Finding The Love Solution
Today is publication day for The Love Solution, a fun rom-com with a difference, which has been published under my pen-name, name Ashley Croft. This is a… Read More
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A Perfect Cornish Festival
The light was mellow, the sun drowsily warm as we drove down the hill towards the sleepy little Cornish fishing village of Porthleven. We planned on a stroll round the famous double harbour, maybe a drink in the pub if we could find one open late on a Sunday afternoon… Read More
The Good and Bad in us all
As I get ready to publish my thirteenth crime novel, which is the second book in the DS Grace Allendale series, Tick Tock, I’m already wondering what my readers will think of it. I always like to find the light within the darkness, even though I write crime thrillers. I’m… Read More
In Search of Nelson’s Bar
I love sunshine, I love the sea and I love my job as an author. These three things came together beautifully when I took a research trip to the north Norfolk coast in a heatwave last summer to decide where to place the tiny village in A Summer to Remember. Read More
Motherhood, crime writing and hypocrisy
Most of the time, my career as a writer perfectly complements being a mother of three. I’m extremely fortunate. I take my children to school and pick them up. I never miss a parents’ evening or sports game, and I’m always around to help with homework or to run an… Read More
Still Got It by Claire Carver – Extract
Chapter 1 It was going to be extremely hot in Greece, and she’d need enough clothes for three whole months.Grace Foreman went to bite the price tag off a floaty pink dress, before remembering her recent dental work and the five hundred pounds she’d had to pay for the crown… Read More
Dragonhart by Abbie Eaton – Extract
Chapter 1 Beneath Castle Grey, there are dragons in a slumber so deep, not even the gods can wake them.This is what Arla had been told when she was a little girl. But now, at eighteen, she was vicious, and angry, and did not believe in the dragons that had… Read More
The Strawberry Patch Pancake House by Laurie Gilmore – Extract
Chapter 1 Archer Baer had just become a father in the most unimaginable way possible. Not that he’d ever imagined it at all. What was a confirmed bachelor, a workaholic chef like himself going to do with a child? He didn’t even have houseplants because he didn’t have time to… Read More
The Wedding Date Disaster by Kate Mathieson – Extract
Chapter 1 Benjamin McDonald is already in the boardroom.Looking smug. Of course.And I’m late. I hate being late. Especially today, when everything matters.Shit, shit, shit.Ben is in the corner chatting up a twenty-three-year-old intern. Predictable. He seems to be in his element; the girl appears fascinated by him, and so… Read More
The Big Game by Cassie Connor – Extract
PrologueLily ‘It’s Donaghue taking it all the way to the touchdown!’ roars the announcer. Oh my God, I don’t believe it. Tate has just scored in like the fifty-ninth minute. On the sidelines, the whole cheerleading squad is going crazy. I’m jumping up and down, screaming my head off. The… Read More
Mismatch of the Season by Michelle Kenney – Extract
DEVON, 1820Three months until the wedding It was the perfect morning for a duel.Or, at least it would have been had Miss Phoebe Fairfax lived between the covers of a novel where the heroine actually did things, as opposed to watching her brothers do them all instead.The chief offender among… Read More
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Pole Position by Rebecca Caffery – Extract
I sink into the plush chair, kicking off my trainers and planting my feet on edge of the chair as I slide it into the recline. It’s a seven-hour flight and I can’t wait to get comfy. I can’t believe I’m here. I can’t believe I’m finally getting… Read More
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