SARA News - The "we're still here!" edition.

Hello dear SARA readers,

We'd like to thank you.

Here at SARA, we are actual people.  I know, right?  Epically amazing.  We have soccer-mum cars, mortgages, dust bunnies under the bed and 'it's a bit small' pay packets.  We're people you see on the street, likely wearing trackies and sporting something lunchy on the fronts of our t-shirts, as we ate at the computer.

We're extremely normal.

Well, except for the fact that we're constructing steamy sex scenes in our heads about sixteen hours of the day, and a further four hours are spent wondering where to leave the body that became dead in chapter two so that the hero can find it, thus perform consequent heroic deeds and ergo, get the girl.

That leaves four hours for sleeping, toting kids to sports (and reading whilst waiting in the car!) and writing blog posts.

You may have noticed we haven't posted good news for a while, a phenomenon we can link back directly to the fact that there are sadly only twenty-four hours in a day.  It's not because AWESOME THINGS haven't happened...

But thanks for sticking with us.  We love you for it.   No-one said it better than Sahvage: truly, madly, deeply.

So, we are very pleased to bring you NEWS!!


Liana Skrzypczak is one of our newer members, and hel-lo!, girl be making WAVES!  Liana is very excited to have been awarded the shared-winner gong for the Hachette Mentoring Program for her dystopian YA manuscript, Gold, along with another Adelaide writer, Rose Hartley.

Congratulations, Liana!  Check out her super-cute blog at the link above.


Harlequin author Elizabeth Rolls has a new book coming out in February In Debt To The Earl.

But wait, there's more...

A follow-up book is in the pipeline, too.  Rejoice, historical fans!  

Beach romance more your swag?  Victoria Purman is pleased to let you know that her fourth Boys of Summer book, Hold On To Me, is due out mid-December.  Get your banana lounge and your cooler bag ready, 'cos you'll be unable to put this one down this summer!  Key words here... YOUNGER MAN!

HOLD ON TO ME A Boys of Summer novel  – Out December 14th in shops and ebook

Can she learn to trust him and love again? Stella wasn’t looking for love and especially not from a younger man… When Stella Ryan’s successful life in Sydney crumbled, she returned flat broke and broken hearted to the beachside town she’d once called home. Five years on, she’s opened a boutique and rebuilt her life in the tourist haven of Port Elliot. Luca Morelli has been working flat out to establish his own building company in the city and doesn’t have time to be driving back and forth to the beach to do a small job in a shop that was almost destroyed in a fire. But he soon changes his mind when he meets the glamorous owner. Before long, Stella and Luca find that a working relationship isn’t the only thing developing between them. But the closer they get, the ghosts of Stella’s past come back to haunt her once more. Can she ever believe a man again? And if she can, is the much younger Luca Morelli the man she can trust with her heart? 

Lilliana Rose has been a busy writer/poet!  Not only has she recently released Soul Dancer, but she's also had a cover nominated for Best Cover at the AusRom Reader's Choice Awards for Chasing Dust Storms.  Vote for it here...

In a world where Soul Dancers are enslaved, Zarifah must over come corruption and lead the other dancers to freedom. Forced to harvest emotions from patrons each night she becomes addicted to happiness, which threatens to get in the way of a forbidden relationship with fellow dancer Torin and stop her from challenging the Regulators, the emotionless humans who feed on the emotions harvested. 
Check out what the other SARA's have been up to at the SARA website member page, or stalk us a bit on Facebook and Twitter.  We'd love that!  

Finally, I leave you with a familiar set of... eyeballs.  Our very own Erotic Fiction author Kyoko Church talks to the very swanky Adelaide Hills Magazine about sex and shame. 

The future of the Soul Dancers depends on Zarifah being a leader, but she may not be the saviour the followers had hoped for.




Until next time, we wish you very happy reading!

Emmeline.  x

SARA News ~ late, late for a very important date...

Okay so my plans to get the post up and going on Monday, didn't pan out - public holiday threw me. 

But low and behold, here we are with another installment.

What do I say?

Okay first up, Amy T Matthews will be at the SA Writer's Centre for a workshop.


The Interview
25 October, 2pm - 5pm
with Amy T Matthews and Gillian Dooley


This workshop will explore the art of interviewing and being interviewed – a crucial component of a writer’s career.

Discover the secrets of conducting a successful public conversation and encouraging celebrated writers to open up about their life and work and the process of transferring it to paper and making it readable and ready for publication. Amy T. Matthews and Gillian Dooley will share their experiences as interviewees, interviewers, writers and editors. 

Book now to avoid disappointment.

Amy is now also on Facebook as Amy T Matthews and Tess LeSue. 

Go and LIKE her pages!

Zoom, zoom, zoom!

Suzie Hindmarsh-Knights has been featured again in the Mount Barker Courier.

A most amazing fantabulous couple of weeks with book releases, book launches and book signings!

(for blurbs of books go to our post of 24th September). SARA is sure on a roll. And I'm sure this will continue on and on...

Kyoko Church with The Diary of a Libary Nerd

Kyoko's book launched to the big old world at Dymocks Adelaide and MC'd by the wonderful (SARA) Victoria Purman. 

Kyoko Church
photo by Victoria Purman

SARAs supporting Kyoko 

Fans were in need after Kyoko read excerpts from her books - she is one talented author!

Buy your copy from:

| Dymocks Adelaide (in person) | Amazon | Book Depository | Amazon Aus | Amazon Canada |

in US - Walmart (go Kyoko!)

A silent achiever in the SARA ranks is Beck Nicholas, whose debut YA novel, Fake, was released by Harlequin Teen on the 1st October! 

Collins Booksellers Edwardstown hosted the event. 

Beck Nicholas ready to do her thing at the booksigning.
This blurry image by Eleni Konstantine.

Getting into the spirit - Beck's duo coloured nails match the cover.

SARAs celebrating with Beck.
L-R: Virginia Taylor, Claire Baxter, Trish Morey

 Buy your copy of Fake from all good local bookstores 

and online at Harlequin Books.

Maggie Mundy held an online bash and hosted authors at her Unknown Protector Release Party on Facebook. 

Buy your copy from Amazon

Carla Caruso's series Astonvale starting with A Pretty Mess has hit the newspaper as well as the e-shelves.

Buy your copy from HarperCollins. 

While I'm here, let me tell you that Carla has another book coming in November called Unlucky For Some.

Raffy Fortuna knows all about luck, and she's not interested in pushing it. But sometimes luck pushes you to the places you least expect. Sassy Italian-Australian newspaper reporter Raffy has been ultra-superstitious ever since her ex-fiance saw her in her bridal gown before they got hitched - and left her at the altar. But as luck would have it, one of her new assignments at Press Publishing is a feature series challenging some of the most common superstitions in the lead-up to Friday the thirteenth. It's her worst nightmare - not helped by the grumpy, yet annoyingly handsome cameraman accompanying her to film the daily online videos for the newspaper's site.

Pre order your copy from HarperCollins. 

Khloe Wren's last book in the Dragon Warriors series, Believing Binda series is now released! 

Buy now from: 

| AllRomanceEBooks | Amazon US | Book Strand | Evernight Publishing |

My TBR pile has grown so much in just the last few weeks! How about yours?

Remember if you are interested in attending SARA meetings, please go to our website for details.

Until next time...happy reading!

SARA News ~ a long time between drinks

Well not really drinks. I'm sure our SARA authors have been nipping at a glass or two or perhaps, three. (Moscato, anyone?)

But life kind of imploded for me and for other members of the blog. I have to thank Emmeline Lock for keeping us going with those Reading Adventures!  Also I'd like to thank our two regular bloggers, Carla Caruso and Khloe Wren who are leaving the blogging team (I will not cry, I will not cry). We'll still bring you their news but they are off being busy little bees.


Now we've got a Bumper Romping Issue of SARA News today, so get your cuppa or a cuppa filled with some wine and read on...




Kyoko Church

STOP PRESS - book launch Thursday 24th September - tomorrow!

Kyoko will be launching Diary of A Library Nerd tomorrow!

Where: Dymocks Adelaide
Location: 135 Rundle Mall, Adelaide, South Australia 5000

When: Thursday 25th September

Time: 6pm

MC: Victoria Purman

Strictly over 18s!

Here is the Facebook Event page. 

Carla Caruso

Carla is wearing a new hat - editor in chief. Well, technically  co-editor in chief as she has become the co-editor of Romance Writers of Australia's monthly journal, Hearts Talk.


Better late than never-


Carla appeared in the Sunday Mail in June... with model in tow!

Pre-order Carla's new book!

If you love amateur sleuths, from TV shows Devious Maids (where a Latina maid goes undercover) to Castle (about a crime-solving mystery novelist in the vein of Murder, She Wrote), then you might just like Carla's new one, A Pretty Mess: An Astonvale Novel # 1 (HarperCollins/Harper Impulse)

The first in a series, it’s set in the fictional well-heeled South Australian suburb of Astonvale, known for its infinity-edge pools and Wimbledon-worthy tennis courts (inspired by Adelaide’s real inner south, including Unley Park and Springfield!)

The second book also takes the characters on holiday to Robe, dubbed “The Hamptons of South Australia”.

The series follows a neat-freak professional organiser – Celeste Pretty – who gets caught up in messy mysteries with a sexy builder (Lenny Muscat)!

From Carla:
Some of it’s a little inspired by my own experience. I’ve moved to the inner south from the far south – Seaview Downs – went to a public school, live in a renovator’s delight, and until recently drove a fourteen-year-old Holden Astra, like Celeste. So it provides that outsider’s perspective while still displaying a fondness for the area. 

Blurb:

Sometimes, to come clean, you've got to get your hands dirty ... Celeste Pretty, a self-confessed neat freak, has found the job she was born to do: a professional organiser, de-cluttering people's homes and workplaces. Her new business gets off to a cracking start when she lands her first client, health and fitness guru Natalia Samphire, in the well-heeled suburb of Astonvale. But things get messy at Natalia's mansion when Celeste finds a blackmail note and other mysterious items. And then there's Lenny Muscat, the sexy builder renovating the place, whose constant presence is muddling Celeste's usually organised brain. When things get decidedly suspicious at the mansion, she and Lenny have to team up to investigate. But will Celeste emerge with her heart and professional reputation unscathed? This is the first in the Astonvale series.

You can pre-order your book here.

If you're a reviewer, you can get your copy at NetGalley.

I totally need someone to organise me! Maybe I can get a few tips.

More cover love... 
This is the second in the Astonvale series, called Pretty Shore, and is due out by Penguin in December. Ah, it is indeed a pretty Shore..

Suzie Hindmarsh-Knights

Super stars!

Suzie and Pattington were in the Adelaide Hills Magazine.

Isn't Pattington a star?!!. Of course, our Suzie is as well but you can't pat her on the head and go 'good girl'. Or can you?




Short story selected!

Run from the Sun has been selected for for inclusion in the romance collection ‘By My Side’ from publisher Alfie Dog Fiction. The collection brings together some of the best short stories from 20 authors across the globe.


The collection is available for download for about $4.00 and can be bought direct through
Alfiedog or other online retailers.

Peta loves her life in the desert and wants her fiancée Alex to experience her love and passion. As a photographer, he loves the colour and diversity of life, but an encounter with a snake leaves not only his life in the balance, but their future. -  See more at AlfieDog

More promo for Suzie as she finds herself in the Mount Barker Courier.

Definitely star quality!






Khloe Wren

A crazy busy release schedule - I'm just tired thinking about it...

Khloe has been a busy busy author with four books in her best selling Dragon Warriors series hitting the an e-reader near you!   

Out now from Evernight Publishing are these smoking hot menage reads!

Book 1: Enchanting Eilagh - Dimitri, Max & Eilagh

Eilagh and her four best friends escape their jobs and lives for a few days to go camping. Fate intervenes and they get whipped away through a portal to The Land of Feury while hiking.

The Land of Feury has a problem. A virus killed off all their females years ago and Dimitri, their leader, has no idea how to solve the issue. When Dimitri’s twin, Max, finds a group of five unconscious females he can only hope of what might happen. When Dimitri and Max realize one of the females, Eilagh, is their Desired they are overjoyed.

But there is trouble brewing, and an uprising against Dimitri causes two of the women to be kidnapped. Will they be able to rescue their Desired and her friend in time? Will these five females prove to be the saviors their race has been praying for?

Buy links: 

AllRomanceEBooks | Amazon US | Book Strand | Evernight Publishing

Book 2: Binding Becky - Drake, Savren and Becky

The Land of Feury has a problem. A virus killed off all their females years ago and a solution is yet to be found. When a group of five unconscious females are found, hope for survival amongst the Dragon Shifters runs high.

Becky and her four best friends are escaping from their stressful everyday lives to go camping in the bush. Fate intervenes and while they are hiking they get whipped away through a portal to The Land of Feury.

Brothers, Drake and Savren, discover one of the females is their Desired. They excitedly set about wooing the strong willed, independent Becky. Their plans do not go smoothly, Becky is kidnapped by rebels and taken from them. Will they be able to rescue their Desired in time? Will they be able to convince the ever independent Becky that having bonded mates is a good thing?

Buy links: 

AllRomanceEBooks | Amazon US | Book Strand | Evernight Publishing |

Book 3: Claiming Carina - Denver, Phelan, Hart and Carina

When Carina goes camping with her friends she's hoping her friends can help her heal from the horrific attack she suffered ten months ago. The day after she confesses all to her friends around a
campfire, all five of them are blown through a portal to The Land of Feury.

Dragon shifters call The Land of Feury home. Brothers, Denver, Phelan and Hart, the clan's farmers, are excited when they discover Carina is their Desired; their destined mate. But can they help her
heal from her from her past hurts? Will Carina ever be able to  accept the attention of three men after being attacked?

Buy links: 

AllRomanceEBooks | Amazon US | Book Strand | Evernight Publishing |

Book 4:  Seducing Skye - Calix, Owen, Axel and Skye

Only three of Skye’s four friends have woken up after they were transported through a portal to the Land of Feury, leaving the traumatized Carina still unconscious. Skye vows to not leave Carina’s side until she has recovered... no matter how irresistible her three sexy guards are.

Dragon Warriors, Calix, Owen and Axel are excited to discover one of the five human females the Great Wind delivered to their land is their Desired, their one and only destined love. Their only problem is getting her alone long enough to seduce her.

Buy links : 

AllRomanceEBooks | Amazon US | Book Strand | Evernight Publishing |

And coming 30th September is book 5!!!

Book 5:  Believing Binda - Baxter, Zane & Binda

Clan healers, Baxter and Zane have their work cut out for them when five human women appear in the Land of Feury. Instantly they recognize one of the women as their Desired, but with the other four women continually getting injured they struggle to find the time to convince Binda she’s precious to them.

Binda battles to find her place in Feury as her friends all find love with their Dragon Warriors. Convinced she doesn’t belong on Feury she sets about finding a way back to Earth. But when she
attempts to leave, things don’t go as she planned.

Virginia Taylor

Contract news!

Virginia has been offered a contract for two more historical romances by Kesington's Lyrical Press. They are titled Ella and Charlotte.

Great review for latest release

A 5 star review for Losing Patients from Long and Short Reviews!

"It was amazing to watch how the relationship between Bree and Sam developed. From jilted lovers to friends with a lot of unresolved sexual tension between them, to utterly in love with each other – all written in a way that made it natural, believable and a delight to follow. Their relationship progressed smoothly and at a pace that made it possible to watch them develop deep feelings for each other, without it being too drawn-out."

Read the full review here

Losing Patients has also been put up as Book of the Month by the site.

Claire Baxter

Ignite your reading!!

Claire's latest release, Down Among the Dead Men, is out now from Entangled Ignite.

Caitlyn needs to find her estranged father or her mother will be thrown out of the home she loves, so Caitlyn ventures into the rough, tough world of the Australian opal fields. After rescuing a teenager from an attempted assault she learns that the girl, Max, is her half-sister.
Their father is missing and suspected of stealing opals – an activity that could place both Max and Caitlyn in danger. Attempting to locate their father without alerting the police, Caitlyn enlists the help of Dale, a city lawyer turned lapidary, hiding out in the town to protect his
daughter from death threats. Together they investigate, but progress is slow until Caitlyn stumbles upon a link between her father and organised crime, and into an investigation by the Federal Police.


After offering herself as the go-between in a ‘sting’, Caitlyn realises that she’s put Dale’s life at risk and in order to save him, she does the one thing she’s sworn never to do. She battles crippling claustrophobia to descend into the darkness of an underground opal mine where her father’s dead body is lying. With the criminals either arrested or dead, Caitlyn accepts that she’s found more than she went looking for. She’s fallen in love with Dale, but there’s no way he’d consider moving back to the city, not when a move would expose his daughter to danger. He doesn’t ask her to stay so she makes a new life for herself and her sister in Adelaide...until the death of the man threatening his family allows Dale to confess his
feelings for her.

Buy links:

| Amazon | Kobobooks | iBooks |

Maggie Mundy

SASSY blogger, Maggie has had a good run of news...

Seek and ye shall find...


Blood Oath, Book Two in The Seeker Chronicles is out now with Rogue Phoenix Press. 

We discover more about the Rogue, Seeker world in Australia. This is the story of Cassie and Matt, based in Tasmania. Matt kills a rogue vampire who wanted Cassie. This sets up a course of events where the rogue’s twin has sworn in a blood oath to avenge his brother’s death. Throw in a bunch of vampire hunters as well and you have trouble. Things become even more complicated when Cassie’s sister is kidnapped as bait. The only option may be that Cassie will have to give up her own life to save them all.

Buy links:

| Rogue Phoenix Press | Amazon | 

A top review

Hidden Mortality received a 5.5 star review from InD'Tale Magazine.

Here's a snippet. 

"This well-written novel has a solid plot, smooth pace, plenty of emotion and depth, and all the elements needed for a great novel. The characters are engaging, the chemistry between Cara and Seth sizzling, and the sex scenes scorching hot. This paranormal romance is a definite page-turner, not to be missed!"

Buy Hidden Mortality from Amazon

An upcoming release with muscle tattoed man on the cover!

Maggie starts of a new series - The Midworlder Trilogy with Unknown Protector - due for release October 1st from Soul Mate Publishing. 

Angels and demons are not what you think , and neither will be able to save Nicole from a painful death. She will have to rely on her own skills as an ex cop turned detective, and those of a handsome rogue called Ridge. He may have wings but he's no angel.

Who can resist a muscled tattoed man. Not I?

An Interview

Maggie was interviewed at  at Susana's Morning Room

.99c deal 
We all love a deal don't we. 

To celebrate the release of book 2 (Blood Oath) in the The Seeker Chronicles, Book 1 Blood Scent is at .99c on Amazon!

Emmeline Lock

Our reading Adventurer has some great news! 

Emmeline's short story has been published in Sci Fi Quarterly. Check out Liberating Clemency. 

Assassin Clemency is on a mission to find the Herz des Mondes, a moonstone of great and mysterious power, which will help her get her life on track. When she is out-thieved by the appealing mercenary L'Arc, is she beaten, or will they both reap the stone's rewards of the heart?

You can download it in a number of different formats.

Anne Oliver

Sucking face...or so that's what the book should be called from the US cover. 

Anne has a new release this month from HM&B with The Party Dare. 

When beauty therapist Breanna Black encounters the sexy new owner of the house next door, she's attracted, but she's more concerned his intended renovations will impact on her heritage home. His curt manner when she questions him doesn't disguise the hot desire she sees beneath his cool demeanour.

A confident flirt, when Brie next sees Leo Hamilton, she all but dares him to attend her party.


With his environmental management business, Leo's too busy to be attracted to the stunning, flirtatious Breanna. But he loves a challenge and can't resist, just for a little while...

Buy links: 

Mills & Boon Australia (ebook only) | Mills & Boon Australia | Mills & Boon UK |Amazon UK | Harlequin.com | Amazon US (for Oz readers only)

Ebook cover

Trish Morey

Finalist Trish!!!

A Price Worth Paying was a finalist in the Short Sexy category in Romance Writers of Australia's Ruby Awards held in Sydney in August.

Gorgeous cover love...

Stone Castles is coming out 25 November by Pan MacMillan Australia

Out this month!

Trish's Tycoon's Temptation  is part of a continuity series called The Chatsfield from HM&B.

When the black sheep doesn't get his way!

Franco Chatsfield never lived by his family's rules, and he isn't going to start now. But The Chatsfield's new CEO needs Franco to secure a partnership, and he can't say no. He'll seal the deal and leave. But one woman stands in his way….

Holly Purman has devoted her life to her family's vineyard, and she won't risk it all for a Chatsfield, so she'll give Franco six weeks to prove himself. But working together sends their senses reeling, and when one taste isn't enough, they quickly discover the price of temptation!

Welcome to The Chatsfield, Sydney!

Buy links:

Mills and Boon Australia 

Mills and Boon UK

Harlequin.com

Amazon US

Beck Nicholas


Fantastic news for all YA fans

Beck Nicholas' Fake is here from Harlequin Teen.

Seventeen-year-old Kath McKenny has a date to the end-of-term party with her since-forever crush. He publicly messaged her to confirm, but there’s been a recent status update: he’s taking the new girl — giggly, pretty, well-developed Lana Elliot — instead.

After being thoroughly humiliated in front of half the school, best friend Chay talks Kath into revenge: a scheme to create the perfect — and very fake — online guy for Lana. Once she falls for him, they’ll show her what it’s like to get brutally dumped.

Everything is going to plan until Kath starts spending more-than-just-friends time with the other new kid in town — Lana’s dreamy older brother, Sebastian. Kath finds herself getting in deep — in love and drowning in guilt, she tries to put an end to her prank, but it’s taken on an unstoppable momentum of its own, with very real consequences.

As her plotting begins to unravel, so do the people Kath thought she knew:
Her mother has a secret online life.
Her father has a whole new family.
Her best friend is barely recognisable.
Her boyfriend has a disturbing hidden past.
And her enemy is more familiar than she knew

Pre orders available from here.



Get your signed copy!

Collins Bookstore Edwardstown will be hosting a book signing with Beck on 3rd October at 1pm!


It has it's own Facebook page - check it out here.

Coming in December!

Lifer coming from Month9Books.

Asher is a Lifer, a slave aboard the spaceship Pelican. A member of the lowest rung of society, she must serve the ship’s Officials and Astronauts as punishment for her grandparents’ crimes back on Earth. The one thing that made life bearable was her illicit relationship with Samuai, a Fishie boy, but he died alongside her brother in a freak training accident.

Still grieving for the loss of her loved ones, Asher is summoned to the upper levels to wait on Lady, the head Official’s wife and Samuai’s mother. It is the perfect opportunity to gather intel for the Lifer’s brewing rebellion. There’s just one problem—the last girl who went to the upper levels never came back.

On the other side of the universe, an alien attack has left Earth in shambles and a group called The Company has taken control. Blank wakes up in a pond completely naked and with no memory, not even his real name. So when a hot girl named Megs invites him to a black-market gaming warehouse where winning means information, he doesn’t think twice about playing. But sometimes the past is better left buried.

As Asher and Blank’s worlds collide, the truth comes out—everyone has been lied to. Bourne Identity meets Under the Never Sky in this intergalactic tale of love and deception from debut novelist Beck Nicholas.

Victoria Purman

Don't miss out - iTunes free copy

Victoria's Nobody But Him is free this month on iTunes thanks to Harlequin Australia.

And coming November 25th

Our Kind of Love is the third in Victoria's Middle Point series from Harlequin Australia. 

The best thing to happen to her… or her biggest mistake?

Anna is… unexpected… unbelievable… unstoppable. And unavailable.

Will what happened in Middle Point stay there?

Dr Anna Morelli rarely makes mistakes. But this one is big, bordering on huge. Somewhere between sunset and sunrise at the simple beachside wedding of two old friends, she’s cried in the ladies bathroom, danced to too many ABBA songs and survived the best, knock-your-socks-off one night stand in recorded history. Has she gone crazy? She’s supposed to be running from the disasters in her life, not creating more.

Award-winning journalist Joe Blake is back in Middle Point to lick his wounds after being dumped by his wife and sacked from his Sydney job on the same day. But after one incredible night with Anna, he finds he’ll need all his investigative skills to figure out why she won’t give in to their sizzling chemistry….

Pre-order from:

iBooks | Google Play | Amazon | Amazon Australia

Bronwyn Stuart

Our Facebook coordinator extraordinaire goes to print!

Bronwyn's first book with Harlequin Australia, The Road to Ruin comes out in December!

When the most desperate of times calls for the most scandalous of measures.

James Trelissick, Marquis of Lasterton, has but one plan: to get his sister and mother back from the notorious pirate who stole them from their ship bound for the Americas, without creating the scandal of the season. After months of fruitless searching, his family name and his sister’s reputation hang dangerously by a single thread. So, taking matters into his own hands, he kidnaps the one woman who must hold some of the answers: the daughter of the pirate captain.

Daniella Germaine’s only wish is to be reinstated to the decks of her father’s pirate ship. She will do whatever it takes to regain his attention after he decides she needs to be a real lady and ships her off to London to find a husband. With disgrace her last option, she tries everything she can think of to scandalise: riding at breakneck speed through the park to win a gentleman’s wager and swimming naked in the moonlight. It’s during another of these deeds of daring that her plans fall to pieces and her future lands in the hands of a man with not a lot left to lose…

Somewhere along the road to ruin, when lives are at stake and hearts are torn, Daniella and James must each decide between what they want, and what they actually need, to really live…

A feisty, sexy historical novel of daring, lust, and finding love in the most unlikely places.



Preorder is available now from Amazon! 

Wow, I'm exhausted compiling all this but exhilirated to see all this wonderful news come from our SARA authors. 

Please note:

Regular fortnightly posting of the SARA News will begin Monday 13th October. See you then!

~Eleni

Reading Adventures in June

Hello, fellow romance lovers, and welcome to another instalment of the scrumptiously sassy SARA Reading Adventures.  

If you're anything like me, you're dying to flick the calendar over to a warmer October, and you've been revelling in the recent spate of Indian Summer weather that has been bestowed on us here in lovely South Australia.  

But....there is one great, GREAT thing about winter--reading romance in front of the FIRE.


Now, I'm not sure if Kyoko Church has a fire or not (she lives in the chilly Adelaide Hills, as I do, so chances are high), but nonetheless, she has been reading The Vale Girl.

Kyoko Church:  "I've read The Vale Girl, a debut novel by Aussie author Nelika McDonald. It was brilliant! Masterfully presented plot, beautifully written, couldn't put it down. It reads like a mystery which is normally not my thing but the literary quality of this kept me reading. Big recommend."

"If you leave no trace, nobody could say later whether you were even there at all."
Fourteen-year-old Sarah Vale has gone missing in the small town of Banville. She's the daughter of the town whore so no one seems particularly concerned.
No one cares except Tommy Johns, who loves Sarah Vale with all the unadulterated, tentative passion of a teenage boy. He galvanises the town's policeman Sergeant Henson and, together, they turn the town inside out, searching for the lost girl.
A delicate and layered exploration of secrets and lies, forgotten children and absent parents, and the long shadows of the past.
An extraordinary debut from a talented new writer.

Sounds fascinating, Kyoko.  Thank you.  And an Aussie author!  Oi, oi!


As for me, I've been continuing my sci-fi romance bent.

Here are some of the titles, check your Amazon Sci-Fi Romance list if you'd like to grab a copy.

Invasion Earth (Delroi Connection Book 1) by Loribelle Hunt
In the distant future, Earth has been ravaged by war and famine, and after generations of bloodshed settles into peace only to be invaded by the alien Delroi. General Alrik Torfa needs a mate and his seers promise mates for many of his people on the distant planet Earth. He doesn't expect her to come easily, but is more than a little surprised to find her leading an enemy army. Outmanned and outgunned, there is no way the Earth forces can win.
Sergeant Major Laney Bradford has always played her part and served her people well, but the demands of the Delroi's surrender are a bit extreme. Marriage? To one of them? Not likely. But she's fought for peace her entire life and when surrender talks are threatened by a conspiracy led by her people, Laney must choose. Will she submit to the alien invader or lead the fight against him?

Star Wanderers (Part 1: Outworlder) by Joe Vasic
When Jeremiah arrived at Megiddo Station, all he wanted was to make some trades and resupply his starship. He never thought he'd come away with a wife. 
Before he knows it, he's back on his ship, alone with his accidental bride. Since neither of them speak the same language, he has no way to tell her that there's been a terrible mistake. And because of the deadly famine ravaging her home, there's no going back. She's entirely at his mercy, and that terrifies him more than anything.
Jeremiah isn't ready to take responsibility for anyone. He's a star wanderer, roaming the Outworld frontier in search of his fortune. Someday he'll settle down, but for now, he just wants to drop the girl off at the next port and move on. 
As he soon finds out, though, she has other plans.

Sky Hunter (The Targon Tales 1) by Chris Reher
Air Command pilot Nova Whiteside is assigned to a remote outpost to guard the construction of a new tethered orbiter, Skyranch Twelve, against rebel sabotage. The difference between the well-ordered Union air fields and this dusty garrison is made painfully clear when she runs afoul a brutal commander of ground troops.
Her assignment takes her from the midst of a bloody uprising to the elegant new space station where she hopes to train for her Hunter Class pilot grade. But not all runs according to protocol and she soon suspects that more than farming is being done up there. When she uncovers the treacherous and illicit schemes taking place, it seems that local riots are the least of their troubles.

The Return Journey by Michael Gillen
Two men go on a journey through space to a planet that is legendary for holding the answer to any question. But, on the way, they start having new questions about each other and themselves, and they are shocked by the answers they discover.



Date Night on Union Station by EM Foner
Kelly Frank is EarthCent’s top diplomat on Union Station, but her job description has always been a bit vague. When she receives a gift subscription to the dating service that’s rumored to be powered by the same benevolent artificial intelligence that runs the huge station, Kelly decides to swallow her pride and give it a shot. But as her dates go from bad to worse, she can only hope that the supposedly omniscient AI is planning a happy ending.




While I enjoyed most of these books, Loribelle Hunt is the author I'd reach for again, though Foner's book was amusing, and had my favourite hero, and I enjoyed the premise of Vasic's novella.

Until next time, happy reading and stay warm!

Emmeline x