#Spotlight #competition #win: Summer Sundaes by @GeorginaTroy @BrookCottageBks

I’m delighted today to be spotlighting the new book by Georgina Troy, Summer Sundaes: this is the first in her new The Boardwalk by the Sea series, published by Green Shutter Books on 15th July, and available via Amazon in the UK and US. I still – to my shame – haven’t managed to fit in the reading of a book by Georgina, and that’s something I really must put right. You might remember how much I loved Broken Faces, written under her own name of Deborah Carr – one of my Books of the Year in 2016 – and I’d love to try some of her other writing.

Wipe off your flip flops, it’s going to be a bumpy ride…

When Sacha Collins, cafe owner and sundae-maker extraordinaire, meets Italian archaeologist, Alessandro Salvatore in Rome, she’s grateful to him for being her tour guide. Now he’s turned up in the seaside village where she lives, known locally as The Boardwalk by the Sea, and is setting up a gelateria in direct competition to her retro Summer Sundaes Café.

She’s only been running her café for two years since taking over from her father. Until now the only other shops on the boardwalk have been a wool shop, an antique shop and a second-hand book shop. These have helped rather than hindered her custom. How will her creative sundaes made from fresh Jersey ice cream compete with his delicious Italian gelato?

Sacha is worried. Is there enough custom for both businesses to thrive? Who is behind the strange changes being made on the boardwalk? And when the oldest resident on the boardwalk is threatened with eviction can Sacha and Alessandro come together and find a way of helping her?

For a peaceful little boardwalk overlooking one of the quieter beaches on the island, there’s an awful lot going on and some of it is going to lead to big changes.

Competition

With thanks to Georgina and tour organiser Brook Cottage Books, I have a wonderful opportunity for one lucky reader. A character in Autumn Antics – Book 2 in the series, due out in Spring 2018 – named after someone the winner nominates, i.e themselves or a family member. Here’s the rafflecopter for entry:

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About Georgina Troy

Georgina Troy is the pseudonym of author Deborah Carr. Her first book, A Jersey Kiss was a finalist in the Contemporary Romance Category of the Romantic Novel of the Year Awards 2016 (RoNAs) and finalist in the Joan Hessayon Award for New Writers 2015.

Her WW1 historical romance, Broken Faces, written in her own name, Deborah Carr, was runner-up in the Good Housekeeping Novel Writing Competition 2012. She lives on the island of Jersey with her husband, two children and three rescue dogs. Her books are published by Accent Press and Green Shutter Books. Georgina is a member of The Blonde Plotters.

Georgina’s new series, The Boardwalk by the Sea, includes four standalone novels about friends, Sacha, Bella, Lexi and Jools. Each book is set in a different season. The girls live on or near a small seaside village known locally as The Boardwalk by the Sea and all of them make an appearance in the books throughout the series but each book will focus on one of the friends.