Today I am thrilled to welcome Christa Wojciechowski to my blog. Christa has very kindly sent me review copies of Sick and Sicker which I hope to get to ASAP. In the meantime she has very kindly taken part in my author Q&A.

Enjoy!

For those who don’t know already, could you tell us about yourself and your book(s) please?

I’m a freelance digital marketer who lives in Panama. I came down here expecting to stay a couple years, but now it’s almost been a decade. I work for small businesses, indie authors, publishers, podcasters, and media sites. I’ve also written some literary fiction and have begun a series of Psychological Thriller novellas.

Where did/do you get your ideas from?

My ideas usually come from random flashes of insight or questions that build in my mind. Sick, the psychological thriller line, is actually based on a nightmare I had last year.

Are any of your characters based (however loosely) on anyone you know?

Oh, most definitively. My characters are based on everyone I know, and each of them carries a micro aspect of my personality too. That’s one of the fun parts of writing. I can let out those restrained personalities and see what they would do if I didn’t constantly keep tied down.

How do you pick your character’s names?

I can get stuck on names. For my first attempt at writing a novel, I used a baby names book to choose something for my main character, Ona. You wouldn’t believe how many hours I spent scouring and comparing names.

I’ve decided to skip that part of the writing process lately because it was huge hold-up. Now I tag characters with the first name that comes into my head. For example, with John and Susan in the Sick series – those are pretty standard names that were originally supposed to be placeholders. But as the characters developed, I felt I couldn’t change them. They are John and Susan and that is that. The normal names actually worked out well because the novel is pointing out the extraordinary secrets hidden underneath seemingly normal couples.

Can you share your writing process with us, in a nutshell?

I start off with a sliver of an idea and just go. I used to spend lots of time outlining beforehand. It was helpful, but the plans always changed. Now I fly by the seat of my pants. If I get stuck, I might quickly sketch out a few possible plot points. I don’t know if I’ll go back to a more structured style in the future, but for now, it’s purely made up on the spot. I feel like I harness more adrenaline in my writing, and I’m as eager to see what happens as hopefully my future readers will be.

Do you have a favourite author?

I have many, but my biggest writing hero is Dostoevsky. To me, he is the God of Literature. I go through infatuations with other writers on the side. Kafka was the previous obsession. Oscar Wilde before that. I’ve just read The Handmaid’s Tale and I think Margaret Atwood will be my next idol.

Were you a big reader as a child?

Oh, yes. As a kid, I was something of an outcast and spent lots of time reading. In elementary school, I was a fanatic for the Black Stallion series. I devoured every one of those books. Black Beauty was a favorite of mine too. In high school, I bought every book Anne Rice ever wrote. After graduation, I decided to explore the classics. That’s where I’ve been ever since.

When did you start to write?

I’ve always written, but the first piece I published is called The Wrong David, a literary fiction novelette. Then, I wrote my first full-length novel for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in 2012. I can’t believe it’s been almost four years! It’s supposed to have been published long ago. After that I wrote a second and third book to complete a full series with the working title The Sculptor of New Hope, all of which are still sitting in my ‘revisions pile.’ It’s about an emotionally disturbed artist and his heroin-addicted muse.

As for Sick, I made that into a series because I added a poll at the end of the first book and my readers voted for a sequel. I was so happy because I also became obsessed with the strangeness of the story. How sick could it get? What would happen to these people? So I’ve just kept going.

What are you working on right now?

Now I’m writing the third part of Sick. After that, I plan to publish The Sculptor of New Hope over the next few years.

When can we look forward to a new release?

I just released the second novella, Sicker, in April. Part 3 will be out by October 2016!

How can readers keep in touch with you?

I love chatting with readers. I’m also available to fellow writers for any marketing or publishing advice. You can find me all over the place!

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Watch this space for my reviews!

I am over the moon to be today’s stop on Rita Brassington’s #TGKOB blog tour!

I was lucky enough to read The Good Kind Of Bad a while ago now and I thoroughly enjoyed it! You will find links to my review and also my Q&A with Rita further down the post, but first you can enjoy the guest post Rita has written especially for you. I love it! Especially as I am also a Stoke lass 😉

Enjoy…..

A Sense of Place

 In my next book, I will write about what I know, from an experience standpoint at least. For my first, I didn’t. I set it in Chicago, a city I have been to twice, but am no expert on. It isn’t my world, the setting and the story, and still it seemed like the perfect backdrop. Maybe it was the filmic sense of the place, the other – not the back streets of Manchester but the wide avenues on the shores of Lake Michigan. It’s an exciting place, and a place just right to set a psychological thriller in.

Everything and everywhere is ordinary to somebody, but Chicago was not my ordinary (and my life is thankfully not a psychological thriller).

So how important is it to write about what you know, or is it better to write purely based on research, or a combination of the two?

Exploring somewhere new, with characters and events not straight out of your day-to-day experience but still being relatable, is what I set out to do with The Good Kind of Bad. The thing I like most about writing is that my vision of a place will be different to every other reader’s – there’s only so much description that can make a world jump off the page without it being added to by the readers own personal experience, their own sense of place. That’s why people never seem to enjoy the film as much as the book. It’s never going to be the world they imagined.

Books are better in people’s heads than on the screen – if the book’s read first, of course. Nothing can compete with your own imagination. A writer can be as descriptive as they want, but the Joe Petrozzi from my book will be different from every other reader’s Joe.

It also depends how much the reader knows about the place to begin with. New York is everywhere you look, even on the other side of the world from the Big Apple, but Chicago is not so formed. I’d chosen the streets where my characters live, the places they go, what they see when they step out the door – and then my friend, who lives in Chicago, messaged me about the book. She was confused about the streets and hadn’t heard of some of the bars. Yes, some of them are made up. They’re not real. But that doesn’t matter. It’s a fictional Chicago. It’s whatever you want it to be.

I grew up in a small village in Staffordshire, near Stoke-on-Trent. I think when I first started to write, I thought the point was to get as far away from what I knew as possible, that it was almost the point to not write about what you know, but there’s benefits to already having a half-formed world. I almost feel a little guilty for skipping over a great city that not many people from outside its borders know much about. Apart from Robbie Williams, pot banks, oatcakes and football (city, not vale, of course), there’s so much more to discover. It’s been through urban decline, regeneration, and it’s only now I’m realising how many stories there are to be told from right outside your window. Sometimes you don’t need to travel half way around the world, it can be next door.

Everything is ordinary to someone, which can only mean it’s extra-ordinary to everyone else.

‘Top-notch domestic thriller’ **** – HEAT Magazine

‘…had me clinging on by my fingernails’ – Claire Loves to Read
‘…couldn’t put it down’ – Portobello Book Blog
‘…will have you hooked right until the last page’ – Whispering Stories
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Secrets don’t stay secret for long…
She spent her whole life being the perfect daughter, the perfect girlfriend, and was all ready to become the perfect wife.
But after ditching her fiancé at the altar and escaping to Chicago, she marries smouldering stranger Joe Petrozzi three weeks after meeting him in a bar. At least this time, there’s no chance of cold feet.
Married life starts out great: there’s the new job, a gorgeous, enigmatic husband and money’s not an issue.
So what if she’s kept a few secrets from Joe – like where all her money came from. Joe’s been keeping secrets from her, too.
But his might just get her killed.

You can purchase your copy here – The Good Kind Of Bad by Rita Brassington

If you haven’t already and would like to, you can read my 5* review for this excellent read here – The Good Kind of Bad by Rita Brassington

Also, make sure you check out Rita’s Q&A here – Q&A with author Rita Brassington

And, don’t forget to follow the rest of this fab blog tour…..

Many thanks to Rita for inviting me to take part in her fantastic blog tour!

#TGKOB

Publisher: Cornerstone Digital (30th June 2016)

5/5*

Wow!

What an opening chapter! I started this book quite late on Sunday night with the intention of just reading the first chapter before bed. Well, that was never going to happen was it! I read the first five chapters before forcing myself to put the kindle down and go to sleep. Since then I’ve just had to pick it up every chance I’ve had. Thankfully I haven’t had much on this last couple of days.

Lily was abducted when she was just a teenager and has been locked away for eight years, subjected to horrific abuse. She has had a child, who has never seen the light of day. One night her chance to escape presents itself and she takes it, running for her life, with her daughter, back to her loving childhood home and her twin sister, Abbey.

They are in shock. They never expected to see her again. Except for Abbey who always believed Lily was still alive. A lot has obviously changed within her family in the past eight years and we follow Lily’s story as she comes to terms with being back home and what’s happened whilst she’s been away.

The whole community has to come to terms with the shock of who had been keeping her prisoner all this time!

To say this book is a page-turner would be an understatement. I was gripped from the very first page. It is a shocking story with some quite disturbing details of abuse, but it is very well written. The story flows well and the characters are believable and (mostly) likeable. The kidnapper/abuser’s character is brilliantly written. He made my skin crawl!

Definitely edge of your seat reading. It’s scary to think these kind of things happen in real life.

Many thanks to the author and publisher for approving my ARC via Netgalley. I will be more than happy to recommend.

You can purchase your copy here – Baby Doll by Hollie Overton

Description (via Amazonuk):

She kept moving forward. She didn’t stop. She didn’t look back.

Lily has been abducted from outside her high-school gates.

For eight long years she’s been locked away from the outside world. During that time she’s changed from a girl into a woman. She’s had a baby.

And now she has seized her chance and escaped.

Running for her life, with her daughter in her arms, she returns to her family and the life she used to know – to her much-loved twin sister Abby, her mum, her high-school boyfriend – and her freedom.

But is it possible to go back?

Lily’s perfect life as a teenager doesn’t exist any more. Since she’s been gone, her family’s lives have changed too, in ways she never could have imagined.

Her return, and the revelation of who took her, will send shockwaves through the whole community.

Impossible not to read in one sitting, Baby Doll is a taut psychological thriller that focuses on family entanglements and the evil that can hide behind a benign facade.

Publisher: Cornerstone Digital (16th June 2016)

5/5*

What a gorgeous book! The cover is stunning and the story within has melted my heart.

Clover Quinn knows she was a surprise, but she’s always liked to think she was a good one. She’s twelve now and isn’t so sure any more. Clover and her Dad (Darren) are close. He has done his best, raising her as a single Dad. They lead a simple, day-to-day life. I particularly loved the scenes where they are watching Bake Off together! Clover just wishes he would talk about her mother more.

Clover is roughly aware of what happened to her mother, Becky, when she was just a baby, but she would like to know more. She doesn’t want to upset her Dad by asking too many questions though. Instead, she finds herself amongst her mothers things in the second bedroom and decides to catalogue what she sees as significant, as a sort of tribute to Becky. Her way of piecing together a story about who her mother was. The mother she never got to know.

Darren hasn’t thrown a single thing away since Becky died. Clover knows their home is different, more cluttered than other people’s homes, but she knows her Dad will get around to sorting it out one day. He’s been busy with work and helping Colin.

This summer is the first time he’s allowed her to stay in the house on her own whilst he’s at work. She is obviously a sensible girl. She’s happy to potter around and tend to their allotment. Darren still worries though, understandably (I have two teenagers!). Their neighbour, Mrs Mackerel, is close by to keep an eye on her though. Mrs Mackerel is HILARIOUS! She reminds me of my late Step-Dad’s late mother, Mrs Christey. She always used to say things wrong which made us giggle. ANTON DECK! Lol! If you’ve read this already you will understand. Otherwise you will know what I mean when you do. 🙂

The Museum of You is an easy five stars for me. It is a beautifully written story about love, loss, parenthood, friendship, family and growing up. I fell in love with Clover and her Dad along with the other wonderful characters in this story, all equally important in their own way. It might be a simple story on the surface, but it is just amazing. I’m sure many will relate in one way or another. These characters feel like very real people with very real (and still quite raw) emotions. Their story has been written with love and affection. The ending full of hope.

I’d love to catch up with the Quinn’s again sometime to see how they’re getting on.

Many thanks to the author and publisher for my Kindle copy of this wonderful book, via Netgalley. I will be recommending it to anyone and everyone. I’m off to add Carys Bray’s other books to my TBR list now!

You can buy your copy of this lovely book here – The Museum Of You by Carys Bray

Description (via Amazonuk):

Clover Quinn was a surprise. She used to imagine she was the good kind, now she’s not sure. She’d like to ask Dad about it, but growing up in the saddest chapter of someone else’s story is difficult. She tries not to skate on the thin ice of his memories.

Darren has done his best. He’s studied his daughter like a seismologist on the lookout for waves and surrounded her with everything she might want – everything he can think of, at least – to be happy.

What Clover wants is answers. This summer, she thinks she can find them in the second bedroom, which is full of her mother’s belongings. Volume isn’t important, what she is looking for is essence; the undiluted bits: a collection of things that will tell the full story of her mother, her father and who she is going to be.

But what you find depends on what you’re searching for.

…..From Netgalley…..

 ‘Deeply intriguing and provocative,… ALL IS NOT FORGOTTEN is not to be missed’

–KARIN SLAUGHTER

You can erase the memory. But you cannot erase the crime.

Jenny’s wounds have healed.
An experimental treatment has removed the memory of a horrific and degrading attack.
She is moving on with her life.

That was the plan. Except it’s not working out.
Something has gone. The light in the eyes. And something was left behind. A scar. On her lower back. Which she can’t stop touching.
And she’s getting worse.
Not to mention the fact that her father is obsessed with finding her attacker and her mother is in toxic denial.

It may be that the only way to uncover what’s wrong is to help Jenny recover her memory. But even if it can be done, pulling at the threads of her suppressed experience will unravel much more than the truth about her attack.

‘Original, compelling and very, very clever’
-B.A. Paris, bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors

 To be released on 1st September 2016.

(An invitation to view, from the Publisher, via Netgalley.)

Discover a unique, funny and moving debut that will make you laugh, cry and smile.

Meet thirtysomething dad, Alex
He loves his wife Jody, but has forgotten how to show it. He loves his son Sam, but doesn’t understand him. Something has to change. And he needs to start with himself.

Meet eight-year-old Sam
Beautiful, surprising, autistic. To him the world is a puzzle he can’t solve on his own.

But when Sam starts to play Minecraft, it opens up a place where Alex and Sam begin to rediscover both themselves and each other . . .

Can one fragmented family put themselves back together, one piece at a time?

Inspired by the author’s experiences with his own son, A Boy Made of Blocks is an astonishingly authentic story of love, family and autism.

Publisher: Bookouture (14th July 2016)

An absolutely hilarious, totally entertaining, spookily sexy read that you won’t be able to put down!

Life’s tricky for Melody Bittersweet.

She’s single, she’s addicted to sugar and super heroes, her family are officially bonkers and … she sees dead people. Is it any wonder no-one’s swiping right on Tinder?
Waking up lonely on her twenty seventh birthday, Melody finally snaps. She can’t carry on basing all of her life decisions on the advice of her magic 8 ball; things have got to change.

Fast forward two months, and she’s now the proud proprietor of her very own ghostbusting agency – kind of like in the movies but without the dodgy white jumpsuits. She’s also flirting with her ex Leo Dark, fraternising with her sexy enemy in alleyways, and she’s somehow ended up with a pug called Lestat.

Life just went from dull to dynamite and it’s showing no sign of slowing up anytime soon. Melody’s been hired to clear Scarborough House of its incumbent ghosts, there’s the small matter of a murder to solve, and then there’s the two very handsome, totally inappropriate men hoping to distract her from the job…

Welcome to Chapelwick, home of the brand new and hilarious Girls Ghostbusting Agency series, where things really do go bump in the night.

This is the PERFECT choice for fans of Marian Keyes, Sophie Kinsella or Lindsey Kelk, with an extra helping of hauntings and hilarity!

Publisher: Cornerstone Digital (16th June 2016)

Clover Quinn was a surprise. She used to imagine she was the good kind, now she’s not sure. She’d like to ask Dad about it, but growing up in the saddest chapter of someone else’s story is difficult. She tries not to skate on the thin ice of his memories.

Darren has done his best. He’s studied his daughter like a seismologist on the lookout for waves and surrounded her with everything she might want – everything he can think of, at least – to be happy.

What Clover wants is answers. This summer, she thinks she can find them in the second bedroom, which is full of her mother’s belongings. Volume isn’t important, what she is looking for is essence; the undiluted bits: a collection of things that will tell the full story of her mother, her father and who she is going to be.

But what you find depends on what you’re searching for.

Review requests from the Author/Publisher…..

 (Paperback copy sent from the author.)

Women always uncover the truth . . .

Three years and eleven months. That’s how long Lizzie Wells has been banged up inside Holloway prison, serving time for a crime she didn’t commit.

Six months. That’s how long it’s taken Lizzie to fall in love with her fellow inmate, Scar.

Now they are both finally free and, together, they are about to embark on a vengeful search to find those who framed Lizzie . . . and to make them pay.

THE BUSINESS MAN. THE COPPER. THE MADAM.

 (Kindle copy gifted via Amazon from the author.)

What happens when “happily ever after” has come and gone?

On the eve of her only daughter, Princess Raven’s wedding, an aging Snow White finds it impossible to share in the joyous spirit of the occasion. The ceremony itself promises to be the most glamorous social event of the decade. Snow White’s castle has been meticulously scrubbed, polished and opulently decorated for the celebration. It is already nearly bursting with jubilant guests and merry well-wishers. Prince Edel, Raven’s fiancé, is a fine man from a neighboring kingdom and Snow White’s own domain is prosperous and at peace. Things could not be better, in fact, except for one thing:

The king is dead.

The queen has been in a moribund state of hopeless depression for over a year with no end in sight. It is only when, in a fit of bitter despair, she seeks solitude in the vastness of her own sprawling castle and climbs a long disused and forgotten tower stair that she comes face to face with herself in the very same magic mirror used by her stepmother of old.

It promises her respite in its shimmering depths, but can Snow White trust a device that was so precious to a woman who sought to cause her such irreparable harm? Can she confront the demons of her own difficult past to discover a better future for herself and her family? And finally, can she release her soul-crushing grief and suffocating loneliness to once again discover what “happily ever after” really means?

Only time will tell as she wrestles with her past and is forced to confront The Reflections of Queen Snow White.

 (Paperback copy received from RedDoor Publishing)

Publisher: Red Door Publishing (24th September 2014)

What if someone had secretly made a film of your life? Hannah Bailey has resigned herself to a dead-end job, she’s sealed her heart against love and her catastrophic thinking is out of control. In fact, she’s hard pushed to find a single reason for her existence until the day she stumbles across a tiny one-seated cinema and its mysterious French owner Victor Lever… Cinema Lumière doesn’t screen Hollywood blockbusters or even low budget arthouse indies. Instead it shows people films of their lives. But how does Victor create such unique biopics and why is he so determined to coax Hannah into that single red velvet seat?

 (an e-book copy via the author)

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (22nd February 2016)

The body on the mortuary slab wasn’t who Glasgow PI Charlie Cameron was looking for. But it wasn’t a stranger. Ian Selkirk must have crossed some dangerous people. Because now he was dead. Stabbed through the heart and dumped in the loch. Suddenly, a routine missing persons investigation becomes a fight for survival as Charlie goes up against notorious gangster, Jimmy Rafferty, who has ruled the east end of the city with fear for over thirty years. Rafferty is ruthless. Even his own family are terrified of him. But Jimmy’s best days are behind him and in the Rafferty clan a power struggle is taking place between the sons. Finding what the thief stole is the old man’s last chance to protect what he has built and hold on to power just a little longer. He wants to use Charlie to get it for him. And Jimmy Rafferty always gets what he wants. The trail runs from the cold dark water of Loch Lomond to the golden beaches of southern Spain, from the terraces of Celtic Park to a thrilling climax on the battlements of Edinburgh Castle. Charlie must give Rafferty what he needs or die. Only one problem. Charlie doesn’t know where it is.

 (Paperback copy received via author)

Publisher: Luna Tree Publishing (11th January 2016)

Maya is kicking up her heels, living the fabulous and mostly carefree life of a twenty-something young woman. However, in the back of her mind continuous longing for a good marriage and family lingered. How do you find the right man, the one who sticks through thick and thin? Will he provide you with the things you find essential in a relationship?
Maya kissed a few frogs before finding her Prince Charming, but what followed was of higher importance.
She started feeling chronic pain in her lower back, the pain that wouldn’t let her neither sit nor stand. Thus Maya began her relentless quest for diagnosis and healing, which she ends after discovering Energy healing. She travels the globe to receive and raise her own stored Energy, the one that changes everything.
Her ultimate desires come true.

 (Signed Hardback copy received from the author’s husband)

Publisher: Head of Zeus; UK Airports edition (14th July 2016)

Once a week, Rosie Tipcott counts her blessings.

She goes to sit on her favourite bench on the north Devon cliffs, and thanks her lucky stars for her wonderful husband, her mischievous young daughters, and her neat little house by the sea. She vows to dedicate every waking hour to making her family happy.

But then her husband unexpectedly leaves her for another woman and takes the children. Now she must ask the question: what is left in her life? Can Rosie find the strength to rebuild herself? More importantly, does she even want to?

Won via a giveaway over on Portobellobookblog

 Three young Irish people have come to Australia, running from the economic ruins of their home country and their own unhappy lives. In this promised land, stunned by the heat and the vast arid space of the interior, they each try to escape their past in a chaotic world of backpacker hostels, huge fruit farms and squalid factories, surrounded by new friends who are even more damaged and dangerous than they are themselves. Endless supplies of cheap drink and drugs loosen what little sense of responsibility they have, and a spiral of self-destructive behaviour forces each of them to face up to the reality of their lives.

This is a story of the consequences of impulsive choices and of the places where they lead. A vulnerable young man is left alone by his friends in a remote wilderness; a desperate girl puts herself into the hands of violent sex traffickers; a once-privileged favourite son lets a drunken quarrel escalate to murder. An utterly compelling, readable novel that hooks from the first page and immerses us in an all-too topical nightmare.

 (Paperback from Choclit via Birthday Giveaway)

What if you could only watch as your bright future slipped away from you?

Sally Cummings has had it tougher than most but, if nothing else, it’s taught her to grab opportunity with both hands. And, when she stands looking into the eyes of her new husband Peter on her perfect wedding day, it seems her life is finally on the up.

That is until the car crash that puts her in a coma and throws her entire future into question.

In the following months, a small part of Sally’s consciousness begins to return, allowing her to listen in on the world around her – although she has no way to communicate.

But Sally was never going to let a little thing like a coma get in the way of her happily ever after …

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 (Free sampler)

‘It made me giggle and it made me think’ Daily Mail

‘A properly good writer’ India Knight

A hilarious, heart-warming read perfect for fans of Shirley Valentine and You’ve Got Mail.

Could the worst thing that’s ever happened to Hannah Pinkman also turn out to be one of the best?

She and her husband Dan have reached the end of the line. Bored with the same gripes, the same old arguments – in fact, bored with everything – they split up after a trivial row turns into something much more serious.

Now Hannah has to make a new life for herself, but that’s not easy. She’s been so busy being a wife and mum that she’s let all her other interests slip away, along with her friends. And when Hannah is persuaded to join a dating site, her ‘best match’ is the very last person she expects it to be . . .

A clever, funny and poignant novel about life after a long relationship, the importance of friendship, and rediscovering your identity.

 One night changes everything for both of them…

At age twenty-five, Evianna Halle has a master’s degree and a broken heart. In an effort to move forward, she accepts a job as a live-in nanny for Nicholas Wilder, a recent widower with a young daughter. But when she meets Nick, her young and kind-hearted employer, she realizes that maybe the universe brought them together at just the right time for a reason, even if it’s unconventional.

Day by day, they learn to heal as one. Nick and Evi discover that perhaps friendship (and eventually love) can overcome heartbreak of the worst kind, even if that means abandoning the life they thought they’d live and embracing a new, unknown future.

And Then You is an emotional contemporary romance about unexpected love—and finding your way again when you thought everything good in your life was gone forever.

 Nothing has ever been quite ordinary for Ariella Malgrovech. At four years old she witnessed her mother’s surreal murder, and then years later on her eighteenth birthday, while attending her high school prom, her school catches aflame with her father trapped inside. With both of these tragedies come unexplainable supernatural circumstances. The series of unfortunate events that seemingly make up Ariella’s life, manifest into millions of questions that desperately crave answers.

Soon does she not only receive the answers she seeks, but she discovers that the world around her isn’t as she’s always thought it was–supernatural creatures exist among humans and her own father is one of them. What does that make her? Trust turns to betrayal and knowledge turns to danger in this thrilling paranormal romance as Ariella ventures out into a world where witches, vampires, and immortals exist among humans, and a power hungry witch is out to kidnap her and force her to become as dark and wicked as he is. Will love prevail or will it be her undoing?

My June Kindle first prime member freebie…..

 A loving couple, grieving the loss of their son, finds their marriage in free fall when a beautiful, long-lost acquaintance inserts herself into their lives.

Kat and Scott Hamilton are dealing with the hardest of losses: the death of their only child. While Scott throws himself back into his law practice in Los Angeles, Kat is hesitant to rejoin the workplace and instead spends her days shell-shocked and confused, unable to focus.

When an unwelcome face from Kat’s past in England emerges—the beautiful and imposing Sarah Cherrington—Kat’s marriage is thrown into a tailspin. Now wealthy beyond anything she could have imagined as a girl, Sarah appears to have everything she could need or want. But Sarah has an agenda and she wants one more thing. Soon Kat and Scott are caught up in her devious games and power plays.

Against the backdrops of Southern California and Sussex, in spare and haunting prose, Mary McCluskey propels this domestic drama to its chilling conclusion.

Bought at Tanya Bullock’s book signing at Waterstones, Walsall…..

 I have already read and reviewed this, but I now have a signed paperback copy on my bookshelf 🙂 If you haven’t already and would like to, you can read my review here – Homecoming: Quite Possibly The Strangest Romance Ever Told by Tanya Bullock

Quite possibly the strangest romance ever told Rosie and Tom belong together.
For too long, war and its devastating aftermath have kept them apart.
Now that Tom has finally returned home, Rosie hopes that they will be able to put the past behind them.
But when a mysterious sequence of events unfolds, their love is put to the test once more.
With a shocking secret hanging heavily over their relationship…
With circumstances conspiring against them at every turn…
Rosie and Tom find themselves caught up in the biggest battle of their lives.

And……

 Life as the single mum of a learning-disabled teenager is tough and gets even harder when puberty hits. To Izzie’s alarm, all her daughter Jaya, 18, wants from life is to get married and have babies. This creates a moral dilemma for Izzie. How she can continue to protect Jaya whilst at the same time letting her go?

With little prospect of meaningful employment or continuing education for Jaya, Izzie wonders if perhaps finding a ‘suitable husband’ via an arranged marriage wouldn’t be so crazy. But when Jaya falls head over heels for a teaching assistant in her college’s Special Educational Needs department, it sets in motion a disastrous sequence of events which turns things around in a way that nobody could ever have foreseen.

“Local author’s debut novel manages to combine a sensitive subject with Black Country Humour”. ‘Waterstones Loves’, Waterstones, Walsall

Added to my Wish List…..