I am SO excited. I’m jumping up and down and showing all my friends.
I got the cover for my soon-to-be-released debut romance novel Above Scandal. That’s it over there on the right.
Isn’t it beautiful?
With recommendations from Deborah Cooke and Mary Buckham, I contacted Kim Killion to design the cover. Kim and her staff at The Killion Group were so patient with newbie me. I have a print-out of the cover on the wall in front of my computer. Every time I look at it, I sigh with delight.
Sigh.
Also on Team Leacott 😀 is The Romantic Editor, Kristin Anders. She has a real talent for spotting tricky passages and suggesting the perfect fix. She truly “gets” the romance genre and me as a writer. I’m so glad I found Kristin.
Sigh.
Above Scandal is the first in a series of full-length contemporary romances set in Clarence Bay on the rugged shores of Georgian Bay, Canada. That’s the real bay behind Cathy and Ryan on my cover. I spend my summers there, cottaging and boating near the real town that inspired the home town of my heart.
Sigh.
Secrets and Scandals
Three generations of Rossetti women are hoarding secrets.
Cathy Rossetti’s secret is Hayley, an outspoken ten-year-old who’s about to meet her family for the first time. Sadly, it’s taken a terminal illness to bring Cathy back to her hometown.
The elder generation of Rossetti women guards a thirty-year old secret with the power to rock Cathy’s world. Will her mother take their secret to her grave, or will her aunt break her punishing vow of silence?
Hayley hates secrets, so she’s sleuthing around Clarence Bay looking for her daddy. Is it her new BFF’s father or mayoral candidate Ryan Chisholm or Ryan’s handsome campaign manager?
Ryan has a secret, too. He’s still in love with Cathy, his high-school sweetheart. For a man running his election campaign on a platform of honesty, this could cause problems. Will dumping his popular fiancée cost him the election? And if Cathy still loves him after eleven years’ absence, she’s not telling.
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The neighbours promise to keep your secrets.
I can’t wait. I’m so excited. SQUEEEE! Sigh. 😀
To visit Clarence Bay, meet some of the neighbours, and read Ryan’s take on his home town, pop over to my Clarence Bay pages.
© Joan Leacott,2013
Announcing the release of the second book in the Clarence Bay Chronicles.
