Hi, I’m Molly MacRae, author of ARGYLES AND ARSENIC, book 5 in the Highland Bookshop Mysteries. The series is about four women from the Midwest, ready for a change, who pool their money, buy a bookshop on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands, and move there to run it. It’s Scotland! The Highlands! What could possibly go wrong?   A is for arsenic – King of Poisons, Inheritor’s Powder, the People’s Choice. Did someone put arsenic in Wendy Erskine’s teacup during Violet MacAskill’s party? R is for red herrings. There are plenty of them. Will the four women of Yon Bonnie Books be able to sort through them before the villain strikes again? G is for guilty. Someone is guilty. Is it the owner of the Mr. Potato Chef food truck? The unidentified woman at Violet’s party who said she was going for help but apparently didn’t? Surely it can’t be Violet’s granddaughter Isobel. Y is for Yon Bonnie Books. The four women who own the bookshop and adjoining tearoom are a clever crew of amateur sleuths but, with this villain, have they finally met their match? L is for the lies being told. Who can the sleuths trust?…

1–What is the title of your latest release? MURDER AT PRIMROSE COTTAGE 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? When Flora Steele sets off for a peaceful vacation, the last thing she expects to find is a body in her cottage garden, or to feel her safety threatened as she uncovers long-hidden secrets from the wartime past. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Flora owns a bookshop in a small Sussex village called Abbeymead in the south of England, and most of her adventures take place in that area. In this third book in the mystery series, though, she is on holiday in Cornwall, a county I know well. It’s a magical place, with magnificent landscape and a stunning coastline. 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? I would! Flora is a feisty girl, courageous and hardworking, who confronts the barriers facing women in the 1950s with energy and humor. 5–What are three words that describe your hero? Lanky, laconic, caring. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? How involved Cornwall was in the Second World War, particularly in preparations for the D-Day invasion. 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait…

Your book THE HIGHLANDER’S STOLEN BRIDE is described as an enemies-to-lovers romance. Not counting a few exceptions that prove the rule, I’ve always been more of a friends-to-lovers fan. What is the dynamic between these two characters? And what makes their love story so compelling? I confess, I’m a huge enemies-to-lovers fan, especially when it includes a wounded hero…which this one does. When the Campbell clan comes back from their exile in Ireland to reclaim their land in Scotland, the McMillan siblings scramble to ally themselves through the best way they could in those days – through marriage. This is the last book of the Highland Alliance’s series and the heroine, Elspeth MacMillan, is supposed to wed the son of a neighboring laird, but on her way to the unwanted union, she gets kidnapped by Calum Campbell, son of the notoriously cruel Alexander Campbell who killed Elspeth’s father and many of their people. However, Calum Campbell is not only the son of a terrible and powerful man, he’s also the hero of The Highlander’s Stolen Bride.   Do you like to throw third act surprises in your romances? Like the hero and heroine almost have their relationship worked out when…

What was your inspiration for BECOMING MY SISTER? Either from true crimes or from modern celebrity culture? I live in Palm Springs and have been at events and people’s homes and estates in what is the setting for this novel, The Movie Colony. So first, I thought of it as a perfect V.C. Andrews location, meaning the setting plays a dramatic role in the story. In our culture now especially, celebrity is almost a religious thing. People apply to celebrities what they apply to icons of film and television. Being in their presence is truly an almost spiritual event, even just seeing someone in person. To take that concept and apply it to the mother of two adolescents was a natural V.C. thought for me.  The girls are not so much in rivalry with themselves as they are with the ghosts of old movie stars. How can they compete? What does their mother demand of them in relation to this? How have the learned to deal with it and how does it make them more independent. Their father is almost oblivious to it all.  Gish, our man character, named after Lillian Gish, looks to her sister Gloria for guidance because…

Your book, DARK FIRE, just came out. It’s part of your “Fireblood Dragon” series. I think that might be the only series of yours I haven’t dipped into. Can you explain for readers what that world is about? Where it takes place and the basic dynamic between species. DARK FIRE is set in the world of Fireblood Dragons, which is our world, except seven years in the past, a Rift between worlds was torn open and a host of dragons flew into our world from another. The dragons immediately went crazy and destroyed everything, killing, and destroying until there wasn’t much of civilization left.  Now people live in ‘forts’ set up in old cities and try to eke out an existence. Turns out that the dragons aren’t just sky-sharks – they’re also people. Shifter people! And the only thing that can tame a male dragon is a mate.   I was so happy to find out your Ice Planet Barbarian books were being reissued. I have many of them on my kindle, but with the new covers being so pretty, I might finally get print copies of my favorites. Will all your Ice Planet Barbarian books be reissued? I get…

1–What is the title of your latest release? WITCH IN RETROGRADE released January 2022. 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? 49-year-old Police Detective and witch, Sarah Jane Prentice, navigates life without her husband as she faces a serial killer in her town, a nosy spirit guide, and the loss of her magic. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Originally, I had the book set in Atlanta, but quickly realized its been more than 25 years since I lived there, and cities change so much. Placing it in California, specifically Silicon Valley gave me a great opportunity to share what I’ve learned living here for the past 10 years. I’ve really grown to love the area and setting is a character unto itself, so I’m excited about presenting it that way. 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? Absolutely. I like her a lot. Which is important to me as a writer because I intend to spend a lot of time with her in the future. 5–What are three words that describe your hero? Smart, determined, no nonsense and loving. I know, I know that’s four. LOL 6–What’s something you…

1–What is the title of your latest release? BARGAINING FOR THE BARRISTER, a Matchmaking Mama Romance book 1 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Louisa Cox is tired of fortune hunters pursuing her dowry. So when a league of matronly matchmakers offers to find her an eligible suitor, Louisa eagerly accepts. Paul, the man who is selected to be her future husband, is a complete stranger. But he has one thing in his favor: he is unaware of her fortune. Bargaining for the Barrister is a Regency Romance with an abundance of humor and heart.   3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I fell in love with images of a castle in Yorkshire during my research (stalk me on Pinterest to see my saved pins!) and knew I had to set a story in the same countryside.   4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? Absolutely! Louisa radiates positive energy. She can see the bright side of any situation. Everyone needs a Louisa in their life.   5–What are three words that describe your hero? Selfless, loyal, determined   6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? I learned…

A trio of real-life personages followed by fictional characters who illumine a dramatic period of British history – the abdication of King Edward VI – make up this month’s selection of historical fiction.   We begin with THE GOLDEN PRINCE by Rebecca Dean. Seventeen-year-old Prince Edward is already chafing at the stifling role he’s being pressed into, feeling unloved by the disciplinarian father he can never please and his cool and unsympathetic mother.  When a car accident makes him an unexpected house guest at Snowberry Manor, he is brought into the “ordinary,” less complicated world of the Houghton sisters, granddaughters of Lord May of Snowberry.  Free for once to just be himself, he’s particularly drawn to Lilly, the talented and artistic youngest daughter, who is equally drawn to him.  Soon the two fall headlong into love.  Dean adds layers to her story by including the lives of Lilly’s sisters: Rose, the suffragette and journalist who wants to avoid romantic entanglements; Marigold, a “fast” girl interested in men, parties and high society, and Iris, who longs only for a home and family of her own with the man she loves.  But much as Lilly brings out the best in Edward, can…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Greta Rose West! Writes: Greta writes Small-town Western romance, but it ain’t sweet! Wisper, Wyoming may be a fictional small town, but once you get there, you’ll never wanna leave. About: Internationally Bestselling author, Greta Rose West, enjoys long walks on the beach and seriously manly cowboys with bulging muscles and hurt hearts, looking for their one true loves in all the wrong places. She also enjoys lemon macarons so very much more than she should. She’s a boy mom to a twenty-year-old smart aleck, and her cat is her soul mate. Please don’t tell her husband. The Ideal reader for the first book in the Cade Ranch series, BURNED, should love: Romantic Suspense Grumpy heroes Forced Proximity tropes Alpha cowboys and Feisty heroines Nail-biting suspense Small-town stories with little old ladies who fight hard for their adopted sons and who don’t take any bull from those boys And Greta’s ideal reader should love STEAM—explicitly described and deliciously sexy! What to expect if we’re compatible: You should expect to…

“The house still isn’t for sale.” Melanie’s gaze strayed toward the stairs. “Look, why don’t we go somewhere to sit down and have a cup of coffee to discuss this? My feet hurt.” I knew there had to be another reason she wanted to leave. Melanie’s feet would have to be bleeding and on fire for her to say that wearing heels had been a bad idea. “There’s no discussion,” Beau said. “I own this house and it isn’t for sale.” I tilted my head back to look him in the eyes. “Well, the MLS says differently. And I’m calling my agent right now to make an offer.” Before he could respond, Jolene said, “There’s an adorable café right down the street, on Burgundy.” “Is it vegan?” Beau asked. “Assuming Nola still prefers cardboard to real food.” “I’m sure I can find something,” I said, less annoyed than I should have been. He’d remembered something about me that wasn’t pitiful. Which probably meant that he could recall more about me than I would have liked, but at least that part was from an earlier time, before the worst parts. “Fine,” I said. “But I’m not changing my mind.” Melanie practically…