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

http://smarturl.it/LittleSugarLotOfLove

 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.

Nora Fountain: Blackthorn Child

A big hello to Nora Fountain who is our guest on the blog today.

Nora, you have written short stories for the women’s magazine market as well as novels. What would you say is your favourite form of storytelling?

I prefer to write novels. I’ve written lots of short stories and sold some of them but it’s not really my thing. I very much admire those who can turn out short, snappy stories. I like to get my teeth into a story, with the freedom to develop characters, and more than one or two of them. I like to get inside their heads and become that character. The first draft is the bare bones of the story, then comes the best part, editing and polishing, going through several times, the characters developing each time till I know them like old friends. As they develop they suggest little twists and turns of their own. In the end I love them all – even the baddies. They are me. I am them, and I’m sorry to have to say good-bye to them.

Would you recommend that those new to writing try their hand at writing long and short fiction?

If they want to. I don’t think it’s always necessary. I always wanted to write longer, more in-depth stuff. However, I didn’t really have a clue when I started Blackthorn Child, which began life as Downton’s Heir (!) and grew with every rewrite until it reached 180,000 words. Fortunately I’ve always enjoyed the art of précis but I’m now aware of the practicalities of producing such a long book. Publishers do not want to invest large sums in new writers.

I tried writing for M&B for a while, reading their authors voraciously. I loved writers such as Charlotte Lamb, Penny Jordan and Sara Wood. There was a seamless quality to their writing it is difficult to emulate. I did try, though, around a dozen times. On three occasions they read a partial and asked to see the rest. I was quite excited the third time but in the end it was turned down. I submitted one to Robert Hale, minus the steamy bits and it was accepted. Hurrah! They went on to take several more. These went into large print and translation in some cases. I carried on with full-length fiction and, to my delight, Thorpe bought Love Thine Enemy direct from me.

We’ve thoroughly enjoyed reading, Love Thine Enemy, Can we expect more historical novels from you with overseas settings?

I certainly hope so. Blackthorn Child went back and forth to agents and publishers till I changed tack and put it on Kindle. It soared to the top of three of their lists, occupying top spot for a while.

I am currently writing another historical set in Puglia where my youngest son lives, designing houses and teaching yoga. I have lots more research to do but I’m enjoying it. I’m also writing a contemporary romance set in Africa called Tropical Madness. It’s a year now since the accident that wrote off my car and broke eleven bones – a bit of a setback but I’m getting back in the saddle with interruptions for physio, etc. Perhaps I should write a hospital drama.

There are certainly a few health issues in Cupcakes and Candlesticks. This is my latest novella with a mature hero and heroine and set in the Dorset I love. When Rob announces he is leaving Maddy and their four children she is shocked but she picks up the pieces and forges a new life for the family out in the sticks. There she meets the gorgeous Guy Deverill, a landowner with angst of his own. I sold the large print rights to Cupcakes and Candlesticks to Thorpe and in the same week brought out the Create Space version of Blackthorn Child – or rather my son Basil did. He’s been a driving instructor for a couple of years but now has another string to his bow, offering services to novelists, formatting, putting on Kindle, etc. I’m no techie and couldn’t manage without him. My younger daughter played her part designing the cover for the paperback so it’s something of a family production.

Please tell us more about your five novels that are being reprinted by Samhain?

The American publisher Samhain have started a new line called Retro Romance. They’ve taken five of my novellas and given them gorgeous new covers which is all rather exciting. They can be viewed and are available on line from Samhain.

These days authors have to promote themselves on social media. How much time do you spend online? How does it help your work?

I probably spend far too long online, mainly Facebook where I have two pages, one an author page. I enjoy keeping up with news of my extended family- recently extended to include my first great-grandson, Alby Koa. Don’t ask. I’ve never heard of the names, either, but I do know he’s absolutely gorgeous with silky dark hair and eyes that will probably be brown. It’s great to hear news of other writers’ successes, too. I occasionally post on Twitter but I think I need lessons on using social media to the best advantage.

Nora Fountain is a professional writer and translator. Her short stories have been published by People's Friend, Yours, Australian Women's Weekly, Woman's Day and Fiction Feast, among others.
Her novels are mainly in the contemporary romance genre published by Robert Hale and My Weekly Story Library. Nora has also written historical romance. Her books are available on Amazon.
Five novels are currently being reprinted by Samhain as part of their Retro Romance series and are available from the publisher as ebooks.
Nora lives in Dorset and is a member of the Society of Authors and the Chartered Institute of Linguists, and is a committee member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association.

Links:

 

Website

Amazon  

Thank you, Norah. It’s also good to hear you are well on the way to recovery after your accident.

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Independent Releases

Many full RNA members have embraced the new technology in publishing and taken the opportunity to publish their back lists directly as ebooks as well as  new works. So each month on the 15th we will publish a list of independent releases by full RNA members. Full Membership of the Association is open to all published writers of romantic novels and full length serials of at least 30,000 words. (Vanity and self-publishing do not qualify.)

So here's the inaugural list which includes many titles that have come out in the past year....

Anita Burgh MOLLY’S FLASHINGS
ebook
January 2012
£2.20
An irreverent look at English village life where as everything changes everything remains the same.
www.anitaburgh.com

Eileen Ramsay LACE FOR A LADY

ebook

11.11.2011

£2.86

The Napoleonic War is raging and the impoverished but aristocratic Lydia Carpenter is desperately trying to provide for her sisters.  Her father has disappeared, and her once dearest friend, Lord Pittenmuir, has broken her heart. Defying convention she resurrects a smuggling ring, where the smugglers are men in women's clothes and she, the leader is a woman in men's clothing.  But is there a spy among her smugglers and is it her father or is it Pittenmuir? Will love find a way as Liddy's love, loyalty and courage are tested to the full? 

www.eileenramsay.co.uk

R F Long THE WOLF'S DESTINY (a Tale of the Holtlands, #3)ebook/Kindle
12/04/2011
 $3.99 / £2.94
Two lives, one love, one destiny.

In the wild north of Sheninglas, Jeren and Shan have finally made a home together. But the Holtlands are not finished with them yet. When an assassination attempt claims innocent lives, Jeren can stand it no longer. She must make a stand against the tyranny of her brother Gilliad before it is too late. Shan meanwhile struggles against the seed of darkness planted in him by the Fell’na sorceress and the growing knowledge that no matter what he does, he is losing his beloved wife. All their efforts to stay together just seem to tear them further apart, underlining the differences between them. When Jeren declares her intention to go to war, Shan makes one terrible mistake which changes everything.

Their destiny is written. How can it be changed again? 
www.rflong.com

Sheila Norton:  SOPHIE BEING SINGLE

Kindle e-book

28 December 2011

£2.05

At thirty-four, Sophie Jennings is still single – but that’s the way she likes it. She has her own flat, a good social life and a gorgeous boyfriend, Charlie, who feels exactly the same as she does – settling down, marriage and children aren’t on the agenda for either of them. She also has her own business, ironically doing wedding hair and make-up. While her married and attached friends think she’s weird and her family think she’s selfish, all her bridal clients for some reason seem to want to use her as an agony aunt! Hearing about their horrible husbands and bastard boyfriends convinces her she’s definitely best off as she is – satisfyingly single. Or is she ...?

www.sheilanorton.co.uk

Jen Black SHADOWS

Amazon Kindle

December 7^th 2011

£1.10/$1.72

A budding relationship. A young couple, shadowed in different ways by their pasts. A beautiful, but haunted, water mill in France.
Are the intense emotions Rory and Melissa feel their own, or those of the couple who haunt the mill?

Paula Williams  PLACE OF HEALING 

Kindle

December 24, 2011

£1.13

When talented cook Jess discovers her boyfriend had been cheating on her with her best friend (and getting creative with the chocolate mousse in a way that definitely wasn't on the menu!) she takes herself off to a remote corner of Somerset while she works out what to do next. But things don't go quite the way Jess planned and she finds herself caught up in family feuds and intrigues - while losing her heart to a big, barky dog called Benson.

www.paulawilliamswriter.co.uk

Nora Fountain CHAIN OF EVIL

Crime novel, with romantic thread

17 December 2011

£1.54 inc. VAT or $2.99

Adam and Rosie’s happiness is almost tangible. Rosie’s stepbrother, Greg Phillips envies them to the point of madness and schemes to get his hands on their money. Fuelled by drug addiction, he is prepared to kill to get what he wants, and he does.  His devious plot results in Adam being locked up for Greg’s crimes. Rosie befriends Cindy, who may be able to identify Greg.  Greg takes to stalking Cindy and injures her little boy.  He then turns up at Rosie’s isolated home, drugged to the eyeballs. From there he abducts her and forces her to face her worst demons.

www. norafountain.co.uk (in progress)

Anita Burgh LOVE THE BRIGHT FOREIGNER

Amazon Kindle

ebook

£4 . 31

Suddenly widowed, Ann Grange is convinced her life is over, but then she meets an enigmatic Greek, and her life changes.  But is it forever, or is her happiness an illusion?

http://www.anitaburgh.com

Anita Burgh LOTTERY

Amazon Kindle

ebook

£ 4.31

Can money make you happy, solve your problems?  Or does an excess of it create more?  Peggy, middle-aged, married, a mother, finds out.

http://www.anitaburgh.com

Anita Burgh CLARE’S WAR

Amazon Kindle

Ebook.

£4.31

Clare, alone in France, is involved in three wars within one; with the Germans, with the Free French and with herself as she changes from spoilt child to caring woman.

http://www.anitaburgh.com

Sheila Norton:  THE TROUBLE WITH ALLY

Kindle e-book

19 May 2011

£2.05

Ally doesn’t particularly want to turn fifty – but it doesn’t bother her half as much as everything else in her life is bothering her right now. Still smarting from the fact that her husband left her for a younger woman, she’s trying to cope single-handedly with a sick elderly cat, a sick elderly mother and a sick elderly car – to say nothing of two daughters who treat the house much like a comfortable hotel. And on top of everything else, she’s having trouble hanging on to her job.
So why does everyone else seem to think turning fifty is the trouble? And why does everyone seem to think she’s losing her mind? She’s not really going crazy ... or is she?

www.sheilanorton.co.uk

Sheila Norton:  OTHER PEOPLE’S LIVES

Kindle e-book

20 April 2011

£2.05

Beth Marston never imagined she’d be in this position as she approached her thirtieth birthday: on her own with a four-year-old daughter, working as a cleaner in other people’s houses. What happened to the dreams she shared with Daniel, the love of her life, when they were at university together with the world at their feet? Come to that, what happened to Daniel, to make him fall out of love with her and leave her for another woman?
Beth is sure she’s never going to trust another man. Her child, and her best friend Fay, are all she needs now. Besides, she has enough on her plate trying to make ends meet, and getting perhaps a little too involved with the lives of the people whose homes she cleans.
But when she falls out with Fay, everything suddenly seems to come crashing down. And if someone really wonderful came into her life now, to make it all better, would Beth really be able to resist?

www.sheilanorton.co.uk

Sheila Norton:  BODY & SOUL

Kindle e-book

26 April 2011

£2.05

Rosie has a lot of doubts about her life. She feels middle-aged, bored and frumpy, and it doesn't help that PJ, her friend and colleague at the hospital where she works, has compared her to a comfy old armchair! Her marriage to the so-predictable Barry seems to be hurtling towards the rocks, and when the new consultant, Mr Ashley Connor, seems to be taking an interest in her, the temptation to have a little fun certainly appeals. But where is this going to lead her? Surely not anywhere that a sensible, mature, medical receptionist and mother of three ought to be going! Would she, and her marriage, be able to survive the Ashley Connor experience? To say nothing of the hospital gossip! Or should she forget it and stay safe, comfortable and bored ... with her body and soul intact?

www.sheilanorton.co.uk

Sheila Norton:  THE TRAVEL BUG

Kindle e-book

9 June 2011

£2.05

Maddy Goodchild considers herself a Bad Girl. Bad girls drink, and smoke, and swear, and have affairs with married men, don’t they? They certainly don’t spend their time keeping their bodies fit, and pure, like Maddy’s best friend Rachel. Maybe Maddy doesn’t like herself very much, but then again, she thinks maybe she doesn’t deserve to be liked. Fast approaching her forties, the only good thing she’s done in her life is bringing up her daughter Sophie – but when Sophie goes off travelling for a year, Maddy’s bereft. So there’s only one thing she and Rachel can do when they have a moderate win on the Lottery: go off on their own travels together! What adventures await the pair when they set foot together on foreign soil? Will they survive Rachel’s terrible map-reading and fear of driving ‘on the wrong side?’ The trip holds a few surprises for them both – and not all of them are pleasant.

www.sheilanorton.co.uk

Sheila Norton:  SWEET NOTHINGS

Kindle e-book

22 June 2011

£2.05

What’s so special about Penny Peacham’s home-made bread pudding – the same old pudding that she’s been serving up to her husband Archie and the rest of the family for ever – that it suddenly seems to be getting everyone all worked up? Could it be that there’s really some secret ingredient in the recipe, something fruity or spicy that works wonders for people’s love lives?
Penny has no idea how the fuss started. Somehow, in the middle of an interview on local radio about the need for a bypass, she mentioned the pudding – and before she knows it, she’s becoming an accidental celebrity!
All this is no help whatsoever to Penny’s daughter Michelle, whose boyfriend Robbie has disappeared mysteriously in the middle of a pub lunch. Michelle’s not really sure how much this bothers her – but if there’s any love-magic in her mum’s famous pudding, she could certainly do with a serving of it herself!

www.sheilanorton.co.uk

Sheila Norton writing as Olivia Ryan:  TALES FROM A HEN WEEKEND

Kindle e-book

18 October 2011

£1.02

Katie Halliday’s off on her hen weekend to Dublin with her closest female friends and relatives. She’s hoping to relax, unwind, and try to forget the recent bickering with her fiancé Matt. But, encouraged by the alcohol and girlie banter, the other girls all choose this time to make some disturbing confessions about their own lives.
This series of shocks is bad enough for Katie to take on board, without the burden of keeping a shocking secret of her own. And it doesn’t help that she’s a little too attracted to gorgeous-looking Harry Cornwell, who’s been found by the girls as a ‘trophy’ for one of their hen-party games. But it won’t lead to anything – after all, Katie’s in love with Matt – isn’t she?
Katie begins to feel that she doesn’t actually know herself, any more than she knew her mum, her sister, or her best girlfriends. A hen weekend isn’t exactly the time to discover your world’s falling apart. But it might be the time to start putting it back together.

www.oliviaryan.com

Noelene Jenkinson OUTBACK HERO
Ebook - all formats Amazon Kindle & Smashwords
Release date - Feb 23 2011
$1.99
Photo journalist, Kate Reed, can´t forgive her neighbour, Matt
Thornton, for being the pilot of the plane that killed her mother ten
years ago. Now, with Kate´s family homestead in debt and up for sale,
Matt offers to buy it. Kate resists and leaves for her new job in
Paris to forget the man she has fallen in love with. Will their true
feelings for each other ever be revealed?
http://www.noelenejenkinson.com

Noelene Jenkinson A WHIRLWIND ROMANCE
Ebook - all formats Amazon Kindle & Smashwords
Release date - March 11 2011
$1.99
Working girl, Whitney Leighton, manages a small antiquarian bookshop
in Melbourne. One windswept Spring day handsome and wealthy Zach
Chandler calls in to collect some books. With just one meeting, he
asks Whitney for a date and, after a whirlwind romance, they fall in
love and Zach proposes. Can their love survive the many obstacles in
their path?
http://www.noelenejenkinson.com

Noelene Jenkinson STARTING AGAIN
Ebook - all formats Amazon Kindle & Smashwords
Release date - March 29 2011
$1.99
Under witness protection and relocated with a new identity, Clare
Rayne cannot release her fear of the past - until Blake Fielding
pulls up in her driveway. Clare discovers Blake is a counsellor sent
to help her and, as they work together, they fall in love. But Blake
resists involvement and leaves when their consultations are complete.
Will he return, or must Clare face her future alone?
http://www.noelenejenkinson.com

Noelene Jenkinson OCEAN BLUE
Ebook - all formats Amazon Kindle & Smashwords
Release date - Feb 23 2011
$1.99
Marine biologist, Sophie Brookfield, travels to the Great Barrier
Reef off the Queensland coast of Australia, to complete her thesis
research on green turtles. Attracted by helicopter pilot, Drew
Mitchell's magnetic charm, Sophie finds herself falling in love but
fights her attraction. Heartbroken, she returns to Sydney. Will she
ever see Drew again?
http://www.noelenejenkinson.com

Noelene Jenkinson NANNY WANTED
Ebook - all formats Amazon Kindle & Smashwords
Release date - March 11 2011
$1.99
Elly George, company CEO, offers to mind her godchild while her best
friend is in hospital after an accident. When she hires Rusty Webster
as a live-in nanny, attraction and romance blossom. But Elly isn´t in
the market for a husband. Can Elly overcome her doubts and take a
risk on happiness, and will Rusty change her mind?
http://www.noelenejenkinson.com

June Davies THE FAMILY BY THE SHORE (1994)

Kindle and Smashwords

09/13/11

£1.72 / $2.99

Contemporary Family Saga. An Air Mail letter and wallet of photographs bring unexpected – and shocking – news for Laura Robbins and her younger brother and sister at Spryglass, the tall old house facing the seashore. For Laura especially, everything changes forever. As well as great happiness, the months ahead hold heartache, conflict and tragedy for the family at Spryglass. Riven by doubts and regret. Laura unexpectedly finds consolation in the undemanding company of Shaun Pembridge. It is a friendship, however, which is to threaten Laura’s whole future.

www.junedavies.com

June Davies OVER THE HILLS (2010)

Kindle and Smashwords

09/18/11

£1.72 / $2.99

Historical Romance. World War II is over. Ellen Butterworth’s sweetheart comes ashore and they begin making a future together. Brian is restless and ambitious, however, finding it difficult to settle into civilian life. An urgent telegram from home sees Ellen travelling through the night across country, interrupting their wedding plans and leaving Brian alone and far away . .

www.junedavies.com

June Davies THE AMETHYST NECKLACE (2009)

Kindle

11/09/11

£1.72 / $2.99

Historical Romantic Suspense. The amethyst necklace had been at the heart of everything. Was at the heart of everything here at Blackthorn Manor . . . and had been for centuries. Meirian Penlan is drawn into a web of scandal, deception, blackmail and tragedy. Discovering a bundle of old love letters and a terrible secret, Meirian risks her life not only to right a dreadful wrong – but to unravel the mysterious disappearance of the precious amethyst necklace.

www.junedavies.com

June Davies THE DOG STAR (2008)

Kindle

11/21/11

£1.72 / $2.99

Historical Romantic Suspense. At Clockmakers Cottage on the rugged Lancashire coastline, Amy Macfarlene is apprehensive lest their father’s packet, Jenet Rae, doesn’t sail home in time for her sister Fanny’s wedding to Theodore Buxton. Something other than that causes Amy sleepless nights, though. She witnesses her fiery-tempered brother and Theo keeping a clandestine meeting at dead of night, and sees a bulky package, a purse of gold sovereigns and snub-nosed pistol changing hands . . but Fanny won’t listen, nor heed Amy’s warning.

www.junedavies.com

Jen Black FAIR BORDER BRIDE

Amazon Kindle

October 14th 2011

£2.06/$3.20

Harry Wharton, on a mission for his father, lies about his true name to Alina Carnaby. Caught up in the middle of a cattle raid he is left for dead. Alina hides him, but her father threatens to kill him because his family name is Scott.
An exciting historical romance interwoven with exploits of the Border reivers, outlaws and gangsters who terrorized the Anglo-Scottish frontier in Tudor days.

Nora Fountain BLACKTHORN CHILD

Historical romance

13 June 2011

£1.78 inc. VAT or $2.99

Henry, Lord Downley, and his French wife, Marie-Isabel, have everything except an heir.  Henry adores their daughter but longs for a son.  Their second child is almost due when Marie-Isabel takes a fateful trip alone into the woods she loves.  Caught in a snowstorm and in labour, she takes refuge in Betsy Sweetapple’s cottage.  Betsy, dismissed by Henry for immoral behaviour, has just given birth all alone to a stillborn daughter.   Impassively she watches Marie-Isabel die, producing a strong, healthy son.  Seeing a chance to avenge imagined wrongs, she swaps babies.  Julian, the ‘Blackthorn Child’, is eventually rescued from a hellish childhood but the estate has been vested in his sister’s line.  The truth emerges on Betsy’s death-bed.  Can the estate ever be restored to its rightful owner?

www.norafountain.co.uk (in progress)

Nora Fountain PICTURES IN PROVENCE

Originally Hale Rainbow Romance

28 August 2011

£0.89 inc. VAT or $0.99

Joanna is astonished to find a portrait of herself in an exhibition in a Paris art gallery.  The attractive gallery owner, Gilles Ledoux, invites her to the opera, but then tries to remove himself from her life.  When Joanna, a violinist, has an accident and injures her wrist, she accepts a summer job – at Gilles’ home in Provence.  She is in love with Gilles and believes he is attracted to her, but is that all?  And why won’t he introduce her to the artist whose exhibition she visited?  Could he be jealous?

www.norafountain.co.uk (in progress)

Nora Fountain LOVE THINE ENEMY

Second World War saga, originally Thorpe large print

9 September 2011

£1.78 inc. VAT or $2.99

In Paris 1939, with the world on the brink of war, Helen Latimer, of a good English family and Max, a handsome, wealthy young German, fall madly in love.  When Helen becomes pregnant they plan to leave France for neutral Portugal, but Max is kidnapped by his Nazi brother Hermann’s henchmen.  Helen’s brother, Charles, persuades her to return to England while Hermann convinces Max she has had his child aborted.  A devastated Max marries Margrethe, Hermann’s sister-in-law and, to avoid scandal, Helen marries Charles’s friend, Roland.  However, Helen and Max are destined to meet again…

www.norafountain.co.uk (in progress)

Nora Fountain STORM DAMAGE

Originally Hale Rainbow Romance

9 October 2011

£0.89 inc. VAT or $0.99

Guy Devereau erupts into Poppy’s life one wild October night, a casualty of the storm. The power lines are down, it’s freezing cold and, delirious, Guy hauls her into his bed. How better to obey doctor’s orders to keep him warm?

The following morning, Poppy discovers that Guy is the absentee landlord who wants her out of her cottage. His injury has affected his memory and he has no recollection of the previous night.

How can she remind him, when the glamorous Nerissa turns up to claim him as her fiancé? But why does Guy keep finding excuses to be with Poppy?

www. norafountain.co.uk (in progress)

Nora Fountain TO SARA – WITH LOVE

Originally Hale Rainbow Romance

15 November

£0.89 inc. VAT or $0.99

Sara unwittingly becomes embroiled in a feud between her old friend, Karen, and Karen’s stepbrother, Grant. She was doing Karen a favour so why is Grant hell-bent on punishing Sara?

www. norafountain.co.uk (in progress)

Anna Jacobs, MISTRESS OF MARYMOOR

2011  £2.55 approx

1759: A dark stranger, a moonlit horse ride, a crumbling mansion- is this a nightmare or a dream come true for DeborahJannvier, dependent on her stingy uncle? One evening, a handsome stranger arrives at the cottage, asking Deborah to accompany him by horse to Marymoor, where her great-uncle Ralph is on his death-bed. If she’ll promise to do whatever Ralph asks of her, she’ll be made mistress of Marymoor. She’ll have to leave tonight. Dare she trust herself to this stranger? And what will she have to do to secure her future?

http://www.annajacobs.com/book.aspx?title=Mistress-of-Marymoor&bookID=20

Anna Jacobs REPLENISH THE EARTH

2011  £2.55 approx

In 1735 Sarah Mortonby’s mother dies in poverty, and a shocked Sarah finds she has inherited the family estate. Advised to sell the crumbling manor house to her neighbour, Mr Sewell, she visits it and decides to keep instead. Sewell is furious – and he is a man noted for getting his own way at all costs. Desperately needing help, Sarah proposes to her bailiff, Will Pursley. Can they save the estate together or will Sewll win? And will the fondness growing between them turn into love?

http://www.annajacobs.com/book.aspx?title=Replenish-the-Earth&bookID=17

Anna Jacobs THE NORTHERN LADY (formerly A FORBIDDEN EMBRACE)

2011  £2.55 approx

Regency romance: When her mother dies, she arranges for Cassandra to have a season in London, with the family the cast her off when she married a rich northern millowner. Reluctantly, Cassandra agrees, but she’s no meek debutante. Unfortunately, her efforts to help her cousin Susannah avoid marriage to a man she’s afraid of, leave Cassandra so compromised she has to marry him herself. It’s all such a tangle. Can she find happiness with Simeon?

http://www.annajacobs.com/book.aspx?title=A-Forbidden-Embrace&bookID=15

Anna Jacobs PERSONS OF RANK

2011  £2.55 approx

Regency romance: “Persons of Rank do not fall in love!” declares the Dowager as she sends her niece Beatrice to London in search of a suitable husband for her granddaughter Eleanor. Shy Beatrice soon crosses every eligible man off her list, except handsome Justin Serle. Despite her own feelings for Justin, Beatrice is determined to save him for her cousin.

http://www.annajacobs.com/book.aspx?title=Persons-of-Rank&bookID=55

Anna Jacobs MARRYING MISS MARTHA

2011  £2.55 approx

When Captain Merrivale dies, his daughters Martha (28) and Penelope (24) have only a tiny income. Millowner Jonas Wright is looking for a teacher/companion for his four young daughters, since his wife is a semi-invalid. The sisters are offered employment and decide to accept. In the dirty mill town they find challenges and danger – but will they also find love? And can a stubborn spinster be persuaded to marry?

http://www.annajacobs.com/book.aspx?title=Marrying-Miss-Martha&bookID=25

Anna Jacobs, SEASONS OF LOVE

2011,  £2.55 approx

1835-45: Born to an impoverished clergyman with a joyless attitude to life, Helen Merling still manages to grow up with a loving heart and happy nature. When she meets an actor, she falls for his seduction and must marry. After several years of unhappiness, he dies in Italy. Two years later she meets Charles Carnforth, an older man who falls in love with her, and marries him out of friendship. When he dies, she goes back to England, where she falls in love with his heir. But the fact that she’s pregnant to Charles rather complicates things.

http://www.annajacobs.com/book.aspx?title=Seasons-of-Love&bookID=14

Anna Jacobs AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN

1918: Serena has been waiting to turn thirty and come into her inheritance. She leaves home but finds her stepfather has stolen her money and is desperate to bring her back and keep the secret safe. Marcus’ life has also been changed by the War. His injuries will get better, but he has other problems and very little money. When he stops men from kidnapping Serena in the street, it brings him love but also puts his life in danger. How will the two of them survive a wicked man’s desperate attacks?

http://www.annajacobs.com/book.aspx?title=An-Independent-Woman&bookID=30

Anna Jacobs THE WISHING WELL

2011,  £2.55 approx

When her unfaithful husband, Craig, dies, Laura Wells decides to leave Australia and go back to her native Lancashire to help nurse her ailing mother. After all, Laura’s two children, Ryan and Deb, are grown up now, and Deb has made it plain that she holder her mother responsible for her father’s desertion and death. Laura needs a job and somewhere to live. When she meets a man near the wishing well in the park, she finds he needs a housekeeper. It seems her wish for a job has been answered. Kit Mallinder is a former journalist, convalescing after a car accident. Can the two of them help each other to build new lives, or will Laura’s children complicate matters?

http://www.annajacobs.com/book.aspx?title=The-Wishing-Well&bookID=26

Anna Jacobs FAMILY CONNECTIONS

2011,  £2.55 approx

Sorting through her father's papers after his death, Gina Porter discovers evidence of a secret in his past. It seems she may have family on the other side of the world, in the North of England. She decides to travel to England and meet these unknown relatives. At her home near Blackpool, Peggy Wilkes wakes every day to verbal abuse from her bullying husband. She too has decided that the time has come to make a new start. As these two women embark on their personal voyages of self-discovery, they meet new people and forge bonds which will reinforce for both of them the value of family connections...

http://www.annajacobs.com/book.aspx?title=Family-Connections&bookID=35

Anna Jacobs KIRSTY’S VINEYARD

2011,  £2.55 approx

Kirsty has inherited a vineyard in Western Australia from Ed James, a lonely old man she befriended at the library. But there is a condition to his legacy. She must give up her quiet life in England and live at the vineyard for a least one year. How will a shy librarian cope on her own in a strange country? And Ed, a skilled matchmaker, has also suggestedKirsty consider marrying her new neighbour, Sam. This is going too far. She has no plans to marry again, thank you very much. Neither has Sam. But one thing is certain, Kirsty’s move to Australia will change her life for ever.

http://www.annajacobs.com/book.aspx?title=Kirstys-Vineyard&bookID=39

Anna Jacobs THE CORRIGAN LEGACY

2011  £2.55 approx

Meet the Corrigans. Childless Maeve, though rich and successful, is dying of cancer. She wants to leave her business empire to one of the offspring of her two estranged brothers, Des and Leo. But which young relative should she choose? As the younger generation begin to gather around Maeve, old secrets are revealed, new allegiances made, and there are surprises for every member of the family - because the Corrigan legacy isn’t what it first seems.

http://www.annajacobs.com/book.aspx?title=The-Corrigan-Legacy&bookID=32

Anna Jacobs SAVING WILLOWBROOK

2011  £2.55 approx

When Ella inadvertently discovers that her husband Miles is planning to sell their farm without her agreement, it's the final straw: her marriage, already on the rocks, is over. Determined to save Willowbrook, and to protect her daughter Amy from a father who doesn't love her, Ella embarks on a mission to build the farm into a successful bed-and-breakfast business. But Miles hasn’t given up and she owes him money. Cameron O'Neal arrives in the Wiltshire village and offers to help Ella, she finds herself torn between a fear of getting hurt again, and a powerful attraction to a man whom both she and Amy instinctively like.

http://www.annajacobs.com/book.aspx?title=Saving-Willowbrook&bookID=42

Anna Jacobs CHANGE OF SEASON

2011  £2.55 approx

If you take a devoted wife and mother, and push her out of her cosy home in Australia into a whole series of crises and new situations in England, don’t expect her to be unmarked by it. If this trusting wife then finds out about her husband’s philandering, you can expect big changes to occur - especially when she realises he’s just had an affair with her best friend. And if all this happens at a time when she is winning acclaim as an embroidery artist and has just come into an inheritance that will give her financial independence, then the outcomes of the trip may not be quite as her manipulative husband expects.

http://www.annajacobs.com/book.aspx?title=Change-of-Season&bookID=22

Anna Jacobs CHESTNUT LANE

2011  £2.55 approx

When novelist Sophie Carr rescues a man hiding in her garden from a group of paparazzi, she finds that her new neighbour is ageing pop star Jez Winter. She's loved his music for years and knows he's had a tough time lately, with an intruder slashing his face, then a car accident putting his ability to play music at risk. Life's not been easy for Sophie either, losing her husband just as she was taking off as a novelist and having difficulties with her control freak son William and her daughter Andi, who is into recreational drugs. And Sophie also has a secret to hide, one which makes her very wary of getting involved with Jez or anyone.

http://www.annajacobs.com/book.aspx?title=Chestnut-Lane&bookID=40

Anna Jacobs, writing as Shannah Jay, QUEST, #1 Chronicles of Tenebrak

November, 2010,  £1.92  approx

At fourteen, Katia is chosen to serve at the Sisterhood's temple in Tenebrak. But violent Discord engulfs the planet threatening the 20,000-year-old Sisterhood's existence. In a satellite far above Tenebrak, Davred, brilliant xeno-anthropologist, studies the Sisterhood, and risks everything by deciding to help them. But neither Davred nor the Sisters know all the secrets of this mysterious planet.

http://www.annajacobs.com/book.aspx?title=Quest&bookID=49

Anna Jacobs, writing as Shannah Jay, LANDS OF NOWHERE, #1 Chronicles of Tenebrak

November, 2010,  £1.92  approx

The Kindred desperately need refuge from Those of the Serpent, whose incense-choked shrines worship pain and suffering, and from Robler, the insane Exec in charge of the Confederate satellite circling above them. In the legendary Lands of Nowhere the mysterious deleff have already saved the Kindred twice. But why are the deleff so reluctant to let them leave the closed community of Dsheresh Vale?

http://www.annajacobs.com/book.aspx?title=Lands-of-Nowhere&bookID=50

Anna Jacobs, writing as Shannah Jay, SHADOW OF THE SERPENT, #1 Chronicles of Tenebrak

November, 2010,  £1.92  approx

When the members of the Kindred pass through a portal and are scattered across the twelve claims, they face the dark threat of being discovered by Those of the Serpent. As each group journeys towards the fateful rendezvous it finds unexpected allies. The depraved evil of the Serpent threatens to engulf them. Will their Quest against Discord be successful?

http://www.annajacobs.com/book.aspx?title=Shadow-of-the-Serpent&bookID=51

Anna Jacobs, writing as Shannah Jay, PRICE OF WISDOM, #1 Chronicles of Tenebrak (shortlisted as Best Australian Fantasy Novel of 1996)

November, 2010,  £1.92  approx

Across the length and breadth of the Twelve Claims, the armies of the Serpent are massing. Their cult of evil and suffering threatens to spread throughout the Confederation. Discord is everywhere - even on the satellite circling the planet Sunrise.  In the High Alder the Kindred prepare to make their stand. Only Herra's wisdom can defeat the Serpent. But can the Kindred afford the bitter cost?

http://www.annajacobs.com/book.aspx?title=The-Price-of-Wisdom&bookID=52

Anna Jacobs, writing as Shannah Jay, ENVOY, futuristic thriller/romance

November, 2010,  £1.92  approx

All Channa Harknell knows is war. Yet now, as Shavlan Envoy to the Confederation, she must negotiate peace. The Galactic Confederation is determined to stop the war between the Shavlans and the Deorin. Its Mediator, Joran Lovrel, brings all his wiles and experience to beak down Chana's resistance to peace. But can Channa trust him? Isolated in the neutral territory of the Confederation's base, Mediator and Envoy begin a battle of wits more demanding than any military campaign. Meanwhile, in Shavla new allegiances are formed, fresh betrayals hatched. And in the name of peaceChanna must face more danger than she has ever encountered in a lifetime of war.

http://www.annajacobs.com/book.aspx?title=Envoy&bookID=48

Anna Jacobs, writing as Shannah Jay, TENEBRAK: THE FOUNDING, Early Chronicles of Tenebrak

November, 2010,  £1.92  approx

How it all began: After Karialla’s village is destroyed by raiders, she braves many dangers to reach Tenebrak and complete her training as a healer. But the Healers’ Courts have been destroyed and she despairs. Then others join her one by one, helped by alien beings called deleff. The group must defeat a new group of raiders, then confront Rojan, who as a town elder is more interested in money than justice.

http://www.annajacobs.com/book.aspx?title=Tenebrak-the-Founding&bookID=59

Anna Jacobs, writing as Shannah Jay, SWORD OF AZARAY (Young adult fantasy story)

November, 2010,  £1.92  approx

In Azaray a magic sword has sung all true Kings to the throne. But Pavros, a powerful wizard, has killed the true king and
scattered the sword across the ring of worlds. The hilt, scabbard and blade each lies on a different world. The true king’s children, two boys and a girl cross from one world to the next to rescue the parts of the sword, battling against fearsome enemies and the most powerful magician ever. Will they reunite the three parts of the sword and win through to Azaray?

http://www.annajacobs.com/book.aspx?title=Sword-of-Azaray&bookID=58