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Monday, 17 November 2025

Rachel's Random Resources Book Tours The Other Mother by Heidi Field

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The Other Mother

Suzannah is pregnant with her third child. The first is in prison. The second is dead. How far will she go to keep her unborn baby safe?

When Suzannah learns she is pregnant, she feels like safety and happiness are finally within reach. Her handsome, successful fiancé, Alec, is over the moon about the baby. He proposes and pampers her. He thinks this is Suzannah’s first marriage and first child, but she’s keeping a few secrets. Actually, a lot of secrets. And they are dangerous…putting Suzannah in a position where she must choose who and what she’s willing to sacrifice to keep her baby and her freedom.

Drowning in her lies, Suzannah is desperate to bury her past, but her ex-husband, who abandoned her years ago, returns, stalking her and demanding to know what really happened to their daughter. When the imprisoned serial killer who lured and groomed her son, threatens to sell his story to the press, Suzannah feels like the life she’d built and the precious one she’s growing, teeter on a precipice. Now the two children she’s hidden from Alec may be the least of her worries.

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Author Bio

Heidi Field was raised in the beautiful countryside of the South of England with her parents and her two sisters. In her twenties she was a freelance Sports Massage Therapist. She achieved a Degree in Zoology at the age of thirty and then went on to raise two boys and became the stepmother of three more young children. She still lives near her family home with her partner, their Great Dane and the children that have yet to fly the nest. In her early forties Heidi completed a Masters in Creative Writing at Winchester University. She entered the course hoping she would become a children’s fantasy writer and left with a burning desire to write contemporary mysteries and thrillers. Heidi wanted to put relatable people in extraordinary situations, challenge them, push them to their limits and watch them fight for their sanity. The Other Mother is Heidi’s second novel, the next book in The Peasedale Woods Killers series.

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Suzannah has just left the category A prison where her son, Mason, is serving a twenty-year sentence for his crimes as the accomplice to serial killer Gunner Piper, nicknamed The Pied Piper of Peasedale.

Hearing Mason say that he told the police he pushed Lily brings back memories of that day that are so vivid it makes my skin fizz. I don’t want to remember, don’t want my imagination to go there, but I can’t stop it. My sweet girl. Her last experience on this earth one of fear. Thinking back breaks my heart over and over.

I bend down, squatting on the wet tarmac, retching.

Someone puts an arm around me. “Hey, Suzannah. Let’s get you up off the ground. You can’t stay down there in your condition.”

I look up and Shiv is smiling at me. I reach for her hands and she helps me to my feet. She is wearing a black fitted raincoat, the hood pulled up over her head.

She lifts the hood from my three-quarter-length yellow puffer jacket to cover my head and then reaches down to zip me up. “I called an Uber to take me to the station. Is that where you’re going?”

“I’m going to the next stop along, Charnwood Station. Alec is waiting for me in town at a coffee shop.”

“Charnwood Station is fine with me. Is Alec your husband?”

“Fiancé. We’re getting married after the baby arrives.”

The Uber pulls up and we climb into the back seats, pulling back our hoods and wiping the rain off our faces.

Shiv holds my hand. “Alec isn’t the father of the man in prison then? Or does he just not want to visit him?”

“Not the father. He thinks I’m visiting a friend.”

Shiv nods and purses her lips like she understands the deceit. “Let’s share phone numbers and we can meet up. Make this a proper friendship. We can help each other.”

I nod and take out my phone, handing it to her once I’ve opened the new contact screen. She taps in her number then hits the call button so that my number pops up on her phone.

I look at her name and phone number and smile that I have a friend who knows my truth. “Thank you.”

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Sunday, 16 November 2025

Serious About A Series Spotlight! Today - Jean Gill

Good Books - Good Series...

Good Ideas for a Thanksgiving, Christmas or

Birthday Gift!

Today: Jean Gill

About the Books

SERIES 1

The Troubadours

Intrigue and romance, like ‘Game of Thrones’ set in real 12th century history

Book 1 Song at Dawn

https://books2read.com/Song

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Believable, page-turning and memorable.” Lela Michael, S.P. Review

1150: Provence, where making love and making paper are crimes against the Church.

Death on her heels, Estela runs towards a new identity. Her life depends on her golden voice and the patronage of Eleanor of Aquitaine but her heart cares more for the judgement of her tutor, Dragonetz, a cynical ex-crusader. He knows he must not love this troublesome student but their duet makes its own demands.

Will their secrets kill them both? The troubadours, Dragonetz and Estela, are an explosive combination which their powerful enemies intend to blast into smithereens.

Set in the period following the Second Crusade, Jean Gill’s spellbinding romantic thrillers evoke medieval France with breathtaking accuracy. The characters leap off the page and include amazing women like Eleanor of Aquitaine and Ermengarda of Narbonne, who shaped history in battles and in bedchambers.

Global Ebooks Award for Best Historical Fiction

Historical Novel Society Editor's Choice

Finalist in the Wishing Shelf Awards, the Kindle Book Awards and the Chaucer Awards

Four Discovered Diamond Awards

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “One of the best historical novels I’ve read in a long time,” Paul Trembling, Dragonslayer

Book 2 Bladesong

https://books2read.com/bladesong/

1151: The Holy Land, where one book is worth more than a man's life.

Book 3 Plaint for Provence

https://books2read.com/Plaint

1152: Les Baux de Provence, where today’s friends are tomorrow’s enemies.

Book 4 Song Hereafter

https://books2read.com/SongHereafter/

1153: Hispania and the Isles of Albion, where the wise traveller carries a knife in her under-skirt.

or how about...

The perfect stocking-filler or Secret Santa gift.

Standalone Christmas novella

Nici’s Christmas Tale

1157: Aquitaine. Nici the shepherd's dog stands guard in the sheepfold and the wolves are coming!

https://books2read.com/NicisTale

SERIES 2

The Midwinter Dragon

A re-imagining of Orkneyinga Saga, from 12th century Viking Orkney to the Holy Land

Book 1 The Ring Breaker

https://books2read.com/Orkneyjar

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “So good I read it twice,” Lesley Walters, goodreads

Loyalty has a price the children pay. In the twilight of the old gods, when the last Vikings rule the seas, two cursed orphans meet on an Orkney beach and their fates collide.

Stripped of honour, facing bleak loneliness ahead, Skarfr and Hlif forge an unbreakable bond as they come of age in the savage Viking culture of blood debts and vengeance. To be accepted as adults, Skarfr must prove himself a warrior and Hlif must learn to use women’s weapons. Can they clear their names and choose their destiny? Or are they doomed by their fathers’ acts?

The award-winning author of The Troubadours Quartet returns to the 12th century, with skalds instead of troubadours and Viking warriors instead of crusaders. Get ready for authentic medieval adventures steeped in poetry, politics and passion. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Madeline Miller.

Historical Fiction Book of the Year 2023 - Bjørn Larssen, blogger at Queen’s Book Asylum

Shortlisted for the 2022 Selfies Award and the 2022 Chaucer Award; Quarter-Finalist in The Booklife Prize.

Book 2 Among Sea Wolves

https://books2read.com/ASW

1150: The Whale Road. To change their doom, Skarfr and Hlif must pay the price.

Book 3 Hunting the Sun

https://books2read.com/SunHunt

1151: The Whale Road. Doomed to exile in Sicily, warrior poet Skarfr and wise woman Hlif must prove their worth once again—or die trying.

Book 4, the conclusion (to come in 2026)

Author Bio

Award-winning Welsh author and photographer Jean Gill lives in Provence with the best scent-hound in the world, a Nikon D750 and a man. Best known for writing epic medieval adventures in The Troubadours and The Midwinter Dragon series, Jean has published 27 multi-genre books since 1988, including the dog bestseller Someone To Look Up To. Although she’s hung up her beekeeping gloves, she still cares passionately about her wild neighbours, which include boar, badgers, foxes and hares.

For many years, she taught English, and was the first woman to be a secondary headteacher in the Welsh county of Dyfed. She is mother or stepmother to five children so life was hectic. With Scottish parents, Welsh and French residence and an English birthplace, she can usually shout for the winning team in sporting events.

She loves to hear from readers so do get in touch.

https://www.jeangill.com

https://www.facebook.com/writerjeangill

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set during the Golden Age of Piracy

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Saturday, 15 November 2025

Serious About A Series Spotlight! Today - Marian L Thorpe

Good Books - Good Series.

Good Ideas for a Thanksgiving, Christmas or

Birthday Gift!

Today:Marian L Thorpe

About the Books

Empire’s Legacy series by Marian L Thorpe

Set in a world reminiscent of early-medieval Europe, Empire’s Legacy is a multi-generational saga of choices, betrayals, intrigue, and love, where some battles of power and politics are won with swords – and some with words.

Empire’s Daughter

An Emperor's request, a lover's refusal - and a young woman who must choose between them.

Set in a coastal village bound by centuries-old traditions, Empire’s Daughter tells the powerful story of Lena: a young woman content in her life, yet restless for something more. When an imperial messenger arrives with a shocking request -- that the women of Tirvan learn to fight -- Lena’s world is shattered.

Suddenly, long-standing gender roles are upended. As the village teeters on the edge of chaos, Lena is thrust into a leadership role she never asked for. Without her partner Maya at her side, and war on the horizon, Lena must confront not only the enemy but the deeply rooted beliefs of her own people.

What begins as a duty becomes a journey of identity, sacrifice, and transformation. As traditions break and battlelines form, can Lena forge a future where women shape the Empire, not just defend it?

the series:

Empire’s Hostage: A task Lena cannot refuse, a land that holds secrets – and a man she doesn’t know if she can trust.

Empire’s Exile: A reprieve from death, a city of legend, and a gamble to save everything—and everyone—Lena loves.

Empress & Soldier: A boy of the nighttime streets, a girl of libraries and learning – and the man who unites them.

Oraiáphon: A dying man, a conceded land – and a musician who tries to save both.

Empire’s Reckoning: A daughter’s question, a hidden story – and a bard who weaves the two together.

Empire’s Heir: An Empress’s summons, a palace of intrigue – and a daughter who must decide what she truly loves.

Empire’s Passing: A promise to be kept, a torch to be passed – and a brother and sister who must lead their country into the future.

Author Bio:

After two careers as a research scientist and an educator, I decided it was time to do what I'd always really wanted, and be a writer. As well as my novels, I've published short stories and poetry. My life-long interest in Roman and post-Roman European history provided the inspiration for my books, while my other interests in landscape archaeology and birding provide background. I live in Canada for about ¾ of the year, and England for the rest.

Buy link:

https://books2read.com/marianlthorpe

Social media link:

https://mlthorpeauthor.substack.com/

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