"Beach Hut Surprise"--fun-in-the-sun anthology from six talented storytellers--romance, mystery, paranormal, and more--all in the quaint little British resort town of Little Piddling sur Mer (see my review)

Beach Hut Surprise

Who's there? Lovers, vampires… A body?

Little Piddling—now renamed Little Piddling sur Mer—is a resort with ambitions.
But odd things keep happening in Little Piddling. Especially among its delectable beach huts. They are a magnet for lovers and other, stranger, visitors. Take a romantic stroll along the beach after dark and you might encounter more than you bargained for.

The stories are presented in chronological order--starting with an Edwardian comedy and going on to some wild and wacky episodes in later decades, right up to the twenty-first century.

Six favorite authors let their hair down on the Piddling sands...

Stories and Authors:

1. Grand Designs for Little Piddling  Sarah Mallory
2. Going Home?  Sophie Weston
3. The Body at Satis House  Lesley Cookman
4. Past Echoes  Liz Fielding
5. I, Vampire ~ Romance with Bite  Joanna Maitland
6. Grapes and Ale  Louise Allen

MY REVIEW:  "Beach Hut Surprise"--a fun-in-the-sun anthology from six talented storytellers--romance, mystery, paranormal, and more--all in the quaint little British resort town of Little Piddling sur Mer. Dig your toes in the sand and dig into these seaside snippets which are told in the chronological history of the town. Each beach hut (also called a bathing hut) has a tale to tell all its own. The stories and authors include: "Grand Designs for Little Piddling" by Sarah Mallory; "Going Home?"  by Sophie Weston: "The Body at Satis House"  by Lesley Cookman; "Past Echoes"  by Liz Fielding: "I, Vampire ~ Romance with Bite"  by Joanna Maitland; and "Grapes and Ale"  by Louise Allen. Not your average beach read, "Beach Hut Surprise" has a little something for everyone--including surprises. Settle back in your lounge chair--sun or shade, your choice--indulge in a cool, refreshing beverage, and let these gifted ladies who write take you on an entertaining stay-cation.

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Sarah Mallory



Sarah Mallory is an award-winning author who has published more than 25 historical romances with Harlequin Mills & Boon. She loves history, especially the Georgian and Regency periods and when she is not writing she spends her time walking the Yorkshire Pennines with her rescued whippet, Willow.

Sarah also writes historical romantic adventures as Melinda Hammond.

https://www.melinda-hammond.co.uk/


Sophie Weston



Sophie Weston has written 50-ish novels, mostly romantic, sometimes quite funny. In fact, she was born in a snowstorm and never got over it. So she says she writes stories to read by fire and candlelight while the weather rages outside.
Her books sell in 27 languages and over 100 countries. She gives daily thanks for Shakespeare, P G Wodehouse, Georgette Heyer and all those wonderful readers she will never meet.
 
http://www.sophieweston.net/

Lesley Cookman

Lesley Cookman started writing almost as soon as she could read, and filled many Woolworth's exercise books with pony stories until she was old enough to go out with boys. Since she's been grown up, following a varied career as a model, air stewardess and disc jockey, she's written short fiction and features for a variety of magazines, achieved an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Wales, taught writing for both Kent Adult Education and the WEA and edited the first Sexy Shorts collection of short stories, in aid of the Breast Cancer Campaign. Lesley is a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, the Society of Authors and the Crime Writers' Association. 

http://www.lesleycookman.co.uk/home/4591535172


LIZ FIELDING
 

AUTHOR LIZ FIELDING SAYS: "I met my husband when we were working in Zambia and were both members of the Lusaka Theatre Club. He was playing John de Stogumber in St Joan, and I was the pageboy to the Earl of Warwick. He swore it was the purple tights that got him. I wish I had a photograph. Sadly none exist.

We traveled a lot in Africa and the Middle East then we had babies and settled down back home, first in Wales and now in Wiltshire – photographs in my gallery. I started writing when the children were small and my first romance, An Image of You, was set in Kenya, in a place where we’d spent many happy weekends on safari. It was plucked from the slush pile because the feisty heroine made my editor laugh. Emotion touched with humor has been the hallmark of my work ever since.

We now live in Wiltshire, within the magic circle of Glastonbury, Stonehenge, Avebury and the ancient hot springs at the heart of the city of Bath."

http://www.lizfielding.com/


Joanna Maitland



Joanna Maitland's latest story, I, VAMPIRE ~ ROMANCE WITH BITE, is available now in the anthology BEACH HUT SURPRISE, along with stories by 5 other favourite authors.

ONE CHRISTMAS TREE TO GO -- a timeslip romance for a hero trying to escape Christmas -- is available in the boxset I HATE CHRISTMAS, along with a romantic suspense by Sophie Weston.

The fourth of Joanna's Regency spy stories, HIS SILKEN SEDUCTION, a much expanded version of the original ebook-only novella, is now available in both ebook and paperback. Another novella previously available only as an ebook, STAR CROSSED AT TWILIGHT, is also available in print for the first time. (Its original title was Delight and Desire and it is a prequel to Bride of the Solway.)

Joanna Maitland is a Scot (with part Irish ancestry) though she and her husband now live in England, near the border with Wales. It's a magical area, overflowing with the kind of historical sites to tempt any author's storytelling tastebuds. To add to her nomadic history, Joanna spent her student years living in Scotland, France, Germany, and London, and she still enjoys travel to faraway places. For example, she travelled to St Petersburg, Vienna, and Venice, for her stories about a brotherhood of Wellington's spies (The Aikenhead Honours).

https://twitter.com/joannamaitland?lang=en


LOUISE ALLEN



AUTHOR LOUISE ALLEN SAYS:  "I have had my nose buried in a history book - fact or fiction - for as long as I can remember, but even more important to me are the places and the objects that conjure up the past. My first attempt at historical fiction at the age of eight was three pages of improbable medieval drama set in the local castle.

With a degree in geography and archaeology I love to try and 'read' the landscape and the buildings in it for clues about the past. Virtually any place can trigger ideas for plots, but I am particularly inspired by Venice, Burgundy, Mediterranean islands and the Hertfordshire and Norfolk countryside.

I live in England in a village in Bedfordshire with my long-suffering husband. He is not sure whether to be flattered or alarmed to be told he is the inspiration for all my romantic heroes! Whenever possible we escape to our cottage on the North Norfolk coast where Percy, the bossy pheasant, allows us to share the garden.

My resolution every time I start on a new plot is to plan it carefully, make copious notes first and write lots of drafts in a disciplined and orderly manner. What inevitably happens is that the story starts to write itself in my head until it gets completely out of control - meanwhile my study floor becomes a sea of open books, prints and maps and I am found sitting in the car at traffic lights, muttering dialogue. At that point I have to start writing, knowing full well that the hero and heroine are going to take over and sabotage all my attempts at discipline. It is, after all, their story."

http://www.louiseallenregency.com