TWISTS OF FATE ~ launch Day is here!

​It’s Launch Day for 
TWISTS OF FATE!

If you pre-ordered the book, I hope it’s already downloaded to your Kindle and awaiting your reading pleasure.

If you’d like to order it now, please follow the link
to Amazon and
find the eBook here
(the paperback will follow soon).

Early reviews are already in, and I’m overwhelmed and over the moon! Thanks so much, Sheila, Carole, Marie and Debbie, for your wonderful words!

 And now let’s have a drumroll for the giveaway winners:
 
T C
Eva Edmonds
tgruy
Roseanne
Luisa1111
 
Congrats and please drop me a line on the Contact tab to let me know which email address you’d like me to use.
 
I’d like to thank everyone who joined me on the blog tour. It was wonderful to read your lovely messages and chat with you. If you missed any of the posts, you can find them here:
 
A ride in the rain
A fiery Mr Darcy
A very un-Hunsford-like proposal
Breaking the wall of silence
Ask Me Anything!
and
The other romantic excerpt
(a.k.a. Turning up the heat)

Perhaps I’d better rein in on the spoilers (hmm, I wonder, have I spilt too many beans already?). Still, I hope you’ll be pleased to hear that, for all the challenges ahead (not least a perplexing and sometimes downright infuriating husband) Elizabeth has lost nothing of her courage and determination as she tries to make sense of him, her feelings and her new life, and makes mistakes, and learns from them.

‘… she would not cling to her resentments like a headstrong little girl. Little girls grew up, acquired a degree of sense and employed their wilfulness for better aims. Such as discovering the roots of their difficulties, and not resting until they were dug out.’ (Twists of Fate © 2021 Joana Starnes)

She hasn’t lost her sense of humour either, and for instance has no qualms about donning a ludicrous cap (a present from her mamma, of course :D) in order to make a teasing point.(That scene was inspired by the lucky find below. The only problem is that the lady looks a little too placid, so please picture Elizabeth’s mischievous smile instead, and her arched brow under all those frills).

Nicolas François Dun: ‘Portrait of a Woman’
​(The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public Domain Open Access)

As for Mr Darcy, he makes several excellent decisions and few shockingly bad ones, he relies too much on his own judgement, he keeps silent and broods (of course he broods; he could teach brooding as an art form ? ), and yet he does what he does best: he falls ardently in love.

I hope you’ll enjoy our favourite couple’s
latest adventure.
Happy reading, and please buckle up:
some of the twists
​might not be what you’d expect!