A 32K romantic suspense novella featuring an ancient pele lighthouse, a woman who won't give up, a man who won't give in, and rather more past than either of them expect.
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'Old houses have secrets ... sometimes they are not that far back in the past'
The fortified pele tower of Fairlights, with its beacon shining out across the harbour, has guarded Whitcliff by land and sea for centuries. Sorcha Ravell is determined to keep her ancestral home viable by converting it into a hotel, despite friction within the family. She thought she'd recruited the perfect restoration expert in Nick Marten, but he turns out to be dangerously attractive, knows far more about her than she can account for, and is very, very angry.
As the autumnal storms build and the tension rises, Sorcha must overcome a paralysing physical fear and confront a terrifying mental enigma. What happened years ago on the treacherous pele stair? When did she lose a strip of memory? She must conquer both in order to lay hold of Nick - and keep him.
Set on the ruggedly beautiful west coast of Cumbria, this breathless, atmospheric short novel finds the heroine battling the elements as well as her own internal demons in order to get her man safely home.
"Engaging heroine, brooding hero, hidden past. Very Mary Stewart."
FAIRLIGHTS is dedicated to Mary Stewart. The first romantic suspense writer - and still the best. My personal heroine.
[An extremely abridged version of this work was first serialised in Woman's Weekly in February 2013]
Genre: Romantic Suspense
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'Old houses have secrets ... sometimes they are not that far back in the past'
The fortified pele tower of Fairlights, with its beacon shining out across the harbour, has guarded Whitcliff by land and sea for centuries. Sorcha Ravell is determined to keep her ancestral home viable by converting it into a hotel, despite friction within the family. She thought she'd recruited the perfect restoration expert in Nick Marten, but he turns out to be dangerously attractive, knows far more about her than she can account for, and is very, very angry.
As the autumnal storms build and the tension rises, Sorcha must overcome a paralysing physical fear and confront a terrifying mental enigma. What happened years ago on the treacherous pele stair? When did she lose a strip of memory? She must conquer both in order to lay hold of Nick - and keep him.
Set on the ruggedly beautiful west coast of Cumbria, this breathless, atmospheric short novel finds the heroine battling the elements as well as her own internal demons in order to get her man safely home.
"Engaging heroine, brooding hero, hidden past. Very Mary Stewart."
FAIRLIGHTS is dedicated to Mary Stewart. The first romantic suspense writer - and still the best. My personal heroine.
[An extremely abridged version of this work was first serialised in Woman's Weekly in February 2013]
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Used availability for Jan Jones's Fairlights