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March 12, 2020
What’s behind the Captivating Captains series?
After we’d finished writing our first novel together, The Captain and the Cavalry Trooper, we started to think about whether or not it would work as a series….
Find out more in Eleanor’s guest blog for Mirrigold!
March 10, 2020
Mirrigold reviews The Captain and the Prime Minister
It’s a sweet love after loss, friends to lovers romance with a typically British feel from this writing duo.
Read the full review at Mirrigold’s blog.
March 8, 2020
Diverse Reader reviews The Captain and the Prime Minister
Those looking for a good old-fashioned friends to lovers story will be quite pleased with this latest offering by this talented writing duo.
Read the full review at Diverse Reader.
March 4, 2020
Rainbow Book Reviews The Captain and the Prime Minister
I adored the characters, the family dynamics, their slow-burn love story, along with all the realistic doubts and insecurities included in the process of sorting it out, not to mention the heat between them! Thanks, Catherine and Eleanor, for an endearing tale with an extremely satisfying ending!
Read the full review at Rainbow Book Reviews.
Rainbow Book Reviews “The Captain and the Prime Minister”
I adored the characters, the family dynamics, their slow-burn love story, along with all the realistic doubts and insecurities included in the process of sorting it out, not to mention the heat between them! Thanks, Catherine and Eleanor, for an endearing tale with an extremely satisfying ending!
Read the full review at Rainbow Book Reviews.
March 2, 2020
The Captain and the Prime Minister – out now!
The sixth in our Captivating Captains series, The Captain and the Prime Minister, is out in ebook, paperback and Kindle Unlimited on 3rd March from Amazon and Pride.
When a devoted prime minster has a second chance at romance, he discovers that love is love on Downing Street.
Captain Tom Southwell has swapped bullets for babies and works as a manny at one of the world’s most famous addresses. Behind the doors of Downing Street, he cooks dinner, puts the children to bed and is the prime minister’s best friend.
Alex Hart is the prime minister Great Britain’s been dreaming of. He’s dedicated, caring and has a conscience. He’s also a widower with two small children. The last thing he can let himself do is fall in love with the manny who has held his family together.
When an old flame from Tom’s past gets in touch, Tom’s first instinct is to keep him at arm’s length, but hell hath no fury like a yoga teacher scorned. As Alex fights to push a life-changing bill through Parliament, the tabloid vultures are circling. With rumors swirling about the prime minister and his gorgeous manny, every shark in Westminster senses blood.
Will Alex put love ahead of duty, or will the most important man in the country be the loneliest, too?
Excerpt
Tom lay sprawled on the beanbag between the two small beds—one shaped like a car, the other shaped like a boat. He’d almost sent himself to sleep with the twins’ bedtime story, but it finally seemed, from the sound of their gentle breathing, that they’d dropped off. He sat in the quiet, dimly lit room, the elephant nightlight casting its gentle glow. And in that glow, he re-read the text from Stuart.
Hey good lookin’, ya miss me? Through with Barca and heading home—you shud SEE my tan lines babe. Get ready Laaahndaaaan! x
Stuart wasn’t high on the list of people who Tom wanted to talk to. Their break-up had been acrimonious, Stuart furious at one too many dates being canceled at the last minute because Tom had to look after the twins. ‘You love that family more than you love me!’ And off Stuart had gone to Barcelona.
Except, apparently, Stuart was back.
And that list of Tom’s was rather brief.
It’d be rude not to reply, wouldn’t it?
Tom lifted his head and glanced at the children. They were both sound asleep, so Tom carefully got up from the beanbag and tapped his reply.
Hey Stuart yeah I’m still in London. Maybe I’ll see you sometime? T.
They’d been through a lot—both ex-army, both gay, although Tom’s career had taken an unusual turn when he’d decided to become a nanny. Or manny, as the press had christened him. But it worked. Captain Southwell had transformed into Tom, but he still dealt with crises before breakfast, and marshaling small children was just as challenging as directing a company in a warzone.
The reply took seconds.
Believe it manny Tom. I’ll be knocking on door of no 10 and sayin’ where’s my man 
February 27, 2020
Long and Short Reviews: The Captain and the Best Man
All in all, this was a great read with love being the star of the show. Absolutely recommended by me.
Read the full review at Long and Short Reviews.
February 23, 2020
A Tale of Two Writers
Join us as we answer the perennial question– how do we write together? Get the inside scoop on where we write, how we come up with plots, the fun to be had in a sandbox, how we decide who writes who, and what happens when things don’t go so smoothly. And as ever, discover what’s crawling out of the inkwell, and who – or what – is putting the fizz in our gin!
You can listen to us on Anchor.fm, iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, Castbox, Overcast, Breaker, RadioPublic and Pocket Casts. Other platforms are available!
February 15, 2020
Rainbow Book Reviews on The Dishevelled Duke
Fairy tales can be directed at adults, and so much of aspirational gay lit is, in some manner, akin to that genre…. The story is quite charming.
Read the full review at Rainbow Book Reviews.
February 13, 2020
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