PAPER DAFFODILS
DAWN & ROSIE BOOK 1
GOLDIE AWARD Debut Novel (2024).
INCIPERE AWARD Women’s Fiction (2024).
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Is it ever too late for a love story?
Dawn Clermont certainly doesn’t think so.
Rosie Bishop absolutely disagrees.
The last place divorcee Rosie wants to be is on a Seniors’ Retreat in the Lake District. She’s determined not to have a good time, but an unexpected reunion with an old friend thwarts her plans. Her armour of bitterness proves no
match for the spirited widow Dawn; dragged through a whirlwind of adventures and betrayed by her own sense of humour, Rosie soon realises she hasn’t got a hope of staying sullen.
As Rosie clings to the remnants of her sarcasm, something about Dawn draws her closer than ever before. Soon, their bond threatens to run deeper, but is the possibility of a budding romance worth risking their rekindled friendship?
VERTIGO
DAWN & ROSIE BOOK 2
(Coming Soon!)
Rosie Bishop thought she’d survived the most dangerous thing she’d ever do: falling in love again. She was wrong.
Fresh from the fragile safety of a holiday romance and reeling beneath the full force of real life, Rosie and Dawn cling to a pact forged in gentler circumstances – even as work, fear, and unfinished emotional business crowd in around them. What begins as a simple promise kept soon becomes something far bigger: a plunge into the raw beauty and real dangers of Africa, from thundering waterfalls to lion walks and moonlit plains.
As risk sharpens every feeling and truths surface under unfamiliar stars, Rosie is forced to confront the one thing she’s spent her life avoiding – the terrifying height of loving someone without a safety net. Tender, funny, and breath-stealing in every sense of the word, Vertigo is a story of late-life desire, hard-won courage, and the moment you realise the scariest fall of all might be the one that saves you.
Titania Tempest 