Title: On London and Chicago

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I live more or less 40 miles North West of London. To get to London is easy. I either join the motorway that is twenty minutes from my house and drive straight down the road – the one with Madame Toussards on it (the A40), OR, I can go in by train.

 

The train leaves from my town, in fact my town is the last stop on that particular line, and fifty five minutes later I am slap bang in the center of the city, in Marylebone Station. A quick hop to Baker Street tube and I can get pretty much anywhere in the city. Within two hours I could be shopping in Knightsbridge, or rummaging through Markets, or visiting Notting Hill. I could be at the Tower of London, or in one of the beautiful city parks, I could take an open top bus ride and see the Houses of Parliament, or go on the London Eye. I can even go see the small roads around St Pauls and sit in a coffee shop (just like Kieran did in the start of Back Home!).

 

I don’t.

 

The last time I was in London was for the signing in September, before that I think it was to see The Desolation of Smaug at IMax. That was LAST CHRISTMAS…

 

Cities drain me completely. I love it when I am there but somehow I come away from a visit to a city feeling overwhelmed. My hubby worked for a company near St Pauls Cathedral and would commute every day to the Square Mile. I still to this day, don’t get how he did it for so long. My kind of work, and also my kind of history are both solitary things I guess. I love windswept vistas and broken castles, I love the Yorkshire Moors and the wild seas off Scotland and Cornwall. Somehow walking all day around a small ancient town is much more ME than jostling for space with other tourists in commercialized visitor hubs.

 

When people say to me ‘I want to visit London’, I inevitably suggest that it isn’t just London they visit, that they get out and see Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the counties of Cornwall, Yorkshire…  because that is what makes me happy. I quite forget other people love cities. ROFL.

 

Now Chicago. This scares me. And that is me being brutally honest. I want to know the history, I want to see the views, and experience the food, but most of me want to see those parts of it that aren’t teaming with tourists. The places just outside the city itself. I’ll need the days at GRL to chill out… or to run about frantically. J

 

Are you a city person? Or a bit of a country mouse like me?

 

 

RJ Scott has been writing since age six, when she was made to stay in at lunchtime for an infraction involving cookies. She was told to write a story and two sides of paper about a trapped princess later, a lover of writing was born. As an avid reader herself, she can be found reading anything from thrillers to sci-fi to horror. However, her first real true love will always be the world of romance where she takes cowboys, bodyguards, firemen and billionaires (to name a few) and writes dramatic and romantic stories of love and passion between these men.   With over sixty titles to her name and counting, she is the author of the award winning book, The Christmas Throwaway.  She is also known for the Texas series charting the lives of Riley and Jack, and the Sanctuary series following the work of the Sanctuary Foundation and the people it protects. Her goal is to write stories with a heart of romance, a troubled road to reach happiness, and most importantly, that hint of a happily ever after.

 

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Last Marine Standing

Book two in the Heroes series. Book 1 – A Reason To Stay OUT 8 October

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Blurb:

When the people you trusted turn on you, when you are the last one standing, should you take your secrets to the grave? Or make the murderers pay?

 

Former Marine Recon, Mackenzie ‘Mac’ Jackson has secrets. The things he did for his country, the things he saw, must never be spoken about. Until that is, his team is targeted.

 

A shift in political alliances means one particular mission undertaken by Mac and his Fire Team needs to be wiped from the history books. Starting with the team itself.

 

Forest Ranger, Samuel Larson III wants to find the Marines who saved his life. He just wants to say thank you. What he can’t know is that he’s walking into a firestorm of betrayal and murder.

 

When Samuel arrives at Mac’s place he throws Mac’s plans for hiding out of the window. Abruptly Mac has to protect a man that threatens his heart, only this time he can’t be sure he will succeed in keeping Sam alive.

 

 

 

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