Two Heads Are Better Than One

SYNOPSIS

Autumn Laine has lost her creative sparkle. After losing her grandad and her job as an illustrator in quick succession, she is at a crossroads in life and needs a break. Spending time with her parents in Paris, even in the artistic community of Montmartre, doesn’t appear to be the answer.
So when her penpal, Rosie, invites her to stay in the Lake District, Autumn jumps at the chance to get away from the hustle and bustle of Paris. After all, where better to re-discover her creativity than the place which inspired her heroine, Beatrix Potter?
Arriving at the picturesque lakeside village of Willowdale, Autumn is swept up by the beauty and magic of the stunning landscape. Welcomed into the community with open arms, she slowly starts to feel like herself again as her creative instincts re-ignite.
But when she meets Dane, who has escaped to the Lakes for his own reasons, will Autumn’s walls come down to let someone in again after so long? Or will the secrets of her past continue to hold her back?
A new beginning is a daunting prospect, but could it be the start of something wonderful too..?
Join million-copy bestseller Jessica Redland for a brand new series, full of love, friendship and
community.

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I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know Autumn and her pen friend of 24 years, Rosie.

When Autumn is at a low point in her life she decides now is the time to meet her pen friend face to face, for the first time after 24 years of writing letters to each other. They have developed a very strong friendship, supporting each other through life’s ups and downs.

Autumn arrives at Rosie’s house in the Lake District, where Rosie lives with her mother who has a form of PTSD following an accident many years earlier.

It isn’t long before Rosie meets her potential love interest, Dean. He literally bumps into her.

All three main characters have previous relationships they need to move on from.

Walking in the shoes of Beatrix Potter, the reason Rosie got into illustration, helps her to gain back her drawing mojo and find herself.

It was lovely reading the references to Potter’s books and the area she lived in. I have been to the Lake District many times but never visited her house. I feel the need to now!

And ‘that’ poem! Had me in tears!

A wonderful, emotional but uplifting start to a new series and I look forward to what happens next.

Thank you Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources for my spot on the blog tour.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jessica Redland writes emotional but uplifting stories of love, friendship, family and community. Her Whitsborough Bay books transport readers to the stunning North Yorkshire Coast where she lives with her husband, daughter and sprocker spaniel. Her Hedgehog Hollow series, set in a hedgehog
rescue centre, takes readers into the beautiful rolling countryside of the Yorkshire Wolds.
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Publication Date : 6 July 2023

Publisher : Mantle (Pan MacMillan)

SYNOPSIS

The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel silently rides the swell. She is known only as the Ghost Ship. For these past months, her crew has fought to liberate those enslaved by corsairs. But the two bravest mariners on board are not who they seem. And the stakes could not be higher: if captured, they will be hanged for their alleged crimes…

The Ghost Ship is the third novel in the Number One bestselling series The Joubert Family Chronicles, following The Burning Chambers and The City of Tears, which have together sold more than 400,000 copies.

MY REVIEW

A superb historical fiction novel, partly based on real people and partly imagined. Quality writing, superb research and completely engrossing. I haven’t read the first two books in the series but I didn’t feel I had missed anything. This book can easily be read as a standalone. I will be going back and reading them as I enjoyed this one so much.

I love a book set on the sea, so although I enjoyed every page, my enjoyment moved up a notch or two from around the last third or so of the book when Louise and Gilles board the Old Moon, a merchant ship. The ship is owned by Louise, who is one of our main characters. She bought it when, at 25, she inherited lot of money.

Vivid descriptions of life on board a ship for weeks at a time, fighting for their lives during a particularly vicious storm, the captain dying and Louise taking over. It had always been her dream to be the commander of a ship, although in 1620 it is not the done thing, in fact it is unlucky to have a woman on the crew. She is prepared to change that thinking.

The second main character is Gilles, a young man who was ‘rescued’ by Louise and taken under her wing. They become close. He has quite a secret. We learn of his difficult upbringing, and about his going to work for his uncle at a young age.

I was completely absorbed in this book, gripped from the prologue in which the commander of the ghost ship is waiting to be hanged.

Thank you Anne at Random Things Tours for my spot on the blog tour and my copy of the book.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The Founder of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and recently launched Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, Mosse is an award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer. Her most recent feminist non-fiction book, Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World (October 2022), is now the basis for a one-woman theatre show, touring UK venues from 28 February-12 April 2023, in which Mosse will celebrate the lives of extraordinary, brilliant, trail-blazing and heroic women from throughout history whose names deserve to be better known.

Book Info:

Genre: Fantasy, YA, Magic

Length: 446 Pages

Published: 23rd August 2022

SYNOPSIS

Hopes. Dreams. And literal nightmares out to kill a young boy.

Gray Lexly, son of a candlemaker, wants to escape his life of old-world technologies and study at the prestigious Astra Academy, a school for arcanists—those who can wield magic. But Gray has a major problem. Every night, as he sleeps, he’s visited by monsters. When they injure Gray in his dreams, he wakes with the same wounds in real life…

On the night Gray might finally die in his nightmares, he is saved by the kind and mysterious Professor Helmith, a powerful arcanist. She offers to protect Gray and invites him to attend Astra Academy.

Before that can happen, Gray must bond with a mystical creature to become an arcanist himself. Will he bond with a unicorn? A pegasus? A kitsune? Whatever he bonds with will determine his magical abilities, so he must choose wisely.

And when trouble finds Professor Helmith, Gray must become powerful enough to help her and fend off the terrible nightmares, before it’s too late…

Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Academy-Arcanist-1-Astra/dp/1957613173

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60839624-academy-arcanist?

MY REVIEW

I’m delighted to be part of the Ultimate Blog Tour for this wonderfully addictive read which I thoroughly enjoyed.

I enjoyed getting lost in the world of magic and magical creatures; eldrins and arcanists. I whizzed through it in just a few sittings.

Grey does not want to live his life on the small island where he lives nor does he want to become a candlemaker, like his dad.

He has been having nightmares where he is being attacked by monster spider puppets, and he is bringing the injuries with him when he wakes. Of course, his father and stepmother don’t believe his stories. In his dreams, he meets Professor Helmith. She protects him and tells him all about the Astra Academy where she teaches magic, and that is his decision made. He will go there but has to wait two years until he is 15.

Just after his 15th birthday he heads to the academy with his twin brother. They have not yet bonded with a magical creature, having little choice on their island, so they hope they will each find one in the menagerie, below the academy.

The menagerie section of the story with the magical animals is so very well described. I could have carried on reading more about all the animals and their individual Trials of Worth, which a human has to pass to be considered eligible to bond. Bonds are forever and make each party stronger.

Move forward a short time to lessons. Grey has been so excited to meet Professor Helmith in real life but she doesn’t recognise him. He knows her so well, even her walk, so realises this woman is an imposter.

That’s far enough into the story for my review! I think fans of Harry Potter and perhaps Percy Jackson will enjoy this book. The world is set years ago, just as steam engines and plumbing are being invented.

I enjoyed getting to know the different students and their magical animals, or once bonded they are now arcanists and eldrins.

I’m definitely going to be reading the rest of this series.

Thank you to The Write Reads for my E copy of the book and my spot on the blog tour.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Shami Stovall is a multi-award-winning author of fantasy and science fiction. Before that, she taught history and criminal law at the college level, and loved every second. When she’s not reading fascinating articles and books about ancient China or the Byzantine Empire, Stovall can be found playing way too many video games, especially RPGs and tactics simulators.

If you want to contact her, you can do so at the following locations:

Website: https://sastovallauthor.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/GameOverStation/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SAStovall/

Email: s.adelle.s@gmail.com

Publication date: 22 June 2023

Tor UK

SYNOPSIS

If you knew how dark tomorrow would be, what would you do with today?

The First Bright Thing by J. R. Dawson is a spellbinding debut for fans of The Night Circus and The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue.

Welcome to the Circus of the Fantasticals.

Ringmaster – Rin, to those who know her best – can jump to different moments in time as easily as her wife, Odette, soars from bar to bar on the trapeze. With the scars of World War I feeling more distant as the years pass, Rin is focusing on the brighter things in life. Like the circus she’s built and the magical misfits and outcasts – known as Sparks – who’ve made it their home. Every night, Rin and the Fantasticals enchant a Big Top packed full with audiences who need to see the impossible.

But while the present is bright, threats come at Rin from the past and the future. The future holds an impending war that the Sparks can see barrelling toward their Big Top and everyone in it. And Rin’s past creeps closer every day, a malevolent shadow Rin can’t fully escape. It takes the form of another Spark circus, with tents as black as midnight and a ringmaster who rules over his troupe with a dangerous power. Rin’s circus has something he wants, and he won’t stop until it’s his.

MY REVIEW

I absolutely love stories with a magical twist thrown in, especially if there is also a circus setting. You can imagine how much I was looking forward to reading this one!

I adored the three women who are at the centre of the story, and their strong and inseparable bond. Odette, the healer, Mauve the seer and Rin the time jumper. The powers they have, ‘Sparks’ have appeared randomly in some people around the time of The Great War. It seems the powers they have developed are exactly what they need. One of the circus hands can split himself into multiple copies to erect the big top.

They live in the time period after the end of the war, but on one of their time travel jumps into the future they have seen the horrors of World War Two. Rin is convinced they can stop it happening by travelling back and tweaking events. They just want to do good. Constantly in danger of being found by the Circus King, a dark and menacing figure, who has his own band of Sparks with dangerous powers, they need to keep watching for him at all times.

Beautifully written with gorgeous details of the circus, Rin as the Ringmaster and Odette as the glamorous and talented trapeze artist.

I was absolutely engrossed in this magical story. I wondered if they could stop the war, and would the book have an alternative future for them without the war, so an alternative history for us. Or was the future too set in stone that despite their best efforts the war would happen just as they saw.

Many thanks to Stephen at Black Crow PR for sending me an absolutely stunning finished Hardback copy (you can judge this one by its cover!) and for my place on the blog tour. I can’t apologise enough for my diary error meaning I missed posting on my tour date.

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SYNOPSIS

When wedding planner Hattie signs up for her dream job, organising her cousin’s wedding in France, it offers the perfect escape from a relationship that’s been going south for a while.
Unfortunately when she arrives at the idyllic Chateau St Martin, not everyone is as enthusiastic about the forthcoming wedding, including Luc Bremont, son of the owner of the chateau.
Luc has finally been given the chance to make his own champagne at the family vineyard and everything rests on making it a success, the last thing he wants is the distraction of a big wedding at the chateau.
Will Hattie be able to build bridges between the inhabitants of the chateau in order to allow the wedding to go ahead?

MY REVIEW

I adored this wonderful romcom set in a gorgeous chateau in France.

Hattie arrives at Château St Martin, her fairytale home for the next two months, to plan her cousin Gabby’s wedding – and desperate to do a good job.

She is one confident lady who can stand on her own two feet. She is faced with problem after problem, mostly those arranged by Yvette who is trying to scupper Hattie’s plans as she wants to hold her wedding at the chateau on the same date! Not realising this, Hattie efficiently solves everything thrown at her including flying a friend over from England to do the catering! Fliss arrives and the cooking commences. We are introduced to many delicious sounding French dishes which will make your mouth water.

The most concerning thing is the bride to be, Gabby, is being elusive. Will the wedding even go ahead?

Of course you need to read the book to find out! If you want to be whisked away to France, with a few days in Paris, all beautifully described, and meet some interesting characters along the way, then this is the book for you!

Thank you Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources for my spot on the blog tour.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Julie Caplin, formerly a PR director, swanned around Europe for many years taking top food and drink writers on press trips (junkets) sampling the gastronomic delights of various cities in Italy, France, Belgium, Spain, Copenhagen and Switzerland. It was a tough job but someone had to do it.
These trips have provided the inspiration and settings for the highly successful Romantic Escapes series which have hit the best seller charts in Italy, Germany and the Czech Republic and have sold a million copies worldwide.
The first book in the nine strong series,The Little Café in Copenhagen, was shortlisted for a Romantic Novel of the Year Award.

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Publication date: 6/7/23

Publisher: Head of Zeus

SYNOPSIS

Dieppe, August 1942. A catastrophe no headline dared admit.

Plans are underway for the boldest raid yet on Nazi-occupied France. Over six thousand men will storm ashore to take the port of Dieppe. Lives will change in an instant – both on the beaches and in distant capitals.

Annie Wrenne, working at Lord Mountbatten’s cloak-and-dagger Combined Operations headquarters, is privy to the top secret plans for the daring cross-Channel raid.

Young Canadian journalist George Hogan, protege of influential Lord Beaverbrook, faces a crucial assignment that will test him to breaking point.

And Abwehr intelligence officer Wilhelm Schultz is baiting a trap to lure thousands of Allied troops to their deaths.

Three lives linked by Operation Jubilee: the Dieppe Raid, 19 August 1942. Over six thousand men will storm the heavily defended French beaches.

Less than half of them will make it back alive.

The blockbuster SPOILS OF WAR non-chronological collection features compelling recurring characters whose fragmented lives mirror the war that shattered the globe. For fans of Philip Kerr and Robert Harris.

MY REVIEW

A superbly written fictional account of two men and their lives leading up to the attack on Dieppe. Based on the actual events of the August 1942 attack, where the British Combined Operations, led by Lord Mountbatten, organised Operation Jubilee and sent thousands of men to their deaths.

George Hogan is living in his home country of Canada, and working at a small newspaper. Hogan is given an assignment to write a piece about first hand experience of a front line soldier. His excellent work in this assignment start him on a path which leads to promotion and to a relationship with Annie Wrenne who works at Lord Mountbatten’s Combined Operations HQ.

Wilhelm Schulz is an officer of the Abwehr German Military Intelligence. A proper tough guy who revels in fighting and killing. He is planning to stop the invasion by having every access point covered, and does a thorough job.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading each story, as these men are polar opposites. One story set in Germany and the plans to thwart the invasion of Dieppe. The other set in England where the powers that be think they have everything covered and Operation Jubilee will be a complete success.

There is no actual front line war action written into the story until the end, when the invasion is underway, and the descriptions are hard hitting but necessary to describe the horrors the British and Canadian soldiers faced.

This is the first book I have read by Graham as it’s not my usual genre but I enjoyed it so much he is on my list to read more.

Many thanks to Sophie Ransom at Ransom PR for my spot on the blog tour.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born November, 1946, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. Seaside childhood punctuated by football, swimming, afternoons on the dodgems, run-ins with the police, multiple raids on the local library…plus near-total immersion in English post-war cinema classics including The Dam Busters, Ice Cold in Alex, The Wooden Horse, The Cockleshell Heroes and Reach For The Sky. War-crazy? Sort of…

Wins scholarship to a London boarding school and then onward to Cambridge University. Reads English, volunteers for Six-Day War (those films again!), and emerges three years later with five mercifully unpublished manuscripts, still intent on becoming a full-time novelist. Yet more rejection slips (plus hunger) compel a career rethink…

Becomes a promotion script-writer with Southern Television, then researcher, then director. Spends the next twenty years making ITV documentaries, many of them networked. Films seabed wrecks of the Titanic and the Bismarck (with American oceanographer Bob Ballard), profiles the Brighton Bomber, produces ITV’s account of Richard Branson’s near-fatal attempt to cross the Atlantic by balloon, wins a number of awards…but still dreams of getting into print.

An ITV commission for 6-part drama series Rules of Engagement is sucessfully finessed into a two-book contract with Pan-Macmillan. Two more novels, both dubbed “international thrillers” follow. Sacked after Television South loses the ITV franchise and embarks on new career as – at last – a full-time novelist.

To date, 25 novels, one biography, two books for challenged readers, plus Airshow, a fly-on-the-wall novel-length piece of reportage, and Backstory, a book-length account of how and why I embarked on crime fiction. Draws gleefully on home-town Portsmouth (“Pompey”) as the basis for an on-going crime series featuring D/I Joe Faraday and D/C Paul Winter. Contributes five years of personal columns to the Portsmouth News, pens a number of plays and dramatic monologues for local production (including the city’s millenium celebration, Willoughby and Son), then decamps to Devon for a more considered take on Pompey low-life.

The Faraday series comes to an end after 12 books. Healthy sales at home and abroad, plus an on-going (and immensely successful) series of French TV adaptations, tempt Orion to commission a spin-off series, set in the West Country, featuring D/S Jimmy Suttle.

First book in the series, Western Approaches, publishes 2012. Second title, Touching Distance, already in the bag.

Married to the delectable Lin. Has three grown-up sons (Tom, Jack and Woody). Plus recently-arrived grandson Dylan. A corker.

Lifetime ambition? To properly master colloquial French. Current passion? Coastal quad rowing with Lin and the rest of The Forty Niners (don’t ask). 

Favourite time of the day? Six’o’clock.

More on my website: http://www.grahamhurley.co.uk

SYNOPSIS

Rosa Larkin is down on her luck in London, so when she inherits a near-derelict corner shop in a quaint Devon village, her first thought is to sell it for cash and sort out her life. But nothing is straightforward about this legacy. While the identity of her benefactor remains a mystery, he – or she has left one important legal proviso: that the shop cannot be sold, only passed on to somebody who really deserves it.
Rosa makes up her mind to give it a go: to put everything she has into getting the shop up and running again in the small seaside community of Cockleberry Bay. But can she do it all on her own?
And if not, who will help her succeed – and who among the following will work secretly to see her fail?
There is a handsome rugby player, a sexy plumber, a charlatan reporter and a selection of meddling locals. Add in a hit and run incident and the disappearance of a valuable engraved necklace – and what you get is a journey of self-discovery and unpredictable events.
With surprising and heartfelt results, Rosa, accompanied at all times by her little sausage dog Hot, will slowly unravel the shadowy secrets of the inheritance, and also bring her own, long-hidden heritage into the light.

Purchase Links
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Corner-Shop-Cockleberry-Bay-uplifting-ebook/dp/B07B8KML35
https://www.amazon.com/Corner-Shop-Cockleberry-Bay-uplifting-ebook/dp/B07B8KML35

MY REVIEW

Rosa is left a shop in a will. She has no idea who it is from or why it has been left to her, but according to the terms of the will she is not allowed to sell it.

So, having just lost her job and with her stolen Dachshund, Hot, in tow, she packs her suitcase headed for a new life leaving Josh her best friend and flat mate behind in London.

She arrives to find the shop has been closed for years and needs a lot of work. The Corner Shop had been a firm favourite with the locals, the owner fitting in to the local community like an old friend and running the shop until he was too old to carry on. Rosa decides what she will do with the shop and gets planning the big opening day celebration.

With plenty of men giving Rosa plenty of interest, she is spoilt for choice. But who can she really trust? Which one of them is genuine?

With a girl injured in a hit and run and the mystery of the driver running through the book, I was fully immersed with Rosa’s new life and who the driver was and why they didn’t stop to help.

And Hot Dog the dachshund is such a sweetie!

I have read the Ferry Lane books by Nicola which are fantastic and I’m seeing this series being just as good!

Thank you Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources for the invitation to the blog blast.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nicola May is a rom-com superstar. She is the author of sixteen romantic comedies, all
of which have appeared in the Kindle bestseller charts. The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay became the best-selling Kindle book in the UK, across all genres, in January 2019, and was Amazon’s third-
bestselling novel in that year. It spawned three sequels, followed by the hit Ferry Lane Market trilogy.

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Publication Date: 22 June 2023

SYNOPSIS

Garland Fairford has her dream job as a historical Costumier in London and is engaged to a handsome and successful playwright, Marco.
.. 
Whilst working on an exhibition of dresses owned by a Victorian actress, Garland meets a long-lost relative – Honey Fairford. Having no family, Garland is delighted, and intrigued to discover Honey is planning to open a wedding dress museum in Lancashire.
..
When Garland loses her fiancée and her job in the same week, she is excited to accept Honey’s offer to work at the museum. Escaping London, and her old life, Garland is then shocked to be confronted with a ghost from her past – Thom.
..
As Garland starts to repair the beautiful vintage wedding dresses for the museum, as well as her relationship with Thom, could this finally be the chance for her own happy-ever-after?

MY REVIEW

I loved this book. I was completely absorbed in Garland’s life, the wedding dresses, and the cat.

Garland is loving her job, working for a costumier in London and making a stunning Titania dress for her fiancé’s new stage production.

Then she overhears a conversation about her at the theatre. Her world crumbles and she sells her home, leaves London, and takes up a job with her newly found distant relative and bestselling author, Honey Fairford. Honey is setting up a wedding dress museum and Garland is tasked with preparing the dresses, all of which have their own stories, for display.

Moving to this small and friendly community is just what Garland needs and she soon fits in like a long lost friend.

Of course there is a love interest, and an ex fiancé who is trying to find her.

I adored this book. I liked Garland from the beginning, Honey is a fabulous diva, Thom is a lovable love interest. Howevee, the absolute star of the show is Golightly, the cat who accidentally becomes Garland’s responsibility. What a character!

Many thanks to Anne at Random Things Tours for my spot on the tour for this gorgeous read.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Trisha Ashley’s Sunday Times bestselling novels have sold over one million copies in the UK and have twice been shortlisted for the Melissa Nathan award for Romantic Comedy. Every Woman for Herself was nominated by magazine readers as one of the top three romantic novels in the last fifty years.

Trisha lives in North Wales. For more information about her please visit http://www.Facebook.com/TrishaAshleyBooks or follow her on Twitter @trishaashley.

I’m delighted to be joining in with today’s cover reveal (29/6/23) Thank you Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources for the invitation.

SYNOPSIS

The scrap of paper looked as if it had been torn from a diary. The words written in faint pencil. The letters rounded, almost childlike: Please look after her. Her life and mine depend on you not trying to find me. 

When Detective Alana Mack arrives at Clonabee police station, in a small Irish seaside town on the outskirts of Dublin, she doesn’t expect to find a distressed two-year-old girl sobbing on the floor. Abandoned in a local supermarket, the child tells them her name is Casey. All Alana and her team have to go on is a crumpled note begging for someone to look after her little girl. This mother doesn’t want to be found.

Still recovering from a terrible accident that has left Alana navigating a new life as a wheelchair user, Alana finds herself suddenly responsible for Casey while trying to track down the missing mother and solve another missing person’s case… a retired newsagent who has seemingly vanished from his home.

Forced to ask her ex-husband and child psychiatrist Colm for help, through Forensic Art Therapy, Alana discovers that whatever darkness lies behind the black windows in Casey’s crayon drawing, the little girl was terrified of the house she lived in.

Then a bag of human remains is found in a bin, and a chilling link is made – the DNA matches Casey’s.

Alana and her team must find the body and make the connection with the missing newsagent fast if she is to prevent another life from being taken. But with someone in her department leaking confidential details of the investigation to the media, can Alana set aside her emotional involvement in this case and find Casey’s mother and the killer before it’s too late?

Heart-pounding and totally addictive, The Puppet Maker is the first in the Detective Alana Mack series that will have fans of Ann Cleeves, Angela Marsons and LJ Ross racing through the pages late into the night.

Publication Date: 17th October

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in Dublin, Jenny O’Brien moved to Wales and then Guernsey, where she tries to find time to write in between working as a nurse and ferrying around 3 teenagers. 

In her spare time she can be found frowning at her wonky cakes and even wonkier breads. You’ll be pleased to note she won’t be entering Bake-Off. She’s also an all-year-round sea swimmer.

Jenny is represented by Nicola Barr of The Bent Agency and published by Storm Publishing and HQ Digital (Harper Collins)

Social Media Links – Twitter https://twitter.com/ScribblerJB

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Book 28 of 31 : Little Duck Pond Cafe

Rosie Green

Publication date: 29/5/23

SYNOPSIS

Krystle has always yearned to live a different kind of life, so when she hits the jackpot, quite literally, she’s over the moon. At last she’ll get the chance to live in a gorgeous house, drive the car of her dreams and maybe even track down that elusive soulmate at last! It all sounds perfect
– but can reality ever live up to your dreams?

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MY REVIEW

Book number 28 in this gorgeous series, but can of course be read as a stand alone.

Although Rosie’s books are novellas, she packs so much in I feel I get to know the characters as well as I would in a full novel.

I have read 5 or 6 in this series so far, but this one is slightly different. It is a bit darker as it deals with how coming into money can change people, and those around them.

Krystle’s twin sister Carrie wins the lottery and halves it with Krystal who couldn’t have come into the windfall at a better time. She is struggling to pay her rent and has fallen into the grip of a loan shark. She is looking forward to paying her off, but it isn’t that easy.

Krystle is rather naïve and far too trusting of people. Her slimy ex gets in touch out of the blue, and she doesn’t even consider he has heard about her good fortune! Then she meets Doug who she really likes, but what is he hiding? Is he only after her money too? Is Adam, her best friend, actually her soul mate or are they destined to stay just friends?

Thoroughly enjoyed it. Roll on book 29!

Thank you Rachel, for having me along on the blog tour.

Purchase Link
https://amzn.to/42S4f5s

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rosie has been scribbling stories ever since she was little. Back then, they were rip-roaring adventure tales with a young heroine in perilous danger of falling off a cliff or being tied up by ‘the baddies’. Thankfully, Rosie has moved on somewhat, and now much prefers to write romantic comedies that melt your heart and make you smile, with really not much perilous danger involved at all – unless you count the heroine losing her heart in love.

Rosie’s Little Duck Pond Cafe series of novellas is centred around life in a village cafe and each book can be read as a stand-alone story.

Rosie has also written a full-length, stand-alone book, ‘Snowflakes over Moondance Cottage’, a heart-breaking but ultimately uplifting tale filled with the joy of the season.

Look out for ‘A Kiss under the Stars’, out in August 2023, and ‘A Cosy Cottage Escape’ for Hallowe’en 2023.

Follow Rosie on Twitter – https://twitter.com/Rosie_Green88