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Separated in infancy, rediscovered by chance, can they unravel a mystery and find a way to reunite?

Wistful and passionate, the wayward Cecile d’Armagnac has enjoyed the indulgent childhood of a French noble, but life for the young woman is about to change when she learns of her sister.

Catherine Pembroke, a naive novice, has endured a lonely existence behind convent walls, but when Cecile’s letter is intercepted by the malicious Earl of Salisbury, the shy nun is thrust into a dangerous and foreign world. Placed into the custody of a cynical knight, Simon Marshall, Catherine struggles to unravel a past that threatens her future as William of Salisbury begins his own hunt – after the girls – hoping to use them as pawns in his desperate quest for power.

Trapped by one of England’s most powerful lords, Cecile yields to him to save her sister. She flees with the aid of the Prince’s courier, Gillet de Bellegarde, but will her journey see her lose all she holds dear, or just her heart?

In an age when women have no control over their lives, Cecile and Catherine find themselves immersed into political turbulence, intrigue, danger and romance. Their hopes of meeting are thwarted by the powerful men around them – even as they provide both distraction and passion, for none appear to be who they claim.

The Lily and the Lion will catapult you into a world when knighthood was revered and love was to be cherished.

Targeted Age Group:: 16 to 80

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
The authors Catherine A Wilson and Catherine T Wilson met online by chance via a writers group. Having emailed each other for three years, they decided to base the premise of their first novel, The Lily and the Lion, on their long distance friendship. It was not until they were part way through writing their third novel, before they finally met.

How Did You Come up With Your Characters?
The female protagonists, Catherine Pembroke and Cecile d'Armagnac are sisters, who were separated in infancy. Cecile is raised by a wealthy family in France whilst Catherine lives in poverty, in England. The authors choose to place their characters apart, in the same way they themselves were, writing to each other and building a friendship at great distance. Both Catherine A Wilson and Catherine T Wilson (who are not related) share a love of medieval history so choose to place their characters in the time period that they both related to.

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‘Poxy, whoring, conceited bastards.’
Cécile d’Armagnac spun to confront her father, her anger far from spent. ‘My betrothal to the Duc de Berri is severed without explanation. Am I to greet this news with lines of poetry, Sir? The Dauphin craves the alliance of Armagnac and I know his brother desires me, so what malady ails them?’ She slammed her gem-encrusted goblet down. ‘Merde! I was to wear gold Luccan brocade and the finest rubies in France. Instead I shall be the laughing stock of the court!’
‘Sheathe your tongue, girl! I am yet your father.’ Jean d’Armagnac’s stomach churned at his own words. He sank onto the stool and stared for a moment at the rich tapestries decorating his daughter’s royal chamber. Then he drew a deep breath. ‘The Dauphin still requires the alliance of Armagnac. Duc de Berri will marry your sister, Jeanne, and I am here to give you explanations.’
‘Jeanne? Mother of God. She is a milksop! A snivelling baby. She’s more likely to wet the Duc’s bed!’
‘Céci,’ groaned Comte d’Armagnac, ‘give me a little peace.’
Cécile heard the defeat in her father’s voice and sharply swung around. This parent was everything to her. With growing alarm she noted his drooping shoulders and the dark smudges beneath his eyes. His whole bearing slouched rather than sat.
‘Papa! You are ill.’ Almost tripping over her velvet hem she kneeled at his feet and laid her cheek in his lap. She gently kissed his hands. ‘Forgive me, Papa. Forgive my wicked temper. Tell me what grieves you so?’
Jean d’Armagnac withdrew his warrior-calloused palm and stroked the honey-blonde hair. ‘The truth, daughter. And it is you who must forgive me. The Dauphin was right to break your troth, and the fault is mine alone. For years I have lacked the courage to speak.’ He lifted her chin the meet the clear, blue gaze. 'Cécile, you were a gift to me beyond my expectations, but you come not from my loins. Your blood is not Armagnac.’
Cécile stared in open-mouthed bewilderment. She drew back slowly, her eyes glazed. ‘I am not Armagnac?’
‘No.’
‘Then Jean le Bossu and Armand …’
‘Are not your true brother and cousin.’
‘And you …’ The breath caught in her chest and was squeezed from her in a murmur. ‘God have mercy.’ She rose unsteadily and walked to the casement to stare beyond the palace walls, her hands clutched over her heart, a shield against the pain. ‘You are telling me that for nineteen years I have lived a lie?’
‘Seventeen. You came to me in your second summer.’
‘Tell me,’ she whispered.
Comte d’Armagnac watched the hurt on his daughter’s face and muttered an oath. God knew he loved her as his own. No. That was a blatant lie. He loved her more but only God, his priest and he were privy to that. Had he been compensating for this one day all along? He’d allowed her uncommon free will in her youth and suffered the ridicule of his neighbours. As her sisters had toiled over needlework, this unfettered daughter had ridden the countryside in play with her foster brother and cousin, her eloquent tongue the result. He had never wished to curtail her spirit. He knew one day she might need it.
‘It was long ago,’ he began, ‘when I received a message from a Lady Mary St Pol, Countess of Pembroke, urging me to meet with her. Her father, Guy de Châtillon, was from one of the most notable families in the north and Lady Mary had a strong connection to the Clermonts, my wife's kin. Fearing some scandal was about to fall upon us, I agreed.’ The Comte stared, his attention rooted to the wall as if apparitions had suddenly appeared upon the grey stones. ‘I will never forget it. We met at the Abbaye de Flaran by Larressingle in the dark of night. I can still see Mary standing there clutching her cloak against the wind, her lips pressed tightly as plainsong echoed from the chapel. She beckoned me to follow her through the cloister, up a stairwell to a private chamber. Her finger raised in a gesture for silence as she stepped to an alcove and swept aside the curtain. There, fast asleep on the palliasse, lay a tiny girl shrouded in a mantle of golden hair.’ He smiled warmly at the memory and a twinkle danced in his eye. ‘She was a scrap of a child but Mary knew how to ensure success. “Her name is Cécile,” she said, “and I want you, Jean d’Armagnac, to keep her for me, in honour of our families’ ties. She has nowhere else to go and I could wish for no other to care for her. The world must know her as your own. Silence any tongues that beg to differ. You must ask me no questions and your goodwill shall be handsomely rewarded.”
A shadow of tenderness darkened Jean's eyes as they fastened upon his daughter. ‘My mother’s name was Cécile. She was a princess. I had no need of questions. I loved you upon the instant.’
With a sob, the young woman flung herself into his arms, their tears mingling as he rocked her. ‘Forgive me, child. I should have told you the truth long ago but I could never find the right moment.’
Cécile slid her arms around her father's neck and felt his love engulf her like a warm, soft blanket. Granting the forgiveness he craved, she tenderly kissed his roughened cheek.
‘Mon père. I love you.’
‘And I you, Princess.’

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“When it came right down to it, our dream trip felt like falling off a cliff.”

After early retirement, in 2017 Pam and her husband Dave packed four suitcases and one beer cooler full of insulin and boarded a one-way flight to Italy for a year-long dream trip.
The dream was to live like locals, find out-of-the-way restaurants, and watch the seasons change. But behind every dream, there is the reality.

What happened when two people retire from their full-time jobs and realize they have developed separate lives? Is it possible to reconnect, despite the stress of traveling, while living alone together, 24/7, in small apartments? Is there such a thing as too much togetherness? Their dream trip came with other challenges—managing Pam’s Type 1 diabetes, dodging political unrest in Barcelona, and navigating water restrictions in Egypt.

Through the ups and downs of travel, Pam and Dave start to rebuild their lives together… and look for a little adventure.

Targeted Age Group:: 18+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
When we began planning our year-long dream trip, I spent hours searching for information on HOW to live in Europe for a year. We had to get a visa, find insulin, make our phones work, and keep in touch with family. I wrote this book, in part, to help others travel, especially those with medical issues like diabetes.

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After early retirement we dusted off our plans for a dream trip, a "Bel Sogno" and plunged into a year of turning it into reality. At our “mature” age, we were ready to shake up the routines and put our everyday lives on hold, surprising our blended family of five grown children, who questioned us closely about our plans. We agreed to leave the U.S. in September 2017 and go to Rome in central Italy for six months to spend the fall and winter. Then in 2018, as the weather warmed up, we would move north for six months to Venice to spend the spring and summer before returning to the U.S. in 2018.

Like giddy kids, we bought two one-way tickets to Rome.

Almost immediately, I felt overwhelmed. I had taken Italian language classes off and on for years, but I was not at all fluent. Can reading dozens of guidebooks and travel memoirs really prepare you for this? We would be far from friends and family for an entire year. Would we get homesick? A lot could go wrong. What do you do with your mail for months at a time, and how do you refill your prescriptions in a foreign country? Our usual doctors and pharmacies would not be available. Complications from diabetes had landed me in the hospital emergency room twice. If that happened in Italy, it could be dangerous. There could be other sudden health emergencies, accidents, or illnesses. What would it be like to live in a small space with Dave, completely alone together, 24/7? Our everyday lives began to look more and more warm, comfortable, and safe.

Now that we were leaving everything behind, I realized how much I liked my habits, schedules, and routines. Spontaneous, powerless, messy situations usually made me nervous and uncomfortable. On this trip, I wouldn’t be able to control very much. We were upending our lives, by choice, and I couldn’t clearly see what would replace our norms. Would we even like this new life in a foreign country, or would we want to return home after a month? When it came right down to it, our dream trip felt like falling off a cliff.

So we held hands and walked over the cliff.

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When Goodbye Begins: life takes over by Geeta Lal Sahai

In When Goodbye Begins: life takes over, author-filmmaker – Geeta Lal Sahai actively involved in mental health advocacy rips apart the stereotypical existence. These five stories are about mental health, innumerable lanes and layers of memories, childhood abuse, infidelity, betrayal, hopelessness, and hidden emotions. There is pathos, feelings, inner conflict and stoic acceptance.
In the title story – When Goodbye Begins, a middle-aged woman, caught between her dreams and the present reality of being a caregiver to her husband, walks on a tightrope. Through her eyes, we experience the broken and painful world of people with Alzheimer’s and their families. In Walking on Ice Sheet in Pencil Heels, the story captures the protagonist Sheena’s struggle with her identity and the frightening and fascinating world of bipolar disorder. In Death of a Memory, Rashi facing betrayal and infidelity, fights with her memories to face the world. In another story – If Only I Could Tell, the author recounts the painful and traumatic world of the child sexual abuse survivor who keeps running away from love, people and self. Caught in the web of childhood abuse, the author, through her protagonist, poignantly shows the long-term ramifications of broken trust and bruised body.
In all five stories, Geeta exquisitely crafts the inner turmoil of her characters. The world of characters in these stories is gripping, and there’s a world within a world.

Targeted Age Group:: All Audience
Heat/Violence Level: Heat Level 1 – G Rated Clean Read

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
Reading horrifying news reports every day. Not a single day goes when somewhere some woman’s body is not brutalised. We are living in a toxic world. My characters rebel against the toxicity in their own way and my journey as a writer begins by thinking beyond what is visible. My stories talk about reality, real characters and their grief. I see what they do not tell the world. And it is this aspect that I portray in my work. Through my characters’ grief, loss and memories, I capture elusive moments of grace and beauty surrounding our pain. I believe that nothing is as powerful as grief to test our character, patience and our beliefs. It is generally said – ‘move on’ – whenever we face problems in our lives. But I think the truth is we never ‘move on’; we move ahead with our memories. And it is these memories that I question, the relevance of them in the present.

How Did You Come up With Your Characters?
As a mental health campaigner, often I meet people whose world has shrunk, and even otherwise, I listen to personal narratives while meeting people. After listening to them, I always feel that each of us is fighting a battle hidden behind the plastic smiles. This realization motivates me to carve characters, give them a name and as a companion, travel with my fictional characters, giving them hope to push forward howsoever distorted the truth is. In reality, those people may not have done so, but on paper, I make my fictional characters move forward with hope even when circumstances are adverse.

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Excerpt from the title story- When Goodbye Begins:
Innumerable little voices begin to prick me. I keep staring at the ceiling, picking up bits and pieces from the rubble of memories, memories beyond time. And as the frosted recollections begin to imprison me, the doctor’s words reverberate, “He is living on borrowed time. For him, every day is a gift. Alzheimer’s has eaten his mind and soul. The truth is that as long as there is memory, there is hope, possibility. However, as memory fades, nothing matters. The past doesn’t matter; the future doesn’t exist. Everything is just a breath away, life, memories, death, so let him live for today.”
I close my eyes, and once again, the doctor’s words echo, “As long as there is memory, there is hope, possibility. However, as memory fades, nothing matters. The past doesn’t matter; the future doesn’t exist.”

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A world built on the tales of dragon kings. Powerful brothers at war. An orphan girl sold as a bride.

Long ago, the Kingdom of Estala was a place of dragons and sorcerers. Those with magical powers were more than human, they were Menti. But now Menti sorcery is outlawed by the capricious king, and those who wield it are hunted down by the fanatical Order of Insight to be made into slaves, or worse, executed.

Two young heroes find themselves unwillingly thrown into the centre of these uncertain times. Prince Luca, King Davead’s second son, has always been the sickliest of the royal children, but in a shocking turn of events, Luca finds himself at the heart of a magical power so great it may consume him forever. If he fails to control those powers, he could be put to death by his own father. Reva Avalon grew up believing she would marry her childhood friend, Prince Luca. But after she is orphaned in the Menti uprising, the King of Estala sells her to his most feared general instead. Young and frightened, but still strong-willed, Reva must survive a harsh new life away from the palace.

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