Blog tour ~ extract: A Holiday Romance in Ferry Lane Market by Nicola May

Genre ~ Christmas Holiday romance

Publication date ~ October 13, 2023

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Extract:

Where we are introduced to our heroine and actress, Sabrina Swift who has just been jilted at the alter and has decided to come to her honeymoon cottage alone

Sabrina Swift yanked the The Newlyweds label off the welcome pack, cast it to the floor and twisted at it viciously with the heel of her Louis Vuitton boot as if stubbing out a cigarette. As the lights in the old Cornish cottage flickered wildly, the brunette looked up at the ceiling with a pained expression. ‘Don’t you flipping dare go off. Not now it’s dark. Please, no!’

Arm held aloft and waving her phone around in the air, she made her way to the bathroom and stood shakily on the toilet seat. With her right hand almost touching the bathroom skylight, the familiar dialing tone gave way to the even more familiar Essex twang of her oldest friend and confidante, Delilah Dickinson. Sabrina breathed out a huge sigh of relief.

‘Dee, thank God! The signal here is SO shite.’

A careworn voice greeted her relieved one. ‘Rini, you do realise it’s midnight, don’t you?’

But Sabrina hadn’t called to listen. ‘I told him The Scarlet might be a better option, but no, he had to go all Bear bloody Grylls on me and book off grid.’

‘Darling, wait until it’s light. You’ve had a long drive. And from the photos you showed me before you went, it looks like a stunning location.’ Dee was whispering now. ‘Give me a sec, I don’t want to wake Stu.’

As Dee crept out of her cosy bed and on to the landing, Sabrina’s sorrowful diatribe was unrelenting. ‘It’s a bungalow. I mean, what even is a bungalow? And I’m stood in the smallest bathroom in history, on an effing toilet seat, reaching up as far as I can for signal, in the middle of effing nowhere. There is no coffee machine. No full-length mirror. And the TV isn’t even a smart one.’ Sabrina let out an exaggerated breath. ‘I could be raped, pillaged, or worse still, murdered, and nobody would even know.’

Dee yawned. ‘Anyone would think you were an actress, the way you’re going on.’

‘Ha bloody ha.’

‘I hate to say it, Rini, but it was you who made the final decision to escape to the depths of Cornwall, for this…this… noneymoon. And to be frank, the mood you’re in, I think even the most determined of intruders would run a mile.’

‘Noneymoon? You’re such a smart arse!’

‘Well, that makes up for the TV then.’

Sabrina managed to laugh.

‘Get some sleep, sweetheart,’ Dee soothed. ‘And in the morning, I’m sure you’ll feel and think differently.’

‘You reckon?’

‘I know.’

‘I love you, Dee.’

‘I love you, too, mate.’

‘It will be OK, won’t it?’

‘Your life, or not having a full-length mirror?’

‘I hate you.’ Sabrina shook her arm to relieve the numbness.

‘Make your mind up.’ Dee chuckled. ‘And if you’re still alive in the morning, call me.’

Book blurb:

When soap actor Sabrina Swift loses her way due to a public scandal, she packs up her life, heads to Cornwall and randomly finds herself running a Christmas gift shop in the quaint and quirky Ferry Lane Market.

Changing her looks and identity to keep her anonymity, the newcomer starts to make friends and enemies as she walks a frosty path in the established community.

And as rumours start circling that the outside market is going to be shut down, Sabrina is not only ensconced in an unexpected love triangle but is also faced with a difficult decision that could alter both her life and those of the inhabitants of Hartmouth forever.

Charming characters and a beautifully written setting make for a delightful and uplifting tale that explores themes of self-discovery, belonging and the importance of following your heart.

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Author Bio –

Nicola May is a rom-com superstar. She is the author of sixteen romantic comedies, all of which have appeared in the Kindle bestseller charts. Two of them won awards at the Festival of Romance, and another was named ebook of the week in The Sun. The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay became the best-selling Kindle book in the UK, across all genres, in January 2019, and was Amazon’s third-bestselling novel in that year.