkened her door - attempting to steal her home and livelihood...

After a horrendous ordeal, Molly applies for a job as a Butlins Aunty. When she receives news that she has got the job, she immediately leaves her small home town - in search of a new life in Skegness. Molly finds true friendship in Freda, Bunty and Plum. But the biggest shock is discovering that star of the silver screen, Johnny Johnson, is working at Butlins as head of the entertainment team.

Johnny takes an instant liking to Molly and she begins to shed the shackles of her recent traumas. Will Johnny be just the distraction Molly needs - or is he too good be to be true?

Annie Groves

The Mersey Daughter

All Formats

Harper Collins

6 April 2017

Third in the Empire Street Series

Rita Kennedy has finally seen through her good-for-nothing husband, Charlie, who has gone AWOL with his fancy woman and left Rita at the mercy of the local gossips. With her future full of uncertainty, the only thing that keeps her going is knowing that her children are safe from the Luftwaffe - and the letters that she receives from Jack Callaghan, her childhood sweetheart, but a life together is just a distant fantasy.

Meanwhile, Kitty Callaghan has joined the WRENS, and it's opened up a whole new world. But despite finding romance with a handsome doctor, she still can't forget Frank Feeny, the brave officer from Empire Street who still inhabits her dreams. As the bombs rain down on Liverpool, Rita and Kitty must face heartache and sorrow as they pray for the sun to shine on the Mersey once again.

Anna Jacobs

One Quiet Woman

e-book and hardback editions  

Hodder & Stoughton        

4 May 2017

1930, Lancashire:

Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry, and since her mother died years ago it falls to her to become sole provider for her little sister. But women's wages are half those of men and pawning the few belongings she has left will only keep their vicious rent collector at bay for a few weeks, so even if she finds a job, they'll lose their home. Out of the blue Charlie Willcox, the local pawnbroker,

offers her a deal. His brother Jonah, an invalid since being gassed in the Great War, needs a wife. Charlie thinks Leah would be perfect for the job. The idea of a marriage of convenience doesn't please Leah, but she finds Jonah agreeable enough and moving with him to the pretty hamlet of Ellindale may be the only chance of a better life for her sister. But other people have plans for the remote Pennine valley, and the two sisters find themselves facing danger in their new life with Jonah. Can the three of them ever look to a brighter future?

Zara Stoneley

Summer with the Country Village Vet

HarperCollins (HarperImpulse)

Paperback and e-book

26th May 2017

Fall in love with a brand new cosy romance series from bestselling author Zara Stoneley. When Lucy Jacobs is made redundant from her inner-city teaching job she fears her career is over. Teaching is all Lucy knows and she's determined to get back in the classroom as fast as she can. Except the only job on offer is at an idyllic village school in the middle of nowhere – Lucy's idea of hell. Where are the disadvantaged kids who need saving, where is the challenge? But as Lucy finds herself welcomed into the warm-hearted community of Langtry Meadows, she begins to realise new challenges await – like frogs in the classroom, a rather difficult donkey, and a very brooding local vet…

Local boy Charlie Davenport has his own issues about living in the close-knit village of Langtry Meadows. His private life is already fuel for the well-meaning gossips and the very last thing he needs is to get close to the new school teacher… no matter how lovely she is. But as summer days drift away Langtry Meadows weaves its magic, Charlie and Lucy both get the chance to turn over a new leaf and start anew… maybe with each other? A fun, romantic story to make you smile and long for your own country escape.

Samantha Tonge

The New Beginnings Coffee Club

HQDigital, HarperCollins

E-published

Jenny Masters finds herself living the modern dream. Wife to a millionaire, living in a mansion and mother to Kardashian-obsessed ten-year-old April, there isn’t anything missing. Until, her whole world comes crashing down, forcing Jenny and April to leave behind their glittering life and start over with nothing. With village gossip following her wherever she goes, she finds refuge and a job in the new coffee shop in town. As the days pass Jenny fears she doesn’t have what it takes to pick herself back up and give April the life she always wanted to. But with the help of enigmatic new boss Noah, and housemate Elle, Jenny realises it’s never too late to become the woman life really intended you to be!

Liz Eeles

Annie's Lovely Choir By The Sea

Bookouture

e-book and paperback

18th May

Annie Trebarwith has no family to tie her down, and she likes it that way. But, when a letter arrives, unexpectedly inviting her to visit her great-aunt Alice in her family’s ancestral home, curiosity gets the better of her and she travels down to deepest Cornwall to meet the family she’s never known. Salt Bay is beautiful and Tregavara House imposing – but there’s no phone signal and some of the locals, like the gorgeous but brooding Josh, are incredibly grumpy. But Alice’s poor health compels Annie to stay, so to keep herself busy she relaunches the Salt Bay Choral Society.

Annie is surprised to see how much the choir means to the community, and she even starts to break through Josh’s surly exterior. As she begins to put down roots in Salt Bay, Annie soon realises that there’s a lot to be said for finding the place where you belong after all.

Jan Ellis

French Kisses and A London Affair

Paperback

Waverley Books

4 May 2017

French Kisses: When Rachel Thompson moved to France in her early twenties, little did she suspect she would stay, become a successful artist and marry Michael. Life is peachy until Michael hits 40, discovers his inner love-rat and runs off with the kids’ young, skinny, dance teacher. Determined to rebuild her life, Rachel recruits friends and neighbours to help transform the family home into a cosy guesthouse that soon attracts an eclectic collection of visitors – and two quite different admirers.

A London Affair:

Kate leaves the countryside for a job in a posh London deli where she finds herself at the centre of a delicatessen dating adventure. Along with the job come new flat-mates, including the fun, exasperating Imogen and her long-suffering boyfriend, Freddy.

Kate thinks she’s doomed to early spinsterhood, but Immy has other ideas and sends her friend out into dating land with unexpected consequences for them all. This is a fun romance that takes the reader from the King’s Road to Cornwall, with an eclectic bunch of characters including an old hippy, a Russian property magnate and an ex-boyfriend who doesn’t know when to give up.

E-BOOKS/ Independently Published

Lesley Field

Dangerous Deception.

Print

Self published on Amazon

May 2017

Second book in the Duchess in Danger series.

Lady Caroline (Callie) Sutton has known Nathan, heir to the Dukedom of Craven almost all of her life. His family’s estate borders that of her family and he is her brother, James’s, best friend. Her childhood has been idyllic brought up away from the regulations and trials of society. As she grows from child to maiden, the feelings between herself and Nathan change. A touch, a smile and a kiss promise future happiness. When he leaves to tour the Americas with James, there is an unspoken agreement between them. But events destroy her idyllic life and snatch her away from that she had expected, and push her into a life she does not want. Unable to fight the forces now controlling her she vows to seek one more moment of the life she was destined to have, before bowing/acceding to the life she must now live. But into that life she takes a secret so dire that if it were discovered her very life could be at risk.

Will she be able to maintain her deception?  Will she be able to re-capture the happiness she once knew, or is she doomed to the fate that was thrust upon her…?

Ros Rendle

Peace of Time

E-book and paperback

Endeavour Press

3rd April 2017

Jen and Mike Lucas are happily married, or so Jen thinks. Recently Mike has been short tempered and cranky, but Jen puts it all down to his stressful job at a finance company.Jen, on the other hand, loves her job as a teacher. She also makes more money than Mike, which he mentions at any given opportunity. As they drift further apart, Jen tries everything she can think of to save their marriage but all Mike wants to do is spend more and more time at the gym.When one of Jen’s students, young Charlie Mayhew, suffers a terrible fall from his bike, Jen lends a helping hand to his father, Christopher, a single parent who lost Charlie’s mother to cancer. Jen does her best to ignore the gossip that Mike was seen getting friendly with a red head at the gym, but a few days later, Jen discovers something that turns her world upside down.

After Mike moves out, Jen realises that she’s reached a crossroads in her life. Does she give Mike a second chance? Or does she take Christopher up on his offer of a date? As the summer draws to a close, Jen has some life changing decisions to make and what she decides will shock everyone, but most of all herself…

Elizabeth Bailey

Knight for a Lady.

E-book

Self-published

May 20th

Brides by Chance Book Three, Regency Romance.

Beset by the menace of her Nemesis, Edith Westacott has no choice but to accept the knight errantry of the new earl.

Once a soldier, Niall Lowrie is more than competent to slay the terrible dragon.

Jane Lark

The Tainted Love of a Captain

E-book

12th May 2017

The last episode in the Marlow Intrigues series:

When a woman is already drowning so deeply in sin she is without any fear of judgement

Louise Allen

An Earl Out of Time: Time Into Time series, Book One

E-book. Independently published.

May 1 2017

The first of a new series of time-slip mystery romances.

Freelance translator Cassie Lawrence volunteers as a Special Constable in her spare time – but an interest in police work hasn’t prepared her for the consequences of an impulse buy in an antiques shop. The portrait of a Regency gentleman sends her spinning back through time to land at the feet of the Earl of Radcliffe – who just happens to be fighting for his life in a London alleyway. If Cassie finds life in 1806 confusing, that is nothing to how Lucian feels, confronted by a 21st century woman

who challenges everything his honourable upbringing has taught him about how a lady behaves. And then there’s the mystery he is embroiled in – if someone doesn’t find the missing Arabella Trenton safe and sound soon his best friend, and prime suspect, is in danger of arrest.Can they find the missing woman before it is too late?

And how can Cassie ever get home? Or does she really want to when she is stranded out of time with a man she is fast falling for?

Vonnie Hughes

Dangerous Homecoming

Originally in hardback from Robert Hale Ltd, now in paperback and e-book

Independently published

Available Now

Both of them are scarred by war; she because of the shattered men she nurses; he

because of the loss of friends and the horrors he must endure daily. Colwyn Hetherington has a chance to put it all behind him and return to England. Juliana Colebrook desperately wants to go to England to seek out her relatives. They

take an almighty chance and travel together, setting in train a series of events that neither could have anticipated. With only their love to sustain them, they clash head-on with the reality of England, 1813.

Janet Gover

Wedding Bells By The Creek

E-book

Independently published

May 2nd 2017

How do you forgive what you can never forget?

Helen Walsh has never stopped searching for the daughter who ran away from home when she was just fifteen. Now, her daughter has found her. Face to face with the woman her child has become, Helen longs to be forgiven for her mistakes. Ed Collins has walked Helen’s path, and he knows that she needs more than her daughter’s forgiveness. He would help her if he could. Ed’s wife Stephanie returns – thirteen years after she deserted Ed and their young son. Now Ed is being asked to forgive. Steph was his first and only love… but are some things impossible to forgive?

In the tiny outback town of Coorah Creek, secrets are hard to keep. What will happen when Ed learns the truth about his wife? And as Helen plans her daughter’s wedding, dare she dream of her own?

Jessica Redland

Bear With Me

Indie

Little Bear Books

1st May 2017

Sometimes love finds us when we least expect it. But sometimes love leaves us, just as unexpectedly. Everything changes for Jemma on the weekend of her 28th birthday. An unexpected proposal from boyfriend, Scott, is overshadowed by her mum’s diagnosis with a life-changing condition. After the weekend, she needs Scott’s support more than ever. So why isn’t he returning her calls?

Everything was meant to be changing for Sam that same weekend. He should have been walking down the aisle with Nikki. But she’s not around anymore and Sam’s struggling to face the future. Did he do the right thing by moving to London to escape

the memories of their life together? When they've loved and lost, can they bear to let love in again? Bear With Me, and all will be revealed …