One Christmas Morning
the much-anticipated magical and festive debut romance fiction novel about love and second chances for 2023
They say you know when you meet the one…
The moment Eva locked eyes with James over a library bookshelf, she knew she’d found her soulmate. Over ten years, they fell in love, got married and made plans to start a family. Until everything changed one Christmas three years ago, and they’ve been drifting apart ever since.
Eva hopes a friend’s Christmas party at an old manor house in Cornwall will give them the chance to reconnect… but the last thing she expects is to wake up on Christmas morning in the body of a different guest. As Eva’s forced to keep reliving Christmas Day from the perspectives of those closest to her, she realises just how much her life has fallen off track.
But can Eva break the cycle and save her future with James, before it’s too late?
Available in paperback, ebook and audiobook 17th October 2023 US and Canada
Available in paperback, ebook and audiobook 12th October 2023 UK
Compass And Blade
A highly original and beguiling YA fantasy debut, Compass and Blade is a high seas adventure and coming-of-age tale, filled with shipwrecks, romance, magic and betrayal
It is said that the people of Rosevear are lawless – that they steal from the ships that wash up on their shores. The islanders see it differently. They call it survival.
18-year-old Mira is a wrecker: one of seven chosen to swim out to the wrecked ships and plunder whatever the sea will give them. Mira’s blood ignites when she is in the ocean; the song of the sea beckoning her into deeper waters. But Rosevear needs her, and she could never abandon her home. Until one evening when lightning splits the sky and the Watch descend, taking Mira’s father away.
With the help of a handsome stranger, Mira will have to travel across the Fortunate Isles in search of a way to buy her father’s freedom. But to survive the journey she will need to learn who to trust – as securing her own future, and that of her island, will come at a high price.
Available in hardback, paperback, audio and ebook in US and Canada 27th February 2024
Available in hardback, audio and ebook in UK, Australia and New Zealand 29th February 2024
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The Woodsmoke Women’s Book of Spells
an evocative and mysterious story about lost love and the magic of coming home, for readers of Adrienne Young and Breanne Randall.
There is an old tale woven through the mountain town of Woodsmoke about a stranger who appears as the first snow falls in winter, who will disappear without a trace as the frost thaws in spring, leaving a broken heart behind.
Carrie Morgan ran from Woodsmoke ten years ago, and the decision has haunted her ever since. Spending a decade painting and drifting around Europe, she tries to forget her family’s legacy and the friends she left behind. But the Morgan women have always been able to harness the power of the mountains surrounding the town, and their spells—and curses—are sewn into the soil. The mountains, they say, never forget.
Sure enough, when Carrie’s grandmother dies and leaves behind her dilapidated cottage, she returns to renovate—certain she will only be there for one winter. She meets Matthieu as the temperature dips, a newcomer who offers to help refurbish the cottage. Before long, and despite warnings from her great-aunt Cora of the old stories, Carrie finds herself falling for the charming stranger. But when the frost thaws in spring, Matthieu goes missing.
Carrie is convinced he’s real, and he’s in danger. As she fights her way across the mountains to find him, she must confront all the reasons why she left Woodsmoke and decide whether the place she’s spent the last decade running from is the home she’s been searching for.
Available in hardback, ebook and audio in the UK 10th October 2024
Available in paperback, ebook and audio in the US and Canada 22nd October 2024
