Love Bytes is delighted and honoured to host the exclusive cover reveal for Helena Stone her upcoming release on this special day as it is King’s Day here in the Netherlands today.

Helena introduces us to her new book , shares the cover and brought a giveaway for our readers.

Welcome Helena 🙂

I am so delighted and honoured to be visiting the Love Bytes blog today with the cover reveal for my new, soon to be released, book: Double Dutch Courage. This book is a first for me in many ways.

 

Double Dutch Courage is the first full length book I’m self-publishing and I have to say it has been an exciting, at times daunting, but overall rewarding experience.

 

Double Dutch Courage is also the first of my books to be set in Amsterdam, the city where I was born and raised. I have to admit it’s both exhilarating and daunting to return ‘home’ with my writing.

 

I specifically asked for the cover reveal to take place on April 27^th, because today the Netherlands celebrate King’s Day, a national holiday in honour of the birthday of King Willem Alexander. Celebrating the monarch’s birthday has been a tradition in the Netherlands for at least as long as I can remember and it always turns into a huge and nationwide street party. The biggest gathering of all happens in Amsterdam, both on land and on water and Lucas and Ronan, the main characters in Double Dutch Courage, dive right into the madness. For Ronan, who has never been in Amsterdam before, it certainly is an eye-opening experience.

 

Designed by Stephen Cassidy

Blurb

 

Ronan Collins has spent most of his life in Dublin hiding who he really is. Coming out would hurt his mother, and Ronan isn’t going to be the second gay man to do that. When he receives news the father he has never known has died, leaving him both a house and a business in Amsterdam, he jumps on the opportunity to get to know the man who fathered him and to discover what he’s been denying himself for years.

 

Lucas Brandt thought he had it all when Paul Kelly offered him a job and rooms to live in. With Paul deceased he fears he may be about to lose both. He didn’t even know Paul had a son, and now this stranger is on his way from Dublin to pull the rug out from under Lucas’s feet.

 

The two men don’t expect to like each other, never mind feel attraction. With numerous reasons why hooking up would be a bad idea, why does giving in feel so much better? And is Ronan’s back story really as he’s always imagined it to be?

 

Sudden changes require great bravery. Can both men find the courage to be true to themselves and each other?

 

What’s Next?

 

Although nothing is set in stone yet, the plan is to release Double Dutch Courage on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited on May 12^th. A paperback edition will hopefully follow later that month. Updates will be posted on my Facebook page and shared through my blog and newsletter.

 

Helena Stone can’t remember a life before words and reading. After growing up in a household where no holiday or festivity was complete without at least one new book, it’s hardly surprising she now owns more books than shelf space while her Kindle is about to explode. The urge to write came as a surprise. The realisation that people might enjoy her words was a shock to say the least. Now that the writing bug has well and truly taken hold, Helena can no longer imagine not sharing the characters in her head and heart with the rest of the world. Having left the hustle and bustle of Amsterdam for the peace and quiet of the Irish Country side she divides her time between reading, writing, long and often wet walks with the dog, her part-time job in a library, a grown-up daughter and her ever loving and patient husband.

 

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