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Blurb
Fleeing
from a romance gone wrong, Ellie Farmer arrives in the pretty village of
Sunnybrook, hoping for a brand new start that most definitely does not include
love!
Following
an unscheduled soak in the village duck pond, she meets Sylvia, who runs the
Little Duck Pond Cafe. Renting the flat above the cafe seems like the answer to
Ellie's prayers. It's only for six months, which will give her time to sort out
her life, far away from cheating boyfriend Richard.
But
is running away from your past ever really the answer?
Clashing
with the mysterious and brooding Zak Chamberlain, an author with a bad case of
writer's block, is definitely not what Ellie needs right now. And then there's
Sylvia, who's clinging so hard to her past, she's in danger of losing the
quaint but run-down cafe altogether.
Can
Ellie find the answers she desperately needs in Sunnybrook? And will she be
able to help save Sylvia's Little Duck Pond Cafe from closure?
Excerpt
I have never climbed a tree in my
life.
But I suppose there’s a first time
for everything.
It’s a gaspingly cold mid-January
morning with an ice-blue sky overhead – not exactly the ideal conditions in
which to be lurking on the pavement outside a stranger’s house, nervously
eyeing up the oak tree in their garden.
Camera gripped in my freezing hands,
I stamp my feet and blow out misty breath as I psyche myself up to be bold.
I’ve driven sixty miles from Newtown, where I live, to the pretty,
chocolate-box village of Sunnybrook in Surrey – with the ultimate goal of
climbing this very tree and taking photos of the view from up there.
The tree is almost exactly how I
pictured it in my imagination – old and gnarled with broad, evenly-spaced
branches. My eye homes in on one branch in particular. It reaches out to the
left, a little over six feet from the ground; the perfect place to sit and gaze
out over the village green and the duck pond. (As I knew it would be.)
Tears fill my eyes. But I’m smiling,
too.
It’s all in a good cause.
Stop dithering and just do it!
When I push it open, the garden gate
swings inwards without creaking and the windows remain blank. I drop my bag by
the gate and head for the tree.
It’s amazing how fear can give you
almost super-human powers. Under normal circumstances, I’d need someone to give
me a bunk-up into this tree. But today, with adrenalin pumping through my
system, I manage to swing myself up there with no problems at all . . .
Author bio and links
Rosie
has been scribbling stories ever since she was little.
Back
then, they were rip-roaring adventure tales with a young heroine in perilous
danger of falling off a cliff or being tied up by ‘the baddies’.
Thankfully,
Rosie has moved on somewhat, and now much prefers to write romantic comedies
that melt your heart and make you smile, with really not much perilous danger
at all – unless you count the heroine losing her heart in love.
Spring at the
Little Duck Pond Café is the first in Rosie’s brand new
series of novellas centred around life in a village café. Each novella is a
‘stand-alone’ read.
You
can connect with Rosie Green on Twitter: @Rosie_Green1988
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Thanks so much for hosting today’s stop on my blog tour, Nickie. Very much appreciated!!
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Thanks for hosting!
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