Showing posts with label Carol Townend. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carol Townend. Show all posts

Friday, October 7, 2016

October New Releases

Here we have the list of October releases from current members of the Romantic Novelist Association. Thank you to Sheila Riley for compiling such an interesting list of books.

Linn B Halton
A LITTLE SUGAR A LOT OF LOVE
Choc Lit UK
Paperback
14 October 2016
 Life isn’t all love and cupcakes. Katie has had her fair share of bad luck, but when she finally realises her dream of opening a bakery. It seems things can only get better. But the reality of running a business hits Katie hard and whilst her partner, Steve, tries to help she can’t help but feel that the situation is driving them further apart. Could Katie be set to lose her relationship and her dream job? Then, one winter’s day, a man walks into her shop and, in the space of that moment, the course of Katie’s life is changed. But nobody finds happiness in the blink of an eye.
Sometimes it takes two Christmases, three birthdays and a whole lot of cake to get there.


Linn B Halton
A LITTLE LUCK A LOT OF FATE
Choc Lit UK
eFormat only
25 October 2016
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 When destiny calls, you need to pick up. On the surface, Kristi Danielson has it all.
She’s lifestyle coach to the rich and famous, has a bestselling book to her name and is
described by her fans as the veritable Queen of how to lead a fulfilling life. But the harsh truth is that Kristi has never practiced what she preaches.
Her home life is a mess, her relationship with artist boyfriend, Tom, not much better
and now she has to redeem herself before all is lost. At her wit’s end, Kristi is driven to seek out the help of Patrick Blakeslee, a tarot card reader and psychic medium, in an attempt to make sense of the mounting panic she’s feeling.
But Patrick’s visits have an unexpected effect on Kristi, leaving her with more questions than answers and a life-changing decision to make

Jill Steeples
CHRISTMAS AT THE DOG AND DUCK
Aria
Epub
22nd September 2016
 Ellie Browne has returned to the charming village of Little Leyton looking for a simpler way of life. Only in her absence, things have changed. Property developer, Max Golding, is ruffling feathers all round.
Johnny Tay, Ellieís ex, wants to pick up where they left off and the pub, which holds a special place in Ellie's heart, might be sold. Suddenly, life’s looking a whole lot more complicated. It’s supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year, but can Ellie juggle her emotions and commitments in time to celebrate Christmas?

Anne Stenhouse
COURTING THE COUNTESS
Endeavour Press
E-book
8th September 2016
Beauty, Melissa Pateley, has been injured and scarred by a fire. Colonel Harry Gunn is charged by his uncle to find the countess and rescue her from their dangerous cousin, George Gunn. Can love grow in such inauspicious circumstances? Will the family secrets now dislodged prove too strong to overcome?



Marie Laval
DANCING FOR THE DEVIL
Accent Press
Traditional publishing, epub, mobi, pdf
29th August 2016 as a box set
 Bruce McGunn is a man as brutal and unforgiving as his land. Discharged from the army, he is haunted by the spectres of his fallen comrades and convinced he is going mad. And he is running out of time to save his estate from the machinations of Cameron McRae, heir to the McGunn's ancestral enemies. When the clipper carrying McRaeís new bride is caught in a violent storm and docks at Wrath harbour,
Bruce decides to revert to the old ways and hold the clipper and the woman to ransom. However, far from the spoilt heiress he expected, Rose is genuine, funny and vulnerable a ray of sunshine in the long, harsh winter that has become his life. But Rose is determined to escape Wrath and its proud master the man she calls McGlum.
Will she be reunited with Cameron McRae, the dazzlingly handsome aristocrat she married after a whirlwind romance in Algiers,or will she risk her heart and her honour to help Bruce discover the truth about his past and solve the brutal murders committed on his land?

Jan Jones
THE KYDD INHERITANCE
Kindle
Self-published (previously hardback with Hale)
1st September 2016
Nell Kyddís brother is missing, her father is dead and her loathsome uncle is ruining the family estate. Enter Captain Hugo Derringer who blows hot, then cold, and is discovered in odd places asking some very odd questions. How far can Nell trust him?




Jan Jones
FAIR DECEPTION
Kindle
Self-published (previously hardback with Hale)
1st October 2016
 When Kit Kydd rescues actress Susanna Fair from disreputable Rafe Warwick, he proposes a feigned engagement to suit them both. But problems multiply when Susanna's past beckons, her former theatre troupe need her and Rafe reappears.
Not a good time to fall in love, really.




Nora Fountain
TROPICAL MADNESS
Linford Romance Library
Large Print
 Serena is a paediatrician and Jake a journalist and adventurer. Their unlikely romance blossoms in the steamy jungle where danger from rebels, an injured lion, etc., is only a heartbeat away. Will they return to normality and go their separate ways or is there a future for their romance?





Kate Walker
INDEBTED TO MORENO
Harlequin Mills and Boon
Traditional published, and e-book
1st October 2016

Dark and dangerous Spaniard took Rose’s virginity before a terrible misunderstanding
led her to nearly destroy his life. Now he’s back with the design commission that will
save Rose’s career as a dress designer ñ but he’s also determined to collect on the debt she owes him.



Christina Courtenay
THE VELVET CLOAK OF MOONLIGHT
Choc Lit
Traditionally published, paperback and ebook
th October
 When newly widowed Tess visits Raglan Castle, she experiences a vision that transports her to 17th century Wales and a castle on the brink of a siege. Her life becomes increasingly intertwined with the past and when the new owner of the estate arrives - New Zealander Josh - the parallels become even more obvious.
But perhaps the visions aren’t just trying to tell their own story, maybe they’re also giving a warning.


Carol Townend
MISTAKEN FOR A LADY
Harlequin Mills & Boon
Paperback and eBook
 When a shocking revelation reveals Francesca’s illegitimacy, she worries that her marriage to Tristan, Comte des Iles, will crumble. Her heart in tatters, she awaits her husband’s return. Will he request an annulment or give their union a second chance?
Duty has kept Tristan from his beautiful wife’s side for far too long, but the memory of her touch is seared into his soul. Now, with malevolent forces working against, them, it’s more important than ever for Tristan to show Francesca that he’ll never let her go!


Carol MacLean
FROZEN HEART
Accent Press
e-book and paperback
 Jenna has reached a low point in her life - she's lost her business, her home and her boyfriend. Reluctantly she goes to live with her step-family where she's treated like Cinderella. Then she meets Gus, a handsome stranger with his own problems. When they fall in love it looks like Jenna will get her own fairytale happy-ever-after but there are troubles to overcome before Jenna and Gus can finally reach for a life and love together.



Rosemary Dun
THE TROUBLE WITH LOVE
Sphere, Little, Brown Book Group
e-book via traditional publisher
1st August 2016
When Polly Park meets Spike, the fact that he's emigrating to Australia in six months' time is not a problem - no commitment or messy endings. But she doesn't bank on falling in love, or on making a certain discovery after he's gone. Three years on, Polly is a single mum to her gorgeous daughter Rowan, she's dating cameraman Max and she might finally be ready to take a chance on love. Then, out of the blue, Spike returns with his glamorous girlfriend in tow, and suddenly Polly finds herself in the middle of a very sticky situation . . .
Will Spike's return resurrect Polly's feelings for him? Where does that leave Max and Polly? And how will all this change effect Rowan? Nothing is simple - but then, that's the trouble with love . . .

Rhoda Baxter
GIRL HAVING A BALL
Choc Lit
Traditional published, e-book.
27 Sept 2016
 Now that poor needy little Stevie is all grown up, she won’t let a man get in the way of her dreams will she?






Louise Allen
MISS WESTON'S MASQUERADE
Self-published
e-book
1st OCT 2016
 Take a desperate woman, an unwanted suitor, one very reluctant nobleman, a valet with a broken leg, a ferocious great aunt, the under-footman’s breeches and Miss Cassandra Weston finds herself on the Grand Tour in a dangerously romantic masquerade




Leah Mercer (Talli Roland)
WHO WE WERE BEFORE
Lake Union
Traditionally published
1 October 2017
 Zoe knows that it wasn’t really her fault. Of course it wasn’t. But if she’d just grasped harder, run faster, lunged quicker, she might have saved him. And Edward doesn’t really blame her, though his bitter words at the time still haunt her, and he can no more take them back than she can halt the car that killed their son.
Two years on, every day is a tragedy. Edward knows they should take healing steps together, but he’s tired of being shut out. For Zoe, it just seems easier to let grief lead the way. A weekend in Paris might be their last hope for reconciliation, but mischance sees them separated before they’ve even left Gare du Nord. Lost and alone, Edward and Zoe must try to find their way back to each other and find their way back to the people they were before. But is that even possible?
             
Mandy Baggot
ONE CHRISTMAS IN PARIS
Bookouture
E-book and paperback
7 October 2016
 They say Paris is the City of Love, so bring your je ne sais quoi and donít forget the mistletoe! Will Ava go home with a broken heart, or will she find true love amongst the cobbled streets of Paris?





Helen J Rolfe
IN A MANHATTAN MINUTE
Fabrian Books
Kindle Edition
20th October (available for pre-order).
 Jack exists in a world that has seen its fair share of tragedy, but also success and the wealth that comes with it. One snowy night, he crosses paths with Evie, a homeless girl, and it changes everything.





Rosemary Morris
Monday's Child
Books We Love
e-publication and paper back.
14th October, 2016
 Love, despair and renewed hope amid the gaiety and anxiety in Brussels between Napoleon's escape from Elba and Napoleon’s defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.






Lynne Pardoe
Abandoned By My Mum
KDP select
ebook
July 2016
 Everybody needs someone somewhere. Chelsea isn’t like most people. For as long as she can remember she’s been in care, and for all sorts of reasons this hasn’t gone well. At fourteen years old her past has been the stuff of nightmares, so much so that even she hasn’t wanted to know the full story. Desperately searching for the love she’s always craved, her life takes an even more sinister turn when she’s befriended by two men with a string of convictions for the sexual abuse of minors. Her only hope of salvation comes in the form of someone she’s never even met. Social worker Natasha Livingston is sent on a raid of the men’s house with the police.
Little by little, Tasha uses her professional skills to help Chelsea understand her life and find a way towards a happier future. It means confronting some ghosts from the past but with support that helps her come to terms with what she’s been through. Abandoned by My Mum is the story of Chelsea’s self-discovery and the recognition that whilst not everyone has her best interests at heart, there are some people who care enough to convince her she’s worth the effort.

Jill Barry
Christmas Revelations
Large Print Linford Romance Library
F A Thorpe
1st October 2016
 Reluctant 1920s debutante Annabel prefers horses to suitors. She’s furious when she discovers Lawrence, Lord Lassiter, is the despised 13th guest joining the family’s Christmas house party. 




About Sheila:
Apart from keeping busy compiling our monthly lists of members new novels Merseyside saga writer, Sheila Riley, also writes bestselling novels for Harper Collins under the name of Annie Groves.



Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Carol Townend - Hot...or What!

Courtesy of Mills & Boon
Today we are delighted to welcome Carol Townend. We put some questions to her:

When did you decide to write your first book and how long did it take?
The first book I finished was Sapphire in the Snow which I probably wrote in 1987. I can’t quite remember because it’s so long ago! After some revisions Mills & Boon published it in 1989 and to my delight it won the RNA New Writers' Award. I think it took around six months to write, although I’d been thinking about the plot for a while before I began. It was written on an Amstrad, which was entirely different to a modern computer. I loved my Amstrad, but it struggled to cope with files larger than about 10 pages. Also, the novel took an age to print and came out in one long sheet. You had to separate the pages manually! I wrote about five novels on an Amstrad.

Have you always wanted to be a writer?
Yes, although it took me some time to really get down to it. I played about with various writing courses which were great except they kept trying to make me write articles when all I really wanted to write was medieval romance. When my daughter went to school, I wrote three romances quite quickly and was thrilled when they were accepted by Harlequin Mills & Boon. I guess the message there is to write what your heart tells you to write!

How do you fit your writing around your home life?
It’s a job and I treat it as such. After various displacement activities in the morning – putting on the washing machine, tidying up, dealing with mail etc – I try to get started on the WIP around coffee time. Ideally this is five days a week. I finish at 6. Sometimes I write at week-ends, but it’s important to have a life too…

How good are you at planning your work? Do you prefer to wing it?
A lot of planning goes in. I have a set of coloured school notebooks and pick one for each novel. They say ‘Oxford’ on the covers, but we buy them in French supermarkets on research trips. By the time the notebook is full, it’s usually time to start writing. Having said that, the story never goes to plan! My characters are wayward and tend to run off in all directions. In The Stone Rose, a medieval saga I wrote for Headline, one character got up and walked out of the book half way through. I tried to pin him down by breaking his leg – ha! It kept him in place for a short time, but as soon as the leg was healed he was off again. I let him go and in the end he came back again, and the book was better for it. So I’ve learned that the characters know best, and let them have their head. It makes for a more interesting journey. It also makes me wonder why I do all that planning!

Do you enjoy research?
I love it. I read history at university, so the interest in anything medieval has always been there. A great joy of writing medieval romance it that it give you an excuse to visit castles all over Europe. I like to explore the town/area where a book will be set and get the medieval map firmly in my head. It’s not always possible, but a visit to Istanbul resulted in the Palace Brides trilogy set in eleventh century Byzantium. Places are very inspiring. When visiting Quimperlé in Brittany, a whole novel popped into my head. An Honourable Rogue was inspired by the church at the confluence of two rivers.

What did you enjoy most about writing your novel and how do you relax when you're not working?
Finishing it! Writing is hard work and I am lazy…then I can enjoy reading, walks in the countryside, chatting with friends, cinema.

If you were a guest on Desert Island Discs what would be your chosen book?
This varies. This year it’s Transcendence by Shay Savage, an unlikely time-slip romance between a teenager of today and a cave-man. The cave-man cannot speak or understand language, and the idea that the heroine comes from the future is quite beyond his grasp. The entire novel is told from his point of view and there is no dialogue. It’s hard to pin down why I adore this book, but the fact that the hero constantly misunderstands the heroine makes for an extraordinarily poignant and moving read.

If your next title Lord Gawain’s Forbidden Mistress was turned into a film who would you like to play the main characters?
Pass. I think it’s important to let readers make up their own images of the characters. Suffice to say that Lord Gawain has sun-streaked hair and brown eyes. He’s a knight, so he is strongly built. Elise, aka Blanchefleur le Fay, is dark, the cover image fits her very well!

What is next for Carol Townend?
I’d like to write two more stories in the Knights of Champagne mini-series. After that, Sicily is throwing out lures. Spain is too. Who knows? I can’t plan too much in advance, but it’s likely to be medieval. And romantic, naturally!

Publication day of my next title: 1st March 2015, Lord Gawain’s Forbidden Mistress. It is Book 3 in the Knights of Champagne mini-series.

Carol Townend writes medieval romances set in England and Europe. Born in Yorkshire, she went to a convent school in Whitby and studied history at London University.
Her first novel, Sapphire in the Snow, won the RNA New Writers' Award. In 2013, Betrothed to the Barbarian was shortlisted for the RoNA Rose Award.
Carol's non-fiction writing includes dozens of articles for Writing Magazine and Writers' News, and a portrait of the Romanovs using photographs from the Imperial albums. Carol lives in London with her husband and daughter.
  
Lord Gawain’s Forbidden Mistress will be published in March 2015, it is the third book in the Knights of Champagne mini-series set in twelfth century France.


Thank you for joining us today, Carol.

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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

August Releases

Ruth Frances Long THE TREACHERY OF BEAUTIFUL THINGS
Dial 
Hardback, print
16th August 2012
$17.99
A darkly compelling mix of romance, fairy tale, and suspense from a new voice in teen fiction
The trees swallowed her brother whole, and Jenny was there to see it. Now seventeen, she revisits the woods where Tom was taken, resolving to say good-bye at last. Instead, she’s lured into the trees, where she finds strange and dangerous creatures who seem to consider her the threat. Among them is Jack, mercurial and magnetic, with secrets of his own. Determined to find her brother, with or without Jack’s help, Jenny struggles to navigate a faerie world where stunning beauty masks some of the most treacherous evils, and she’s faced with a choice between salvation or sacrifice–and not just her own.

www.RFLong.com



Jenny Barden MISTRESS OF THE SEA
Ebury Press
Hardcover
30 August 2012
£14.99 (RRP)
An epic, romantic, swashbuckling adventure set at a time when Drake roamed the seas in the name of the Virgin Queen.
'Beautifully written and researched, this tale of desire, revenge, piracy and valour is so evocative we can taste salt on our skin and hear the swoop of sails overhead as we're swept up into a high-stakes adventure unlike any we've read before.' - C.W. Gortner, author of The Confessions of Catherine de Medici 
www.jennybarden.com


Hazel Osmond  THE FIRST TIME I SAW YOUR FACE
Quercus
Paperback
16th August 2012
£6.99
Sexy, dishevelled and just a little clumsy, Mack starts to make Jennifer believe she can embrace life all over again. But he has a secret he'd do anything to protect and he'll have to betray her to keep it...


Carol Townend BETROTHED TO THE BARBARIAN
Mills & Boon
£4.99
3rd AUGUST 2012
A-LESS-THAN-PERFECT PRINCESS...
Princess Theodora of Constantinople is to marry Duke Nikolaos, the general-in-chief of the army, a man chosen for her by the Emperor.  An imperial princess must always do her duty - be beautiful, obedient and pure.
But Theodora spent ten years in exile in a barbarian land.  There, once, she might have forgotten protocol.  Forgotten enough to have given birth to a baby in secret.   As her wedding night approaches, Theodora finds she wants to share her bed with the Duke, except she knows she's on the verge of revealing her biggest sin...

Mary Nichols THE GIRL ON THE BEACH
 Allison and Busby
August 27 2012
Paperback
£7.99
Caught out in an air raid in wartime London, Julie Walker is pulled out alive from an air raid shelter, but has lost her memory. Given a new identity, she must make a life for herself as Eve Seaton. When her memory suddenly returns, four years later, she is left with a dilemma. Is she Julie Walker, married to Harry, or is she Eve Seaton, a sergeant in the WAAF, engaged to Alec Kilby? And who is buried in the grave alongside her son?






Jane Lovering VAMPIRE STATE OF MIND
Choc Lit Publishing
Paperback
07th August 2012
£7.99

Jessica Grant knows vampires only too well.  She runs the York Council tracker programme making sure that Otherworlders are all where they should be, keeps the filing in order and drinks far too much coffee.  To Jess, vampires are annoying and arrogant and far too sexy for their own good, particularly her ex-colleague Sil, who’s now in charge of Otherworld York. 

But when a demon turns up and threatens not just Jess but the whole world order, she and Sil are forced to work together, and when Jess turns out to be the key to saving the world it puts a very different slant on their relationship.  The stakes are high.  They are also very, very pointy and Jess isn’t afraid to use them, even on the vampire that she’s rather afraid she’s falling in love with ...

Katherine Garbera A CASE OF KISS AND TELL
HARLEQUIN DESIRE
PRINT AND E-BOOK
August 7
$4.99
"Be my mistress for a month."
Billionaire bachelor Conner Macafee knows just what he’s worth, and he’s ready to make a deal. Nosy reporter Nichole Reynolds wants him--owner of New York's high-end matchmaking service--to spill his guts for her story? He’ll tell all--when she’s in his bed.

Nichole needs this scoop. But Conner is so arrogant, so cocky...and oh-so-sexy. Surely she can handle a month in the hot bachelor's arms in a cool penthouse suite--for her career.  But one kiss from Conner and Nichole knows she's made a huge mistake. Now she wants both the story and the man.


Lynne Connolly STRIPPED BARE
Loose-Id Publishing
 ebook
21st August 2012
 Corporate espionage leads to hot and kinky sex!
Joining the Mile High Club seemed like a fun thing to do, but Yolanda Latimer has more than a scandal to face when she falls to earth. The only person who can help her is the man who witnessed her tryst, and somehow turned her on without touching her.
Introducing Yolanda to the wilder side of sex is sheer delight for mentor Lawrence Cavendish, but his gorgeous pupil gets far deeper under his skin than he planned for, and soon he's involved in her real life dilemma. His sex life is all he allows to remain from his previous existence in a dark and dangerous world, where every day could have been his last. Yolanda unwittingly pulls him back in, threatening a life he loves and devastating public exposure as a fraud. Even she won't want him when she finds out his true nature.
Unless they find the man who is blackmailing Yolanda, she's washed up, her precious job and her reputation gone forever. Only Lawrence has the contacts that can flush her blackmailer from the seamy undergrowth of the criminal
underworld, and to do it he has to risk everything he's won over the years.Even her love.

W. Soliman   TOPSPIN
Musa Publishing
E-Book
17th August 2012
$1.99
More than just dodgy line calls when tempers flare at a local tennis club











Vanessa Devereaux WORTH WAITING FOR
Evernight Publishing
E Book-Novel
August 21st
Brock thought he had it all until one day he's sent away from the family business with the challenge of making it on his own. Kate also thought she had it all until her husband walked out and she's left with a faltering restaurant and a huge loan. Together Brock and Kate discover that there's more to life than money and business, and until you find your true love, your life isn't complete.











Vanessa Devereaux THE RAKE-(Book Three of the Just For Your Pleasure Trilogy)
Cobblestone Press
E-Book-Novella
August 15th
Gillian is in for one final surprise when she meets with the last man William has selected for her.

Freda Lightfoot THE PROMISE
Magna large Print
1 July 2012
£20.99

'San Francisco 1904: Georgia Briscoe is in love with British sailor Ellis Cowper but unwillingly betrothed to businessman Drew Kemp. He has the charm to dazzle everyone around him but once married his charm is only skin-deep when his penchant for gambling and other women comes to light. Georgia plans to escape to be with the man she loves but Drew has other ideas. And then comes the earthquake... London, 1948 when Chrissie Kemp travels to the Lake District to visit her grandmother Georgia, she is unprepared for the shocking revelation that is about to throw her family into turmoil. '


Freda Lightfoot RELUCTANT QUEEN
Magna Large Print
1 August 2012
£20.99

'The story of Gabrielle d'Estrees is one of love, betrayal, intrigue and tragedy. All she wanted was to marry for love, and enjoy the respectability of a happy marriage. But in the court of sixteenth century France this was almost impossible to achieve. She was sold by her own mother to three different lovers before catching the eye of a king. Is the love of a king enough to secure Gabrielle the happiness and respectability she craves, and a crown for her son as the next dauphin of France? '


Lindsay Townsend THE AMOROUS CHATELAINE
Ellora's Cave Blush Mainstream
Ebook
 August 30th
A widow of a medieval lord teaches knights the arts of courtly love and finesse. Young, raw knights flock to her and emerge from her castle with polish and panache. An older knight wonders if the widow will teach him a thing or two - or will they teach each other?










Sophie Pembroke  AN A TO Z OF LOVE
Lyrical Press
Ebook - $5.99 / £3.97
Everyone’s talking about Mia Page. Again.
Mia Page has been the subject of gossip in Aberarian for half her life, ever since her father ran off with his secretary–and the contents of the local museum safe–when she was fourteen.
Still, Mia loves her hometown, loves working at the A to Z shop, eating seafood with her best friend Charlie at his restaurant, catching the classic midnight movie at the crumbling Coliseum cinema. And if she ever wonders if things might be even better if Charlie were more than just a friend, well, it’s only an idle thought in a lonely moment. After all, friendship always trumps romance, doesn’t it? And she’s never been one to rock the boat.
But everything she loves is suddenly under threat from Charlie’s ex-girlfriend, Becky, and her plans to turn Mia’s beloved Coliseum into a casino, transforming the sleepy seaside town forever. As Mia tries to pull the people of Aberarian together to save the town they adore, her father reappears, and people start asking what he wants to take from them this time…


DJ Kirkby MY DREAM OF YOU
PUNKED Books
 ebook
£1.53
Crime of passion or cruel twist of fate?
One summer’s day Betty let love carry her a step too far. That exquisite sun dappled afternoon became one of her best memories but also the catalyst for the worst experience of her life. Now elderly, Betty has been running from her past since she was a teenager, and it’s about to catch up with her. Will the experience be as awful as she fears or wonderful beyond imagining?









Kitti Bernetti and Toni Sands  (co-authors in) PAST PLEASURES
Xcite Books
Paperback         
ebook
26 July 2012                
12 July 2012
£7.99                       
£2.99
Short Story:    The Duchess and the Highwayman by Kitti Bernetti
Lady Henrietta gets an extraordinary surpise when her coach is held up by a highwayman

Short Story: The Day the Sun Stands Still by Toni Sands         
Persian slave-girl Zuleika makes her way to market. Who will bid for her?