30 July 2010

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  • Just Look At Me Now
    • Tia's top beauty tip: apply heavy make-up carefully to prevent any cracks from showing...

      Life is fabulous for Tia Carpenter. She has it all, money, looks, a great job as the beauty expert at stylish Platinum magazine and, at last, the attention of her unrequited high school love, Josh Banks. But Tia has a secret – back at school she was Barbara Baker, overweight, crooked teeth, frizzy hair and no fashion sense. Cosmetic dentistry, losing seven stones in weight and a complete makeover later, Tia has successfully erased her past life as Big Barb, tub of lard, until the day Juliet Gold, the bane of her teenage existence, arrives to work at the magazine. Juliet always got everything she ever wanted, and now she wants both Tia’s job and Josh. Tia will have to use every makeover trick she’s ever learned to stop Juliet from uncovering her past and stealing her man.

    • Date Published - Thursday, August 05, 2010 - Read full excerpt
  • The Cinderella Substitute
    • In the two years since the tragic car crash that killed his fiancée, Nathanial (Nate) Mayer has successfully avoided another relationship. His family and especially his twin sister Nathalie are worried. Jennifer (Jenni) Blake is Nate’s personal assistant. Hired after the accident, she has her own problems to deal with, including the deaths of her adoptive parents and the debts incurred by their nursing care. But those difficulties pale into insignificance when Jenni finally traces her birth mother…

    • Date Published - Monday, April 26, 2010 - Read full excerpt
  • Crystal Clear
    • Review
      ‘A brilliantly fun read that will have you hooked!*****’ (OK! magazine )


      Sometimes you have to go back to move forward...

      For years Zee has tried to ignore her real name (who calls their kid Azure Dawn?) and her mother Marla’s alternative lifestyle. A million miles away from all that new-age nonsense, she’s got a reliable teaching job, a perfect life plan and sensible accountant Simon for a fiancé. But when Marla gets sick, the foundations of Zee’s rock-steady world are seriously shaken. Soon she’s back home, in touch with the boy who broke her heart and even being sucked into one of her mum’s hare-brained schemes. What about Zee’s plans for the future?! Could they ever include a free-spirit from her past?

    • Date Published - Thursday, January 21, 2010 - Read full excerpt
  • His Darling Nurse
    • Juliet Darling needs a fresh start. With the end to her disastrous marriage, she hopes that moving to the village of Chandler’s Gate—where she landed a job as a practice nurse—will give her and her small son Charlie just such an opportunity. Her ex-husband, however, doesn’t plan on allowing them to escape his clutches quite so easily.

      Dr. Neil Forrest finds his quiet and orderly life disrupted both at work, with the arrival of Juliet and her new ideas about what a practice nurse should do, and at home when the accident-prone Juliet and her son move in to the house next door. Neil has deep-rooted insecurities about life and relationships since the premature death of his wife. The loss has left him clinging to his precious routines in an attempt to protect himself from further pain.

      It takes a very special little boy, an out of control barbecue and a terrible accident before Neil and Juliet can finally get together and Neil can make Juliet his very own darling nurse.


    • Date Published - Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Read full excerpt
  • Loves Me, Loves Me Not
    • This fab anthology of over forty stories by famous authors includes my short story - Wishing for George.
      George Clooney, a mad fairy and a wish that doesn't quite work.

    • Date Published - Friday, May 15, 2009 - Read full excerpt
  • Animal Instincts
    • Winner of Love Story of The Year 2010
      Down-to-earth Clodagh Martin is very fond of her glamorous actress step-sister, Imogen - in small doses. So when Imogen turns up on her doorstep drunk and clutching a bottle of champage and announces that she's come to stay, Clodagh isn't exactly thrilled. It's not a great time. The animal sanctuary she runs is stony broke and the animals; a foul-mouthed parrot, two gay donkeys and a goat, aren't enough to attract the hoardes.

      It's not a great time for Imogen either. Let's face it, staying at Rainbow's End animal sanctuary wouldn't exactly be her first choice. Unfortunately, a combination of debt and a humiliating public scandal involving a live TV show and too much booze, has left Imogen with very little choice but to throw herself on Clodagh's mercy until things blow over.

      But actually, this could be a heaven-sent opportunity to get both her career and the sanctuary back on track. What could possibly go wrong?

    • Date Published - Thursday, March 05, 2009 - Read full excerpt
  • Pots of Gold - FREE READ
    • First given in exclusive to subscribers newsletter Nov 08

    • Date Published - Monday, January 26, 2009 - Read full excerpt
  • Permanent Wave - FREE READ
    • Published Jan 09 in The Samhellion - the monthly online magazine for Samhain Publishing

    • Date Published - Monday, January 26, 2009 - Read full excerpt
  • Blue Remembered Heels - Little Black Dress
    • Synopsis
      A devilishly good debut for LBD from our fantastic new author, RNA Romance Prize Winner 2007, Nell Dixon! Life is sweet for con-woman Abbey Gifford until, one ordinary Wednesday afternoon, she's struck by lightning. They told her she might have some bizarre side effects, but nothing could have prepared Abbey for the fact that, since that fateful day, she can never tell lies again! Truthfulness is a big drawback for a con-woman, especially when suddenly she's being followed by the suspiciously gorgeous detective Mike Flynn. If only Abbey could stop blurting out secrets every time he asks her a question! And if only Mike knew the real reason Abbey spends her life tricking other people out of their money!

    • Date Published - Thursday, July 10, 2008 - Read full excerpt
  • Marrying Max - Samhain Publishing (e book)
    • Mr. Right Now meets Ms. Forever. Some matches take a lot of work.

      Max Richardson doesn’t do commitment. But he will do anything to persuade his sister to let him provide a stable home for his niece, Emily, while her parents try to work through their marriage problems. Including renting a country cottage, hiring a nanny and—um—acquiring a fake fiancée.

      Thea Sinclair had to give up her dreams of marriage and children when she came home to nurse her father through his last illness.
      She’s prepared to be Max’s landlady, housekeeper and Emily’s nanny. She’s not prepared for him to persuade her into a pretend engagement—or to find pretence becoming reality as she starts to fall in love with a man who’s sworn off marriage forever.

      This book has been previously published in print form, and is the winner of the Romantic Novelists’ Association category length Romance Prize 2007.


    • Date Published - Tuesday, June 19, 2007 - Read full excerpt
  • Things to Do - Samhain Publishing -OUT NOW
    • Things to Do won 5 stars from Ecataromance reviews. The reviewer said: you think that all stories are alike? That nothing new can impress you? Well, you HAVE to read Things To Do!
      Emma Morgan, twenty-four year old reluctant travel agent finds her life has more in common with Dangermouse than Bridget Jones as she deals with the fall-out from her impulsive secret marriage to Marco, a handsome Caribbean barman and, unbeknown to Emma, Yardie gangster. Her boss is dating her mother, her sister has been jilted, her best friend, Rob, is being stalked by his ex-girlfriend. Emma is so busy sorting out other people’s problems, including a dog-napping and a small matter of some missing millions, what else can a girl do to get organized except list some ‘Things to Do’?

    • Date Published - Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - Read full excerpt