Finders Keepers

 Finders Keepers

An Almost Gothic Love Affair

Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place. 

A bride is sent off into the unknown to marry a stranger on All Hallows Eve, October 31, 1749. What she finds on her arrival is enough to make her skin crawl.
Limping footsteps, blood-curdling screams, smoking torches, and a house on a cliff... A man she only sees in the dark, his breathing labored behind a mask.
“A betrothal is as good as the wedding vows. You cannot leave.”
“Am I your prisoner?” "You shall stay here until you bear me a child. Then you can stay or go, the choice shall be mine!"

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08NF6RT4B

The how and why behind Finders Keepers

Finders Keepers was my contribution to the Soul's Day Boxset, which released on October 20th, 2020. The Boxset achieved No 1 bestseller status on Amazon. After running its course, it has now been disbanded, and the rights reverted to the authors. I thought 22 December 2020 a good date for a relaunch, after another round of edits, and sporting a new cover. The old one is on the left. 

Then the Boxset came up. I sat down with all my notes for Darkest Midnight. It didn't take much to change the theme from Christmas to Halloween, and so Finders Keepers came about.

About me

I am an international bestselling author of spooky paranormal romance. The ghost stories had not been planned - I wanted to write an ordinary romance - you know the kind - boy meets girl, they fall in love, then boy loses girl and wants her back, bla bla bla. But that was not to be. Before I knew it, there was a persistent ghost on the page. But if he wanted to be part of my story, he was going to have to work for it, so I gave him a job.

The trick is to combine things that can't be explained, sweaty bodies and rumpled beds in a way that will make the reader's toes curl and hair stand on end.

The Other Me

I love cooking - being married to a chef, the passion for food must have rubbed off. The result is that I am nearly as passionate about creating new dishes as I am about creating alpha heroes for every woman to fall in love with, just like I do, every time. 

My Cats

And I love cats. At one time, I had eleven! Now my husband, Gareth, and I have only two as we're living in an apartment. The black and white cat, Thom, was a Tuxedo cat, but he was killed by a car. His sister, pure black - unfortunately I don't have a picture of her handy - is called Nightshade. Get it? The tabby is my baby, 14 years old, called Felix.

How I became a Bestseller

I have several books published, but my WIP pile is growing instead of getting smaller. Sometimes I worry that I won't have enough time to publish them all. 

All my books feature ghosts, and they have varying levels of heat. There is the Bridesmaids, Weddings and Honeymoons series, 3 out of 5 published so far. Then there is the Moragh Saga trilogy. The first 2 books are out, and the last and final one coming mid-2021. Roxanne's Ghost duology is a complex ghost story of identical twin sisters' love for the same man. Have a look here:

https://www.amazon.com/Maggie-Tideswell/e/B005GJ3DG8

Get in Touch

Website: https://www.ghostly.com

Ghoulies & Ghosties Blog: https://www.ghostly.co.za/paranormal-romance-author-1075-2/ghoulies-ghosties-blog/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpookyParanormalRomance

Twitter: https://twitter.com/LunaMags

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mtideswell/

Email: maggietideswell@outlook.com

Finders Keepers

 

A Cornish promise

 A Cornish Promise by Terri Nixon

  

• Paperback : 432 pages 

• ISBN-10 : 0349423997 

• ISBN-13 : 978-0349423999 

• Dimensions : 12.6 x 3.6 x 19.6 cm 

• Publisher : Piatkus (3 Dec. 2020) 

 

Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cornish-Promise-Fox-Bay-Saga/dp/0349423997/ 

  

 

 

BLURB  

1929, Cornwall. Fiona Fox, youngest child of the celebrated Fox family, is a devoted volunteer at the local lifeboat station, giving all her free time and her energy to the selfless crew. But when she seizes a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do more, she sets in motion a chain of events that sparks danger and intrigue at Fox Bay Hotel. 
 
The stranger she brings into her family home provides an unsettling presence over Christmas, and when visiting 'Hollywood Royalty' is drawn into the web, Fiona has to decide how much her promises are worth after all. 
 
But the glamorous visitors have their own secrets, and their own reasons for hiding out at Fox Bay. As those reasons become apparent, Fiona must choose between betraying a close friend, and keeping her word... And lives are at stake whichever way she turns. 
 
Set against the dramatic Cornish coastline, this tale of secrets and strangers will delight fans of Rosie Goodwin and Evie Grace. 

 

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: 

Terri was born in Plymouth. At the age of 9 she moved with her family to Cornwall, to the village featured in Jamaica Inn -- North Hill -- where she discovered a love of writing that has stayed with her ever since. She also discovered apple-scrumping, and how to jump out of a hayloft without breaking any bones, but no-one's ever offered to pay her for doing those. 
 
Since publishing in paperback for the first time in 2002, Terri has appeared in both print and online fiction collections, and is proud to have contributed to the Shirley Jackson award-nominated hardback collection: Bound for Evil, by Dead Letter Press. 
 
As a Hybrid author, her first commercially published novel was Maid of Oaklands Manor, published by Piatkus Entice. 
 
Terri's self-published Mythic Fiction series set in Cornwall, The Lynher Mill Chronicles, is now complete and available in paperback and e-book. 
 
Terri also writes under the name T Nixon, and has contributed to anthologies under the names Terri Pine and Teresa Nixon. She is represented by the Kate Nash Literary Agency. She now lives in Plymouth with her youngest son, and works in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Plymouth University, where she is constantly baffled by the number of students who don't possess pens. 

 

Twitter @TerriNixon 

Website : http://www.terrinixon.com/ 

My Review

When Fiona brings a stranger into the hotel and makes her a promise, she sets in motion  a series of events that will pull her in two directions. this book has tension on every page as the reader is carried along wondering who the girl really is and what is her motive.The arrival of 'Hollywood Royalty' brings more secrets until the shocking denoument reveals the truth. 

This is a great follow-up to 'a Cornish Inheritance' and the secrets and betrayal in the main story are echoed in the subplot.

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