SARA News - The Kicking-Off 2018 Edition

Dear readers, 

Happy New Year!  We here at SARA hope you saw in 2018 with a glass of something bubbly in your hand and possibly wearing someone else's t-shirt.  

Let's face it though, there's a good chance you were cleaning your teeth in your PJ's at 11:50pm, gave everyone a quick smooch at midnight, then raced off to bed to get to that book!

Or was that just me...?


The last few months since our previous post, the SARA's have been busy whilst making plum puddings and repainting the ceilings after the champers corks hit the roof on December 31st. 


Tess LeSue is on fire.  Bound for Eden, the first novel in the Frontiers of the Heart series, is available now.  The second, Bound for Sin, is due for release in September.  Get pre-ordering...

BOUND FOR SIN

WANTED: A resourceful frontiersman, for the purpose of matrimony…

When Georgiana Bee Blunt advertises for a husband, she’s not looking for a handsome man, or a smart man, or a charming man. What she wants is a brute. A no-nonsense, capable backwoodsman who won’t trouble her with talk of love; she just wants someone to get her and her fatherless children safely to California. Matt Slater seems to fit the bill perfectly. The man looks like he could wrestle a bear and not even break a sweat. The only problem is he doesn’t want a wife. Well, not the only problem…

Truth be told, Georgiana has more problems than she knows what to do with. Left holding a gold claim by her not-so-dearly departed husband, Georgiana finds her eldest son held ransom by the sinister Hec Boehm and his henchmen, and herself facing a journey of more than two thousand miles to rescue him. With four children in tow. And no nanny.

All Matt Slater wants is to be left alone. He’s spent most his life on his lonesome in the wilderness, and he’s comfortable that way. But then a widow with big blue eyes and the tenacity of a buffalo turns his entire life upside down and before he knows it he’s playing caretaker to a pack of kids…and trying not to succumb to their mother’s charms.

Virginia Taylor has a new release!  Golden Opportunity (Romance by Design) is now available where all good eBooks are sold.

The only thing Marigold Reynolds and billionaire Hagen Allbrook ever had in common was their attraction. Marigold made sure that never went anywhere by cutting ties with him six years ago. Now, however, she needs a job—and Hagen’s design assistant desperately needs someone to fill in for her at his family’s construction firm. Trusting that time has dimmed the electricity between them, Marigold accepts. But as she undertakes his challenging renovation of her own ancestors’ home, it’s soon clear she’s mistaken.

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Bella Bucannon is now on Facebook.  Find her here to keep up to date with all the latest BB news.

Captivated By The Enigmatic Tycoon Always on the outside looking in, as a ‘declutterer’ Cassie Clarkson spends her days helping others relish then relinquish treasured belongings. Until Jack Randell storms into her life, full of suspicion and brooding charm. ​As he’s the great-nephew of her new and beloved client, Cassie must ensure she doesn’t get on his bad side. But being on his good side is so much more dangerous to her heart! Can she take a risk and allow herself to be captivated by the enigmatic tycoon? Did the South Aussies amongst us happen to catch our Clare Connelly in the Sunday Mail recently?  Check out this Daily Mail article, too.  Go Clare! Until next time, happy reading.   Emmeline. x

SARA News - the Sassy September Edition

Dear SARA Readers, 

The daffs are flowering, the sun is stirring, the trees are leafing!  Spring is sprung!

What better way to bring in everyone's favourite season than with a book about a heiress garden designer and her sexy new neighbour, titled Perfect Scents (see what the author did there?)?

You're in luck, because SARA's own Virginia Taylor has a book just like that due out before the end of the month!  We just love books set in our home town.

Two unsuspecting lovers stumble upon the blueprint for love . . . 

From the moment Kell takes her in his arms, he knows Calli is more than just a fling. Then the blue collar bachelor learns he’s not sharing his bed with just any woman, but the wealthy daughter of the man who could make Kell’s construction business a success—and Kell the kind of well-heeled man worthy of Calli’s love. But he’ll have to be careful his ambitions don’t trip up his heart . . .

Calliope Allbrook takes a job in lovely, sunny Adelaide, Australia, hoping to lose herself in her work as a balm for her broken heart. And if it weren’t for the handsome hunk renovating the house next door, Calli would never even have looked up from the garden she is designing for her latest client. But rugged Kellen Dee is just the cure the beautiful heiress needs. After all, he has no idea who she is, so he certainly won’t see her as a meal ticket. Then there’s the fact that Kell’s deliciously sexy—and incredibly good with his hands . . .




If you just can't wait that long to really get your Spring on, check out book one in Virginia's 'Romance By Design' series.

Sets Appeal (did it again!) is available at all good eretailers now.  

In the cosmopolitan coastal city of Adelaide in South Australia, two theater lovers create a little drama of their own . . .

Twenty-seven-year-old divorcée Vix Tremain finally has her first job—as a theater-set painter—and is ready to leave the past behind. What better way to get her confidence back than a fling with a handsome stranger? She isn’t looking for anything emotional, she’s had enough heartbreak. Rugged Jay Dee, the set construction manager, fits the bill for no strings fun perfectly. What Vix doesn’t realize is that Jay is not exactly a stranger . . .

Jay would recognize wealthy, spoiled Vix anywhere. After all, she’s the ex-wife of the man who destroyed his career. Naturally, Jay wants a little sweet revenge—at first. To his surprise, Vix is far from the ice princess he expected, and spending time with her changes everything. Soon he realizes he’s actually falling for the vulnerable beauty. But becoming entangled with her will mean revealing who he is—and opening them both up to more pain. With their dreams at stake, is their connection strong enough to weather the truth—and take center stage?

Book three is due early in 2018.


Until next time, happy reading!

Emmeline  x

SARA News - February New Releases

Wenna Chenoweth’s future is secure, until dashing Devon Courtney’s illicit flirtation gets her dismissed from her job as a lady’s maid. With nowhere to turn, Wenna is forced to accept Devon’s bold proposal: To be his bride. To enter society on the handsome aristocrat’s arm. To give him the heir he requires. It’s a foolproof plan. Except Wenna finds herself falling hard for a man who can never love her for who she is….

Wenna is passionate, mysterious, and ill-suited to the idle life of a society wife. She’s also exactly the kind of woman who could endanger Devon’s hopes to build his own future far from his family’s influence. For the spirited beauty has embarked on an unthinkable plan of her own—one that could lead him to surrender his resolve, and sacrifice everything he believes he holds dear….

Yet amid the wondrous landscape of colonial South Australia, anything is possible. Perhaps even love between two people the boundaries of society would keep apart….

BUY HERE

 Beth is a widow and Greg is an ex-con. They are two lost souls who have a random night of sex together. Nine months later they meet again—this time, she's giving birth to their son. Everything changes when Greg holds Josh, but this isn’t real, they're not married, or a happy family. Plus there are ghosts from the past who won't leave them alone. 

Greg can offer money, but can’t offer love. Their relationship should be doomed, but sometimes the most unlikely of partners bring out the best in each other...if they can only stay alive.

BUY HERE

Clare and her group of vampires,fae and werewolves want to live on Earth. To do that, they must heal the worlds they have been visiting through the portals. Vesi, is an albino vampire and Heln, is a white werewolf. Neither has been accepted by their own people. This unlikely couple tries to fight their growing attraction to each other while helping to save two worlds. On one world, a mist is closing in so nothing will survive. On the other, the High Priestess Sari is at war. Her power is failing and she wants to use Vesi’s blood so she can live forever. 

Can Heln save his love and help his friends save both worlds. Will their group ever get to Earth?

BUY HERE

Without a Season, Lady Isolde Worthingham captured the Duke of Moore's heart at a country dance. But on the eve of her wedding, a scandal that rocked the ton and sent her fleeing to Scotland alone and unwed, leaves her perfectly planned future in a tangle of disgrace and heartbreak.

Merrick Mountshaw, the Duke of Moore loathes the pitiful existence he hides from the ton. With a scandalous wife he never wanted, who flaunts her many indiscretions, life is a never-ending parade of hell. When the one woman he loved and lost returns to London, he knows he can no longer live without her.

But vows and past hurts are not easily forgotten. Love may not win against the ton when a too proper Lord and Lady play by the rules.

BUY HERE

How far would you go to save a child that wasn’t yours?

Mild-mannered kindergarten teacher Neve Botticelli leads a double life. Thanks to a childhood tragedy and her paranoid father, she’s a trained warrior with extreme survival skills who lives off the grid.

When self-made billionaire Micah Kincaid storms into town in search of his son, Rowan, he’s pushy, entitled, and stands for everything she despises. Micah can’t believe a kindergarten teacher is barring the way to him getting crucial information or even just a glimpse of the boy his cheating ex kidnapped. They share only one thing in common: either will do anything to protect the four-year-old, who they soon discover is being held for ransom by an outlaw motorcycle gang.

But as they work together to get Rowan back, they start to see beyond each other’s masks. Could falling in love be even more dangerous than hunting down deadly criminals?

BUY HERE

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!
​
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 

SARA News - Ringing in the new year with new news!

Hello, and welcome to the year 2016 with SARA!

With our Christmas pudding all eaten, and our New Year’s Resolutions made (and broken.  Don’t judge. *smiley face* ), it’s time to get on and celebrate the new year with some new news! 

Maggie Mundy has two new releases out.  One is Scarred Protector, which is the second book in the Midworlder Trilogy. 

You’ll also find her book World Change in a Rogue Phoenix box set called Perceptions of Love, featuring six full-length novels that challenge convention.  Other authors featured include Angela Castle, Tamsin Baker, JL Addicoat, CL Kramer and Christine Young. 

Congratulations, Maggie!

Amazon buy link for Scarred Protector

Amazon buy link for Unknown Protector



Angels and demons are not what you think. They are aliens, and the Midworlders are their 

representatives on Earth. An Angelic Midworlder called Heath goes to the aid of Evie who is 

about to be attacked by Demonics. He soon discovers she can see the angels and demons 

around her and is in grave danger. He is captivated by Evie who has physical and mental 

scars like him. They are tortured souls who are deeply connected by his past. There is an evil lurking inside Evie that could kill them both.


Available November 18th 2015 from Soul Mate Publishing.

You might recall that late last year Liana Skrzypczak won a spot in the Hachette Mentoring Program with her dystopian YA, Gold.  Well, just in case that wasn't stupendously clever enough, she’s gone and done it again, this time receiving a Carclew Professional Development Grant to work with NY Times Bestselling author Sean Williams. 

Check out here for the full list of recipients.  Liana is going to be a busy little writer this year.  Go you, girlfriend!

Check out @LianaSkrzypczak on Twitter for more updates. 

Finally, Virginia Taylor’s new book Charlotte, with be published on February 2^nd by Kensington Books.  This is the third in the South Landers Series, following Starling and Ella.   Virginia's on a roll!

CHARLOTTE, South Landers #3

​After losing his first love in childbirth, Nicholas Alden knows that he must never be a father. But to be a husband is a very different matter—necessary for his family name. So when he meets beautiful social climber Charlotte, he believes he has found a wife he can keep at arm’s length.
If he knew the truth of her scandalous parentage, all would be lost.

​Set in 1860's Australia.

Pre-order it here. 

Until next time, happy reading!

Emmeline.