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Winter Star in the Scottish Highlands – 99p – #kindledeal
Winter Star in the Scottish Highlands is available to download for £0.99 until 31st of May.
After that it reverts to the original price of £2.99. So get it while it’s hot. Winter Star in the Scottish Highlands can be read as a stand alone. Or, you can find out more about Halley and Tor’s relationship and how/when they fell in love by reading Dark Highland Skies . I am currently writing the third book in the series: Summer Solstice in the Highlands of Scotland which I hope to publish late spring 2026.
This isn’t the first time kindle deal I’ve been offered. I was on holiday in Scotland on a freezing cold autumn day at John O Groat’s when my phone pinged and there it was. That deal was for my novel Boot Camp Bride. If you want to know more about Boot Camp Bride you can read an extract here. It is currently available to download for £0.99. Strangely, I was in the Cotswolds on the hottest day of the year this time when Amazon offered me this kindle deal. I accepted straight away as such offers are as rare as hens’ teeth.
Perhaps caravanning brings me luck! Back in 2017 when I was offered my first deal, we were touring Scotland with our first caravan – and Ebay bargain at £300. Since then, after deciding that caravanning is for us, we have upgraded several times and are currently on our fifth – a double axle with ensuite shower room, island bed and full size fridge. Strangely enough, we collected it from Newhaven which is exactly where we spent our honeymoon in great uncle Tommy’s wooden (!) caravan with no running water, fridge or other refinements.
You can read here about how our caravan becomes my writing room when we’re on holiday
Anyway, I digress. Here the books are side by side. I have a lot of affection for the hero/heroine in Boot Camp Bride, Rafa and Charlie – but Tor and Halley (Winter Star) are my and readers’ current favourites.
If you haven’t read ‘Winter Star’, Here’s the blurb – As the harsh Lochaber winter approaches and with Halley expecting a baby, living in the converted Airstream caravan, Beag air Bheag, becomes impractical. Tor’s family home – Eagles Crag – offers shelter, but his mother’s inevitable meddling is holding them back from moving there. Instead, they find refuge in the Dower House and prepare for the arrival of their baby with optimism and hope, embracing the magic of a Highland Christmas, culminating in the Ghillies’ Ball on Hogmanay.
However, an old flame of Tor’s rents the nearby bothy threatening to disrupt their idyllic life . . .
Is their love strong enough to survive the trials of family, winter and a ghost from the past?
. . . and finally. When we were in the Cotwolds we went to Snow’s Hill Manor where I spotted a bassinet in an attic room. It was seeing a similar cot in Drum Castle in Scotland two years ago which inspired me to include the contentious “Strachan Bassinet” in Winter Star.
I’ll sign off for now. Thank you for reading my blog post – I hope it has inspired you to download Winter Star and Dark Highland Skies which are available for £2.98
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Hip Hip Hooray – it’s publication day
My beta reading team have enjoyed reading Dark Highland Skies and I loved writing it. My husband checked through the final edits before I sent the manuscript to Sarah at Goldcrest Books to have it formatted for Kindle and the cover added.
Cheekily, he gave marks out of ten! But did add how much he’d enjoyed reading it and wondered what I’d be writing next. Good question . . .
So – what is Dark Highland Skies about? Read the blurb and find out more
The starting point for the novel was a visit to Mallaig and the Silver Sands of Morar in 2021. I stood on the beach on a beautiful summer’s day and wondered how it would look in the depths of winter. I turned, and in my mind’s eye, I saw my heroine, Halley Dunbar, slither down the bank to the beach. There she is rugger tackled to the ground by the hero, Tor, who . . . . You can read the opening paragraph here – and I hope you will feel compelled download a copy and read on.
Picking up the
nearest sturdy branch she prodded the ground in front of her and edged forward, forgetting about everything other than reaching the beach without breaking her neck. Luckily, the moment she set foot on the silver sands the clouds parted, and the pale gibbous moon showed the way to the old salmon bothy. Straightening, Halley looked across the loch towards
the lights on the far shore and despite her earlier resolution, memories
crowded in thick and fast. Voices. Laughter. The touch of a hand on her
skin. A Judas kiss. Now she could finally admit that putting her uncle’s
affairs in order wasn’t the only reason for making this trip.
She had ghosts to lay.
There’s nothing more for me to add other than I loved writing this novel and I hope you will love reading it. Do remember to leave a review and to share your thoughts with me on Amazon or Goodreads. I’m just about to start writing #8 but I’ll tell you more about that in future blog posts.
Bye for now, Lizzie
Lizzie Lamb - author 