A glimpse of Indiscretion
As she stood there,
with the sun on her face, taking in sights and smells that seemed strange, and
yet curiously familiar, Alexandra felt she had stepped out from the shadows of
her old life into the dazzling light of a new world. Her momentary annoyance at
being alone with her luggage suddenly vanished. England was never further away
than at this moment – a dull moth to the colourful butterfly of Spain – and she
ached to unfurl her own wings and discover it all. This was the stuff of
novels, and yet here she was. The thought made her stomach tense with a mixture
of excitement and trepidation.
It was then that a
gypsy woman, dressed in bright colours and bearing fans and red roses, accosted
her. ‘Hermosa joven, beautiful young lady, buy one of my roses, fresh-picked
this morning. It will bring you luck.’
Alexandra met the
falcon-dark orbs that were watching her slyly. The gypsy was of an uncertain
age with a nest of coal-black hair hanging untidily to her shoulders; her
features regular but harsh and coarse in a sun-scorched and wind-beaten oval
face. Alexandra shook her head and tried to smile politely. ‘Thank you, not
today.’
The gitana grabbed her
arm, clasping it tightly in her long bony fingers. ‘Give me your palm. I can
read the heavens, and I will tell you the secrets the stars hold for you in the
future.’
Introducing… Hannah Fielding
Hannah Fielding is an incurable romantic. The seeds for her
writing career were sown in early childhood, spent in Egypt, when she came to
an agreement with her governess Zula: for each fairy story Zula told, Hannah
would invent and relate one of her own. Years later – following a degree in
French literature, several years of travelling in Europe, falling in love with
an Englishman, the arrival of two beautiful children and a career in property
development – Hannah decided after so many years of yearning to write that the
time was now. Today, she lives the dream: writing full time at her homes in
Kent, England, and the South of France, where she dreams up romances
overlooking breath-taking views of the Mediterranean.
To date, Hannah has published four passionate, evocative novels: Burning Embers, a ‘romance like
Hollywood used to make’, set in Kenya; the award-winning Echoes of Love, ‘an epic love story that is beautifully told’, set
in Italy; and books 1 and 2 of the Andalusian Nights trilogy, set in sultry
Spain, entitled Indiscretion and Masquerade. She is currently working on
her fifth book, Legacy, which will
publish this spring.
***GIVEAWAY***
Thank you for hosting me on your blog. Hannah x
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