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Fire Captain, Kel Jones, suspects an arsonist is active in his town of Bindarra Creek. But he’s distracted by his newest recruit, petite Greek goddess, Thalia of the divine-baklava.��

When a callout to an accident gives him his first break in the case, he’s shocked when the investigation throws up an unexpected suspect. Sparks fly as the search for truth pits him against his newest recruit.��



Susanne BellamyBornin Australia��
June 25
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GenreRomance,��Suspense
InfluencesMargaret Atwood
Member SinceDecember 2011
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Born and raised in Toowoomba, Susanne is an Australian author of contemporary and suspense romances set in exciting and often exotic locations, and rural romance set in Australia. She adores travel with her husband, both at home and overseas, and weaves stories around the settings and people she encounters. One Night in Sorrento almost wrote itself after her travels in Italy, and her rural romance, Second Chance Love, was inspired by a stint teaching in far north-west Queensland.

Her heroes have to be pretty special to live up to her real life hero. He saved her life then married her. They live on the edge of bush land on a mountain in beautiful sunny Queensland, Australia, with their dog.

Susanne is a member of the RWA (Romance Writers of Australia) and was a finalist in their 2011 Emerald Award. She placed third in the recent Pan Macmillan short story competition with Chez Romeo.��
OTHER BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR

Forever Young Series

Veteran Dreams! If you haven't had a chance check it out. It is on KU, Kindle, or you can get regular or large print copies.
How could one party change so much?It had been ten years since that night, and walking into the high school
reunion, Lita wasn’t sure what to expect. Her mind was riddled with memories, and her
heart was racing. The moment her eyes locked with Alex’s, her heart
started to beat again, as if part of her had been dead all those years. Life certainly
hadn’t gone as expected, and she had not lived up to the promises made that last night.
Feeling broken, Alex longed to move past the disappointment of his military
career. After his friend convinced him to go to his ten-year high school reunion, he
was surprised to find himself smitten with a girl from the past. Lita had
been sweet and innocent back then, but was she still? Part of him longed to see.
The two of them fall into a whirlwind, wanting to help the other heal and pursue their dreams.
But they may find the pressure is more intense than the passion the old spark ignited in them.
GOODREADS REVIEWS��

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This was a beautiful second chance romance. At their ten-year high school reunion, Alex and Lita discover that they would like to find out what might have been if they had stayed together all those years before.

Will the obstacles in their way be enough to tear them apart or will they only come out strong in the end?

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Jul 03, 2019
A story about being true to yourself and your dreams. Not giving up and second chances at love. Or even third chances lol.

Alex's confidence was injured after his body was injured, this is a story of him healing in many forms.

Lita gave up her dreams and later learned what she wanted was just as important. I loved it wasn't an insta easy to be together story. The couple had to learn to adjust to their altered realities and be true to what they wanted.flagLike����·��comment��·��see review
Aug 02, 2019








Cherron Riser��(ŷ������)��
��(Book cover),��
Kelly Hartigan��(Editor)

ABOUT THE AUTHORCherron Riser was born in Dothan, Alabama on November 2, 1983. With her family being military, she spent a lot of her early childhood traveling all over the country, giving her a lot of new and different experiences she would not otherwise have been given. When she turned ten, however, her family settled in the small town of Ozark, Alabama where she finished her high school career.

After high school, Cherron began college, however she also found herself in love with her old high school crush. The two of them were married in July of 2002, and welcomed their first child in October of 2003, after moving to Knoxville, Tennessee. In December 2008 the welcomed their second child and found themselves headed back to Alabama. They have now been married for over thirteen years, and Cherron has returned to school to finish what she had started all those years ago.

All through her life Cherron has been drawn to the arts. As a child she danced and sang all of the time, often driving her family crazy. During middle school, a group of friends and Cherron started "The Outcast" a club established for building a love of writing. Once the club was formed, Cherron was never seen without a spiral notebook and pen. She wrote daily, developing silly stories for her friends. After high school, Cherron began to write more serious stories and develop more original plot lines. It is a talent and love Cherron has developed over the years, filling her computer with story after story.��

As an author, Cherron began her career as a self published author, releasing the book Defying Destiny in March of 2015. She gives a lot of credit to her husband, children, and friends for inspiring her characters and worlds and looks forward to showing them to all of her readers in the near future. Cherron can often be seen at conventions, both for readers and for geeks, as she is and will always be a geek herself, and proud of it.��
OTHER BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR

Chapter 6 of Walk-In is now available as a podcast:��Detective Baker questions Eszter and reveals a shocking secret.Listen to the first five chapters here:��
A sense of impending doom has plagued psychic Viktoria Kovacs all day and not even a card reading helps her get to the bottom of what's behind it. In fact, the Tarot reading she does makes things worse when the Death card appears.

Things get weirder and more sinister after Viktoria’s long-lost twin sister shows up at the door.

Why did Viktoria’s sister vanish for five years? What happened to her memory? And how did she end up living with the mysterious millionaire claiming to be her protector?

Then along comes journalist Aedan McCarthy to complicate matters.

When Aedan visits the occult shop where Viktoria works, he's researching a novel, not looking for love. Unprepared for the jolt of electricity that sparks between them, Aedan wants to explore the possibilities.

But evil lurks, and not everyone is who they appear to be��

Viktoria discovers that getting entangled with Aedan may be her destiny, but it might cost him his soul.

Can Viktoria save herself without sacrificing those she loves?

A fast-paced romantic thriller with paranormal elements,��Walk-In��provides edge-of-the-seat entertainment.




Coming soon...

Nine years ago her daughter was taken. And now she’s back.

Three-year-old Holly��is playing happily in a pink plastic playhouse, while her mother��Rachel��sips coffee and chats with a friend nearby. It should be an ordinary day for all of them. But, in the blink of an eye, it turns into every family’s worst nightmare.

Holly is taken by a stranger and never found.

Nine years later, Rachel is living a quiet life in Dorset. She’s tried to keep things together since the traumatic day when she lost her eldest daughter. She has a new family, a loving partner and her secrets are locked away in her painful past.

Until one afternoon when Rachel meets a new school parent��Kate��and her teenage daughter��Bella. Rachel’s world is instantly turned upside down �� she’s seen Bella before. She’d recognise that face anywhere �� it’s her missing child.

And she will stop at nothing to get her back��

From the million-copy-bestselling author of��The Secret Mother and The Perfect Family, this utterly gripping psychological thriller will have you up all night reading. If you loved��Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train��and��The Sister��this book is for you.

What readers are saying about Shalini Boland:

��Absolutely addictive and brilliant��with an end I didn't see coming.��This is one book you have to read and it gets 5 huge stars from me!!!!’��ŷ������ reviewer, 5 stars

��Wow, wow, wow! What a fantastic book!��The book starts with a bang�� from page one and believe me, it doesn’t let up throughout the book and��keeps you gripped until the very end!’��Stardust Book Reviews, 5 stars

��Oh my.��A captivating��unputdownable��evocative emotional twisted thriller. Oh that ending...��OMG that ending did NOT expect that. It blew me away…’��Read Along With Sue, 5 stars

��OMG. What a phenomenal book!��I read this book in 24 hours because��I could not put it down.�� ŷ������ Reviewer, 5 stars

��Absolutely Brilliant!...��grabbed me right from the very first page��and kept my interest throughout…��one of the most intense thrillers I have read�� I cannot even get over the level of craziness!�� ŷ������ Reviewer, 5 stars

��All I can say is WOW!!!!!!!!��This book had me holding my breath�� So many emotions and frustrations rolled into one!!!... a��fantastic��psychological thriller....��I give it a huge 5 stars!!!!... goes right up to my top 5 books this year!!!!!�� ŷ������ Reviewer, 5 stars

��Completely and utterly mesmerising!...��I read it until the early hours…��I literally couldn’t put it down!!…��had my heart beating so fast I thought it would burst! The suspense and tension was amazing.’��Stardust Book Reviews, 5 stars

��Without a doubt one of the best books I have read this year�� truly��a rollercoaster��of a book that��I couldn't put down�� full of twists and turns until the very last page�� superb.�� NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars.




BiographyShalini Boland is a USA Today bestselling psychological thriller author published by Bookouture, Grand Central and Tantor. She lives in Dorset with her husband, two children and their dog.

It's time for you to raise your vibration!

Do you have an amazing idea for a novel but you struggle to stay in the story?

Do you ever find yourself struggling for creative inspiration?

When the moon has aligned and your muse is dancing beneath the stars as your fingers pulse along the keyboard, life is glorious to the writer. But what happens when you glance up and notice that the moon has shifted, your muse has left you high and dry, and the steady tempo of your words becomes all but a fading memory?

You know what I'm talking about. I've been there - my muse has skipped out and left me lurking in a place devoid of inspiration while the moon has forsaken me. I've experienced those discordant moments as I've desperately scoured my mind in search of prompts and ideas that have eluded me. But I am a writer. You are a writer. We can't just hang around twiddling our unmanicured thumbs waiting for the muse to return and the moon to hang just right.

Put an end to writer's block for good as we give you a range of alternative methods and ideas that you can use to access your higher-creative mind. That part of yourself that remains hidden and unexplored, and brimming with story ideas and characters you have yet to meet. Muse or no muse.

Creative Writing Energy: Tools to Access Your Higher-Creative Mind��is the first in a series for authors from bestselling and award-winning authors, and .

If you love a good psychological thriller like I do, check out some of these to add to your reading list.

A teaser from, In the Heat of the Night:��
In the Heat of the Night: Bindarra Creek: A Town Reborn (Bindarra Creek A Town Reborn Book 2)
“Looks like you’ve got a new recruit, Kel.”��
“Excellent. Who is it?�� Kel couldn’t see beyond the door.��

A brief pause, the hint of curly black hair and then Thalia stepped into the room. Her chin rose, imperious as a warrior queen.��

“Like I said before, where do I sign up, Captain?”��

Kel folded his arms across his chest, holding back laughter at the diminutive figure of Thalia Levonis in his fire station. Not only in��his station, but demanding to join his crew. Certain she was playing him, he decided to play along. “Great. So you’re serious?”��

“Of course I am.”��

“In that case, Mandy, can you give Ms Levonis the hotline number and explain about the info pack and all that? Although maybe, since we’ve just returned from a call-out, we should show her what we do, starting with helping the crew clean off the appliance, which is what we call our fire truck.�� He stripped off his sweaty T-shirt, balled it and tossed it through the doorway onto his desk before strolling to the door.��

Thalia gasped and her gaze fixed on his bare chest.��

Kel grinned. Two can play that game, Thali.��

“Coming, Tha-li-a?�� He stressed the third syllable of her name and stood in front of her, one hand on the door beside her head.��

Pink raced up her cheeks and her eyes flickered up, down to his bare chest and back up so fast he couldn’t be certain. But he was almost sure he saw a flash of fire, a flicker of sensual awareness, and the promise of retribution in her eyes. Any one of those interested him. All three together? Intriguing.





About Susanne BellamySusanne Bellamy lives in Australia, on the edge of bushland. She loves to write and to travel, and combining her two passions is the best of all worlds. Travel, whether at 'home' or abroad, inspires her heroes and heroines and the settings of her novels. A writer of contemporary rural romances and romantic suspense, Susanne is also a popular guest speaker.

She has trekked in Nepal and Vietnam, lived in a Parisian studio and led a school group on an educational tour of West Coast America and visited many other places. She has lived 'out west' in Australia but now lives within striking distance of Australia's beautiful beaches.

BOOK ONE:
Set in the ancient, pagan days where myths and magic existed side-by-side with the mortal world, comes Bound by Love, the first book in an erotic, historical romance series.

A kidnapped young fae woman looking for her mother. A demon warrior hell-bent on revenge. And a love that forges a bridge between two sworn enemies.

Whilst searching for the mortal mother who bore than abandoned her, Teelah, a pixie princess, becomes the unwitting pawn in a warrior's thirst for vengeance against her father.

Domhnall, a Fomorian from across the seas, is determined to bind his captive to him for eternity, thus dealing a bitter blow to his hated enemy. But Teelah's fearless stance and light-hearted spirit spark life into the black shell of his lonely heart. Now he hungers for more than her body.

With war looming and an enemy consumed with lust for power, will distrust and hatred destroy both their love and their lives?

BOOK TWO:
After trudging from battlefield to battlefield in the footsteps of the Fomorian army, Aileen is desperate to have a home far from the horrors of war. She will do anything to achieve her goals. Even lie to the kin and people of her newly deceased husband.

But lies are nothing compared to drugging a pixie king and stealing his memory...and his seed.

When Ioducus returns to the hill fort, Tranelleon, he discovers both a son he never knew he sired and forgotten memories of one wild night of ecstasy. Burning with a desire to teach Aileen a lesson she'll never forget, he soon realizes it is more than lust that drives him. Could this be the one woman who can lift his curse and gift him with true love?

But for one, lies are not so easily forgiven and Aileen may well lose everything she holds dear.





OTHER BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR







S E Gilchrist is the author of the best-selling . She lives in the Hunter Valley, Australia with her family and pets and is the author of over twenty books.��

As S. E. Gilchrist, she writes in the exciting worlds of science fiction, ancient historical, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic and loves writing adventure and romantic suspense.��

As Suzanne Gilchrist, she writes women's fiction and contemporary small-town romances, often with a splash of suspense.

SE takes a keen interest in the environment and animal welfare. She loves bushwalking and kayaking, spending time with family and friends and walking her dogs. She co-runs the Hunter Romance Writers with her good friend, Sandie James and has organised several group writing ventures, including the best-selling Bindarra Creek Romances.

Latest Releases: Take Me Home - Bindarra Creek A Town Reborn
Bindarra Creek Short & Sweet (Multi author anthology)
Sweet Country Romances (3 book bindup)

Coming Next: Cosmic Flare
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SWEET COUNTRY ROMANCES BOX SET

,��,��.Take Me Home by Suzanne��Gilchrist talks with Australian author


I’m very excited to welcome to the blog, Suzanne Gilchrist, the brains behind��A Bindarra Creek Romance.

Love romance? Love adventure? Love suspense? Welcome to my writing world.
If you love reading sweet, heart-warming and small town romances or passionate love stories sprinkled with suspense or sexy, dangerously high-stake romances then visit my books page. Under my new writing name of Suzanne Gilchrist, my stories encompass contemporary, sweet small-town romances and under S. E. Gilchrist, you can find edgy science-fiction/space opera romances, apocalyptic, and contemporary romantic suspense/adventure romances. No matter the genre, my stories always feature strong, independent women and gorgeous men they soon realise they can’t live without.

Hi everyone and thanks so much Juanita for hosting me as guest on your blog today to help celebrate the release of my latest novel,��Take Me Home.Over the last few years, I’ve become torn as a writer �� do I continue to write in the genre I was first published in (science fiction romance) or do I concentrate on writing small town, sweet romances? It’s a hard decision for me as I love both worlds.While my passion for science fiction was born from watching��Doctor Who��and��Lost in Space��on our old black and white telly with my father (not to mention reading everything I could get my hands on), my passion for stories set in small country towns was fuelled by my love for the vast open spaces of Australia.From the time I was sixteen, I had itchy feet. My first venture travelling without my family was when I hopped on a bus alone to visit a girl friend who’d moved to Melbourne. My first interstate trip. I quickly followed this up with a camping tour through South Australia, the Northern Territory and Outback Queensland. Since then, I’ve travelled throughout Tasmania (again camping and Oh MY Gosh is it cold down there!), extensively through New South Wales and the Northern Territory and parts of Queensland and Western Australia. I’ve also travelled to Hong Kong, Bali, Singapore, New Zealand, Florida, Los Angeles and Boston.Along the way I met some lovely people, struggling to make a living in harsh landscapes and difficult economies, and who gave me a new appreciation of life beyond my normal urban parameters.My fascination with the amazing variety of the Australian landscape has never waned. Couple that with my desire to highlight the often heart-breaking difficulties facing our cousins living in small, dying towns manifested itself in the Bindarra Creek group writing series I organised.Take Me Home��is the first book in series three set in the fictional community of Bindarra Creek. As is often the case with writers, my first vague idea quickly morphed into a far different story than I’d envisaged.Usually I begin my books with a situation or event before populating my story.However with��Take Me Home, I began with a character.Abby Taylor, almost forty years old and living a life alone. The first question I asked myself was �� why? Why was this attractive and personable woman living that kind of life? And it came to me immediately �� she couldn’t have children and, in her grief and disappointment, now shuns all thoughts of family life.I instantly knew I had my story. And I also knew how to turn Abby’s life upside down and challenge her hard-won choices. And I also knew I had to give her a HEA.I hope readers enjoy meeting the quirky characters of Bindarra Creek again through our series.And I hope you join me in cheering on Abby as she struggles with past griefs and learns to move onto a brighter future in my romance,��Take Me Home.To celebrate the release of��Take Me Home, the ebook version of��Bindarra Creek Makeover��which was the first romance in the original Bindarra Creek series, has an updated cover and will be on sale this weekend 20th��July and 21st��July at $0.99.Take Me HomeForgiving the past was too painful until now.Almost forty, Abby Taylor has built a new life for herself in the small country town of Bindarra Creek. When an old friend convinces her to give two adolescent boys a temporary home, she is torn between a growing love for these orphans and the grief in her past.After his marriage fell apart, Roman Taylor has focused on his career. An unexpected phone call sends him rushing to Abby’s side where he is drawn into his estranged wife’s new life �� a life that could offer a future he thought he’d lost forever.Will they seize this second chance? Or will fate once again destroy their dreams?

Closing her small bookstore is the end of a dream for Rachel Marks. With debt collectors calling and nowhere to turn, she knows she’ll have to do whatever she can to make ends meet. When a waitressing job opens up at the hottest club in town, Rachel figures she can swallow her pride and put up with it long enough to pay off her bills—as long as she can avoid her mysterious and devastatingly sexy new boss, Devon Carnavorn, a man who’s as hard to trust as he is to resist.

Devon is a fallen vampire, part of a clan who exist as outcasts from the world of the living and denied the pleasures of the undead. Forced to endure a meaningless and loveless eternity with no hope for reprieve, he is bent on self-destruction—until he meets Rachel, a ravishing woman who fires his passion for the first time in centuries and may be his one chance at a dark salvation.

As the two spar and tangle in the dark and decadent club, where sexual frenzy pulses in time with the throbbing music, Rachel finds her blood running hot for Devyn. He’s a masterful, creative lover, wakening her to searing physical pleasures she’s never imagined and desires so dark and dangerous her heart races every time they touch. But there’s a price for each shattering encounter, and with the promise of giving Rachel the ultimate ecstasy, Devon will demand the ultimate sacrifice.





About the Author:

Romantic Times Award Winning author Devyn Quinn lives in the middle nowhere New Mexico. It is so tiny and boring that the only thing enchanting about it is waving goodbye as you leave. Seriously. It’s that small.

To keep from going loco, Devyn collects and ride motorcycles. She is the proud owner of a Harley, a Honda and a Classic 2001 Ninja ZX-12R–which makes her the fastest, most dangerous writer on the road. Really. Devyn likes to go fast. Light speed fast. She will probably die in a massive fiery crash, but thinks she will enjoy herself before that final “oh, sh*t!�� moment hits.

At least she has enough toys to play with.

But about the books.

Devyn has written a few. Well, okay. More than one, but less than 100. Some of those books –um, 2�� have been nominated for the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award. Devyn even managed to pull off a win in 2010, for her 2009 erotic romance title, Possession. Demons? Check. Sex? Check. Everyone having a major nervous breakdown. Check, and double check. Readers can always count on Devyn to create realistic characters, and then throw them into the deep end to see if they sink or swim. Torturing imaginary people is one of her favorite things to do, and no one escapes unscathed. As for her readers��. Many have gone insane and scratched their eyes out��

Just kidding.��Or maybe not.

Devyn is not married. Devyn has a lot of ferrets. Devyn leads a very lonely life, and the hot New Mexico sun has scorched her brain cells. She re-hydrates them with wine, but that isn’t always a good thing. Sometimes things can get a little…strange.

Devyn can type. Devyn writes about people and places that don’t exist (or maybe they do), and will take readers to some very dark places. Twisted, even.

(Oh, stop. You know you want to go there.)

Please help support Devyn’s odd existence by reading her books and sending her an email.

Visit for current information. You can also follow Devyn on and .