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My full length novel The Love Programme, a contemporary romance set on a luxury estate in the Scottish Highlands, is on sale on April 29th for one day only - meaning, if you so wish, you can grab a copy for just 77p over on Amazon
A contemporary romance set in the wilds of Scotland
What do you do when your childhood sweetheart and
now ex-boyfriend won’t accept it’s over?
Lucy’s life is a mess. With her ex pursuing her
across the country, she flees to Scotland and finds herself part of a reality
TV show about love… will she find some answers or end up even more confused in
matters of the heart?
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| The Scottish Highlands where my novel The Love Programme is set |
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Marcus won’t give up on trying to rekindle his
relationship with Lucy, not even on the day he should be marrying somebody
else!
Lucy decides she needs a place to escape to for a
while and fate seems to agree when she’s given the chance to star in a reality
TV show called The Love Programme whilst enjoying two weeks of luxury living on
a grand country estate in Scotland.
When Lucy meets Paul, the owner of the estate, she
thinks he might be The One but who is the mysterious Hannah and what part does
she play in his life?
With Marcus planning to win her back Lucy has some
serious soul searching to do.
It seems The Love Programme has its work cut out if
it’s going to help Lucy sort out her life…
Fancy reading an extract from The Love Programme?
You do?
Wonderful, then please read on....
Business had been slower than usual at the Price
Right Travel Agency where Lucy worked. “Isn’t it boring when nobody comes into
the agency?” She sighed as she deftly slid a pair of scissors through some
plastic wrapping on a pile of holiday brochures proclaiming Turkey to be
‘paradise in the sun’.
Her boss Melanie glanced up from her computer with
an irritated expression on her pixie-like face. “I imagine we’re being
boycotted thanks to your little shenanigans with Marcus.”
Trying to wedge some brochures with a picture of a
gorgeous sun-drenched Turkish beach on the front onto the shelving, Lucy said,
“For the tenth time, Mel, I didn’t do anything. What do I have to say for
people to believe me?”
Mel shook her head. “I’m not here to judge your love
life but when it starts to affect my business…” she paused, choosing her words
carefully. “For starters Marcus was one of our best customers. He even booked
his honeymoon here. Goodness knows what will happen there. Nobody has asked
about the chance of a refund yet. What with Marcus paying for it and then
jetting off to Portugal straight after the non-wedding, he hasn’t had a chance.
I expect he’ll be in to try to sort it all out when he gets back.”
“He’ll lose his money. I’m pretty sure walking out
on your wedding isn’t covered under his insurance,” said Lucy with a grimace,
feeling guilty about how Marcus and Amelie wouldn’t get to enjoy the five star
hotel he’d chosen on a gorgeous stretch of beach on Cyprus. If she remembered
rightly the place had three restaurants, five swimming pools, a spa and a gym.
Everything you could wish for. She’d helped him to choose the place. Now she
was the reason he wouldn’t be going there.
“Perhaps it would be best if you took a bit of a
sabbatical. Have you thought about it at all?” Mel asked with more than a hint
of encouragement in her voice.
“Sabbatical?” Lucy queried, the brochures in her
hand slipping to the floor. “Not a polite way of saying I’m fired is it?”
“Of course not. I’ll hold your job open for you.
Just consider it an opportunity to take a few weeks off to go and have yourself
a bit of fun. Hopefully by the time you return, all the gossips will have moved
on to someone else and the next Friadon scandal.”
“You’re serious aren’t you?” Lucy asked, sitting
down on several bundles of as-yet unopened brochures.
“Definitely. I have this friend who works for a
small TV production company. They’re doing some sort of programme about love
and one of the girls has had to pull out at the last moment for family reasons.
They need a replacement right away and the filming is supposed to start in two
days. Craig, my friend, doesn’t want to have to go through all the audition
info again to choose someone else. I bet you’d be ideal.”
Sceptically Lucy asked, “What sort of love
programme? It’s not something tacky is it?”
“No, no,” Mel answered, tapping away at her computer
keyboard. “I think the idea is for three girls and one boy to spend two weeks
together at some glam location. It’s properly organised and supervised. Each of
you would get to go on your dream type of dates. It’s all about the psychology
of finding the love of your life.”
Lucy got to her feet, then swayed unsteadily as her
sandals slipped across several of the glossy holiday brochures scattered about
the floor where she’d dropped them minutes earlier. Stooping to gather up the
brochures before a customer (should one of them ever appear) broke their ankle
on them and sued the agency, Lucy contemplated Mel’s suggestion. “So it would
all be quite tasteful then?”
“I should imagine so. I think they’ll be having a
psychologist on hand too, so after each date you can talk about how you think
things went. There’s a complete relationship analysis service available so you
can learn about yourself, men, and your attitude towards dating. Sounds ideal
for you.”
Realising she’d been holding her breath for a few
seconds, Lucy let it out in a long sigh. “Okay, I might be interested. Shall I
call this Craig or will you?”
*****
About The Author :
Zanna Mackenzie lives in the UK with her husband, 4
dogs, a vegetable patch that’s home to far too many weeds and an ever expanding
library of books waiting to be read.
Being a freelance writer and editor of business
publications is her ‘day job’ but, at every opportunity, she can be found
scribbling down notes on scenes for whatever novel she’s working on. She loves
it when the characters in her novels take on minds of their own and start
deviating from the original plot!
Formerly a travel agent and therapist (she has
qualifications in clinical aromatherapy, crystal healing, naturopathic
nutrition and herbalism) she loves walking the dogs and gardening – that’s when
she’s not writing or reading!
Zanna has written three novels, The Love Programme, How
Do You Spell Love? and If You Only Knew.
Find
out more about Zanna at:
Twitter: @ZannaMacKenzie
Facebook: www.facebook.com/zanna.mackenzie
1 comment:
Great idea for an original book. May you do very well for it....Jean
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