Cover Reveal: Appleby Farm by Cathy Bramley

Appleby Farm by Cathy Bramley  
Series: Appleby Farm - part 1

Release Date: 5th February 2014
Publisher: Transworld Digital

Genres: Women's Fiction, Romance



Brook Cottage Books is thrilled to be taking part in the cover reveal for the Appleby Farm series by Cathy Bramley. Cathy tells us how the series came about.................

  

After I finished writing Ivy Lane earlier this year, my editor asked me if I’d consider a spin-off series, taking one character from Ivy Lane and plunging them into a new setting and a new story with perhaps a few surprise visits from some old friends from Ivy Lane. I thought this was a great idea and immediately set to work creating Appleby Farm, which I’m hoping readers of Ivy Lane will fall in love with.

It’s set in the glorious Lake District, an area I adore, and follows the story of a young woman and her fight to save the farm which has been in her family for generations. It features lots of wonderful people including a very attractive farmer on neighbouring Willow Farm, Vintage tearooms, a trip to Paris and a wedding. Appleby Farm will be published by Transworld in four monthly parts between February and May 2015 and they are all available to pre-order now!

The covers themselves have been designed by Kate Forrester, the same illustrator who drew my Ivy Lane covers and I think she has conjured up the warm and friendly farm set in the beautiful Lake District perfectly.

The link to part one on Amazon UK is http://smarturl.it/Af1

ABOUT CATHY BRAMLEY

Cathy Bramley is the author of the best-selling romantic comedies Ivy Lane, a four-part serialised novel (Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter), and Conditional Love. Both are being published as paperbacks in 2015. She lives in a Nottinghamshire village with her husband, two daughters and a dog.

Her recent career as a full-time writer of light-hearted, romantic fiction has come as somewhat of a lovely surprise after spending the last eighteen years running her own marketing agency. However, she has been always an avid reader, hiding her book under the duvet and reading by torchlight. Luckily her husband has now bought her a Kindle with a light, so that’s the end of that palaver.

Cathy loves to hear from her readers. You can get in touch via her website www.CathyBramley.co.uk Facebook page Facebook.com/CathyBramleyAuthor or on Twitter twitter.com/CathyBramley.

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 EVER AFTER SERIES

Eternal Ever After – Book 1:

His past holds a secret that becomes her nightmare.

Arie Cush has a secret that he thought he'd left behind. When his past follows him to Chicago he must protect someone that reminds him of all the painful memories he's tried so hard to forget. But when every touch from her sets his heart and body on fire--he finds it hard to maintain his aloof façade.

Holly Ellis has secrets of her own. An encounter with the handsome stranger who frequents her coffee shop reveals a vampire with baggage. Even though it might be more than she bargained for, she can't resist the one person who understands her. But her life is in danger and a supernatural threat could reveal the underground world of vampires to humankind in this Gothic Cinderella re-telling.

Fallen Ever After – Book 2:

He can’t lose her when danger strikes again.

Arie Cush wanted Holly from the very first moment he met her. A night at the Hellfire Club (HFC) is filled with old friends and new danger. The long-standing feud between the faeries that run the Chicago Crew and a lethal toxin puts Holly and other fledgling vampires in danger. Can they stop a vampire-fae war that’s been brewing for nearly a century?

Beyond Ever After – Book 3:

The half-demon unleashed a force that can tear them apart.

On the night, Daeveena, a half-fey, half-demon walked out of the Hellfire Club, she left a tide of destruction, but everyone figured that was the end of it. No one imagined that she would steal something so valuable. Can Arie discover who is harboring her before he loses everything?

As a special BONUS readers get Winter Promises: An Ever After Christmas Story that takes place between book one and book two!

CRY WOLF SERIES

The Witch Who Cried Wolf – Book 1

New Adult Paranormal Romance

Be careful what you wish for…

A potion gone wrong: Mia Brooks is a reluctant witch, with powers that she tries to hold in check. But when her magic gets mixed up, supernatural forces are unleashed and suddenly she’s being pursued by werewolves—that she didn’t even realize existed…

Hidden emotions: Ethan Parker, Mia’s brother’s best friend, is home from deployment for the holidays. Mia’s not only hiding from werewolves, she’s trying to keep her feelings for Ethan secret; it would be a disaster if he knew she’s been nursing a long-time crush…

The power of love: things take a terrifying turn when Mia and Ethan are attacked by a werewolf. Ethan is amazed when Mia reveals her paranormal prowess as she tries to shield them from danger. But can she really protect them from the darkness that lurks? And how can he tell her that, for ages, he’s been denying what he really wants? Mia...

Cold Moon Rising – Book 2

New Adult Paranormal Romance

Passions flare when the cold moon rises…

Kelly: a normal college girl, who knows what she wants—to survive her final exams, and find someone to share her life with. Studying with Jacob is becoming too hot to handle; she’s falling for him, but he’s going too fast…

Jacob: a not-so-typical frat guy, who hides a secret—he’s a werewolf. Whenever the moon is high, he’s driven to shed his human form and satisfy his powerful desires. He craves Kelly, but she’s pushing him away…

Fallout: Jacob can smell Kelly’s arousal, but she insists she doesn’t want sex. A wolf can only take so much before his natural instincts win out. When the tension between them explodes, Jacob has no choice but to walk…

Kidnapped! Kelly is abducted by evil scientists who’ve mistaken her for a female werecat and, despite their differences, Jacob has to try and find her. But it’s a race against time and the lunar tides. The scientists have taken Kelly to their lab and turned her into a shapeshifter for real. The full moon is rising, and soon neither Kelly nor Jacob will be able to control their inner beasts. Who knows what the consequences will be when they are consumed by unquenchable animal lust…

The Wolf Who Played With Fire – Book 3

Some magic can’t be unspun…

Meddling in magic…

If Mia Brooks could turn back time, it would be to when she used her fledgling magic to craft a potion for an injured werewolf. It nearly killed the Pack Alpha, and now the lives of her witch mentor, Jessa, and her soldier boyfriend, Ethan Parker, have been changed forever. Jessa is in hospital after a vicious werewolf attack. And, Ethan, having being bitten, is becoming a werewolf himself.

A wolf at the door…

Mia can’t turn back time, but she can try to make things right with the two people she cares about most. She’s keeping Jessa’s shop, Eternally Magick, open, and she’s there for Ethan as his inner wolf grows. But, by the next full moon, his transformation will be complete. Can she really be the mate of a half-man-half-wolf, living within the law of the Pack?

Under his spell…

Struggling to contain his new lupine senses, Ethan goes missing on active duty. When Mia realizes her werewolf lover has been abducted, she knows must harness every magic power she possesses to get him safely back…

About the Authors

A.C. James

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author A.C. James writes paranormal romance and erotica, includingEternal Ever After which was featured in the bestselling Spice Box anthology. She pounds out sexy scenes at her keyboard where romance is laced with horror in hot stories of vampires and bad boy werewolves. Her stories feature strong heroines and alpha heroes, with plenty of action, twists, and turns that will keep you turning pages.

A.C. resides in northeast Pennsylvania where she entertains her husband with her imaginative yarns and quirky sense of humor. She spends her time drinking large vats of coffee while taming two toddlers by day and writing by night. Recovering video game beta tester and tech geek who grew-up going to cons and watching SmackDown. There’s probably some cosplay pictures around somewhere of her dressed up as Bloodberry from Saber Marionette J. Just don’t tell anyone.

Connect With A.C.

Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/ApQ7z

Website: http://www.acjames.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ac.james.9

Facebook Fan Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/AC-James/129228540578101

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ACJamesauthor

GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/acjames

Sarah Mäkelä

Sarah Mäkelä loves her fiction dark, magical, and passionate. She is a paranormal romance author, but she's written all over the romance spectrum with cyberpunk, sci-fi, fantasy, urban fantasy...even a sweet contemporary romance!

A life-long paranormal fan, she still sleeps with a night light. In her spare time, she reads sexy books, watches scary movies (and Ghost Adventures), and plays computer games with her husband. When she gets the chance, she loves traveling the world too.

Connect With Sarah

Website: http://www.sarahmakela.com

Newsletter: http://www.sarahmakela.com/contact.html#newsletter

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/sarahmakela

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/authorsarahmakela

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/sarahmakela

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/author/sarahmakela

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Guest Post: Roberta Aarons - The Story Behind Slippers in the Oven

Slippers in the Oven by Roberta Aarons 

Release Date: 21st May 2014
Publisher:Indepenpress

Genres: Fiction

Now I write fiction but old habits die hard and I want to explore subjects that matter to me.

So I decided to examine the contemporary topic of the mother in the home versus the career wife.  It was an issue for me and remains an issue for my daughter and her friends. I thought if I could compare the lives of two sisters it could be a dramatic way to look at this.  Then if I worked out a way to have them married to the same man, could be even more so.  So I needed to find a way to confront their story that was interesting enough to carry a novel. 

Coincidentally, due to an illness I was unable to fly and, as a great traveller, I needed to find a way to get abroad, so I had started taking cruises. Using this experience, I realised that if I placed the sisters together on a cruise, they could not escape from each other and it would further intensify the conflict.  It would also provide a very colourful background and a wide cast of characters.

Obviously I didn’t want to write about any particular cruise I had taken, but I only wanted the ship to visit places I had been to so that I could use my notes and write about them authentically. So I created an original itinerary from a combination of my experience and cruise brochures and spread maps, measuring devices and destination leaflets all over the my living room while I invented a voyage.  I came a bit unstuck at one point as I hadn’t allowed for nautical miles but finally worked that out.

I then needed to create a ship and again the living room was transformed, this time with deck plans of cruise vessels.  I am hardly a nautical architect but I drew various possibilities, allowing for the on board locations needed for the story and being as realistic as possible without using any actual ship that I had ever sailed on.  That was a challenge and when I proudly reviewed my first ship, I realised that I hadn’t allowed space for the ever important kitchens!  Eventually, I conquered it and the Brilliantina was born. That part of it was great fun and my final diagram of the Brilliantina is still on my home/office wall.  

The name caused a problem as it was difficult to find a suitable name that had not been registered.  I came up with many and even if they did not exist they were not free names. But the Brilliantina was clear of encumbrances and I grew to love it.  If anyone builds her I would love to sail on her!

The passengers?  None of them are actual people I have met but as a trained journalist I do take notes everywhere and all the time so I had plenty of references as well as many, many memories.   I doubt any novelist totally invents their characters, but all are a combination of who we have known and who we imagine.

The title? I like daft titles, they intrigue and create dialogue but they must have relevance, particularly as I get savagely interrogated about them. Slippers in the Oven is an analogy for all the comforts that Henry misses about his home after leaving his stay-at-home wife and the mother of his children for a successful career woman - her sister.  Before, his home always ran smoothly without his involvement, his drink always poured as he walked in the door, his dinner waiting and his children settled when he arrived home after work.  Talking about it later, the career woman commented “I think he even expected his slippers in the oven.”

Writing it was fun.  The research for my previous book, My Grandfather’s False Teeth, was historical, intense and fascinating but a great deal of it took place in musty libraries so it was a great joy to send myself to sea everyday as I developed the sister’s story.  I relived great experiences and shuddered at excruciating ones.   I hope I have taken the reader with me.

        

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Review: Falling - Angels Among Us by Linn B Halton

Falling by Linn B Halton

Series: The Complete Angels Among Us Series

Release Date: 9th October 2014
Publisher: Harper Impulse

Genres: Paranormal Romance

Ceri thinks she sees angels … everywhere. She struggles to keep separate what feels like two very different sides to her life. As a manager in an advertising company she’s been working with the gorgeous Alex for two years. The have a friendship based upon the image she portrays whilst she’s at work and it helps to keep her sane. One mad, crazy night spent sharing their secrets and a lot of wine result in them ending up in bed together and their relationship changes. When Alex explains that the reason he doesn’t date is because someone broke his heart, how can Ceri admit that she feels a deep connection to him?
Ceri knows she’s different. What she doesn’t fully appreciate, is that her task in life is to correct a series of incidents that affect some of the people’s lives with whom she comes into contact. She’s simply putting right little errors that could ripple outwards and change the course of their destiny. When she finds herself getting pulled into things that happen around her, how can she prove that she really has made a difference? Is it all in her head?
She’s alone for a reason; she’s not meant to fall in love in her earthly life. Alex is supposed to cross paths with her and help Ceri during a phase where she begins to question the signs she’s being given. It’s meant to be a turning point for them both—but in opposite directions. They are destined to travel very different paths … but Ceri doesn’t know that and neither does Alex …

The subject matter of psychic mediums and the afterlife is one that interests me greatly. I had previously read this series as a set of novellas and was thrilled when the whole series was combined in this book. Plus, there’s an extra installment that I had not previously read. The series follows Ceri who has the ability to link in with those in the afterlife. She has some psychic ability and soon discovers that it is her destiny to help others.   Ceri is much more than a mere mortal though as her journey leads her to discover. The series follows Ceri’s journey has she struggles to understand the gifts she has and how they will impact on her own life.  She is not what she appears. To further complicate her life, Ceri falls in love with Alex but those who reside on a higher plane have told Ceri that she and Alex should not be together.  Is their relationship doomed? Can Ceri walk away? Does she want to? The book leads us on a roller-coaster ride with Alex and Ceri as they struggle to find their place in the world and with each other. Ceri becomes frustrated with not being able to change the course of her own life whilst ultimately changing the lives of everyone she comes into contact with. This book is charged with emotion, passion and a deep love between two people that is almost palpable.  Linn B Halton manages to keep the reader totally engrossed in this story, desperate to know what the outcome will be for Ceri and Alex. And, just when you become comfortable in thinking you know what the ending is going to be……….BAM! There was an ending that was an OMG moment! I simply cannot believe it! I want more! I am truly hooked and I am not sure I can cope with the end of it. I am secretly hoping there will be more.  Please someone tell me there will be more?!!!  I can highly recommend this book for those of you who love a good paranormal romance and who have an interest in the spiritual aspects of life.  And, for those of you who have not considered that there may be more to life than what we simply see in front of us, the book will open your mind to possibilities that you had not considered. This book will blow you away. A lovely romance between two unlikely individuals, each struggling with their own personal demons in a world that is confusing and at times frightening.    Highly recommend!

         About Linn B Halton

Linn B Halton lives in the small village of Lydbrook, Gloucestershire in the UK, but was born in Bristol. She resides there with her husband and cat with 'catitude'- Mr Tiggs.

Linn began writing in March 2009 and her debut novel was published in February 2011. In a recent interview Linn was asked about genres:

"From a very young age I knew romantic fiction was always going to be my genre. I am, and will always be, madly in love with love! Whether that's love of life, a partner, or the things I'm passionate about.

My stories are about love, life and real relationships - but romance is always the one thing that holds each story together. Often there's a light, psychic touch and I never dreamed I would write drawing upon my personal psychic experiences. But as my interest and understanding has grown in the subject, it is now such a part of my life it finds its way into my fictional tales. However, what is heartening is that most of my experiences have been uplifting and it's wonderful to know loved ones are around me always. I hope it will make readers stop and wonder 'What if?'

The result is that I get a lot of mail from readers who have had similar experiences and some are sharing theirs for the first time with me. I always feel that's something rather special and for which I'm very grateful."

Love, life and beyond... but it's ALWAYS about the romance!

Linn is published by HarperImpulse and Sapphire Star Publishing.
Linn is the editor of Loveahappyending Lifestyle emagazine.

Website:  (linnbhalton.co.uk)
Twitter: @LinnBHalton
Facebook: Author Linn B Halton
Bookshelf: http://viewauthor.at/LinnBHalton
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1^st-  prize a copy of The Restaurant @ The Mill and ecopies of Falling: Angels Among Us The Complete Series and Touched by The Light.

2^ndPrize - 3 winners can choose which book they want from any of Linn’s ebooks.

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