Templeton Cove is the fictional UK seaside
town I created for my series with Harlequin Superromance – of course, when I
started writing book one I didn’t dream that Harlequin would end up contracting
eight books in total…so far!
The first two books (Finding Justice and A Man
Like Him) are romantic suspense, the next three books (What Belongs To Her, Christmas
At The Cove, Her Hometown Redemption) are more mainstream romance but do
have a little menace in them…I find it very hard to resist a villain ;) And the
latest, Saved By The Firefighter is a
straight mainstream romance about overcoming grief and finding happiness again.
This town has become a very real and
tangible place to me – it’s somewhere I would love to live and my reader
feedback has been fabulous. Everyone loves Templeton and its residents –
especially the matriarch, Marian Cohen.
So, my five favorite things about this
wonderful town on the south west coast of England are:
1)
The beach – Cowden Beach is
where a lot of the action takes place in Finding
Justice but also features in a few of the other books too. I created the
beach with mounds of rocks at one end and a posh restaurant on stilts, The
Oceanside, on its sands. Each of these things has served a good purpose! The
beach is very much inspired by a beach in Egypt where I holidayed with my
family in 2012.
2)
The fairground – Funland is
really the entire backdrop for What
Belongs To Her and was inspired by the fairground that used to come to my
hometown every year while I was growing up. I ADORE a fairground with the
noise, smells and excitement. I am thrilled that readers are writing me saying
how real it felt to them as they read the book. There is no bigger compliment!
3)
The bakery – Marian’s Bonniest
Bakery features in all the books and is a central meeting point and place the
residents come to relax and/or get advice from their beloved matriarch, Marian.
I say “and/or” because you cannot relax when you’re talking to Marian!
4)
The residents – I love each and
every one of the characters I have created so far, both protagonists and
secondary. They all mean the world to me and are incredibly real in my mind.
Books seven and eight (out August 2017 and February 2018) star secondary
characters from previous books who have been patiently waiting to be heard.
It’s so great to have a job where I get to go back and read my own books to
decide who will star in the next installment!
5)
Finally, the best thing about
Templeton Cove – its potential. Right now, I feel as though I could continue to
write about Templeton forever. I have so many more story ideas floating around in
my imagination that I’m yet to explore. I want to add a nightclub and an
amusement arcade…I want to set something at the train station and revisit the
caravan park that featured in A Man Like
Him.
I hope you’ll try one (if not all!) of my
Templeton Cove books and fall in love with the setting, people and what they
get up to as much as me J
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