Eden Gardens by Lousie Brown

This story comes from Calcutta, India in the 1940's where there was great change on the cards which caused much turbulence and unrest. The story follows Maisy who walks through the Eden Gardens, through her eyes seeing the things that she has had to deal with, being born white in India at this time was not easy. Her father dies early on in life and you see how she and her mother deal with his passing . With her mother wrapped up in herself, Maisy has to start fending for herself, skipping school and roaming  the streets is not a good start to life. So when a tutor is brought to her home , she catches the tutor's eye and heart.

Sunil a man of great strength and strongly believes that the British need to leave India and will anything to achieve this , no matter the cost. Maisy no having a father around when growing up follows Sunil everywhere not knowing what she is getting her self into , but fate takes a different path towards Gordon Macbrayne .

This story is wrote with great deep and realism, I actually felt I was living there. A great read so go grab a copy.

The Holiday Home by Fern Britton

This delightful read is perfect for any holiday away from home or even sitting on the sofa with the pouring rain outside on cold winters day.

This tale is full of laughter and drama on every page which with get you hooked from the first page.

We start this book off with an estate agent trying to sell Atlantic House on the Cornish coast, the house has been left for many years after a family loss. When Henry and Dorothy drive down from the city looking for a family holiday home , they instantly fell in love with Atlantic house which need a major makeover which reflected in price. Once the house was ready Henry and Dorothy tame they two daughters Pru and Connie on they first family holiday there . Sisters will be sisters and they fight over everything and anything , with Pru always wanting to win this never changed over the years . Then the book moves to the present day and they are still competing with each other down too who gets to the holiday first ,but deep down both sisters are playing happy families but are they really happy when you look closer the cracks begin to show .

Pru is a hard working, health freak married to Francis who waits her hand and foot and has become a shell of his former self, but Francis hiding a dark secret that he has been flirting with mother on the school board and becomes and scared cat when Belinda turns up out of the blue staying in the cottages near the house.

Connie is a stay at home mum married to Greg who is the managing director of her Fathers company but Greg is playing away from home with Jamie his PA who is getting very clingy and doesn't seem to want to get rid of her and Connie is none the wiser.

The book follows them through the dramas while staying at the family holiday home , and adding more drama to the mix old flames and new family members. Do the sisters remain at war or do they find away to love each other , there are so many twists and turns in this book. so go grab a copy and find out .

Late Summer in The Vineyard by Jo Thomas

This book is addictive from the get go and should be read by all.

This is the first book I have read by this author and now look forward to reading her new material very soon.

In this wonderful take we meet Emmy, who is stuck on her life path not able to love forward . she is still living at home looking after her dad who fell apart the day her mother his wife died and her sister left home shortly after. Her work life is the same doing a job that she not really good at or even likes, but it pays the bill and just about keeps the roof over they heads .

Emmy is really not living the dream........

So when a last chance offer she grabs it with both hands and heads off to France with a gang of people to learn the wine business to net a big client, but feels that she does not fit it's not her norm or she suits the job description . The trip gone from one bad day to another, when she finds an old ladies purse and tries to hand it back. This ends in baby as she says the wrong thing and the old lady drive off. To top her day off she finds a strange man sleeping her bed when she returns to the apartment , and they do not hit it off . Especially when she finds out that Issac is the chief wine making and they will working very closely together . If Emmy could get any more drama there is Charlie the own of the wine business who has taken a shine to her, but will he be her Prince Charming ????

The best pat if this book if the relationship and bond that Emmy has  with Madame Beamont the loca, wine maker, who teaches her everything she needs to know about making wine that you I can't get from a text book.

I found it very hard at times to put this book down, so go grab a copy and who is Prince Charming for Emmy and does she save the vineyard in time....

The House on Sunset Lake by Tasina Perry

This is the second book I have read by this author. As I loved the first book , I could wait to read this one but it did take me awhile to get into this story.

In this book the character is Jim who in 1995 had a carefree summer, long hot nights on holiday with his parents in south Savavnnah. When he meet Jennifer then things started to look up. Jennifer parents owned the plantation Casa D'or on the shores of the lake.

The story then fast forwards to the present day, when Jim has been sent down to the plantation that has been left abandoned  and decaying. The job is to resort to a hotel as quick as possible hoping not to bump into faces from the past, but he is drawn to Jennifer who still holds his heart. Will he ever be able to trust her again. Will the twenty year separation keep them apart or pull them closer together.

Once I got into the story the become many twist and turns with most pages leaving me second guessing, so go grab and copy and read this delight tale.

Stark after Dark by JKenner

This the third book in this trilogy , but is easily read on its own without the other two books .

Nikki  is days away from Marrying the love of her life Damien both of them have pasts that will have sets to destroy their future it is set to say that Nikki is stressed  and everything is set against them getting married , Damien always seems to calm her down even with his dominating ways.

Nikki's Mother  is first to wave that destroy  her  daughter's happiness  as she feels that she should  be marrying the billionaire not her daughter, but Nikki finds her strength to send her packing.

Dress shopping for her dress after she had found "the one"  is proofing hard. Damian steps up to the task and tracks down her original dress the day before the wedding .

The big day doe not go with out a glitch as her mother managed to change all the wedding flowers to the flowers that Nikki hates but she rises above it to Marry the love of her life.

The honey starts of in paradise but then their travels takes them to Paris, where they are seen but the press leaving a very Private club. With all that is going on the press running stories that are trying to break up the happy couple  on top of someone is blackmailing the an Nikki hold it together.

I found that this book was last like Fifty Shades of Grey and near,y every page  had sexual content than the base line story but at the same time very easy to read.

The Lie and the Lady

In this tale we meet Leticia the countess of Churzy, who comes from a trade background. She find fortune by marry aristocracy , but is widow early into her marriage . Leticia strangles to survive and needs a plan, which was to fall in love with Lord Ashley.Lord  Ashley is hiding a secret the she is really John Turner which in turn pushes her to run away to Paris. On her travels  Leticia meets the generous Sir Barty  who is many years older than her, so desperate to escape her past she accepts his hand in marriage and starts her life over.

Meanwhile John Turner is nursing a broken heart, he fell in love with Leticia. he humiliated her which pushed her even more further away from him. So with little energy he has left he puts into rebuilding his family mill.

They both. Move on with their lives Leticia is doing everything in her power to keep her husband happy and making friends with his daughter , when one day her world comes crumbling down when John Turner has arrived in the village which is too close for comfort. Will she a be able to stay away , well you will have to go and grab a copy to find out .

Eight Ways to Ecstasy by Jeanette Grey

I will say this again, if you like the Fifty shades of Grey then your series will keep you tried over till the film comes out in 2017 !!!!

In the next chapter of the series is just as hot as 7 days to surrender. Time had moved on for Kate, she now in collage doing her art course and Ryan is on his hands and knees begging for another chance to let her know who he really is. Kate is not ready to let pick up where they were in Paris ....

Since leaving Paris Kate has been making life for yourself  and making her own, now Ryan has comes begging but her inner sex can not be so strong as she has not been with anyone once Paris and she finds herself letting him back in,  but making sure that it wasn't going to be easy for Ryan to be in her good books. Ryan don't plan for Rose not letting him straight back in, so he has to my contact with his sister for somewhere to stay.

Ryan wasn't sure he wanted his old life back, but he knew he wanted Kate which meant facing up to the past and family, he had eight days to make it work or it wasn't meant to be ...

The insane add ration for each other didn't have them apart for long , when together, Kate and Ryan were as one in every way. Kate wasn't ready but didn't know why she was fight his feelings for him away and trying to second guess him all the time.

As soon as Ryan made contact with his sister he knew that it would be hard to walk away again, so it was time to man up and run the family business  and learn from his fathers mistakes.

Will Ryan fill his fathers shoes and win the heart of Kate and keep her forever, that's whew you need to go and grab a copy and read, you won't be disappointed.

The Second Love of my Life by Victoria Walters

Just like to thank Headline for sending me this book to review , as now I have added a new author to my must read list.

In this wonderful tale we meet Rose, who is just about getting through life after losing her mother , then the love of her life Lucas her late husband who was killed by a drink driver.

From that fateful night Rose has been unable to pick up a pencil and draw to her hearts content or even walk into her art studio. Two years on she is still trying to move on , when a stranger comes into town wanting to buy some of her paintings and hoping he doesn't want to see anything new .....

Robert is a stranger in town and try's and keeps himself to himself as he is hiding a secret, but is here to buy some paintings for his flat. As the days go by he finds the town and people are very hard to resist.

Rose days consist of working at the local pub, hanging around with her best friend Emma and making she is in contact with Lucas mother and father , so she feels that nothing has changed and she can still that Lucas is with her in some way. but after meeting Robert, she has felt a strong attraction  and becomes confused, guilty for her feelings for Robert and letting go of Lucas all over again. Rise starts to draw again and Robert is trying to remain friends but fighting the chemistry between them which he didn't plan to happen. As Rose builds up her confidence to be with Robert and move on.

A very dark secret comes to light, Robert's brother is the man that killed Lucas, will this break Rose or will she come out a better person and have a second chance of love.

Go grab this delightful read and find out for yourself as once to start to read this book you won't want to put it down.