SARA News - The 'Whoa, is it August already?!" Edition

Dear SARA readers, 

Welcome to the latest edition of the well-overdue news!  Grab a glass of your favourite winter beverage and maybe a tim tam or two, and dive into the latest SARA happenings!


ROBBY DENNIS has released her first book in the last few days.  Love in Speranza is available now from Amazon AU.

When passion and culture collide, secrets from long ago are revealed, forever changing lives in the sleepy town of Speranza.

Australian author Gabby Craven travels to Speranza, Sicily, immersing herself in its culture. Enchanted by its beauty and friendly people, she quickly becomes entangled in their colourful lives. Especially that of the town’s sexy doctor Nic Ravisi. He’s the complete package, sending her temperature soaring. If only he didn’t keep retreating from her…

Dr Nic Ravisi is driven by his duty to care for the people of his home town. Turning his back on a promising career as a surgeon in the city, he chooses to live a humble life, costing him his first love. Despite the underlying pressure to marry from the well-meaning community and his mother, it’s the last thing on his mind. 

When his path intersects with Gabby’s, he finds it hard to concentrate on his priorities. She’s too hard to ignore. What good can come of a short-term fling?

After a chance meeting with a mysterious older woman, Gabby uncovers a tale of lost love and a secret that could turn lives upside down. Can Gabby help her to reveal the truth and set into motion the destiny that awaits, before she returns home?

Love in Speranza takes you on a journey of love in its many forms. Love, hope and second chances. 

SARAH GATES talks about her 'dream run' and everything you need to know to win a grant at The Writers Bloc.   This is the story behind her 2016 release, Love Elimination, and her winning the Carclew Colin Thiele Scholarship.  

Sarah is also excited to tell us that her Writing for Publication and Peace of Mind Workshop Series  at the Cove Civic Centre is SOLD OUT!  

LIANA SKRZYPCZAK has just had a short story accepted in the spring edition of Meanjin, entitled "Leaden Heart".  We look forward to checking it out!


AISLINN KEARNS' Station Alpha is just 99c now at Amazon AU.

A single phone call shatters her life…

Christine Ramirez’s phone rings in the dead of night. A man’s voice – unfamiliar and urgent – tells her to run.

She flees, but deadly, unknown assailants pursue her through the night. Her only saviour is the gruff stranger on the other end of the line.

Paul has a secret. He’s been watching her – maybe a little more than the assignment strictly requires. He shouldn’t reveal himself, but he can’t let anything happen to Christine. Even if it costs him the job that means the world to him.

With the mysterious villains still pursuing Christine, Paul whisks her away to a Soldiering On safe house. There, passion flares between them, hot and undeniable. And they are powerless to resist its lure, even as the villains get ever closer to finding them…

Check our VICTORIA PURMAN'S latest Tule Publishing novel, Long Hot Summer (Hot Aussie Knights Book 3).

It's going to be a long, hot summer in Reynolds Ridge… 

Hannie Reynolds has returned to the town she grew up in because no other place feels quite like home. But living in the stunning Adelaide Hills comes with risks--from the threat of bushfires that destroy everything in their path to the heart-stopping return of her high school crush. 

Firefighter Dylan Knight has come home too, and old memories flare when he sees Hannie again. Have they waited too long to rekindle their love? 

When they discover they were driven apart by a lie, they’re more determined than ever to fight for their second chance… until a bushfire threatens to destroy all they might share together and the very foundations of Hannie’s life in the hills. 

Has she lost everything … and has Dylan lost her forever?



Speaking of Knights, take a look at TRISH MOREY'S latest, Burning Love (Hot Aussie Knights Book 4) from Tule Publishing!

Caleb Knight’s ex accused him of being married to his firefighter job, and maybe she was right. He’s given up looking for happy ever after and finds what he needs between Ava’s scorching sheets. But lately, he’s wondering whether this thing with Ava might become more permanent…

Artist Ava Mattiske's ability to trust was shattered long ago. Her steamy fling with Caleb is perfect until he starts talking long-term. She puts on the brakes, but when a bushfire threatens her studio and Caleb is on the scene, Ava realizes that there is one man she can count on... But will it be too late?






CARLA CARUSO has welcomed a new book baby in recent times. Run For The Hills comes to us from Escape Publishing.

The Belshaw brothers are back in Balkissoch...

Bridie Porter is wearing her Vera Wang gown and veil in the back of her wedding limo when she receives a compromising text about her hotelier groom. Panicked, she tells the driver to keep going and she flees from Melbourne to the small town of Balkissoch in the Adelaide Hills.

It’s the perfect pit-stop to hide from her ex and the press and to earn enough cash to stay out of sight. Unfortunately, the admin job she gets is for a wedding photography business and she’s had her fill of weddings lately. But it’s slim pickings on the work front in a town so teeny. And her new boss is strangely compelling...

After the rush and adrenaline of his job as an LA paparazzo, the last place Cody Belshaw wants to be is back in the small town where he grew up. But thanks to a clause in his father’s will that amounts to blackmail, Cody and his two brothers are stuck running a wedding business for at least a month. If there’s one thing that he’s learned in LA, however, it's to keep business and pleasure very, very separate. Which makes his new admin employee the definition of temptation.

Bridie is desperate to stay anonymous. Cody seeks out secrets for a living. As they delve into the world of brides, boutonnières and dogs-as-best-men, both Cody and Bridie will have to decide if this is a fling...or forever.

Happy reading,
Emmeline.  x

SARA News - Releasearama!

Good afternoon, dear readers.

Here at SARA, we are fully cognisant of the fact that releasearama isn't a word.  We work in good, socially acceptable words all the time.  Releasearama isn't one of them.  

But for today, releasearama is our word of choice which we will use to describe the cavalcade of new releases that is spilling out of SARA right at this very moment.  We're drunk on creative power!  We're taking creative license!  We've lost our minds!  

As you will, when you see the wordy goodness that SARA is serving up to you, our beloved readers, in the near future.  


Tess LeSue, Amy T Matthew's alter ego, is releasing her first historical romance, Bound For Eden, coming out for Harlequin/MIRA next month. 

Here's what some very clever Australian authors had to say about it:


‘[Tess’s] writing is lively and taut and generates emotion. Her characters spring to life and her stories move at a fast pace.’ – Anne Gracie

 ‘I was blown away by the sparkling brilliance of Tess’s writing. She has a real gift for historical atmosphere, compelling characters, sexual tension and witty dialogue.’ – Anna Campbell

A rollicking, funny historical romance of mistaken identity, wagon trains and an irresistible attraction.

Fleeing from the murderous Grady brothers with a stolen fortune hidden in her luggage and her younger brother and sister in tow, Alex disguises herself as a boy to join a wagon train headed West … a wagon train captained by the irresistible Luke Slater. Alexandra Barratt has found the perfect man – it’s a shame he thinks she’s a boy.  

At first, Alex can’t believe the way every woman in town falls at Luke’s feet, including her suddenly flirtatious sister. But when she sees him naked in the bathtub, she finds herself swooning over him too. If only she could wash the muck of her face and show him who she really is…

As for Luke, he has no idea that the ragtag boy in his care is none other than the woman of his dreams. But when circumstances contrive to throw Luke and Alex into each other’s arms, their relationship becomes very complicated indeed. In fact, with the brutal Silas Grady in pursuit, keeping their secret becomes a matter of life and death…

Pre-order it now:  Amazon, iBooks, at Booktopia, Dymocks, Kobo, GooglePlay.

If you're that way inclined, you might like to head to Tess' book launch.  Details here.  It's at the Exeter Hotel.  Say no more, sistah.  

Victoria Purman is also welcoming a new book baby!

The Three Miss Allens is being brought by the stork in October (okay, by Harlequin Australia), and you can find out the details of the baby shower (aka book launch) here.  

How much of who we are is destiny and how much chance?

In 1934, the three Miss Allens - Ruby, Adeline and Clara - arrive in the seaside town of Remarkable Bay for their annual summer holiday. It’s the last time they’ll spend summers as a family. Adeline is engaged, Ruby is weighing up an offer, and Clara is just eighteen and about to start her life. But by summer’s end, the lives they have known will change irrevocably and a mysterious secret will tear the family apart.

Eighty-two years later, Ruby’s great-granddaughter Roma Harris moves to the now sleepy Remarkable Bay, retreating from tragedy. Roma’s distant cousin Addy arrives too, fleeing a life with too much drama. It’s only when the women discover an old guest book that they start asking questions about the mysterious third Miss Allen. Who was she? Why has she disappeared from the family’s history? 

If they solve this mystery from their past, could it change the women’s futures?

If you want to get your copy as soon as it’s released, pre-order now from iBooks, Amazon, Google Play, Kobo, Harlequin Australia or Booktopia.

Bella Bucannan also has her debut Harlequin novel arriving July 1st.  Releasearama!

Surrogacy is the closest Alina Fletcher dares get to motherhood. But when she tells tycoon Ethan James that she’s carrying his late sister’s child, his solution takes her breath away – a temporary marriage of convenience for the baby’s sake!
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Alina knows it’s the right decision for her baby, but is marrying a stranger – especially one who makes her heart sing! – the right choice for her? Having loved and lost her own family, this proposal could be another chance at happiness…if only Alina’s brave enough to say ‘I do’!

You can pre-order it now here:  Amazon US, Amazon UK , Amazon Aus, Harlequin US, ​Mills & Boon UK. 

Sarah Gates is also launching her new book Love Elimination, out with Harlequin Australia on July 1st.

Love Elimination might be a hit new reality dating show, but Anna Hobbs isn’t in it for love.

Anna is a reluctant fill-in coerced onto the show by her sister, a producer. She dreams of owning her own dessert café; a dream that has taken years of hard work and strict saving. She knows reality TV is a big, manipulated lie — and gorgeous leading man Luke Westwood can’t possibly be for real. Can he?

Olympian snowboarder Luke Westwood thought he had retired from competition. Now he’s starring in the cutthroat world of Love Elimination, with twelve beautiful women vying for his attention against the backdrop of a tropical paradise.  With cameras in every corner, why is it only Anna — careful Anna with her bills and budgets — who Luke feels he can be himself with, at long last?

All Anna wants is a quick elimination, but with each date she is more reluctant to relinquish Luke to the conniving contestants — or even to the women who are starting to become friends. It doesn’t help when Luke insists on using the limitless television budget to indulge her heart’s desires. Or that the moments they’ve stolen, alone and away from the cameras, have sizzled with passion. As the dates wear on the evictions become more brutal and the contestants’ secrets are exposed. Will the pressure get too much? Or will love close in on Luke and Anna?

Looks fab!  Check out the June 30th launch details here.  

Virginia Taylor's Starling, the first book in the South Landers Series, is currently on sale for 99c!  It precedes Ella, Charlotte and Wenna (due early 2017).  Get yours while they're hot!  Links are to B&N, but find Starling at all good retailers!

An aspiring dressmaker, orphaned Starling Smith is accustomed to fighting for her own survival. But when she’s offered a year’s wages to temporarily pose as a wealthy man’s bride, she suspects ulterior motives. She can’t lose the chance to open her own shop, but she won’t be any man’s lover, not even handsome, infuriating Alisdair Seymour’s… 

To prevent his visiting sister from parading potential brides in front of him, Alisdair has decided to present a fake wife. He lost his heart once, and had it broken—he doesn’t intend to do it again. But stubborn, spirited Starling is more alluring than he bargained for, and Alisdair will risk everything he has to prove his love is true… 

Set against the sweeping backdrop of 1866 South Australia, Starling is a novel of cherished dreams and powerful desires, and the young woman bold enough to claim them both…

So pour a glass of local red, grab your favourite throw, and curl up in front of the fire to enjoy SARA's winter RELEASEARAMA*!

Until next time, happy reading, 

Emmeline. x

* We won't use it again.  Promise.  Unless we forget that we said we wouldn't.  Or we are hit with another slew of awesome releases.  

Mmm.  Let's face it.  We probably will.  Sorry in advance.  <3