In the Heat of the Night: Bindarra Creek: A Town Reborn by Susanne Bellamy

A teaser from, In the Heat of the Night: 

In the Heat of the Night: Bindarra Creek: A Town Reborn (Bindarra Creek A Town Reborn Book 2)

“Looks like you’ve got a new recruit, Kel.” 
“Excellent. Who is it?” Kel couldn’t see beyond the door. 

A brief pause, the hint of curly black hair and then Thalia stepped into the room. Her chin rose, imperious as a warrior queen. 

“Like I said before, where do I sign up, Captain?” 

Kel folded his arms across his chest, holding back laughter at the diminutive figure of Thalia Levonis in his fire station. Not only in his station, but demanding to join his crew. Certain she was playing him, he decided to play along. “Great. So you’re serious?” 

“Of course I am.” 

“In that case, Mandy, can you give Ms Levonis the hotline number and explain about the info pack and all that? Although maybe, since we’ve just returned from a call-out, we should show her what we do, starting with helping the crew clean off the appliance, which is what we call our fire truck.” He stripped off his sweaty T-shirt, balled it and tossed it through the doorway onto his desk before strolling to the door. 

Thalia gasped and her gaze fixed on his bare chest. 

Kel grinned. Two can play that game, Thali. 

“Coming, Tha-li-a?” He stressed the third syllable of her name and stood in front of her, one hand on the door beside her head. 

Pink raced up her cheeks and her eyes flickered up, down to his bare chest and back up so fast he couldn’t be certain. But he was almost sure he saw a flash of fire, a flicker of sensual awareness, and the promise of retribution in her eyes. Any one of those interested him. All three together? Intriguing.

About Susanne Bellamy

Susanne Bellamy lives in Australia, on the edge of bushland. She loves to write and to travel, and combining her two passions is the best of all worlds. Travel, whether at 'home' or abroad, inspires her heroes and heroines and the settings of her novels. A writer of contemporary rural romances and romantic suspense, Susanne is also a popular guest speaker.

She has trekked in Nepal and Vietnam, lived in a Parisian studio and led a school group on an educational tour of West Coast America and visited many other places. She has lived 'out west' in Australia but now lives within striking distance of Australia's beautiful beaches.

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Bound by Love (A 'Bound Fantasy' Book 1) By S. E. Gilchrist

BOOK ONE:
Set in the ancient, pagan days where myths and magic existed side-by-side with the mortal world, comes Bound by Love, the first book in an erotic, historical romance series.

A kidnapped young fae woman looking for her mother. A demon warrior hell-bent on revenge. And a love that forges a bridge between two sworn enemies.

Whilst searching for the mortal mother who bore than abandoned her, Teelah, a pixie princess, becomes the unwitting pawn in a warrior's thirst for vengeance against her father.

Domhnall, a Fomorian from across the seas, is determined to bind his captive to him for eternity, thus dealing a bitter blow to his hated enemy. But Teelah's fearless stance and light-hearted spirit spark life into the black shell of his lonely heart. Now he hungers for more than her body.

With war looming and an enemy consumed with lust for power, will distrust and hatred destroy both their love and their lives?

BOOK TWO:
After trudging from battlefield to battlefield in the footsteps of the Fomorian army, Aileen is desperate to have a home far from the horrors of war. She will do anything to achieve her goals. Even lie to the kin and people of her newly deceased husband.

But lies are nothing compared to drugging a pixie king and stealing his memory...and his seed.

When Ioducus returns to the hill fort, Tranelleon, he discovers both a son he never knew he sired and forgotten memories of one wild night of ecstasy. Burning with a desire to teach Aileen a lesson she'll never forget, he soon realizes it is more than lust that drives him. Could this be the one woman who can lift his curse and gift him with true love?

But for one, lies are not so easily forgiven and Aileen may well lose everything she holds dear.

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S E Gilchrist is the author of the best-selling DarkonWarriors series. She lives in the Hunter Valley, Australia with her family and pets and is the author of over twenty books. 

As S. E. Gilchrist, she writes in the exciting worlds of science fiction, ancient historical, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic and loves writing adventure and romantic suspense. 

As Suzanne Gilchrist, she writes women's fiction and contemporary small-town romances, often with a splash of suspense.

SE takes a keen interest in the environment and animal welfare. She loves bushwalking and kayaking, spending time with family and friends and walking her dogs. She co-runs the Hunter Romance Writers with her good friend, Sandie James and has organised several group writing ventures, including the best-selling Bindarra Creek Romances.

Latest Releases: Take Me Home - Bindarra Creek A Town Reborn
Bindarra Creek Short & Sweet (Multi author anthology)
Sweet Country Romances (3 book bindup)

Coming Next: Cosmic Flare

LINKS:
Website: http://www.segilchrist.com
Blog: https://segilchristauthor.wordpress.com/
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https://www.bookbub.com/authors/s-e-gilchrist
https://twitter.com/SEGilchrist1

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SWEET COUNTRY ROMANCES BOX SET

TAKE ME HOME. A BINDARRA CREEK ROMANCE, AUSTRALIAN RURAL ROMANCE

A BINDARRA CREEK ROMANCE, AUSTRALIAN RURAL ROMANCE, BETWEEN THE PAGES.

Take Me Home by Suzanne Gilchrist

Juanita Kees talks with Australian author Suzanne Gilchrist

I’m very excited to welcome to the blog, Suzanne Gilchrist, the brains behind A Bindarra Creek Romance.

Love romance? Love adventure? Love suspense? Welcome to my writing world.
If you love reading sweet, heart-warming and small town romances or passionate love stories sprinkled with suspense or sexy, dangerously high-stake romances then visit my books page. Under my new writing name of Suzanne Gilchrist, my stories encompass contemporary, sweet small-town romances and under S. E. Gilchrist, you can find edgy science-fiction/space opera romances, apocalyptic, and contemporary romantic suspense/adventure romances. No matter the genre, my stories always feature strong, independent women and gorgeous men they soon realise they can’t live without.

Hi everyone and thanks so much Juanita for hosting me as guest on your blog today to help celebrate the release of my latest novel, Take Me Home.

Over the last few years, I’ve become torn as a writer – do I continue to write in the genre I was first published in (science fiction romance) or do I concentrate on writing small town, sweet romances? It’s a hard decision for me as I love both worlds.

While my passion for science fiction was born from watching Doctor Who and Lost in Space on our old black and white telly with my father (not to mention reading everything I could get my hands on), my passion for stories set in small country towns was fuelled by my love for the vast open spaces of Australia.

From the time I was sixteen, I had itchy feet. My first venture travelling without my family was when I hopped on a bus alone to visit a girl friend who’d moved to Melbourne. My first interstate trip. I quickly followed this up with a camping tour through South Australia, the Northern Territory and Outback Queensland. Since then, I’ve travelled throughout Tasmania (again camping and Oh MY Gosh is it cold down there!), extensively through New South Wales and the Northern Territory and parts of Queensland and Western Australia. I’ve also travelled to Hong Kong, Bali, Singapore, New Zealand, Florida, Los Angeles and Boston.

Along the way I met some lovely people, struggling to make a living in harsh landscapes and difficult economies, and who gave me a new appreciation of life beyond my normal urban parameters.

My fascination with the amazing variety of the Australian landscape has never waned. Couple that with my desire to highlight the often heart-breaking difficulties facing our cousins living in small, dying towns manifested itself in the Bindarra Creek group writing series I organised.

Take Me Home is the first book in series three set in the fictional community of Bindarra Creek. As is often the case with writers, my first vague idea quickly morphed into a far different story than I’d envisaged.

Usually I begin my books with a situation or event before populating my story.

However with Take Me Home, I began with a character.

Abby Taylor, almost forty years old and living a life alone. The first question I asked myself was – why? Why was this attractive and personable woman living that kind of life? And it came to me immediately – she couldn’t have children and, in her grief and disappointment, now shuns all thoughts of family life.

I instantly knew I had my story. And I also knew how to turn Abby’s life upside down and challenge her hard-won choices. And I also knew I had to give her a HEA.

I hope readers enjoy meeting the quirky characters of Bindarra Creek again through our series.

And I hope you join me in cheering on Abby as she struggles with past griefs and learns to move onto a brighter future in my romance, Take Me Home.

To celebrate the release of Take Me Home, the ebook version of Bindarra Creek Makeover which was the first romance in the original Bindarra Creek series, has an updated cover and will be on sale this weekend 20th July and 21st July at $0.99.

Take Me Home

Forgiving the past was too painful until now.

Almost forty, Abby Taylor has built a new life for herself in the small country town of Bindarra Creek. When an old friend convinces her to give two adolescent boys a temporary home, she is torn between a growing love for these orphans and the grief in her past.

After his marriage fell apart, Roman Taylor has focused on his career. An unexpected phone call sends him rushing to Abby’s side where he is drawn into his estranged wife’s new life – a life that could offer a future he thought he’d lost forever.

Will they seize this second chance? Or will fate once again destroy their dreams?

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