What's in a name?

Last year, my historical novel, The House of Women was released under the name of Anne Whitfield, like all of my previous books since I was first published in 2006.
However, due to life changes, I've decided to use a new pen name for my novels. Some of my older works will remain under the Whitfield name, mainly my short stories and modern romances. But my historical novels will be released, or re-released, under the name of Anne Brear.

A re-release is The House of Women, now under the name of Anne Brear.

Blurb:
As the Victorian Age draws to a close, lonely and brokenhearted, Grace Woodruff fights for her sisters' rights to happiness while sacrificing any chance for her own. The eldest of seven daughters, Grace is the core of strength around which the unhappy members of the Woodruff family revolve. As her disenchanted mother withdraws to her rooms, Grace must act as a buffer between her violent, ambitious father and the sisters who depend upon her. Rejected by her first love and facing a spinster's future, she struggles to hold the broken family together through her father's infidelity, one sister's alcoholism, and another's out-of-wedlock pregnancy by an unsuitable match. Caring for an illegitimate half-brother affords Grace an escape, though short-lived. Forced home by illness and burdened with dwindling finances, Grace faces fresh anguish -and murder- when her first love returns to wreck havoc in her life. All is not lost, however. In the midst of tragedy, the fires of her heart are rekindled by another. Will the possibility of true love lead Grace to relinquish her responsibilities in the house of women and embrace her own right to happiness?


Available in paperback and ebook.
Amazon USA
Amazon UK

Weekend results

So the experiment my publisher did to have my historical novel To Take Her Pride to be offered free on Amazon Kindle for 48 hours worked very well. It achieved over 10 000 downloads!
To Take Her Pride reached #2 on Amazon UK historical bestseller list for free downloads and #10 on the historical romance list.

I'm so very grateful to all those who helped support me and my book during this promotion. If you don't have a Kindle, TTHP is also available in paperback and other ebook formats.

To Take Her Pride is receiving some great reviews on Amazon, if you want to have a a read for yourself, click on the links below.

Thank you!

Amazon UK
Amazon USA

To Take Her Pride released on Amazon!

Okey dokey, let's blast those trumpets!  To Take Her Pride isn't officially released until the 8th, but it's now available in paperback on Amazon USA and Amazon UK!!!
And we have our first review and we are very pleased!!(why I am I talking like that? I'm not the queen!)
Anyway, here it is, my lovely story - To Take Her Pride!

Blurb:  To Take Her Pride

1898 Yorkshire.

Aurora Pettigrew has it all, a loving family, a nice home, a comfortable life. She’s waiting for the right man to offer her marriage, and the man for her is Reid Sinclair, heir to the Sinclair fortune and the love of her life.

But, Reid’s mother, Julia, is against the match and her ruthlessness unearths a family secret that will tear Aurora’s world apart.

Unwilling to bring shame on her family and needing answers to the allegations brought to light by Reid’s mother, Aurora begins a long journey away from home. She leaves behind all that is familiar and safe to enter a world of mean streets and poor working class.

Living in the tenements of York, surrounded by people of a class she’d never mixed with before, Aurora struggles to come to terms with the way her life has changed. By chance, she reconnects with a man from her past and before he leaves with the army to war in South Africa, he offers her security through marriage.

Aurora knows she should be happy, but the memory of her love for Reid threatens her future.

When tragedy strikes, can Aurora find the strength to accept her life and forget the past?

Go buy it, you know you want to!
Paperback available, ebook to follow.
Amazon UK
Amazon USA

A Noble Place released!

Okay, blatant self-promotion here. It's my blog I can do what I like! You've been warned! Read with caution, you really might want to buy this book at the end of this post!

Now, A Noble Place in a nutshell:

1850s
Pippa, strong, determined is eager to make her mark on the world, and is the right kind of woman for a pioneer country. Should have been born a boy. Still, she will have the best horse stud in the land even if she does wear skirts.
Her father is weak, her mother self-centred, her sister timid. Pippa like most strong women has to forge ahead by herself to attain her dreams. Along the way she meets new people, including the gorgeous Gil. He wants her, of course, who wouldn't? But Pippa is still suffering a broken heart from the handsome Grant and sees Gil as a dear friend and nothing more.
Throw into the mix a troublesome groom, (who doesn't know his place), a bushfire, death, a gold rush, kidnap, and another good-looking, but tortured man called, Marshall, and you have a smashing tale of one woman fighting the odds in a man's world, of her finding out what is important, and finally realising which man she really loves!

I can't tell you the ending, naturally, I need you all to go out and buy the book, because I need to buy stuff like chocolate and, well, wine, and more chocolate, etc, etc. So shoo, go buy, hurry! It all depends on you whether I buy cheap wine or the good stuff....

Here's the link to Amazon Kindle, but you can get it in other formats where you normally buy from, etc, you're all clever people you'll work it out!
Amazon Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/A-Noble-Place-ebook/dp/B007BFIXKG/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1329790431&sr=1-1-catcorr

New book covers!

The Day Embroidered - out September 2012

Blurb:

A life altering event led Catrina Davies to hide from her family and society. Alone in the Scottish highlands she exists in a lonely world cared for only by her saviour, a kind old gentleman. When she receives a surprise visitor, Travis Millard, the man she used to love, her head and heart are thrown into turmoil.

Travis is determined to save her from this poor life and return her to her family where she belongs.  No one is more surprised than he when she agrees to marry him.

When Catrina arrives back at her family estate, Davmoor Court in Yorkshire, she is stunned to see the changes. While her father clings to life, Davmoor is nearly ruined by her brother’s gambling obsession, and there is something strange about his new wife.

As Catrina adjusts to her regained position in society and being with Travis, her marriage comes under attack from Travis’s grandmother, who has her own secrets and reason for loathing the Davies family. 

Then, when one of her brother’s adversaries comes to stake his claim on the estate, the resulting chaos threatens not only Catrina’s home, but the very lives of those she loves the most. She has to find the strength to fight once more for the right to be happy.

The Gentle Wind's Caress - out June 2012

Blurb:

Halifax, 1876. On the death of her mother and sister, Isabelle Gibson is left to fend for herself and her brother in a privately-run workhouse.

After the matron's son attempts to rape her, Isabelle decides to escape him and a life of drudgery by agreeing to marry a moorland farmer she has never met. But this man, Farrell, is a drunkard and a bully in constant feud with his landlord, Ethan Harrington.

When Farrell bungles a robbery and deserts her, Isabelle and Ethan are thrown together as she struggles to save the farm. Both are married and must hide their growing love. But despite the secrecy, Isabelle draws strength from Ethan as faces from the past return to haunt her and a tragedy is set to strike that will change all of their lives forever.

You can pre-order both books on Amazon USA and Amazon UK