![]() She likes to find the humour in the darker moments of life and weaves these into her stories. In 2016, her debut novel, ‘It Started At Sunset Cottage’, was shortlisted for the Contemporary Romantic Novel of the Year and RNA Joan Hessayon New Writers Award.īella’s stories are about friendship, love and coping with what life throws at you. ‘I’m not sure pretending you’re Hudson’s girlfriend isn’t going to do that anyway.’ Anna could already see she wasn’t happy about it but they could hardly backtrack now they’d come this far.īella has been jotting down stories as far back as she can remember but decided that 2013 would be the year that she finished a full length novel. ‘Don’t piss him off, Sophie, he has the fate of our jobs in his hands.’ How are your scruples? Oh, I forgot you don’t have any,’ said Sophie, and went to get another burger leaving him somewhat shell-shocked by the snub.Īnna avoided eye contact and followed Sophie into the salad queue. ‘I’ll explain later,’ said Anna, as Liam strolled over. Sophie frowned hard and inclined her head. ‘I was going to explain on the way home away from the others, but Hudson is pretending to be my boyfriend so we can …’ Why were they doing this again? Anna was no longer sure. ‘I noticed you two seemed a bit cosy on the bus earlier,’ said Sophie, with a suspicious look in her eye.Īnna checked around her like an amateur spy. You need to have a word with your hormones.’ ‘You are aware you said that out loud?’ said Anna, rolling her eyes. ‘Do you think if I paid him he’d re-create the Mr Darcy scene from Pride and Prejudice for me?’ Sophie’s gaze drifted over to Hudson in his tight white T-shirt. ‘You should stop Dave doing that,’ said Anna drily and Sophie gave a smirk. It’s lovely not to be woken by someone jumping on your bladder.’ ‘Starving and a bit knackered but I had fun this morning and the lie-in was bliss. ‘You okay?’ Anna asked Sophie who was munching down a large hamburger overflowing with salad. If she wasn’t careful she’d soon be suffering from Sophie’s complaint.Īs the victors they were first to eat lunch, which was a barbecue by the water’s edge. If you weren’t gay, you would make an excellent boyfriend, she thought. She hoped Hudson assumed her squirming was all part of the act. ‘Nice job, honey,’ he whispered, making her shudder. When he knew Liam was watching, Hudson leaned into Anna’s ear. Once out of the canoes there was lots of congratulatory blokey back slapping, a few playful remonstrations and lots of Karl shaking his wet head over people like a naughty puppy. Luckily, Anna and Sophie have each other – and Wildflower Park proves to be a sanctuary as they map out a path to find the happiness they both deserve…īella has shared an extract with us today. Her husband is a constant frustration, and their children are a regular source of newly-invented swear words and unidentifiable sticky surfaces. And when she receives an accidental text from a mystery man, could it be the new start she needs? Or someone she really shouldn’t be falling for?Īnna’s neighbour Sophie is a stressed-out mum-of-two with a third on the way. When Anna is dumped by her fiancé, she moves in to her own place on the edge of the gorgeous Wildflower Park and pledges to stay off men and focus on her career, but a handsome new colleague seems to thwart her attempts at every turn. Jenny will gamble with her very life in order to protect her son and Charmas from harm.Welcome back to Bella Osborne and the blog tour for part two of a four-part serial, Wildflower Park. Overcome by Charmas' allure, Jenny begins to succumb to her feelings of passion, until her world is shattered by the reappearance of her violent husband. The stranger is a handsome man named Charmas, but he claims to remember little else, having lost his memory after the accident that led him to be in Jenny's care. But when she accidentally shoots a stranger and takes it upon herself to nurse him back to health, she finds all of her defenses wavering. Her beauty makes her the object of many men's desires, but with a broken heart and an independent streak as strong as the mountains themselves, Jenny refuses them all. "A story to treasure." ( Romantic Times).įor two years Jenny Latham has lived alone with her young son in the Colorado mountains, trying to manage her guilt over letting an abusive husband control her for too long. From national bestselling romance author Raine Cantrell. In the idyllic mountains of Colorado, a woman will risk her life to save the ones she loves.
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