A warm Love Bytes welcome to author R.J Scott joining us today to talk about her newest release “Summer House”
Welcome R.J 🙂
Summer House
An English House Story #1
Blurb:
Ashby Sebastian Sterling-Haynes has had a lot of boyfriends, but he’s never found the one. The only person he can form an attachment to is his fourteen year old niece, and even that is in jeopardy when babysitting her cat goes all kinds of wrong. Veterinarian, Connor Lawson is much happier working with animals than with people. He has deliberately returned home and to the Summer House he recalled from childhood holidays for peace and quiet and the chance to heal from wounds no one would ever see. When his next door neighbor comes into the practice with a cat that has been in a fight he hides in his office because this Ashby guy is all kinds of dangerous. Too hot, too rich, too titled, and way too sexy for his own good. Can two men who refuse to believe in love ever learn that love is the easy part of the journey to forever?
Buylinks:
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What makes England home
England is biscuits not cookies, it is bloody hell and being polite and reserved, it is the BBC, and costume drama and Benedict Cumberbatch. England is history spanning thousands of years and Castles and artefacts, and it’s my home. I am not an eccentric Brit, nor a lager drinking Brit. I’m not a rich aristocrat in a manor house, neither am I related to any member of the Royal Family. I am English first, then British, and apparently I have an accent according to everyone at GRL (except for Clare London who doesn’t have an accent either!). I have Us and Ss in my words and I pronounce Z like zed, no zee.
But why do I love living in England?
England is small. I recall someone saying to me that in America a hundred years is a long time and in Britain a hundred miles is a long way. And that is no joke. A journey of a hundred miles has to be planned for, with a timed stop halfway for an M&S express on the motorway, or at least for a nice cup of tea. A journey of a hundred miles is the journey you may take for an English vacation!
Take for example the Cotswolds. I took a break there in February to research for my new series of books *English Hearts*. Hubby and I had a cottage, and Matt and B came as well. We had day trips and visited towns and museums and monuments. We spent hours in villages just repeating over and over, ‘it’s so quiet here’. This was a holiday, and the Cotswolds is maybe sixty miles from my front door.
But that is the thing about England (and Wales, Scotland, Ireland…) a castle can be in one town, a lake the next village over, a small forest five minutes away, King Whoever could have visited the castle, or a local manor house. In my local town alone we have stories around Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, a battle, Cavaliers, Roundheads and Civil War… not to mention I live a few miles from where our Prime Minister stays when he entertains visiting dignitaries. I am twenty minutes from the Bletchley codebreakers, an hour or so from Windsor, fifty minutes on the train to London, Cardiff is maybe two hours, even Edinburgh is maybe only six, and I’m only an hour from Harry Potter World (or whatever it’s called!).
Wherever you walk in England there is history a few feet away, and you can touch it and feel it and read about it. There is a certain peace about my country under all the rubbish that makes the news, you just need to leave the cities to find it.
I would try The Cotswolds first. Stunning villages and so much history you fall over it at every step.
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 seventy 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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I love book series but get impatient waiting!
I do love a series I can get hooked into (Texas from RJ!) but do like to know when next installment is due – waiting patiently for Crooked Tree Ranch 2!
It depends on the series. If a series has books ending in cliffhangers with no HEA in sight it frustrates me. I love series in which an established couple has new adventures and series that feature a new couple in each book with couples from the previous books also being featured. Thanks for the giveaway!
I’m happy reading series or standalones
I read both but I prefer standalones. If I read series I want each book with a different main characters bu characters from the other books are in each.
Love series!
I would love a series of standalone!
Since I can’t afford to buy series, I prefer stand alones. Congratulations and much success!
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I love both!