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Win your Christmas dinner!

This competition has now closed. Mad about mince pies? Craving Christmas Pudding?  There’s nothing quite like Christmas dinner, sharing fabulous food with family and friends – and now we’re giving you the chance to win Christmas dinner on us! We’ve teamed up with Asda to treat one lucky winner £200… Read More

Happy Hour: The perfect Christmas gift

Looking for some gift inspiration? Our friends at I Just Love It have the perfect gift guide for Christmas… They say that Happy Hour is the happiest time of the day. It’s the hour where you let your hair down after work and… Read More
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Lara Temple on the importance of romance

The lovely Lara Temple came to visit us in the office and we were lucky enough to have a chat with her about her new book Lord Hunter’s Cinderella Heiress and all things romance. You’ve got a new book coming out Lord Hunter’s Cinderella Heiress –… Read More

The Evacuee Christmas: the story behind the cover art

The saying ‘never judge a book by its cover’ suggests we should all ignore how a book looks. But that’s not really how it works, is it? Ten minutes in a supermarket or a bookstore is clear evidence of that, as crime books look like other crime books, science fiction… Read More

Exclusive excerpt: The Sheikh’s Pregnant Bride

Idris Delacour never expected to be king of Dalmaya, but his cousin’s sudden death changes all that. And that’s not all—there’s a royal baby on the way, too! Being a surrogate mom should’ve given Saskia Harper and her little brother Jack a new start. Only, for her unborn child to… Read More

Win a Bellini Box and Sarah Morgan’s latest book!

This competition has now closed. We’re giving you the chance to win a fabulous Bellini Box as well as Sarah Morgan’s wonderful new book Moonlight over Manhattan. We’ll also give you a selection of Mills & Boon books! You can sit back, relax and enjoy some fizz over some romance… Read More

Exclusive excerpt: Courting Danger with Mr Dyer

Spy Bartholomew Dyer is forced to enlist the help of Moira, Lady Rexford, who jilted him five years ago. Determined not to succumb to her charms again, Bart suspects it’s not just their lives at risk—it’s their hearts… Moira laid her hand on Bart’s tight fist and squeezed it, trying… Read More
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Annie West chats tomboys, disguises and royal encounters

The Bodyguard Bride, that was my working title for this book. I liked the alliteration, but more than that, I loved the twist of having a female bodyguard, especially when I took her out of her usual environment and dumped her somewhere out of the ordinary. Surely a royal palace… Read More

Yvonne Lindsay chats writing romance

We loved your strong-minded heroine Kayla in last year’s book One Heir…or Two! Was it fun writing this book? That particular book hit a couple of false starts. I had a different vision for the beginning of the story. My editor gently reigned me in. I’m the type of person who,… Read More
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Clare Connelly: becoming a Mills & Boon author

Aspiring Writer My first Mills & Boon rejection rocked my world. I’d been reading Mills & Boons for at least two years, pretty much non-stop, and my very first manuscript contained all my blood, sweat, tears and, at the time, swoon-worthy-hero material. I was fifteen. It would be another fifteen… Read More

Louise Allen: inspiration behind my Cinderella romance

Where do plots come from? I’m often puzzled about where the ideas for my novels originate and my latest, Marrying His Cinderella Countess, is no exception. The Hero I started off with two things. One was the mental picture of a furious gentleman in an exclusive club. Read More