Winter Blogfest: Rachael Richey

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 My Christmas in Cornwall

I love Christmas, but what I don’t love is when the shops start selling Christmas themed goods even before Halloween.  It’s just like when they start advertising ‘Back to School’ items at the beginning of the summer holidays!  For me, the build up to Christmas starts at the beginning of December.  I reckon that’s quite long enough for the excitement to mount.

My favourite part of the Christmas season is definitely the days leading up to Christmas.  My son and I generally go to buy a tree the weekend after he breaks up from school (or this year, University!), usually around mid December, and spend the next day or so decorating the house, and beginning the Christmas cooking. 

But my absolutely favourite time of Christmas is Christmas Eve.  I like to get up early and really get stuck into the cooking, music on in the background, and preferably with some tinsel in my hair.  At some point in the day someone will usually realise there is something we’ve forgotten to buy, so my husband and son will be despatched off to fetch it, usually coming back with an extra load of chocolates.  We traditionally have a buffet supper on Christmas Eve, then late in the evening, put the presents around the tree ready for the morning.  

Then later still, when everyone else is in bed, the stockings filled and hung up, I like to creep back downstairs and sit with just the Christmas lights on.  And then on the way back up to bed I still take a look up in the sky – just in case!  

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

A remote coastal cottage; a group of old friends; the Christmas holidays. It’s just the break Olivia needs to help her relax and forget her worries. What could be more perfect? But that was before she found a handsome unconscious stranger on the beach. Add in a case of mistaken identity, a lot of kissing practice, and an inquisitive best friend, and things begin to get more than a little complicated.

The large bump on Adam’s head hurts, but he refuses to go to the hospital—or back home—and eventually accepts Olivia’s offer of hospitality. When her friends arrive the following morning, a chance remark catapults them both into a bizarre and amusing situation that promises to make it a Christmas to remember.

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I began writing stories at the age of seven, and have been obsessed with writing ever since.

My debut novel, Storm Rising, is the first in the NightHawk Series, closely followed by Rhythm of Deceit, Cobwebs in the Dark and The Girl in the Painting.

I signed a publishing contract with the Wild Rose Press in 2014 for the whole series and all four books are now all available in both e-book and paperback format.

In May of 2017 my first standalone romantic comedy, Breaking All The Rules, was published by the Wild Rose Press. A second standalone romcom,Practising for Christmas, was released on 12th November this year, just in time for Christmas!

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