Many authors use a pseudonym when writing fiction and I am no exception. I also write under the name Julie Brooks. You can find out more about my novels writing as Julie Brooks at juliebrooksauthor.com.
I absolutely love the cover for my new novel The Heirloom by my alter ego Julie, and I hope readers will love it too. It sits perfectly with the covers of my previous novels with Headline, The Secrets of Bridgewater Bay and The Keepsake, but has its own mood and colours. Set in the early 19th century and the present day, it’s a story of magic and mystery in East Sussex and contemporary Brisbane.
Philadelphia was hunting a spool of ribbon to trim the dame’s second-best bonnet when she entered the workshop that morning, little expecting her life was about to become a public spectacle. For rather than ribbon, she found her husband draped over a spindle-back chair.
The Heirloom
A surprise inheritance. A hidden past.
Brisbane, 2024 Barista and budding artist Mia Curtis is shocked to receive a package all the way from England informing her she’s the heir to her late grandmother’s cottage. Feeling lost in her own life, Mia travels across the world to claim her inheritance, where she begins to unravel the secrets passed down through the generations of women in her family.
Sussex, 1821 Philadelphia Boadle wakes to find her husband, the tailor Jasper Boadle, dead. As the daughter of the local cunning woman, Philadelphia is soon accused of murder by witchcraft. Her future and that of her own daughter is at stake, unless she can convince the village she’s done no wrong…
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