Cherry Season

What does a house or a home mean to characters in a book?
I went outside my four walls and asked my neighbours - authors of Romantic Suspense, Historical & Contemporary Romance and Rural Romance.

7 Day Book Series.
Last day - and it's... Trish Morey!
(And there's a giveaway too.)

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USA Bestselling author Trish Morey writes sexy sheikhs and Greeks and Italians for Harlequin Presents, flirty novellas for Tule Publishing, and now rural romance/women’s fiction for Pan Macmillan Australia. Trish is a 2015 RuBY finalist with her HM&B Sexy, Tycoon’s Temptation (You can WIN this book, more below...)

When she’s not out traveling the world in search of inspiration for her stories, Trish lives with her family in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia, surrounded by orchards and bushland and visited by the occasional koala and kangaroo.

Trish reckons she has the best job in the world.

A House is a Home When... with Trish Morey

Cherry Season - so new there's no cover yet! But stay tuned...

The Book: Cherry Season, the first of four books following the changing seasons of the glorious Adelaide Hills region of South Australia. Release date December 1, 2015.

And it’s so new, there’s no cover yet!

Character: US born, Lucy Marino, our blonde haired 25 year old heroine. Intrepid backpacker, and novice cherry picker.

Giveaway: Trish is offering an eBook copy (int'l) or paperback (Australia) of her RuBY Award finalist book (Romantic Book of the Year)Tycoon’s Temptation.

Who is Lucy Marino and where does she live?

Character bio (from Cherry Season)
Wandering the world like a gipsy is part of Lucy’s DNA. Boredom is her enemy. She never settles for long in one place, always moving on. When she leaves Melbourne, hitchhiking her way along Sydney Road, never in her wildest imaginings does she think she’ll end up in Adelaide, but Lucy’s not a planner, so that’s cool too, because she’d learned that sometimes the unexpected brings the best rewards of all.

The House
Lucy starts off living on an old crock of a caravan on site in the orchard. 

What does a house or a home mean to Lucy?

Having her memories on show - she’ll hang up a scarf she found in a Paris street market and cover her bed with an embroidered bedcover she’d bought in Istanbul. A sequinned cushion from Asia and her wok on the gas burner, and she’s home.

Although there’s something disarmingly familiar about a line of trees atop the ridge beyond the homestead - they remind her of something or somewhere from her past - something that brings feelings of warmth, something she doesn’t quite understand...

Exclusive excerpt from Cherry Season by Trish Morey (due for release Dec 2015)

This is where orchardist Dan shows his new picker her new digs...

‘Come on,’ said Dan, ‘I'll show you the van. It hasn't been used for a while though, so it might need a bit of a tidy up.’                                     

Talk about an understatement, thought Lucy, when he showed her the van on the edge of the orchard. She took a peek inside and out of the aging relic. ‘So where do you attach the horse?’ And for one fraction of a moment, she almost thought she saw Mr Grumpy’s lips twitch, before he disappeared to fetch fresh sheets and towels.

An  hour later and she’d cleared out most of the spider webs and accumulated dust from the ancient caravan and she’d had time to make up the bed and admire her surroundings, cherry trees with dark green leaves, their branches heavy with clusters of plump red cherries, while on that back ridge, there was that beguiling row of pines that reminded her of - something - before she flopped onto the narrow bed and gazed up at the ceiling, surveying the aged strips of nylon lining hanging from it as they swayed in the gentle breeze. The door and all the windows were open and the musty smell was finally starting to clear and she'd soon have the place looking and feeling like home...

Home.

Or as close as she ever got to it. She couldn’t remember ever having anything resembling a proper home. Her mom had always been on the move, and Lucy with her, until she’d grown old enough to decide herself where she was next going. She’d lost count of the number of schools she’d attended; of how many sofas she’d bunked down on; lost count of how many friends she’d made, only to lose them in the churn of new locations and new beginnings.

She was a gipsy, just like her Mom. It was in her blood. Part of her DNA.

And now, here she was, a gipsy in her caravan. What could be more fitting?

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A mere handful of USA Bestselling Trish's books...

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Cherry Season releases Dec 2015. No cover yet but check in with Trish on FB or on her webpage for cover reveal!

Story blurb for Cherry Season by Trish Morey

THEY SAY OPPOSITES ATTRACT. EVERYONE EXCEPT DAN THAT IS...

Dan Faraday is a thirty-seven years old Adelaide Hills third generation orchardist who is badly in need of a wife if this business is ever going to make it to a fourth generation. Luckily for Dan, his sisters have given him a gift that will make finding a wife easier - a subscription to a dating agency. And luckily Dan knows exactly what he needs - someone sensible with sober habits, who appreciates the primary producers life and is looking to settle down. 

ENTER LUCY...

Lucy Marino has been a gipsy for all of her twenty-five years, never staying in one place long enough to call it home. Now she's backpacking her way around Australia. Permanence isn't part of her DNA, even if the cherry farmer she's working for makes it hard to remember why and the property reminds her of another time, when life was more settled and secure...

AND LET THE GAMES COMMENCE!

Soon the sparks are flying, and not just because Lucy's left the gas on and the caravan she's been living in explodes. And soon Dan realises that the perfect matches he's meeting on the dating site aren't nearly as appealing as the impetuous, gorgeous blonde he now has living in his house. Would it kill him to give in to his desires?

Maybe not, but Dan's not looking for temporary and Lucy's not looking for permanent and there's no way this is going to work. 

Is there?    

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You can discover more about Trish, her many books and where to buy on her webpage TrishMorey.com

And now for the Giveaway Book!
Tycoon's Temptation (RuBY Award finalist book)
eBook for international reader or paperback for Australian postal addressee reader - thanks, Trish!

Back cover blurb for Tycoon's Temptation by Trish Morey

When the black sheep doesn't get his way! 

Franco Chatsfield never lived by his family's rules, and he isn't going to start now. But The Chatsfield's new CEO needs Franco to secure a partnership, and he can't say no. He'll seal the deal and leave. But one woman stands in his way…. 

Holly Purman has devoted her life to her family's vineyard, and she won't risk it all for a Chatsfield, so she'll give Franco six weeks to prove himself. But working together sends their senses reeling, and when one taste isn't enough, they quickly discover the price of temptation! 

Welcome to The Chatsfield, Sydney!

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For a chance to win Tycoon's Temptation, just answer the question below... and thank you for popping in.

Jennie, in the company of Trish Morey

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Leave a comment here, then visit previous days in this blog series:
Anna Campbell and maybe win a copy of Three Proposals and a Scandal
Helene Young and maybe win a copy of Northern Heat
Pamela Cook and maybe win a copy of Close to Home
Jennie Jones and maybe win a copy of The House at the End of the Street
Tess Woods and maybe win a copy of Love at First Flight
Jennifer Scoullar and maybe win a copy of Turtle Reef

For a chance to WIN the book, answer this question from Trish:
Do you have mementoes of your travels that make you smile when you see them?
What treasures have you brought home?

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