Sneak peek: A Little Treat on Honey Street

I’m so excited to be able to introduce my next title to you – A Little Treat on Honey Street - publishing 15th July and available for pre-order on this website and on Amazon.

The designer is Berni Stevens, a very talented cover designer, who has been shortlisted twice for the Romantic Novelists' Association Cover Designer of the Year award and managed to get exactly what I wanted as if by magic.

The cover shows our heroine, bubbly Laura Hunter, strolling through the fields near the village of Tillingham. Read on...

Can Laura save the Tillingham village shop, A Little Treat, and keep her city life style?

Laura Huntley’s worked hard for her legal career and she dreams of the future lifestyle she and her workaholic boyfriend, Rob, could share. Her bubbly flat mate, Nadia, can’t imagine why she’d want anything else.

When Laura returns to the charming Hampshire village of Tillingham where she grew up, to care for her grandmothers pets, Tibbles the cat and the Coronation Chickens, while Granny’s in Sorrento, she’s dismayed to find that A Little Treat, the village stores and teashop she loved as a girl, is about to close down. Unless the villagers can club together to buy it and turn it into a community shop, it will become another Airbnb and the heart will go out of Tillingham.

Can the committee chair, the cricket-playing curate, the Reverend Matthew Causton, and Laura’s friends, new and old, pull things together in time to save the shop?

And can Laura’s ex, sexy gentleman farmer, James Irving-McDonald, mean it when he says after all these years that she’s The One and he’ll stop at nothing to get her back?

I’m thrilled with the cover by Berni Stevens. I had so many ideas of what we could put on the cover, but Berni was brilliant at condensing it down to some essential elements and I’m delighted with the chirpy-yet-professional look of this cover.

I'm looking for a charity partner to benefit from this publication - A Little Treat on Honey Street is about Laura saving the Tillingham village stores, so we’re looking for a charity that helps build rural communities, for example by sustaining community shops, the preservation of village amenities such as halls, churches and playgrounds. Deadline for applications 15th May - find out more here. 

A Little Treat is published on Amazon on 15th July 2025. Please pre-order copies on Amazon (rather than here – unless you have a strong objection to Amazon) as it will help boost my visibility on publication day! E-books are already available to pre-order, paperbacks will be available from Easter.