#BlogTour – The Twilight Garden by Emma Davies #EmmaDaviesBookTour @Bookouture

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for The Twilight Garden by Emma Davies.

The Twilight Garden was published on 3rd September 2026 by Bookouture.

A secret garden. A moonlit reunion. And a chance to start again…?

Perched on a hilltop in the Cornish countryside, with the sea sparkling in the distance, lies a garden, once forgotten but recently rediscovered. As the sun sets over its gently crumbling walls every evening, two figures appear and quietly tend the soil at dusk. This is a place that heals the soul.

Gemma is here to find the version of herself she lost long ago. What she hasn’t expected to find is someone who understands her heartbreak all too well.

Leo is also trying to rebuild his life. He knows how to fix things around him with nails and a hammer. But if he tries to mend Gemma’s heart as he mends the garden, could he heal himself too?

Working side by side to uncover long-forgotten flowers in the garden, Gemma wonders if she’s planting the seeds for a whole new future for herself too.

But then one evening, it’s clear somebody else has been to the garden. Someone intending to destroy what they’re creating. Someone who needs to be stopped….

Can Gemma and Leo save the tumbledown, magical place that has saved them? Or will they lose the twilight garden forever?

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A big thank you to Noelle and the publisher for issuing me with my review copy of the book and for inviting me to take part on the tour!

The Twilight Garden is a lovely, slow burn of a book that what was I needed to read after what feels like a lot of murder from my reading list! We follow Gemma who is feeling lost in her life following the death of her beloved mum. Having given up her job to help care for her, she feels adrift and unsure about what her life entails. She is still grieving but looking at starting a new role which will hopefully give her the focus in her life that has been missing.

When things go awry, Gemma feels once again lost. A chance moment at the doctor’s surgery and a job advertisement in the pages of a magazine make her think about her life. The help on a farm in Cornwall doesn’t scream lots of money but it calls to her all the same and despite the impracticality of it all, she decides to travel to see the farm and see if she can imagine herself there. The farm and buildings are definitely a work in progress but the vision and positive outlook from the young owners Willow and Rowan, persuade her this is just what she needs to rediscover herself and find the joy in life again.

Despite reservations from her best friend, Gemma is at peace with the quietness and relative slower pace of life at the farm. Things take a big turn however when she discovers a person from her past is also helping at the farm and once again her life upside down!

The Twilight Garden was a lovely cosy read for me and I loved hearing about life on a farm (even if it slightly dilapidated!) in Cornwall, one of my favourite places. It isn’t all sunshine and beaches though, the weather as we learn can be quite unforgiving but as we know, life on a farm doesn’t stop if there happens to be a downpour! When Gemma discovers a rundown garden on the grounds of the farm (following twisting her ankle – ouch!) she begins to see light at the end of the tunnel and it determined to restore it, along with a bit of herself along the way. The peaceful evenings become a sanctuary for her as she works tirelessly to bring this part of the farm back to life.

The story moves at a lovely pace, not rushing along which is exactly the pace that Gemma needs to move herself and I loved hearing her thoughts and reading her discover her own peace and haven in her magical garden.

A lovely story from Emma Davies that I thoroughly enjoyed.

 

 

About the Author

Emma once worked for a design studio where she was asked to provide a fun, humorous, and not necessarily true anecdote about herself for their website. She wrote the following: ‘I am a bestselling novelist currently masquerading as a thirty something mother of three.’ Well the job didn’t work out but she’s now a forty something mother of three and happy to report the rest of her dream came true.

She now lives in rural Shropshire where she writes full time from a shed in the garden.

#BlogTour ~ A Farmhouse in France by Rachael Lucas @RachaelLucas @RandomTTours #AFarmhouseInFrance

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for A Farmhouse in France by Rachael Lucas.

A Farmhouse in France was published on 3rd August 2026.

 

 

When Daisy Lewis inherits a crumbling farmhouse in rural France from the father who never knew she existed, she expects nothing more than paperwork and problems. What she finds instead is an overgrown orchard, a village full of people who knew her father better than she did, and Patrick – an infuriatingly handsome neighbouring farmer, who definitely doesn’t speak English… until he does.

Daisy’s life has been swallowed up with trying to keep her Yorkshire pub afloat. France was supposed to be a detour – one quick summer trip to sort out the details, sell up, and leave.

But life has a way of happening when you’re busy making other plans…

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A big thank you to Anne Cater and the publisher for issuing me with my review copy of the book and for inviting me to take part on the tour!

A Farmhouse in France was a lovely cosy, feel good book that was actually a welcome tonic from all the crime books I have been reading recently!

We follow Daisy Lewis, who works in her partner’s pub and is just going through the motions. When a letter arrives in the post for her from France, little does she know the changes that it will bring to her life. She learns that her father has recently died and left her money and a cottage in the French countryside. Having not known anything about her father, apart from the fact that he apparently abandoned her before she was born, she is reluctant but eventually decides to drive to France with her dog, sister and niece in tow!

When they arrive they find a neat and tidy cottage alongside an overgrown orchard and a warm inviting village full of all varieties of people including her handsome neighbour Patrick, most of whom knew her father Georges and his love of feeding stray cats that frequented his land! The more she learns about her father and the secrets that her mum kept from her, the more she warms and embraces the French part of her life and even meets her French family who welcome her with open arms.

When an emergency occurs back in England, Daisy returns and soon comes to realise that maybe the French countryside is where she is meant to be.

I loved this book and couldn’t put it down. The beautiful French countryside and way of life is wonderful – the 2 hour lunch break where everything closes sounds absolutely perfect to me. The more and more time Daisy spends in France so you can sense her blossoming and finally finding a place that she belongs. She rediscovers her joy of painting that she just never had time to do in England. Staying in the farmhouse also brings a sense of closeness to her father and seeing his things still scattered about the house, helps her to learn more about the man that she never knew.

As this is a trilogy, I’m really looking forward to being reunited with the wonderful village people and learning more about them.

 

 

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About the Author

Rachael Lucas is the author of heartwarming, feel-good women’s fiction set in small towns full of characters who feel like friends. She writes about friendship, family, and women in later life discovering happiness. She has written 20 novels for adults and teenagers, including the Carnegie nominated THE STATE OF GRACE, top ten bestseller SEALED WITH A KISS and the internationally bestselling APPLEMORE series.

Social Media Links – Instagram.com/rachaellucas

Facebook.com/rachaellucaswriter

#BlogTour ~ Faculty of Liars by R L Heber @RebeccaLHThornton @RandomTTours #FacultyofLiars

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Faculty of Liars by R L Heber

Faculty of Liars is published on 6^th August 2026 by Point Blank

 

 

When a woman’s affair ends in murder, it threatens to expose a scandal at the heart of one of America’s most powerful universities

Elizabeth Harker has a secret.

On the day she hears the news that her husband is to be the President of one of the most prestigious universities in New England, she is in the arms of another man.

Then, on presidential inauguration day and just moments before Elizabeth is due to step on stage and deliver a speech to be broadcast around the world, she learns her lover has been brutally murdered.

As the university closes ranks, Elizabeth is forced to grieve in silence whilst protecting a secret that could destroy everything. But the harder she tries to contain the affair, the more she begins to see what lies behind the university’s immaculate façade: a world where power is absolute and any threat to the institution is buried without hesitation.

Because this was never just an affair.

And this was never just a murder.

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A big thank you to Anne Cater and the publisher for issuing me with my review copy of the book and for inviting me to take part on the tour!

Faculty of Liars is one of those books that might not necessarily have come across my radar had I not been introduced to it for a blog tour but I’m really glad I did as I loved delving into this dark academia slow burn thriller.

We follow Elizabeth on the morning of the news that her husband has been announced as the President of a very prestigious research university and how this will ultimately change their lives. She isn’t however at her husband’s side – she is at the side of her lover and who also happens to work at the same university. Knowing that her life will change and she will be facing more scrutiny, she knows that she will have to end their affair despite her obvious feelings for him. Things are taken out of her hands however when he is found murdered and Elizabeth hears this whilst onstage delivering a speech for her husband’s inauguration.

Elizabeth is quite a complex character but you can’t help but feel sorry for her as she has to deal with her grief and mourning in private alongside navigating her new status and role within the university. Knowing that she needs to know what happened, she begins to investigate and soon discovers it isn’t just her that is keeping a big secret – did she really know the man that she loved?

I really enjoyed how this was written, it was almost like being privy to a private conversation that Elizabeth is having the deeper she delves. The further we get into the story, the more deception we come across – I love to be surprised in books and I definitely was in this instance. What originally started off as a slow burn thriller, ramps up the pace and kept me reading when I should have been sleeping!

I’m looking forward to reading more from the author.

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About the Author

R L Heber is the author of three previous novels and has been selected as a WHSmith Fresh Talent.

She is a comms strategist, and runs her own business, Words With Bex. She lives in London.