1–What is the title of your latest release? THAT SUMMER IN BERLIN 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Viviane Alden is a young Englishwoman who gets an unexpected invitation to visit Germany for the dazzling Berlin Olympics in the summer of 1936, but all is not as peaceful as it seems. Behind the scenes, the Nazis are already secretly preparing for another war. Paired with a handsome British Reporter, Viviane is asked to use her skills as a photographer to look past the spectacle of the games and find evidence of what’s really going on in Germany. If she succeeds, her photos could possibly prevent another war, but the Nazis will stop at nothing to protect their secrets, and if Viviane is caught, the consequences will be deadly. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Berlin was the world’s most exotic, cosmopolitan, and quirky city between the wars, and it became the most tragic and terrifying place under Nazi rule. When I read that the British upper classes routinely sent their young debutantes to Germany for a bit of continental polish and the possibility of marrying into the German aristocracy, I was intrigued…

It’s release day For ONCE UPON A HIGHLAND AUTUMN! It’s a pleasure to be here at Fresh Fiction to share this day with you. I also thought I’d share some of my deep, dark writerly secrets today, and tell you a bit about the story behind ONCE UPON A HIGHLAND AUTUMN. ONCE UPON A HIGHLAND AUTUMN is the second book in the Once Upon A Highland series, which began with Once Upon A Highland Summer. Each book in the series has a different magical theme, an otherworldly, mysterious edge. Highland Summer featured a pair of meddlesome ghosts, who return from the grave to see that their descendants find the love, fortune, and happiness they themselves missed out on. In ONCE UPON A HIGHLAND AUTUMN, it’s Megan MacNabb’s turn to be caught up by mysterious forces, this time an ancient curse. ONCE UPON A HIGHLAND AUTUMN is actually two stories in one. Megan and Kit’s love story is interwoven with the tale of how the dreadful curse that lies upon Glen Dorian came to be, a tragic story of love, loss, and war, that is still awaiting an ending when Kit and Megan’s story begins, some seventy years later. Now for one of…