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Crooked Cat is having a summer sale – and my two novels, Highland Arms and Dark Deceit are on offer for 99c/p for one week only! Well, until Saturday, 15th August... ;-)  But there are also many other fabulous reads on offer. Discover new authors today! ~~~ Highland Arms Betrayed by her brother’s lies, Catriona MacKenzie is banished from her home to her godmother’s manor in the remote Scottish Highlands. While her family ponders her fate, Catriona’s insatiable curiosity leads her straight into trouble–and into the arms of a notorious Highlander.  Five years after an ill-fated Jacobite rebellion, Rory Cameron works as a smuggler to raise money for the cause–until Catriona uncovers a plot against him and exposes his activities. Now, Rory is faced with a decision that could either save their lives or destroy both of them.  But he’s running out of time…  Highland Arms is the first in The Highland Chronicles series of historical romance novels set in the Sc...

I'm very excited. Silent Deception , my little Victorian paranormal romance novella sent in beautiful Cornwall, has a new face!  The cover is now far more Gothic and dramatic, and, although the style of dress isn't quite accurate (I know, I'm usually a stickler for historical accuracy), I think it matches the story perfectly.  Here it is: "Feisty heroine, a man with secrets, mystery . . . and beautiful Cornwall!" 4* review ~ Joanna Gawn, author of The Lazuli Portals "...very enjoyable romantic novella...a good flavour of the times..." 5* review ~ Maureen Vincent-Northam, author of Trace Your Root s and The Writer's ABC Checklist Can a ghost scare off a young heiress determined to make her new manor her home?  Having inherited a family estate she’d never heard of, Minerva Goodridge travels to Cornwall to take charge of her new home. But fatal memories lurk in the shadows of Trekellis Manor. As the locals keep away from the house, Minnie acc...

I'm trying to ignore the miserable Scottish summer. If you are too, I might have some fabulous reads for you... Dark Deceit , my romantic medieval murder mystery, is featured on Crooked Cat Books this week, together with two other intriguing (and highly recommended!) novels. It's also available at 99p/c for the duration.  Originally entitled, A Norman Legacy, Dark Deceit  began life at a South Wales train station during a time when I was active in a medieval re-enactment group which gave me great insight into life 'back then'.  Having visited the rolling Gloucestershire countryside, I spotted a tiny hamlet with a small Norman church. It was perfect for the setting of Bellac Manor. And on a holiday in Normandy, I found the real 'home' for the story, the picturesque area of Perche, then a county in its own right, but as part of the duchy of Normandy. Falaise Castle, Normandy, France In the 1140s, England and Normandy were wrecked by two r...

Today, I extend a warm welcome to award-winning author, Maris Soule , who's currently on blog tour with her latest release, A Killer Past ! I'm sure you'll find the background to her novel very interesting. Over to Maris... Thank you, Cathie. For years I’ve written romances and mysteries where the heroine’s age was somewhere between 25 and 35. Women in their prime, both physically and sexually. When I started writing and being published, I wasn’t far from that age group, but that was many years ago. Now my body isn’t as limber as it once was, and gravity (and too many cocktail parties) has changed the silhouette of my figure. I took Judo in my late teens and I can still remember the things I used to be able to do, how easily I could escape from a hold or throw someone to the ground. I wonder, at my age, would I still be able to do those things? It was that question and a TV show called “Nikita” that led to A Killer Past . I wondered what Nikita would be like ...

I'm delighted to welcome back author, Rosanne Bittner, the Queen of Western romance. This time she's on blog tour with her exciting Outlaw Hearts series. Check out her fantastic giveaway and discover two new fabulous reads! Handing over to Rosanne! For my readers … I wrote this close to thirty years ago and thought it might interest you as to how much I love to write and how I managed to write sixty big, historical romances over the past thirty years: I try so hard to write the best book I can write, and get so frustrated when I realize there are still so many millions of people out there who will never know about my books. I love writing so much, work so hard at it, but true success is always just out of reach. It’s so hard to keep going sometimes, amid the hurry and worry of everyday life; yet I cannot stop, even if I should end up a pauper, I cannot stop, because writing and the West are alive in me. I live to write, and my spirit belongs to...