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?
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
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 …
