May 6, 2024

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Thank you for inviting me,’ says the woman at the door. I’ve never seen her before, but she pushes past me and throws her arms around my husband’s neck. I’m frozen in shock. Who is she?

When I hear her name, the world begins to spin around me. 
Alice – my husband’s exThe one who broke his heart. But my husband swears he didn’t ask her to join us in our remote cottage in theHighlands, so why is she here?

One of them is lying to me. Shivers run up my spine as I think about my two little blonde-haired daughters who are excitedly exploring the house upstairs. They’re just eight and six, have I brought them somewhere dangerous? My skin prickles when I remember the cold look Alice threw my way and how she walked into this house as if she belonged here.

But before I can confront Alice, a huge storm hits and our power goes out. I’m down in the basement trying to fix it when I hear the lock click. I’m trapped.
 I scream to be let out, but Alice whispers through the keyhole: ‘No.’

My heart thuds hard against my ribcage, but I have to stay calm. Because I know something Alice doesn’t. She has no idea who she’s dealing with and she doesn’t know what I’ve done to keep my family safe.

After all this time, I won’t let her take what’s mine…

This unbelievably gripping psychological thriller will keep you speeding through the pages, with your heart racing, until you reach the final jaw-dropping twist. If you absolutely loved Gone GirlThe Housemaid or The Perfect Marriage, you will be utterly hooked!

Rosie Walker writes psychological thrillers about mysteries, secrets, lies, and strange people. Rosie was born in North Yorkshire and has lived in Lincolnshire, Lancashire, Birmingham, Ohio and Texas, and has yet to live in a house with a secret passageway, hidden basement or a long-forgotten sealed-up room, but still holds out hope. She now lives in Edinburgh with her husband Kevin, their daughter Elsie and their Cypriot rescue dog, Bella. She has a Masters in Creative Writing and a degree in Psychology.

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Twenty years ago, Nelly met a monster. Now he’s back.

 

After a difficult divorce, things seem to be looking up for teacher Nelly Peak when she takes a job at Overland Middle School. But then she’s introduced to her new colleagues…

 

And she’s sure she recognises one of them - Marshall Dawes, the man that assaulted her twenty years ago.

 

Only now he goes by a different name - Emmett Moore. And Emmett is a highly respected teacher at Overland, beloved by pupils and staff alike. There’s even talk of him becoming principal one day.

 

But Nelly knows who he really is. And when things quickly start to go wrong for her – a mysterious stalker, her work being sabotaged - she is sure that Emmet is trying to squeeze her out so that he can keep his dark past hidden.

 

Nelly desperately needs this job and realizes she must fight to protect her reputation while seeking to uncover Emmet’s true identity.

 

But this is a dangerous game. As Nelly gets closer to the shocking truth, she discovers that she’s up against someone will do whatever it takes to stop her. This gripping game of cat-and-mouse is about to turn deadly…



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May 1, 2024

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The Golden Hour

A Powerful, Heartwarming Summer Love Story

(Standalone Novel)

After the loss of her single father, Josie Wills is forced to give up her dreams and return home to take care of her autistic teenage brother Nick. But she doesn’t just leave her dreams behind; she has to leave her first real love Julian Russell.

Having been the mother figure for Nick his entire life, stepping into the role of parent comes easily for Josie. She adores Nick, and taking care of him makes her feel closer to her mother who never had the chance to see them grow up. For the last three years, Josie has gladly carried the torch and picked up where her mother left off. Although supporting Nick in their small mountain town on a waitress’s salary isn’t as easy.

Willing to put all her faith in her brother’s incredible skills, Josie sells everything they have, to enroll him in a mathematics competition. The two make the journey from their Tennessee town to the upscale world of Rosemary Beach. The stunning, serene coastal town along the Gulf Coast is full of cafés, bicycles, and cobbled streets. What she doesn’t expect is to find Julian there.

But Julian isn’t the only surprise that summer. Josie will soon find out exactly how far love can stretch when she uncovers a mystery that will change her life and the lives of those around her forever.

An uplifting summer escape that will strengthen your family bonds and have you believing in the incredible power of love. If you enjoyed the TV movies based on Jenny’s books and are looking for more feel-good, small-town romance, look no further!

Excerpt

The Golden Hour

Chapter One

Lox Creek, Tennessee

 

Growing up, Josie Wills thought she’d had so many choices available to her. But when it came down to it, she’d really only had one.

She didn’t want to think about the options she’d let go. What was the point? Surrendering to the uniformity of everyday living was much easier. The security of consistency outweighed the thrill of surprises. Or at least that was what she told herself.

She turned off the bathroom light and felt her way down the hall. When she arrived at the kitchen she blinked to adjust to thebrightness, where—to her surprise—her teenage brother, Nick, was already awake before the sun. His head was down as he worked on a math problem in his spiral notebook over his breakfast of eggs and toast.

“I have to go in early today,” she said. “You going to be okay?”

“Yeah.”

When his attention didn’t leave his notebook, she knew better than to take his response personally.

“All right, love you.”

“Okay,” he replied, evidently too fixated on his page to think about being cordial.

At eighteen, his face was starting to appear less youthful and more chiseled, his mature legs stretching out and filling the space under the small kitchen table. Josie tried not to focus on how old he was getting. She treasured her younger brother, and she wanted to hold on to this time together forever.

While they were bound by family and shared the same green eyes their father had, the siblings couldn’t be more different. Nick’s hair was a much lighter brown than hers, and he’d gotten lankier limbs like the rest of the family, while she was petite and solid. Nick had exceptional skills in math, but she’d been more interested in literature and history. Yet, despite their differences, they got along incredibly well.

She grabbed her purse and rushed out the door, climbed into her car, and sat for a moment in the silence.

Nick had been having trouble in school again. Because of that, he’d become withdrawn. None of the teachers or his counselor seemed to know the best way to reach him, and he didn’t have many friends to offer support. Graduation was in a few weeks. He’d asked if he could skip the ceremony, which had broken her heart. The event would probably be a sensory overload for him, but she was willing to bet his reluctance to go was due more to the fact that he was tired of dealing with no one understanding his unique gifts.

Talking to him about how he felt was difficult, and she feared he’d have little opportunity to shine in their town. She needed to get him out, show him what life could be like, but she didn’t have the means or the free hours. She had to work just to pay the bills and put aside inadequate savings.

Her hands on the steering wheel, she stared out at the late spring darkness. She wanted to do better for her and her brother. She just wasn’t sure how.

Josie started the car and headed to the diner, her mind full.

Whenever she faced hard times, which was a lot these days, recollections of her youth came back to her, as if her mind were stacking up all the experiences that had led to where she was now. It didn’t help. Remembering only made her more exhausted.

One memory floated to the surface without warning. She tried to push it away as she drove, but the thought was relentless. Five years old and barefoot—the way she had spent every summer as a child—she’d taken the shortcut from her friend Ruth’s through the thicket to get back to the house nestled in the mountains where Josie lived with her parents.

“Head home when the lightning bugs come out,” her mother had always told her.

With only her father at home that night, Josie had gotten an early start so she wouldn’t worry him. Mama was at the hospital for some tests for her blood pressure and to check on her headaches, and she would soon bring home Josie’s new baby brother.

For weeks, up until the day Mama had gone to the hospital, she’d practiced taking care of babies with Josie. They’d worked on pinning cloth diapers correctly using Josie’s dolls, and Mama had shown her just how to hold the baby’s head to support its neck. Josie couldn’t wait to have a younger brother to look after. Mama had told her she’d make a wonderful mother one day, which was good because that was exactly what Josie had wanted to be.

On her way home that evening the sun was barely visible, its pink-and-orange light outlining the valleys before it disappeared behind the mountains—the time of day Mama called “the golden hour.” Josie had stopped at a nearby creek to sink her feet in the cool stream, then bent down to pick up a rock with a silver stripe that had caught her eye. Deciding to take it home to draw it, she’d washed off the rock then dried it on her tattered sundress. The cicadas had started croaking, so she’d quickly dropped the rock in her pocket and hopped onto the bank. Careful of loose gravel, she’d continued down the path toward home, thinking about what she could try to make for herself and Daddy for dinner. Being only five, Josie wasn’t allowed to use the stove, and she’d wondered how she would fry thetomatoes she was planning to cook.

She’d made it past the thicket, across the meadow, and all the way to the edge of the yard before Mama’s golden hour had ended. Proud of herself for getting home so quickly, she’d bounded through the grass as fast as her bare feet could take her and stopped when she reached her father sitting hunched on the steps leading to thedoor.

“Hi, Daddy,” she’d said.

But something wasn’t the same about Daddy. When he lifted his head from his hands, his eyes were swollen and red, and Josie wondered if he was having an allergic reaction like she had once when she’d eaten peanuts. He reached out for her and drew her into a tight embrace, and she decided she could comfort him the way Mama had comforted her when she’d had the allergy.

That hour had been anything but golden. It had been the first step toward the life Josie was now living as an adult. She’d had no idea back then how much everything would change. At a very young age, she’d had to learn about conditions like eclampsia and cerebral hemorrhage. She’d also had to understand how to live without her mother.

Now, one hand on the wheel, the other in her pocket as she drove, she ran her fingers over the jagged hinges of her father’s old compass, which she carried with her everywhere. The brass cover had been lost, leaving the two broken hinges on the edge. He’d told her he wasn’t given permission by his parents to follow his dreams, so he wanted the compass to be a reminder for her to follow her heart and to let it lead her to her brightest future.

But she didn’t believe anything could lead her there anymore. She doubted the magnetic needle would point anywhere but the place she was now. However, the compass was the only token she had of her dad’s, besides the old mountain house he’d left behind, so she carried the circular object around to feel closer to him. She let it fall to the bottom of her wide shirt pocket and made the final turn to work.

Every day Josie made the same six-minute drive through theTennessee mountains from her house in Lox Creek to the diner on the edge of town. When she arrived for the breakfast shift, she parked next to the trash bins around back.

Josie went in through the single door to the kitchen and said hello to the cooks before she put her lunch bag in the refrigerator next to thecollection of salad dressing jars, then headed to the break room. She liked going in there early to skirt around having to chat with the other waitresses when they came in. She used to know most of them in school, and a few years ago she probably would have fallen right into their chatter, but now it seemed unnecessary. She stole a few extra minutes for herself and tied up her long brown hair using the cloudy mirror on the wall. Then she put on her apron—a thin, denim smock with her name in simple black type pinned above her left breast.

The rest of the day was spent taking orders, putting on her most pleasant smile, and pretending everything was easy and fine, which it certainly wasn’t. But she didn’t allow her troubles to permeate her work.

When she was only twenty, she’d been tasked with this life; Nick depended on her—and would for a few more years at least—so she’d done everything she could to make the best of the situation. Forced optimism was what got her through. She told herself she was lucky in a lot of ways: she was healthy, she had a job that generally paid the bills, and she had her tiny family of two—just her and Nick. They had each other.

“Hey there,” fellow waitress Ruth Swanson said in her usual detached tone as she came into the break room like a whirlwind. Her body language and disheveled appearance gave away the fact that she’d probably overslept. Again.

Josie finished tying her apron behind her back. “Morning.”

Ruth gave her a side-eyed glance while putting her own apron on in a flash. It was a far cry from their giggles on the teeter-totter at school when they were girls. Ruth had been one of Josie’s friends growing up, but now they barely spoke. Ever since Josie had returned home after quitting college, Ruth had been distant, and Josie wasn’t sure why. She guessed maybe Ruth thought Josie had gone off in search of something better, and left her behind. But she’d just been trying to do the best she could for herself and follow her dad’s advice to go wherever her inner compass led her. She’d never imagined this job would be the height of her career.

Josie went over to her morning station and set in rolling silverware in paper napkins and dropping the bundled cutlery into the large bin thewaitresses used to set the tables quickly between groups.

“It goes knife, fork, then spoon,” Helen had told Josie on her first day there. “The knife should be on the bottom because it’s thelongest.” Helen’s instructions had faded away as the days went by and Josie plunged into her thoughts, something she did a lot.

Ruth passed her and headed into the dining area. She didn’t know what Josie was dealing with these days because Josie hadn’t had time to tell her—or anyone for that matter. Sure, there were whispers around town about “that poor girl and her brother who’d lost everything,” but none of them really knew entirely what she’d lost. She didn’t let herself indulge in the memory of it too often because the what-if was more than she could bear.


Jenny Hale is a USA Today and international bestselling author of romantic contemporary fiction. Her books have sold over a million copies worldwide, have been translated into multiple languages, and adapted for television. Her novels Coming Home for Christmas and Movie Guide Epiphany Award winner Christmas Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses are Hallmark Channel original movies. She was included in Oprah Magazine’s “19 Dreamy Summer Romances to Whisk You Away” and both Southern Living’s “30 Christmas Novels to Start Reading Now” as well as “Beach Reads Perfect for Summer” in 2020 as well as 2023. Her stories are chock-full of feel-good romance and overflowing with warm settings, great friends, and family. Jenny is at work on her next novel, delighted to be bringing even more heartwarming stories to her readers. When she isn’t writing or heading up her romantic fiction imprint Harpeth Road, she can be found running around her hometown of Nashville with her husband, two boys, and their labradoodle, taking pictures—her favorite pastime.

A Note:

Jenny is available for speaking engagements, interviews, and appearances. She also loves speaking with book clubs and writer groups via video chat or in person (distance and schedule permitting).

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The Golden Hour

Written By Jenny Hale

Review By Heidi Lynn’s Book Reviews


First, I want to thank Jenny Hale and Harpeth Road Press for providing me with this book so I may bring you this review. 


The Golden Hour is a very beautiful written book by Jenny Hale that will have you smiling! With each book Jenny writes you can just tell she puts her whole heart and soul into writing her books. Out of all the books she has written, this one is one of my favorites. 


Kristen Ingebretson is an incredibly talented cover designer that created Jenny’s beautiful cover. This cover is truly breathtaking! 


The Golden Hour concentrates on family and finding yourself after tragedies. 


Jenny with the help of Amy Nielsen created an amazing character with autism by the name of Nick. Nick pulled on all of my heartstrings seeing him mature throughout the storyline. 


Math was always my worst subject in school and to this day still is. Nick totally impressed me with his passion for numbers and how brilliant in solving mathematical equations he was. 


I loved some of the unique names that Jenny created. I kept thinking of Zelda the Nintendo game from back in the day. Plus, Rainy was a very unique character. 


There were definitely some wicked twists and turns I never saw coming. However, after the secrets were revealed it was all made since. 



Apr 30, 2024

#BookReview #SingleDadSeekingLove #NovaFlynn #LGTBQ+

 

Single Dad Seeking Love by Nova Flynn

A spicy MM, enemies to lovers, second chance romance set on a campsite on the north coast of Northern Ireland.

Publication date: 8th May 2024

Available through Amazon in paperback, ebook and KindleUnlimited 

Note: This novella was first published in 2023 as part of the Twisted Tropes anthology. The new 2024 version contains two bonus chapters and general edits.

 

Summary

Love strikes where you least expect it

My marriage is over, my wife has moved on with another man. I’m lost, lonely. I long for a second chance at love, to have someone to care for again. But how will I find someone, isolated on a remote campsite? Sweet Julie is too young and too innocent. More importantly, her older brother, Trevor, watches my every move; his gaze burns holes into my cracked and desperate soul. Am I too broken to care for someone else? Or am I the one who needs to be taken care of? And can that person be a hunky, blue eyed farmer? A man who loves to call me ‘boy’

 

About Nova Flynn

Nova Flynn is a writer of forbidden romance with a lot of steam. Based in Northern Ireland, you’ll most likely find her in the hot tub with her husband, gazing up at the sky while plotting love drama. She loves all kind of romance, but has a soft heart for stories that don’t involve Lamborghinis or Louboutins – the settings of her own books cover trailer parks and camping sites. Nova would call herself a reader first and a writer second. In fact, she never aspired to be a writer; she pinches herself on a daily basis knowing that her stories, daydreams that have featured in her head all her life, have found a new home on paper, where they are shared with you.

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Can’t Look Away - a dark forbidden romance http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BK73J4R4

My Boyfriend’s Daddy - a forbidden romance http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZD74N9T  

My Dirty Guardian - a forbidden romance http://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FZRP73P

 

Nova’s other pen name is Simone Blue. Simone adds a bit more spice to the romance – some of her books are pure spice… Books by Simone Blue:

Innocent Revenge – a spicy age gap romance http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKJY6MDT/

Hot Revenge - a pregnant by stepdad dark erotica http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BRPPVR4Q

The Maid’s Chores - five erotic stories http://www.amazon.com/dp/B091V43VW2

The Delivery Guy Delivers - four erotic stories http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0933K8CT3


Single Dad Seeking Love 
Written by Nova Flynn
Review By Heidi Lynn’s Book Reviews 

First, I want to thank Nova Flynn for providing me with this book so I can bring you this review. 


WOW!!! I have read my share of LGTBQ+ books in the past but Nova Flynn’s Single Dad Seeking Love is one of my ultimate favorites! It was a beautifully written story that had me smiling and giggling at times. 


Oh we need to talk about the beautiful  cover designed by Nova Flynn and created by Shutterstock. WOW! Now that is a hot body that will capture the attention of its readers! Great job! 


Nova mentions before you start the book that this is for adult eyes only. There are graphic descriptions of sexual acts between two men. If this is not your cup of tea then maybe this book is not for you. 


This is a very fast paced addictive quick read that can be devoured in one sitting. Then again I was glued to my Kindle and couldn’t stop reading. 


I absolutely loved how Single Dad Seeking Love was set at a camping/glamping site with farm animals. It made for a lot of cute and fun scenes. 


Cute little Adam captured my heart instantly! He was the sweetest, caring, most adorable and full of life! 


Single Dad Seeking Love is a beautiful story about finding out who you really are, accepting it, and living your best life! This is a story many can probably relate to in one way or another. 


Nova does an amazing job building up to the sexual scenes and writes them beautifully. 


Thank you to Nova’s sister-in-law who put the spark into writing Jamie’s story! 


This book was originally put into Aimee Walker’s Twisted Tropes  Anthology. 


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