Blog tour ~ guest post: The Other Mother by Heidi Field

I am delighted to have Heidi with a guest post today  ~ thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources for organizing.

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Genre: Thriller

Publication Date: November 19, 2025

Estimated Page Count: 340

Standalone Second book in a three book series

Author Content Warning: Sensitively approached underage grooming ad sexual content

Purchase link: https://amzn.to/3JR86ec

Two Is My Favourite Number

So, November 19^th is publication day for The Other Mother, book two in my Peasedale Woods Killers series, and I am SO excited!

I read and listened to a lot of authors talk about how difficult book two is, after the high of publishing a debut novel, having to get to grips with penning another eighty odd thousand words.

Well, lovely reader, I had a BALL. I already knew what The Other Mother was going to be about, how the story was going to play out, and where my protagonist, Suzannah, was headed…and it wasn’t anywhere fun!

Suzannah was a subsidiary character in my first book, The Other Boy, the mother of an accomplice, a woman in denial who was keeping A LOT of secrets. Following the aftermath of her son’s involvement with a serial killer, she is unable to move forwards in her life and find happiness because of the incarceration of her son and the shame and stain of his hideous crimes.

Suzannah’s story is about her constant battle with the truth and the havoc it will wreak on her life if it comes out. She is a woman whose lies pile up until she is at breaking point, forced to make dangerous, calculating choices that threaten everything she is trying to build with her new fiancé.

I flew through the first draft of this novel, so I was surprised when my beta reader gently expressed her concerns about the entire second half of the book. Wow! But, without feedback how do I know if what I am writing is any good, right? So, I took a deep breath and went back to my manuscript.

What I discovered was SO much better than my first attempt. I had underestimated Suzannah and failed to see a dark, resilient side to her which took the second half of the book to another level. I also created a backstory that brought the whole novel together.

My second reader was my partner. He is not a big reader, the holiday reader type. He devoured my book in two days. Holy moly! He was so desperate to see how Suzannah’s lies would play out, and get to the truth, that he couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.

Second novel, second attempt, second reader. See how those 2’s are playing out for me. The work, of course, didn’t stop there, but I was having so much fun with this story that the momentum kept me racing through to the finish, full of energy and enthusiasm.

I have two more books to write in this series, The Other Killer, which is with my editor, and The Other Brother, which is underway.

I have recently finished reading John Marrs Keep It In The Family. At 43% in I had worked it out, the whodunnit part, and I had a small slump because I thought I knew where it was going. I was right, and wrong, and I loved that. The layering. There was more to come, and it is exactly this kind of unfolding that happens in The Other Mother. Just when you think Suzannah has finally caved and told the truth, something else veers the reader off track.

I was asked a question recently about which authors I would like to go on a writing retreat with and it made me think about the elements I like to see in a good book and which writers do those things well. This is my wishlist of great book elements that I hope you will find in The Other Mother: twists, heart, relationships, grit, depth and cunning.

I always listen to fun music when I workout, to lift my mood at the start of my. This morning it was Body Rock by Maria Vidal. Go dance wildly in your kitchen and have a great day.

Thank you for having me.

Heidi

Book blurb:

Suzannah is pregnant with her third child. The first is in prison. The second is dead. How far will she go to keep her unborn baby safe? 

When Suzannah learns she is pregnant, she feels like safety and happiness are finally within reach. Her handsome, successful fiancé, Alec, is over the moon about the baby. He proposes and pampers her. He thinks this is Suzannah’s first marriage and first child, but she’s keeping a few secrets. Actually, a lot of secrets. And they are dangerous…putting Suzannah in a position where she must choose who and what she’s willing to sacrifice to keep her baby and her freedom.

Drowning in her lies, Suzannah is desperate to bury her past, but her ex-husband, who abandoned her years ago, returns, stalking her and demanding to know what really happened to their daughter. When the imprisoned serial killer who lured and groomed her son, threatens to sell his story to the press, Suzannah feels like the life she’d built and the precious one she’s growing, teeter on a precipice. Now the two children she’s hidden from Alec may be the least of her worries.

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Author Bio

Heidi Field was raised in the beautiful countryside of the South of England with her parents and her two sisters. In her twenties she was a freelance Sports Massage Therapist. She achieved a Degree in Zoology at the age of thirty and then went on to raise two boys and became the stepmother of three more young children. She still lives near her family home with her partner, their Great Dane and the children that have yet to fly the nest. In her early forties Heidi completed a Masters in Creative Writing at Winchester University. She entered the course hoping she would become a children’s fantasy writer and left with a burning desire to write contemporary mysteries and thrillers. Heidi wanted to put relatable people in extraordinary situations, challenge them, push them to their limits and watch them fight for their sanity. The Other Mother is Heidi’s second novel, the next book in The Peasedale Woods Killers series.

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