Laura E. James

An Irish Promise: Isabella Connor

On Sunday 2nd November 2014, my daughter and I attended the launch of Isabella Connor’s second Choc Lit novel, An Irish Promise.

Arriving promptly at 14:00 hours, I was jubilant at having reached our destination sixty miles from home on time, despite a long wait for a bacon bap, and a traffic jam somewhere near Lyndhurst.

It was only when I asked my daughter to check the invitation to ensure we were most definitely and absolutely at the right building, I realized we were an hour early …

What can I say? I was keen.

Isabella Connor is the pen name of Liv Thomas and Valerie Olteanu. With Val

in Canada, the launch was hosted by my lovely friend and fellow ChocLiteer, Liv, who ran a cryptic quiz, raising funds for charity, answered questions from the floor, and signed copies of An Irish Promise.

With orange, white and green bunting, food and drink-a-plenty, and live music from the excellent Kat Sinclair, it

was a fab event.

As a proud and contented owner of a signed paperback version of An Irish

Promise, and having spent the afternoon with Liv, her family and friends, other writers and my daughter, I’d say it was time well spent.

Even the spare hour between two and three.

Isabella Connor’s An Irish Promise is available now.

Laura x

Blurb:
A promise is a promise …
Art historian, Rachel Ford has returned to the Irish village of Kilbrook intent on keeping her promise to take revenge on the school bullies who ruined her childhood and destroyed her family.
Australian actor, Finn MacKenzie sets hearts fluttering when he turns up in sleepy Kilbrook to help his aunt with a school production. He seems to have a charmed life, yet his confident façade hides heartbreak and tragedy. Although Finn isn’t looking for love, when he meets the mysterious Rachel, there’s a definite spark between them.
Rachel is torn between her desire for revenge and this new love affair. She doesn’t want to deceive Finn, but can she trust him to keep her real identity a secret? And will he understand why she must keep her promise, no matter the cost?