New Publication Spotlight: A Wish For Jo by Audrey Davis

A Wish For Jo by Audrey Davis

The hilarious sequel to A Wish For Jinnie! Best read in order.

Jo Milligan's café — A Bit of Crumpet — is her pride and joy.
But icing cakes and baking pastries in the sleepy Scottish village of Cranley isn't hitting the sweet spot.

Jo longs for some excitement in her life. The arrival of gruff stranger Harvey Quinn doesn't fill her with joy. Nor does the appearance of an unlikely assistant with an unexpected gift … and a serious attitude problem.

Genie Aaliyah grants Jo three wishes, but coming up with ideas proves challenging.

As Jo grows closer to Cranley's newest resident, secrets threaten to derail their relationship.

Can Jo find a way to cook up a happy ending, or do the ingredients add up to a recipe for disaster?

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Audrey Davis is a Scottish-born former journalist, now resident in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Her newspaper career saw her cover events in Northern Ireland and the Falkland Islands, as well as working for a London-based movie magazine writing reviews and carrying out interviews.

She self-published her debut romantic comedy novel A Clean Sweep in June 2017, following an online Open University course in Writing Fiction.

Audrey followed up with a short, darker prequel A Clean Break before beginning work on a rom-com novella trilogy with a ghostly twist – The Haunting of Hattie Hastings. Reviews across the board were excellent, and it was combined into a standalone novel in November 2018.

A Wish For Jinnie was published in June 2020, and her fifth book – Lost In Translation – in January 2021.

All her books are available as Kindle ebooks and paperbacks through Amazon.

Apart from writing, Audrey enjoys travel and spends a lot of time in Edinburgh. She is an avid cook, watcher of scary movies and reluctant gym-goer.

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New Publication Spotlight & Review: The Spanish Wedding Disaster by Karen King

The Spanish Wedding Disaster by Karen King

Some people are romantics. Some aren’t. When Sophie and Maddie are summoned to a mysterious, top-secret meeting by their best friend Kate’s partner, and told that he’s planning to whisk Kate away for a surprise wedding in Gibraltar, it’s immediately clear that bubbly florist Sophie is a total romantic. And that freewheeling, purple-haired Maddie is not.

Soon, Maddie finds herself reluctantly organising venues, planners and ceremonies; trying not to think of her own memories of Andalucia, and those she’s lost touch with there. Meanwhile Sophie’s hoping this dreamy gesture might spur on her own boyfriend to similar plans . . . and absolutely not thinking at all about Kate’s gorgeous brother-in-law-to-be.

But Kate’s got no idea what’s going on. And as the stress piles up and the group jet off to the sunny south, it seems it’s not just Kate who might get a surprise in Spain – one that could change everything... 

When Steve decides to arrange a secret wedding for his girlfriend Kate, he enlists the help of his brother and her two best friends… With covert meetings and secret messages, what could possibly go wrong, especially when he still has to propose to the woman he loves?

Written from the points of view of Josh, Steve’s brother and friends, Sophie and Maddie, it’s fun and enlightening as they work together to create the perfect arrangements in Spain. As they all collaborate together, it highlights many issues overlooked as they realise Steve’s idea isn’t as easy to pull-off as they thought. Therefore, I laughed out loud at the quick thinking needed to avoid Kate’s suspicions. However, they do manage to get everything arranged just in time…

I enjoyed the banter and found the whole narrative a delightful blend of all things to do with a wedding, the interaction of the characters and drooling over the fabulous itinerary for the Spanish adventure. The author has written a carefully crafted novel where she has carefully considered the responses to Steve’s outrageous idea; in particular Kate’s. Everyone connected to the surprise doesn’t fully agree with it, so it’s interesting how someone else’s plans spill over into the lives of those trying to make a dream come true. The overall atmosphere created is romantic, yet there is an overall stronger message about the power of friendship.

To sum up, this is the second book I have read by Ms King and I’m looking forward to reading many more in the future.

***arc generously received courtesy of Headline Accent via NetGalley***

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Karen King is a multi-published author of both adult and children’s books. She has had eleven romantic novels published, two psychological thrillers with another two in the process of publication, 120 children’s books, two young adult novels, and several short stories for women’s magazines. Her romantic novel The Cornish Hotel by the Sea became an international bestseller, reaching the top one hundred in the Kindle charts in both the UK and Australia. Karen is a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association, the Society of Authors, the Crime Writers’ Association and the Society of Women Writers and Journalists. Karen now lives in Spain where she loves to spend her non-writing time exploring the quaint local towns with her husband, Dave, when she isn’t sunbathing or swimming in the pool, that is.

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