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Aug 12, 2021 4:56 pm
Happy Thursday everyone!
Thanks for all the love following the news from last week. It made me feel so happy that you, the wonderful readers of my books, were behind my decision to postpone My Idyllic Billionaire. It's not been easy working in social care during this pandemic, but all of your messages make it feel a million times better.
As a thanks, this week has 5 wonderful recommendations, and a sneak peek at the beginning of My Idyllic Billionaire to make up for its delay.
As always, I love to hear from you so do get in touch if you'd like to.
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This Week's Wonderful Recommendation
Where do you go when your life falls apart?
After her decades-long loveless marriage to an eccentric musician ends with him in bed with another woman, Hope Johnson is left washed up and tired of life. Fighting through a bitter divorce battle, she struggles to re-invent herself and fill the void left by her crumbling life.
But when her cousin appears on her doorstep to whisk her off to her aunt’s surprise wedding – whether she likes it or not – Hope is forced to come face-to-face with her deepest beliefs about family, friendship, and what love truly means. As she grows ever closer to her eclectic aunt, Hope begins to unravel the emotions that she buried deep in her psyche – and along the way, she’ll discover shocking new things about her family that will change the way she sees them forever.
After her aunt falls mysteriously ill, Hope must juggle the task of caring for the woman who has become her second mother with rediscovering her own long-lost dreams and ambitions. And when a dashing suitor steps into her life, Hope will have to decide if she’s really willing to risk giving love another shot…
The Journey of Hope is a fun and cozy contemporary women’s fiction series that explores universal themes of love, relationships, and the true meaning of family.
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I have loved Chris from the first day I laid eyes on him. But he's my best friend. So I've watched and waited, forever the friend, never the girlfriend.
Abby is sure of a lot of things in life: her spot in the engineering program at Berkeley, her obsession for Chris, and her guaranteed slot in the friend zone. But this year is going to be different.
Shane has it all in life. The looks, the charm, the personality. He can't help it that the entire female student body have dubbed him the number-one player on campus.
When Abby's plan to open up to Chris backfires in the worst possible way, she finds an ally in none other than Shane, the one guy she's never taken seriously. All bets are off as Shane helps navigate Abby out of the friend zone and into the end zone. But sparks fly when you play with fire.
You will love this enemies to lovers sweet romance because the flirt and banter will make you fall in love all over again.
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A tsunami wipes away everything - Sometimes the biggest emotional loss can reap the best romantic reward…
What do you do when you wake up alone with no memories of your past and no idea who you are? She’s about to find out.
Lily Rivers was one of the victims of the Thailand tsunami. She wakes up 6 months later, with no memory of her past, or her identity. Even her name isn’t really hers.
By strokes of luck, fate, or human kindness, Lily realizes she doesn’t have to figure it all out for herself, and she is not really alone. She has new friends, a new home, and a teenager whose piercing blue eyes have found a place in her heart.
There’s also a handsome doctor who doesn’t just compel her body to heal, he also coaxes her heart open and teaches her that the past is just one place, there’s still the present and the future.
This heartwarming and wholesome romance series will take you away on a beautiful trip to the white sandy beaches of Thailand where true love is possible and anyone can start a new life. With magnificent beach settings and characters that will capture your heart right away, the Coastal Holiday Series is one you won’t be able to put down. Scroll up and grab your copy today!
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Can a bet lead to love?
Depends on what's at stake. . .
And the risks you're willing to take.
Ainsley hides away with a book after her shift ends at the library to de-stress from life. When a sexy patron surprises her with a kiss and begs for a date, she wonders if she’s fallen into the pages of one of her romance novels.
But she’s tired of living vicariously through books.
Time to claim her own happily-ever-after.
Ty bets his friends he can get the stern librarian to kiss him. When he not only kisses the uptight chick but convinces her to go out with him as well, he sees a chance to solve his financial woes.
Stakes are raised.
The bookworm’s heart becomes collateral.
And Ty determines to win at any cost.
But will winning actually make him lose what he loves most?
Find out in this web of wagers.
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Bridget leaves the city life for a position to teach at the West Fork Ranch, even though her mother and father are set against her going.
Although the rancher, Randal, is elated to have her there, his two brothers are not.
The brothers work hard to try to force her off the ranch by spreading rumors about her and even going so far as to abduct her in order to instill fear.
Bridget falls in love with Randal, and cares deeply for his daughter, Bella, who had been abandoned by her birth mother years before.
But Bridget feels forced to leave the ranch because she just can't take the gossip and threats anymore.
Small town life is not at all like the city life that she left behind at all.
Will her love for Randal and Bella be enough to bring her back to the ranch?
What will happen when Randal goes to the city to find her and try to win her back?
Will Bridget's father agree that Bridget may marry him and leave the city life for good?
My Idyllic Billionaire?
As a thanks, here's a sneak peek at the very beginning of My Idyllic Billionaire.
Ruby Dean checked the time on her old battered Casio watch for the tenth time that minute. She was at the back of the coffee queue with only twenty minutes to board the train before it left the station. Departing not only the town where she’d made her life but also the whole life itself.
Ruby hadn’t made the choice to move back to her hometown lightly, but in the end the decision was the best one. This way she could escape without making a scene. She had a reason to return home, she wouldn’t just be skulking back with her tail between her legs. That didn’t make it any easier though.
The reason to return home was tucked under her arm, nestled down in her purse. A letter Ruby had received last week that had set this whole whirlwind move across country in motion. She could feel the weight of it through the bare skin of her arm. Not even needing to take it out of her purse and slide it back out of the thick glossy envelope to know what it said. Word for word, Ruby could recite the letter from a solicitor acting on behalf of her late mother.
Ruby Dean, it had said, following on from the meeting last week which you were unable to attend, your solicitor has drawn up the deeds of the property and it is now in joint names between yourself and Miss Sapphire Dean. We would like to offer our profuse apologies for this oversight and have enclosed a voucher for our services should you require them in the future.
Yours Mr Tony esq.
Ruby tucked her long caramel brown hair behind her ears and moved forwards one space as a harried mum and her three children walked off with a tray full of frothy milkshakes. To say the original letter last month had come as a shock was an understatement. Ruby’s mum had passed away nearly ten years ago when Ruby was only fifteen, and her sister seventeen. They’d been sent to live with an aunt and had both left for university as soon as they could. Their dad was uncontactable, and had been since they were babies. Little had ever seen said about him and their mum had thought that was for the best.
Growing up they made do, never wanting for love or attention, but their clothes were from the thrift store, and their food was basic but delicious. So neither Ruby nor Sapphire were expecting anything along the lines of an inheritance. Over the years Ruby had worked hard as a store manager and enjoyed her spending money wisely. Mostly.
And then, last month, the rug had well and truly been pulled out from under her feet. A letter from a solicitors had fallen onto the doormat of the single story home she shared with friends. Addressed to Ruby, stamped from a solicitors office in her home town of Inniswater Strand. Sorry, they had said, a mix up with the files during paper to digital transfer. By the time Ruby had finished reading the letter, her room mates had to assist her through to her bedroom and bring her a hot, sweet tea. It wasn’t just a mix up, a few thousand gone astray. This had been a catastrophic failure of the company Ruby’s mother had trusted to provide her daughters with not only ten thousand each on their twenty-first birthdays, but also a beach front property with land that she herself had recently taken on and kept from the girls as a surprise. And a surprise it had been. Just ten years too late!
So now Mr Tony esq. was in charge of the Dean account and was trying to placate the two sister the best he could. As a solicitor, Ruby imagined, he was best placed to know how much he could be sued for and was trying his best to cover his back. Ruby had no wish to make trouble, but that wasn’t always true of her older sister, Sapphire, who had attended the meeting with the solicitor with a list of questions as long as her lithe arms.
It had been easier for Sapphire to get to the meeting though, she still lived in Inniswater. Happily married with two adorable girls and a husband who worshipped the ground she walked on. Which wasn’t hard. Sapphire had been blessed with long limbs, dark glossy hair, and eyes of the clearest blue. Whereas Ruby’s hair was more burnt caramel than chocolate, and her eyes more sludge than clear. Ruby was pretty sure that’s why the boyfriend she had recently started seeing had decided that long distance wouldn’t work for him and broke up with Ruby the day after she received the letter. Thankfully he hadn’t known about the inheritance, just the impending move, as Ruby wondered if he would have stayed for the property.
Ruby sighed and shuffled forwards, edging her bags along with her feet. Ten minutes to go before the train left the station now, yet the queue for the hot drinks wasn’t going anywhere. Ruby checked her phone, a message from Sapphire filled the screen, letting Ruby know she was excited to meet her at their new house. She’d added a couple of rows of happy emojis and a few kisses that made Ruby’s pink lips curl into a smile.
She was excited too. Just feeling a little overwhelmed. When the ten thousand had dropped into her account mere days after the receipt of the first letter, Ruby hadn’t known what to do with it. She’d made another split second decision and the stress was no longer hers to worry about. But, she supposed, neither now was the money.
Ruby’s watch beeped the turn of the hour from her small wrist. Just five minutes left to go now. A woman who was now at the front of the little kiosk reeled off an order for a half shot, three-pump, skinny, no froth latte and the teenage server looked as put out as Ruby felt. She’d only dragged her three heavy bags that contained all her worldly goods to the coffee kiosk to try and give herself a bit of a boost in what was turning out to be a difficult morning, but so far it was adding exponentially to Ruby’s stresses. And all she wanted was a flat white.
With a sinking resignation that there was no time to wait for coffee, Ruby hoisted one of the bags onto her shoulder and started wheeling the others away from the queue and the hiss of the redundant milk frother. Ever the organiser, Ruby already had a bottle of water and a few snacks in her purse, they’d have to suffice. She trundled through the gates and lifted her belongings onto the train. Bumping herself and her bags down the narrow gangway, Ruby searched the backs of the tables for her allocated seat. At only two carriages long, this didn’t take too long. Luckily the train was empty. Just a few other passengers leaving the vibrant, warm, city to travel six hours across country to the small beach town where nothing ever happened.
Ruby found her seat and stored her luggage away before sitting, looking around the carriage at the handful of people. She wondered if they were leaving for good too, or if they would be back in a few days, memories of Inniswater fading as fast as their suntans. She couldn’t decide if she was jealous of them, or glad to be leaving. The whole turn of events had given Ruby no time to think properly about it, but she knew that when she had a moment of calm, the preposterousness of what had happened would hit her like a sledge-hammer. Until then, she was enjoying the cotton-candy feeling in her mind.
A whistle sounded on the platform and the train shuddered as it began it’s journey. A single tear tracked down Ruby’s cheek as set off on her journey. Back home, back to Inniswater, back to the life she thought she’d left behind.
I will be sure to drop a celebratory email when My Idyllic Billionaire is available to buy.
Until next time,
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