Alex Beecroft & Riptide Publishing are here today promoting the new Porthkennack novel, Foxglove Copse. Be sure to comment below to be entered in the giveaway. Good luck!
About Foxglove
Copse
After a massive anxiety
attack, Sam Atkins left his high-powered job in the City and committed himself
to life on the road in a small van. Six months in, he’s running out of savings
and coming to the conclusion that he might have to go home to his emotionally
abusive family.
Needing
time to think, he takes a walk through a copse by the Cornish roadside, only to
stumble upon the body of a ritualistically killed sheep. As he’s trying to work
out what the symbols around the animal mean, the sheep’s owner, Jennifer, and
her nephew, Ruan Gwynn, come upon him.
Ruan
is a kind-hearted young man with a large supportive clan, and since he and Sam
feel almost instant attraction, he doesn’t want
to believe Sam is a sheep-killing cultist. In fact, the moment he lays eyes on
Sam’s miserable solitary life, he wants to rescue the man. But as the killings
escalate, he and Sam need to stop whoever is actually to blame before they can
concentrate on saving each other.
About the Porthkennack Universe
Welcome to Porthkennack, a charming
Cornish seaside town with a long and sometimes sinister history. Legend says
King Arthur's Black Knight built the fort on the headland here, and it’s a
certainty that the town was founded on the proceeds of smuggling, piracy on the
high seas, and the deliberate wrecking of cargo ships on the rocky shore.
Nowadays it draws in the tourists with sunshine and surfing, but locals know
that the ghosts of its Gothic past are never far below the surface.
This
collaborative story world is brought to you by five award-winning, best-selling
British LGBTQ romance authors: Alex Beecroft, Joanna Chambers, Charlie Cochrane, Garrett Leigh, and JL Merrow. Follow Porthkennack and its inhabitants
through the centuries and through the full rainbow spectrum with historical and
contemporary stand-alone titles.
About Alex Beecroft
Alex Beecroft is an English author best
known for historical fiction, notably Age of Sail, featuring gay characters and
romantic storylines. Her novels and shorter works include paranormal, fantasy,
and contemporary fiction.
Beecroft won
Linden Bay Romance’s (now Samhain Publishing) Starlight Writing Competition in
2007 with her first novel, Captain’s
Surrender, making it her first published book. On the subject of writing
gay romance, Beecroft has appeared in the Charleston
City Paper, LA Weekly, the New Haven Advocate, the Baltimore City Paper, and The Other
Paper. She is a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association of the UK and an
occasional reviewer for the blog Speak Its Name, which highlights historical gay
fiction.
Alex was born in
Northern Ireland during the Troubles and grew up in the wild countryside of the
English Peak District. She lives with her husband and two children in a little
village near Cambridge and tries to avoid being mistaken for a tourist.
Alex is only
intermittently present in the real world. She has led a Saxon shield wall into
battle, toiled as a Georgian kitchen maid, and recently taken up an
800-year-old form of English folk dance, but she still hasn’t learned to
operate a mobile phone.
She is
represented by Louise Fury of the L. Perkins Literary Agency.
Connect with Alex:
To celebrate the release of Foxglove
Copse, one lucky winner will receive a
$10 Amazon gift card and an ebook of their choice from Alex’s backlist! Leave
a comment with your contact info to enter the contest. Entries close at
midnight, Eastern time, on September 9, 2017. Contest is NOT restricted to U.S.
entries. Thanks for following the tour, and don’t forget to leave your contact info!
Looks like a great addition to the series!
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Looking forward to giving this a read.
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I'm really enjoying this series. Looking forward to this book! violet817(at)aol(dot)com
ReplyDeleteThanks for the post and congrats, Alex. I love your historicals, and the mystery part of this. Another great addition to this wonderful collaborative series. There is so much going on in this "nack" of the woods, it's almost like Peyton Place :-). - Purple Reader,
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This is a great series, all the authors are excellent, and the books I've read so far are really worth it. So happy there is a new one out! Congrats, Alex!
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Congrats on the release!
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