FOCUS ON: The Cornish Chapter

Today we are delighted to welcome Brenda Hawkey to the blog as she tells Natalie Kleinman about getting a new Chapter ‘off the ground’.

Congratulations on starting a new Chapter. What do you call it and why do you think it’s important for Cornwall to have its own Chapter.

Thank you. Welcome to The Cornish Chapter, which translated into the Cornish language is Bagas Chaptra Kernewek" a’gas dynnergh.

Cornwall has a long history of producing and inspiring writers, but what makes the county so beautiful and popular with tourists, i.e. its small villages, rural countryside and almost completely surrounded by sea, can pose as obstacles to keeping in touch with fellow writers.

I live in North Cornwall, so, when I joined the NWS in January, I was able to drive the sixty miles to the Exeter Chapter, where I gained a lot of support and made new friends. Despite the long car journey I was aware I was one of the lucky ones as writers who lived further southwest had an even longer journey to make. Cornwall needed its own group and when I discovered I was not alone in thinking this, I thought I’d attempt to start one.

Is this the first time Cornwall has had a chapter?

No, there was one in 2000 which lasted a couple of years. Chrissie Loveday held most of the meetings in her house as there was plenty of parking. Initially it was well attended, sometimes as many as 16 people, but sadly it came to an end when numbers began to dwindle.

How did you get it started?

I made a list of all the RNA members who had expressed an interest in attending a Cornish meeting and added them all to a single Facebook group conversation. The conversation quickly took off and a date, time and venue were soon agreed by all. After the first meeting, I started up a Chapter Facebook Group and invited interested members to join. I also announced it on the RNA Facebook page, the ROMNA Yahoo group and informed the RNA to make it official. It was easy to start a Chapter Group, but from now on it needs its members’ participation to keep it active.

How did the first chapter meeting go?

I don’t mind admitting that I was a little nervous that no one else would turn up, but I need not have worried. We arranged to have our first meeting at The County Arms in Truro. However, it takes courage to walk into a pub on your own, and it’s a strange experience to meet people you have never met face to face before. It also feels odd to ask another person (who is looking equally lost) if they are a member of the RNA. One feels like an undercover spy making contact with another agent. The only thing missing was the handing over of a package marked Top Secret. However, we managed to meet up successfully and because we had something in common, conversation began to flow very easily. Seven members attended the first meeting. It was informal and fun, and there was a nice mixture of traditionally published authors, indie authors and members of the NWS. I wouldn’t be surprised if we ended up being the noisiest table!

How often do you meet?

At the moment, the core membership is small, so we have decided to meet every other month. This may change in the future, but at the moment it is the 4th Thursday on alternate months ie Nov, Jan, Mar, May, Jul, Sept.

Where is your regular meeting place?

At present, the regular meeting place is The County Arms, Highertown, Truro, TR1 3PY at 12.00 midday. We chose this inn because it is centrally located, the parking is plentiful and free, and it serves affordable, tasty food. The railway and town centre is a 10-15 minutes walk away, making it ideal for a bit of retail therapy after lunch. The meetings are more akin to an informal lunch date with friends and the topics are on whatever we want to chat about at the time.

However, this venue may change in the future. The Cornish Chapter is new and willing to evolve to meet the wishes of the majority of its members.

Is your chapter open to non-members of the RNA?

Yes, I feel we need to be inclusive towards anyone who has a passion for writing as our core group is quite small compared to groups in more urban areas. Therefore, at the moment, the lunch dates are open to non-members who have been invited by a member.  However, The Cornish Facebook Page remains a closed group for members of the RNA in order to provide a safe and intimate group for discussions.

What do you have planned for the rest of 2016?

I hope that it will grow from strength to strength. Cornwall has lost its chapter group before, so we are aware that chapters can fail as a result of dwindling support. Unfortunately, once lost, it may not return for several years. It took over a decade for another chapter to form in Cornwall, so it would be a shame to lose it again.

           

What would you say makes your chapter of the RNA so special?

At our first meeting we discovered we had more than just writing in common. We discovered we all share a love for Cornwall and feel very lucky to call it our home. Its geography may make us feel a little isolated at times, but we are determined not to allow it to have a detrimental effect on our writing careers and to use its uniqueness to enhance our novels as our predecessors have done in the past. So it appears we share the same muse, Cornwall, and that is something quite special.

What are the key elements to starting a new group?

Someone willing to start one. It takes a little time, but not as much as you would expect.

People willing to join.

Choose a good location. It will not be perfect for everyone, but it should be considered “good enough” for most. Compromise is the key word here.

Good communication is a must and should remain a priority.

Does your chapter have a website, Facebook page or Twitter account?

Facebook:

Who is the contact for new members?

Brenda Hawkey

Email address: BDHawkey@hotmail.co.uk

We welcome new members, so please feel free to contact me if you would like to join.

Thank you which is  Meur ras in Cornish.

I have found your answers inspirational, Brenda, as I am sure our readers will too. Good luck for the future. It obviously won’t be for want of trying!

Natalie has been writing for sixteen years and her first two novels, Safe Harbour and Honey Bun, were published in 2014. Her third is with her agent, Lisa Eveleigh of the Richford Becklow Literary Agency. She is currently writing a Regency-based romance and wishes she could live between the pages of her book if only to wear the beautiful dresses that were fashionable at the time. You can read about Natalie’s achievements on her Blog.

The RNA blog is brought to you by Elaine Everest & Natalie Kleinman

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November Releases

Fiona Harper KISS ME UNDER THE MISTLETOE
Harlequin Mills & Boon
November 2012
£6.99
This Christmas, ex-WAG Louise is starting a new life away from the paparazzi – and her cheating husband. Can the diaries of a dead movie star help her figure out who she should be now she’s no longer Mrs Rich-and-Famous?
www.fionaharper.com

Margaret Moundson A CHANCE ENCOUNTER

Thorpe

1 November 2012

£8.99

Melissa Harper is back in town and Grace Maxwell was the girl who ruined her engagement to vet Daniel Stafford. He's back too and he is Grace's new boss.

Shirley Wells DYING ART
Carina Press
12 November 2012
£3.08
Portrait of a mystery
Dylan Scott vowed never to return to the dreary town of Dawson's Clough. But one visit from a beautiful ex-lover and he's back in Lancashire, investigating a possible murder. The police think Prue Murphy died during a burglary gone wrong, but her sister isn't so sure—and neither is Dylan. After all, the killer overlooked the only valuable thing in Prue's flat.
So who could have wanted the quirky young woman dead, and why? Dylan's search for answers takes him to France, where he discovers Prue's family didn't know her as well as they thought they did. And the more he digs, the more secrets he unearths—secrets someone would kill to keep buried…

www.shirleywells.com

Nell Dixon THE CINDERELLA SUBSTITUTE 

Astraea Press
1st Nov 2012
£1.28
In the two years since the tragic car crash that killed his fiancée, Nathanial (Nate) Mayer has successfully avoided another relationship.Jennifer (Jenni) Blake is Nate’s personal assistant. Hired after the accident, she has her own problems to deal with.

But even those difficulties pale into insignificance when Jenni finally traces her birth mother…

http://www.nelldixon.com

June Francis THE PAWNBROKER'S NIECE
Allison & Busby
26th November 2012
£7.99
When Eve Taylor leaves Liverpool for a new life in Cardiff, her teenage daughter Rita has little choice but to go and live with the aunt she never knew she had. Margaret Sinclair, the local pawnbroker, grudgingly agrees to look after her wayward niece. Despite an initial battle of wills the two soon become firm friends, especially when Rita re-introduces Margaret to her long lost childhood sweetheart William Brodie.

As the Great Depression hits, the Brodie family find themselves facing financial ruin - can Rita persuade her aunt to help or will her feelings for William get in the way of a deal?
As Rita's relationship with the Brodie family flourishes and secrets from Margaret's past emerge, both women must undertake a dramatic change of heart if they are to avoid making the same mistakes all over again.

 www.junefrancis.co.uk 

Angela Brtinell FLAMES THAT MELT

DC Thomson

£1.99

Tish Carlisle, a successful Christmas ornament designer, returns from Tennessee to clear out her late father's house in Cornwall, little knowing what awaits her. Her first surprise is the unknown woman and baby she discovers living there. The second comes in the form of her father's solicitor, the sexy Italian, Nico De Burgh who Tish remembers as her first love, Nick Penwarren. Nico suffered the tragic loss of his Sicilian family and fights his attraction to Tish because of a promise made to his foster father. Tish isn't ready to give up on him and the first time they make love it's everything they could've imagined. It's only when their relationship appears doomed that they finally share the secrets they've been hiding and plan a future together.

Scarlet Wilson HER CHRISTMAS EVE DIAMOND
Mills and Boon
5 November 2012
£5.49
Nurse Cassidy Rae is a stickler for rules, but even she revels in the magic of Christmas! This year, however, new registrar Brad Donovan's surfer-boy looks and cocky charm are severely testing her goodwill to all men.  But in the festive season miracles can happen, and Brad's about to give Cassidy a Yuletide to remember...

www.scarlet-wilson.com

Rae Summers AN INNOCENT ABROAD
The Wild Rose Press
14 November 2012
$3.99
Isobel Harrington, fresh from her English finishing school in the summer of 1922, is sent to visit cousins in Italy for just one reason: to catch the eye of their wealthy and eligible house guest.

But the man who awakens Isobel's passion is not the respectable British heir to a nobleman -- it is local Italian Stefano, an enigma who doesn't fit any of the "boxes" she's been taught to expect.

In Stefano's arms she experiences a sexual awakening. He dares her to follow her dreams, but is she brave enough to defy convention, and her parents' expectations, to pursue her own happiness?

 www.raesummers.com

Annie Burrows HIS WICKED CHRISTMAS WAGER

Mills & Boon

November 2012
£1.99

The last person Lord Crispin Sinclair expects to see in a disreputable inn is the woman he's there to forget: Lady Caroline Fallowfield. He hasn't forgiven her for marrying another man--or forgotten their mutual passion. When she implores him to come home for his brother's Christmas nuptials, he agrees--if the now-widowed Caroline is willing to share his bed and take another gamble on love...

www.annie-burrows.co.uk

Mary Nichols THE CAPTAIN'S KIDNAPPED BEAUTY

Mills & Boon

November 2012-11-01

£4.99

Abducted and taken aboard a merchant ship bound for India, Charlotte Gilpin, the wealthy daughter of a coachmaker in Georgian London, desperately searches for a way to escape. Her rescuer comes from the most unlikely of sources - Captain Alexander Carstairs - a man with whom she has crossed swords in the past.

And when they land in Portugal and she learns who her abductor is, she finds her own way to escape, not only from her abductor but her rescuer too, leaving both of them searching for her...

This is another story of the Piccadilly Gentlemen’s Club

www.marynichols.co.uk

Chrissie Loveday CORNISH KILLING

Easy Reads

Bridges and Knights (My Weekly that was)

November 15^th

£1.99

‘Emma is invited to Cornwall to stay in her friend Charlie’s newly inherited cottage. But there is no sign of her anywhere. Things start to go wrong for Emma and this leads to more adventures. Can she cope with everything that has happened to her?’

http://www.chrissieloveday.com

Vonnie Hughes CAPTIVE

Musa Publishing

9th November

$2.99

When Alexandra Tallis discovers that her witless sister has imprisoned their father’s nemesis, Theo Crombie in their attic, she quickly frees him, fighting an unladylike impulse to keep him as her own special captive. Despite the brutal beating she receives from her father for her actions, Alexandra continues to yearn for the delicious Mr. Crombie even though she knows that nothing will ever come of her dreams.

Injured and shackled in a stranger’s attic, Theo unexpectedly discovers the woman of his dreams. But how can he pursue those dreams when her bizarre family’s complex relationships threaten the very foundation of his existence? Somehow Theo must find a way through this maze to claim his lady.
www.vonniehughes.com

Vanessa Devereaux CONFESSION OF LOVE
Evernight Publishing (Romance on the Go line)
12th November
Dana thought she’d hit a homeless guy…a very handsome homeless guy but when he turns up at her office a month later, revealing that he’s an undercover cop, Dana can’t believe it. She’s also shocked when he asks her to have dinner with him. It would be perfect but she’s got this one little rule, she never dates cops. Ian Kincaide knows rules are meant to be broken and just what he will resort to, to make Dana see reason?
www.vanessadevereaux.com

Vanessa Devereaux STRANGER IN TOWN
Cobblestone Press (Blue Line)
15th November
Laura Reed found herself in a strange town, and after slipping on the ice, in the ER. However, it’s not all bad news because Paul Crosby mistakes Laura for his sister. After the two get chatting and he offers to drive her back to her hotel, Laura finds out that being a stranger in town can have its pluses.
www.vanessadevereaux.com

June Releases

Lesley Cookman MURDER BY MAGIC Murder by Magic Accent Press June £7.99 The 10th in the Libby Sarjeant series sees Libby and Fran helping a local vicar solve the mystery of a murdered flower lady. www.lesleycookman.co.uk http://lesleycookman.blogspot.com/ Marie Maxwell RUBY Avon Paperback £6.99 Kate Lord Brown THE PERFUME GARDEN Corvus Atlantic June £12.99 The Perfume Garden combines the gripping storytelling of Kate Morton with the evocative settings of Victoria Hislop to tell this sumptuous story of lost love and family secrets set between modern day Valencia and the Spanish Civil War. High in the hills of Valencia, a forgotten house guards its secrets. Untouched since Franco's forces tore through Spain in 1936, the whitewashed walls have crumbled, the garden, laden with orange blossom, grown wild. Emma Temple is the first to unlock its doors in seventy years. Guided by a series of letters and a key bequeathed in her mother's will, she has left her job as London's leading perfumier to restore this dilapidated villa to its former glory. It is the perfect retreat: a wilderness redolent with strange and exotic scents, heavy with the colours and sounds of a foreign time. But for her grandmother, Freya, a British nurse who stayed here during Spain's devastating civil war, Emma's new home evokes terrible memories. As the house begins to give up its secrets, Emma is drawn deeper into Freya's story: one of crushed idealism, lost love, and families ripped apart by war. She soon realises it is one thing letting go of the past, but another when it won't let go of you. http://perfumegarden.blogspot.com/ www.katelordbrown.com Mandy Baggot  TAKING CHARGE Sapphire Star Publishing Paperback £9.87 Kindle £2.52 Is going back Robyn’s only way forward? American-born Robyn Matthers is going home. With her dad in hospital, his roadhouse in ruins and the ice hockey team slipping down the league, she needs to take charge. But does she have the strength to do it? Cole Ryan is a hockey player on a personal mission. He’s tall, dark, hot and Robyn’s noticed! But can she trust her feelings - or his? And what will Cole do when he finds out the truth about her? With an ill father, a trailer trash step-mom and ex-boyfriend Brad desperate for another chance, does Robyn have time to contemplate a relationship? Can she start again? Does she really want to? And can two people really fall in love in three days? Website: http://mandybaggot.webs.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/mandybaggot Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mandy.baggot Carol Townend CHAINED TO THE BARBARIAN Mills & Boon £4.99 1st June 2012 HER WARRIOR SLAVE Bound in chains, enslaved barbarian Sir William Bradfer stands proud in the Constantinople slave market. As a warrior, he's trained in the art of survival. Lady-in-waiting Anna of Heraklea is betrothed to be married--against her will. Catching sight of the magnificent William, she finds a rebellious half-plan forming in her mind. Anna can offer this captured knight freedom in return for his hand in marriage! http://www.caroltownend.co.uk Chrissie Loveday DARE TO LOVE Linford Romance June2012 £5.49 In 1930 when Nellie marries James the owner of a pottery factory, her future looks wonderful. Moving into a different social class bring issues. She is now mistress of the house where she was a servant. She can now help her family financially but they have their own problems and Nellie can’t resist interfering. (The second book in the Vale family series) http://www.chrissieloveday.com Kat Black LOVE, INTERRUPTED Total-E-Bound June 4, 2012 £2.49 The last thing Frankie expects to find lurking in a pile of innocent-looking birthday cards is a letter from her estranged husband—the man who broke her heart and threw away their marriage for a night of drunken infidelity. And the last thing she needs is to revisit those feelings of hurt and betrayal brought back by his words of apology and regret. After everything she’s been through, is it too much to ask to be left alone to try and build a new, independent life for herself? Apparently it is. As letter after letter falls on her doormat, and the beautiful, eloquent words contained therein slip through her tightly constructed defenses, Frankie becomes a jumble of mixed emotions and desperate desire. Rage, sorrow, revenge and lust mix to make an explosive cocktail when Frankie and Mark find themselves face-to-face for the first time since the split. www.katblack-author.com Gwen Kirkwood ANOTHER HOME, ANOTHER LOVE Robert Hale Ltd 31st May 2012 hard back £19.99. Rosemary has spent much of her childhood at Bengairney Farm and regards the Carafords as her dearest friends, but her mother looks down on them as tenant farmers. She extracts a promise from Sam Caraford, calculated to keep them apart. Rosemary despises her mother’s choice of gentlemen friends and yearns for Sam's love. www.gwenkirkwood.co.uk Gina Rossi THE WILD HEART The Wild Rose Press Paperback $14.99 Ebook  $5.99  29 June 2012 Georgina Blake flees a refined life in eighteenth century England to avoid a scandal. Determined to begin a new life, she voyages to the Cape of Good Hope, only to find death and destruction await, endangering those she holds dear.Though she is intrigued by stranger, Anton Villion, trader, adventurer and maverick, his arrival threatens her precarious security. Anton, himself privy to a painful secret, shadowed by heartbreak and seeking peace, is drawn to Georgina despite his hurt and mistrust, and his reservations about her history. In time, their growing love is thwarted by the past – and Louisa Somerville, hell bent on diverting Anton’s attentions. Fate has thrown them together but can Anton and Georgina salvage their bond before destiny tears them apart? Together, can they find the strength and courage to embark on a journey to redemption and everlasting love?

Anne Brear THE GENTLE WIND’S CARESS

Knox Robinson Publishing Ltd

June 2012

£12.99 paperback

£5.99 Kindle

Halifax, 1876. On the death of her mother and sister, Isabelle Gibson is left to fend for herself and her brother in a privately-run workhouse. After the matron's son attempts to rape her, Isabelle decides to escape him and a life of drudgery by agreeing to marry a moorland farmer she has never met. But this man, Farrell, is a drunkard and a bully in constant feud with his landlord, Ethan Harrington. When Farrell bungles a robbery and deserts her, Isabelle and Ethan are thrown together as she struggles to save the farm. Both are married and must hide their growing love. But despite the secrecy, Isabelle draws strength from Ethan as faces from the past return to haunt her and a tragedy is set to strike that will change all of their lives forever.

http://annebrear.blogspot.com

Margaret Blake. TILLY'S TRIALS

Whiskey Creek Press

Price - not yet known

June 2012

Tilly thinks life will be good now she has part-inherited her mother's chain of tea shops. However her dad has other ideas. 

He has put Tilly's ex-husband in charge. Talk about a storm in a tea-cup!

www.margaretblake.co.uk

Vanessa Devereaux (one of the featured authors) KEYBOARDS AND KINK Anthology

Evernight Publishing

June 8th, 2012

A night at home on the computer doesn’t have to be boring…

Feel like chatting? Or maybe doing something more daring? The stranger reaching out across cyberspace could be a creepy pervert, but what if he wasn’t? What if he’s a vampire, the sexy boy next door, or even your gorgeous boss? Thirteen tales explore all the delicious possibilities when online relationships lead to sexy encounters away from the keyboard.

www.vanessadevereaux.com

Vanessa Devereaux THE EX LOVER (Book One of the Just For Your Pleasure trilogy - Set in Regency England)

Cobblestone Press

June 15th, 2012

A fever has left Gillian’s husband, William, impotent. With his brother about to wed they know they must produce an heir or lose the roof over their heads. Can they find the right man to father a child? William has three in mind, starting with Andrew, Gillian’s ex-lover.

www.vanessadevereaux.com

Rena George. Danger at Mellin Cove

Linford Romance Library – Large Print

May 2012

£8.99

'In Cornwall, a dangerous world of passions and intrigue awaits Hedra St Neot. She agrees to help her brother, Kit, to run his Cornish inheritance: a wild and beautiful estate at Mellin Cove. But will she stay to help handsome fisherman, Jem Pentreath, protect the local community from her rogue uncle's band of cut-throat smugglers? Or will she finally agree to marry Sir Edward Tremaine, the rich mine owner who is besotted with her?'

www.renageorge.com

Short Stories

Kate Jackson THE HOMECOMING
People's Friend Holiday Special

June 2012
£2.50

The war's over and everyone expects Rose to go back to her old job and life. But she has other plans...

http://katejacksonswriting.blogspot.co.uk/

Kate Jackson  SECOND CHANCE
Linford Romance Library - Large Print

1st June 2012
£8.99
Laura Sinclair's return to Orkney turns out to be far more complicated than she had expected. She's confronted with family secrets and the one person she wanted to avoid - her former love, Matt.

http://katejacksonswriting.blogspot.co.uk/

April Releases

Adele Parks ABOUT LAST NIGHT
Headline Review
12th April
£6.99
'I need you to say that I was with you.' For thirty years, best friends Steph and Pip have been through thick and thin. There's nothing they would not do for one another. Until these simple words change everything. Steph, eternally solid and dependable, is begging her friend to lie to the police as she's desperately trying to conceal not one but two scandalous secrets to protect her family. Pip, self-consigned to the role of scatty hot-head, is overwhelmed;she's normally the one asking for help in a crisis. It's a big ask. So what would you do? How far would you go for your best friend?

Alison Sherlock THE DESPERATE BRIDE'S DIET CLUB
Random House on 26th April 2012
£6.99
Violet Saunders is astounded when her boyfriend gets down on one knee and proposes. At size 18-20, she can't think why anyone would want to marry her and euphoria quickly turns to horror as she contemplates squeezing herself into a wedding dress. When a leaflet from dieting club New You! drops through her letterbox, she hurries to enrol, but is soon traumatised by the terrifying Trudie, who secretly despises her fat clients. Things go from bad to worse; everyone just gets fatter on the horrible New You! drink shakes. At work, Violet's half-Italian boss looks on in amazement and finally persuades her to take a break and lunch with him at his family's delicatessen. All at once Violet experiences an explosion of beautiful tastes and textures. Inspired, she persuades her fellow dieters to form a new club, with secret weigh-ins at her house - while pretending to Trudie, of whom they are all petrified, that it is the New You! diet which is transforming them. Fabulous Italian recipes gradually begin to work their magic, but can Violet the duckling really become Violet the swan in time for her wedding?

Electra Shepherd LOVE MACHINE

Ellora's Cave

ebook

4 April 2012

US$4.45 (appx £3.00)

If you’ve got a six-foot hunky robot offering to relieve your sexual frustration, you’re not going to say no, right? Even if he is sort of…well, definitely…blue?

http://www.electrashepherd.com

Toni Sands TRADED INNOCENCE

Xcite Books Ltd

16 April 2012

£5.91 Paperback - 3 novellas

Early 19th century well-born Rebecca, desperate to escape marrying a tyrant, tumbles from the sand dunes to land at smuggler Jac’s feet. Danger awaits him as he helps plot her escape. Jac also has to fight his own conscience as secret meetings with her bad boy transform Rebecca’s girlish innocence into a woman’s passion.

Annie Burrows CAPTAIN CORCORANS'S HOYDEN BRIDE

Harlequin Historical

Miss Aimee Peters craves respectability after a life spent dodging scandal.  Captain Corcoran wants a wife by any means.  But neither of them is ready to trust a member of the opposite sex.

Noelene Jenkinson BARRATT'S RUN
Whiskey Creek Press
$5.99
April 2012
Anne Gray is forced to marry for the chance of a better life. Until she learns that her cruel husband murdered his first wife and now threatens her, so she flees Devon and escapes to Australia.
James Barratt emigrated from Sussex to Australia to make his fortune. After his fiance jilts him, he takes a mistress, vowing never to fall in love again. But she convinces him to try again.
In Australia, Anne changes her name and answers James' advertisement for a wife. But her blossoming romance and marriage is shortlived when her past returns to haunt her and, once again, she is forced to flee. Pregnant and homeless, Anne struggles to resolve her future until James finds her and the real truth is uncovered. http://www.noelenejenkinson.com 

Vanessa Devereaux TAKE A CHANCE ON ME (Perfect Pairing Series)

Evernight Publishing

E Novella

April 12th

Thanks to a witch named Sadie, who's been sent to the Department of Love for punishment, two lonely souls who never thought they'd find their dream partner, meet through her Perfect Pairing service.

Nell Dixon EASTER HOLIDAY

Astraea Press 

£1.95

Cornish farmer, Noah Penwarren is sworn off city girls, especially deceitful ones. Posy Carmichael is a city girl through and through. When romantic sparks start to fly will Posy’s secret end their Easter romance before it’s even begun?

Kate Johnson RUN RABBIT RUN
Choc Lit Publishing 
7th April 2012
Paperback £7.99 ebook £1.99
Sophie's in trouble. Must be a Tuesday. Book five of the Sophie Green mysteries.

Anna Jacobs THE TRADER'S SISTER

Hodder & Stoughton

£19.99

Ismay Deagan has one wish, to leave Ireland and join her brother, Bram, in Australia. But her father orders her to marry their vicious neighbour Rory Flynn. After Rory brutally attacks her, Ismay runs away. After meeting Adam Tregear on the ship, she finally starts to believe her dreams of future happiness may come true.

On the way, however, she’s flung into adventures in Suez, Ceylon and Singapore. Dare she tell Adam the truth about who she really is? Does he have secrets of his own? Or will her past catch up with her and ruin her new-found happiness?

http://www.annajacobs.com/book.aspx?title=The-Traders-Sister&bookID=64

Chrissie Loveday TIES THAT BIND
Chivers
Large Print hardback

“Sophie’s dream is to be a fashion designer and the dynamic Adam is determined to make it happen. But dare she love this man with a reputation and can she overcome the conflicts always in her way? Why does the glamorous Rachel figure in their lives?”

Chrissie Loveday TO LOVE AGAIN

Peoples’ Friend Pocket Novel

April 5^th 2012

£1.99

The fourth story in the saga if the Vale family. Lizzie is the youngest daughter, facing the traumas of WW2 ending in her role as a nurse. Working with physically and mentally injured men, she finds life tough until Daniel begins to fill her life. Can their love possibly conquer the obstacles?

Liz Fielding Beaumont Brides Collection - Wild Justice, Wild Lady and Wild Fire in one volume

Available to buy or borrow on Kindle, from Amazon  $4.99

http://www.lizfielding.com

Victoria Connelly MR DARCY FOREVER

Sourcebooks

1st April

$14.99

Two estranged sisters meet again at the Jane Austen Festival in Bath but what tore them apart and can the magic of Jane Austen help to bring them back together again?

www.victoriaconnelly.com

Victoria Connelly THE RUNAWAY ACTRESS

HarperCollins

12th April

£6.99

A romantic comedy about a movie star who swaps Hollywood for the Highlands in an attempt to find out who she really is.

www.victoriaconnelly.com

Lucy Felthouse THE SECRET LIBRARY – SILK STOCKINGS

Xcite Books Ltd

16 April 2012

£5.91 Paperback - 3 novellas

JL Merrow CAMWOLF
Samhain Publishing
3rd April 2012
Paperback

$15.00  discounted to $10.50 for limited time only.

Dr. Nick Sewell. Cambridge fellow. Werewolf. Struggling with his feral nature and with a visceral attraction to Julian Lauder, a troubled young German student—until a strange wolf is seen around college, and Julian disappears.

http://store.samhainpublishing.com/camwolf-p-6792.html 

Lindsay Townsend THE LORD AND ELEANOR

Ellora's Cave Blush Line

Historical Romance Novella(15000 words)

ELLORA'S CAVE BLUSH LINE

April 19TH

$2.49

Their love breaks all bounds. Richard is lord of Wykeford—and Eleanor’s lord. She is a former bondswoman, now free. When they meet, their lives change forever as a love that cannot be denied flames between them. She is strong and fierce. He is a gentle warrior. Together, they fight for their future against all odds.

But there is one in the lord’s household who is not pleased and who will stop at nothing to break Richard and Eleanor apart, even at the cost of murder.

http://www.lindsaytownsend.net 

Kate Jackson MICHAELMAS JOLLY AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING RING

The People's Friend Fiction Special No 58

£2.50

Sherlock Holmes has Watson. Victorian boy detective, Michaelmas Jolly, meets his own partner while solving the mysterious case of the missing ring.