Name: Surviving the Rachel
author: Aven Ellis
Format: ebook
Pages: 262 pages
Release date: 20th December 2014
Publisher: Soul Mate Publishing
Teaser
Bree Logan is ready to
start her post-college life, but when she’s dumped by The One, unable to
land a professional job, and has to move back in with her parents, she
doesn’t think things can get worse until she ends up with her hair
chopped into The Rachel, the infamous haircut made famous by the show
Friends. Which is not good since it’s no longer 1994. But sometimes you
have to go through challenges to get what you really need, and for Bree,
could that include a different career and a romance with Jack Chelten,
the boy-next-door?
Name: Written in the Stars
Author: Ali Harris
Format: paperback
Pages: 450 pages
Release date: 5th June 2014
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Teaser
Bea
Bishop is horrible at making decisions. Forget big life ones, even
everyday choices seem to paralyse her. She's learned to live with this
because experience has taught her that it doesn't matter what you do, no
one has the power to control destiny. Anyone who believes they can is a
fool. But as her wedding day approaches, her years of indecision
are weighing heavily on her, and she can't help but wonder, 'What if,
what if, what if….'
What if she hadn't upped sticks and moved to
London? What if she hadn't grabbed the first job that came along and
settled down with the first guy who showed an interest? But all of her
questions are silenced when she slips while walking down the aisle and
is knocked unconscious. In this split second her life splits into two:
in one existence, Bea flees back down the aisle and out of the church.
In the other she glides blissfully towards her intended. But which story will lead to her happily ever after?
Name: Skating at Somerset House
Author: Nikki Moore
Format: ebook
Pages: 40 pages
Release date: 4th December 2014
Publisher: HaperImpulse
Teaser
There’s
nothing Holly Winterlake loves more than Christmas and skating, so
working as an Ice Marshall at London's Somerset House is a dream come
true.
Noel Summerford hates the festive season and is a disaster
on the ice, so taking his godson to Somerset House is his idea of the
nightmare before Christmas!
Things are bound to get interesting when these two collide…
With
a forty foot Christmas tree, an assortment of well meaning friends and
relatives, and a mad chocolate Labrador, will this festive season be one
to remember … or forget?
Name: The Postcard
Author: Lily Graham
Format: ebook
Pages: 132 pages
Release date: 9th December 2014
Publisher: self-published
Teaser
“She always said she’d find a way to let me know that death wasn’t the end …”
When
Ivy Everton, a children’s book illustrator, moves to Cornwall to start a
new life with her husband Stuart, she gets given her mother’s old
writing desk, a bittersweet token from a mother who made childhood
magical.
When she clears it, she finds that the desk holds an
unexpected surprise; one she wishes, in a way, that she hadn’t found, as
wedged in the corner is a blank, faded postcard addressed to her, in
her mother’s hand. At first, the postcard serves only to haunt her; a
constant reminder of her mother’s last message, now forever silenced,
and she can’t help but wonder what unwritten secret lies unsaid.
Yet,
as the days pass mysterious inexplicable things begin to happen, odd
items go missing from her studio, only to reappear, ethereally
transformed in the seemingly empty desk.
Soon Ivy realises that the postcard was never really blank, it was simply waiting … waiting for her to find it.
Name: The Christmas Bucket List
Author: Ella Fairlie
Format: ebook
Pages: 82 pages
Release date: 30th November 2014
Publisher: self-published
Teaser
It’s Christmas time in
London: there’s snow in the air, Regent Street is bustling, and the
Trafalgar Square tree’s all a-glitter. Isobel Gray is dreaming of a
perfect movie-style Christmas for her first Noël away from home, and
with a hot man and a bucket list of festive fun ready to be ticked off,
she thinks she has it all wrapped up. But when her boss-slash-boyfriend
goes AWOL just days before the holiday, she finds herself a little Lost,
Actually instead. Will she end up home alone, or is there a Christmas
miracle waiting under the mistletoe?
Name: You Had Me at Merlot: Part 4
Author: Lisa Dickenson
Format: ebook
Pages: 80 pages
Release date: 4th August 2014
Publisher: Sphere
Teaser
Elle
didn't plan on falling for anyone on this singles' holiday so it came
as a huge surprise to her when she fell, hard, for her very own Italian
stallion. But it seems he's not as perfect as he first appeared -
especially now that his maybe-not-so-ex ex-girlfriend has turned up.
Elle
doesn't want to believe that it was all a lie but it's hard to ignore
the very real bombshell standing in front of her. Has she been taken for
a fool? As the end of the holiday approaches, confusion and heartbreak
threaten to ruin Elle's hard-fought peace of mind. Does Tuscany have
enough magic left to fix her broken heart?
Name: You Had Me at Merlot: Part 3
Author: Lisa Dickenson
Format: ebook
Pages: 80 pages
Release date: 28th July 2014
Publisher: Sphere
Teaser
Elle, determinedly
single Elle, isn't used to waking up next to a boy. And she certainly
isn't used to being engaged. Thanks to all the (delicious) chilli wine
she consumed last night, Elle has no idea how she's managed to get
herself into this situation. And as fond as she is of the man lying next
to her, and no matter how happy he looks by this turn of events,
getting married has never been part of Elle's plan. No way. All that
romance stuff just isn't for her . . . right? But the combination of
this lovely man, the incredibly romantic Italian countryside and the
feel of the early morning sun on her skin is starting to have an effect
on Elle. Maybe, just maybe, she's not as anti-love as she thought . . .
Name: The Kiss Before Midnight
Author: Sophie Pembroke
Format: ebook
Pages: unkown
Release date: 13th November 2014
Publisher: Harper Impulse
Teaser
Heading
home to Liverpool for Christmas, Molly Mackenzie isn’t just looking
forward to the mulled wine and mince pies – she’s got high hopes for who
she’ll find under the mistletoe this year!
Unable to forget the
delicious near miss with her brother’s best friend, Jake, last New
Year’s Eve, Molly’s got a new resolution at the top of her list: seduce
Jake and get this crazy chemistry out the way before it has serious
repercussions on the rest of the Mackenzie family.
Only Molly has
underestimated the magic of the holiday season … The more stolen moments
in the snow that she shares with Jake, the more determined she is to
make it a whole lot more than just a kiss before midnight.
Name: Christmas Wedding At The Gingerbread Café
Author: Rebecca Raisin
Format: ebook
Pages: 304 pages
Release date: 15th October 2014
Publisher: Carina UK
Teaser
You are invited to the wedding of the year!
Snow
is falling thick and fast outside the Gingerbread Café and inside, its
owner Lily is planning the wedding of the year. Her wedding! She never
dreamt it would happen, but this Christmas, she’ll be marrying the man
of her dreams - in a Christmas-card-perfect ceremony!
The
gingerbread is baking, the dress is fitted and the mistletoe’s in place –
for once, everything’s going to plan. That is until her mother-in-law
arrives... Suddenly, Lily’s famous cool is being tested like never
before and her dream wedding is crumbling before her eyes.
In the
blink of a fairylight, the Gingerbread Café has been thrown into chaos!
Lily thought she had this wedding wrapped up, but with so much to do
before she says ‘I do’, can Lily get to the church on time – and make
this Christmas sparkle after all?
Name: Ignoring Gravity
Author: Sandra Danby
Format: ebook
Genre:
contemporary
women’s fiction
Pages: 322 pages
Release date: 21st November 2014
Publisher:
Beulah
Press
Teaser
Rose Haldane is
confident about her identity. She pulls the same face as her grandfather
when she has to do something she doesn’t want to, she knows her DNA is
the same as his. Except it isn’t: because Rose is adopted and doesn’t
know it. Ignoring Gravity connects two pairs of sisters separated by a
generation of secrets. Finding her mother’s lost diaries, Rose begins to
understand why she has always seemed the outsider in her family, why
she feels so different from her sister Lily. Then just when she thinks
there can’t be any more secrets…
Name: The Bookstore
Author: Deborah Meyler
Format: kindle edition
Pages: 353 pages
Release date: 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Reader
Teaser
Impressionable and idealistic, Esme Garland is a young British woman who finds herself studying art history in New York. She loves her apartment and is passionate about the city and her boyfriend; her future couldn’t look brighter. Until she finds out that she’s pregnant.
Esme’s boyfriend, Mitchell van Leuven, is old-money rich, handsome, successful, and irretrievably damaged. When he dumps Esme - just before she tries to tell him about the baby - she resolves to manage alone. She will keep the child and her scholarship, while finding a part-time job to make ends meet. But that is easier said than done, especially on a student visa.
The Owl is a shabby, second-hand bookstore on the Upper West Side, an all-day, all-night haven for a colorful crew of characters: handsome and taciturn guitar player Luke; Chester, who hyperventilates at the mention of Lolita; George, the owner, who lives on protein shakes and idealism; and a motley company of the timeless, the tactless, and the homeless. The Owl becomes a nexus of good in a difficult world for Esme but will it be enough to sustain her? Even when Mitchell, repentant and charming, comes back on the scene?
Name: The Accident
Author: C.L. Taylor
Format: ebook
Pages: 400 pages
Release date: 10th April 2014
Publisher: Avon UK
Teaser
Sue Jackson has the
perfect family but when her teenage daughter Charlotte deliberately
steps in front of a bus and ends up in a coma she is forced to face a
very dark reality.
Retracing her daughter’s steps she finds a
horrifying entry in Charlotte’s diary and is forced to head deep into
Charlotte’s private world. In her hunt for evidence, Sue begins to
mistrust everyone close to her daughter and she’s forced to look
further, into the depths of her own past.
Sue will do anything to protect her daughter. But what if she is the reason that Charlotte is in danger?
Name: How to Bake the Perfect Pecan Pie
Author: Gina Henning
Format: ebook
Pages: 100 pages
Release date: 7th November 2014
Publisher: Carina UK
Teaser
A warm pie. A tasty guy. Happy Thanksgiving indeed.
Homecomings for Lauren Hauser are always filled with delicious food and hopes for a distraction from her quirky family. The only exception with this visit: she’s been given the challenge of preparing her grandmother’s pie.
Set out on a journey for pecans, Lauren stumbles into Jack a guy who despite his charm (and kissable lips) appears to be in a committed relationship…with his career. His main concern is taking care of a last minute errand for a client, not Lauren or her quest for the key ingredient.
Frazzled in more ways than one, Lauren’s journey improves when Jack rescues her from an icy walk. Attraction and tension rise and soon pecans aren't the only things getting toasty in the kitchen.
Name: Something From Tiffanny's
Author: Melissa Hill
Format: paperback
Pages: 404 pages
Release date: 26th May 2011
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Teaser
Doesn’t every girl dream of getting… something from Tiffany’s?
On 5th Avenue in New York City, two very different men are shopping for gifts for the women they love. Gary is buying his girlfriend Rachel a charm bracelet. Partly to thank her for paying for their holiday-of-a-lifetime to New York. But mainly because he’s left his shopping far too late.
Whereas Ethan’s looking for something a little more special – an engagement ring for the first woman to have made him happy since he lost the love of his life. But when the two men’s shopping bags get confused, and Rachel somehow ends up with Ethan’s ring, the couples’ lives become intertwined.
As Ethan tries to reunite the ring with the woman it was actually intended for, he discovers this isn’t that easy. Does fate have other ideas for the couples? Or is there simply a bit of Tiffany’s magic in the air…
Name: Lily Does L.A. (Girls on Tour #2)
Author: Nicola Doherty
Format: ebook
Pages: 76 pages
Release date: 24th September 2014
Publisher: Headline
Teaser
Lily is an actress.
At least, that's what she tells people, even though she's currently
working in a call centre and her last big part was an ad for Sofa
Warehouse. So when she's invited to her cousin Alice's wedding in LA,
it's a dream come true. Alice's fiancé Sam is actually a Hollywood
agent; how can Lily fail to get talent-spotted?
There's only one
problem; not only is Lily banned from mentioning acting, parts or
producers to Sam, she's expected to spend the entire week doing
wedding-related prep with Sam's boring groomsman Jesse.
But Lily firmly believes that rules were made to be broken ...
Name: Dead Gorgous: A Mystery for D. I. Costello
Author: Elizabeth Flynn
Format: paperback
Pages: 288 pages
Release date: 17th October 2014
Publisher: Lion Hudson
Teaser
Kirsty Manners is young, beautiful and trying to make it as a model. As the in-house model for the Ivano King fashion house and girlfriend of Ian King, the man behind the label, she believes she is well on her way. But Kirsty is found dead in her flat one Sunday afternoon and D.I.Angela Costello is called to the scene. At first enquiries centre on the local gym where Kirsty, her dangerous ex-boyfriend, Darren Carpenter, and her jealous flatmate, Sandra Hodges, worked out. But things are more complicated. Ian King is considered to have lost his edge. Why then is he so buoyant about his latest collection for London Fashion Week? What about his new girlfriend, Eleanor Chandler, who openly admits to having a reason to wish Kirsty dead? Behind the gleaming smiles and flawless make-up of the glamorous fashion world, Angela’s enquiries uncover theft, drug-addiction, prostitution and imprisonment – and suddenly her own life could be in danger . . .
Name: Coming Home to You
Author:
Liesel Schmidt
Format: ebook
Pages: 254 pages
Release date: 6th October 2014
Publisher: Carina UK
Teaser
When one door closes…
Zoë
and her fiancé Paul had everything ahead of them. So when Paul dies
suddenly, Zoë doesn’t recognise the life she’s left with. Helping a
friend by housesitting for a stranger is the last thing she wants to do –
but she can’t deny that she needs time away from the memories which
crowd her flat. So, collecting the keys, Zoë lets herself into her
temporary home.
…another one opens.
Surrounded by a
stranger’s belongings – his toothbrush, his favourite records, the
pictures on his walls – Zoë begins to build a picture of the flat’s
owner, Neil, who is away in the military. Driven by a need to know more,
Zoë begins writing to Neil and finds herself feeling an unlikely
connection with him. But while some people are destined to share our
lives forever, others are sent simply to help us on the way. And for
Zoë, a new life is just beginning…
Name: Geeks Go Greek (Summer Fling #4)
Author: Aimee Duffy
Format: ebook
Pages: 40 pages
Release date: 3rd July 2014
Publisher: HarperImpulse
Teaser
Part 4 of Summer Flings – a fun, flirty and laugh out loud rom com series of short stories.
Who needs fun when you can chill out in a stunning villa in Santorini all week and be pampered in every way possible? Ciara does.
After an unfortunate wardrobe faux par, challenging her friends to jet ski racing, and hooking up with an unexpected visitor, Ciara’s all about sex on the beach… the yacht… in the sea – wherever and whenever really! And she’s not alone. It’s the perfect fling in theory, but what happens when their Greek adventure comes to an end?
