Synopsis:
What if the choice you have to make has devastating consequences for others?
How can anyone know the right thing to do?
Leonie chose to sacrifice everything to save other people. Now those around her have to face the consequences – and those consequences are not what they expected.
Prospero must deal with his own guilt. He was the one who gave Leonie the tools she needed – her life was in his hands. To make the most of what she did, he will have to face up to all the family issues he has avoided for so long. Whatever he chooses to do, someone he loves will be hurt. For Leonie’s sake, is he now strong enough to make the choice he couldn’t make before?
The crisis predicted by Lord Gabriel has come and gone. But his task isn’t over. Leonie’s very existence may be out in the open but Gabriel discovers that the past is never what it seems – and nor is the present. How can he use what he now knows to bring together those who have been enemies for as long as anyone can remember? If he fails in this, everything he’s had to do so far will be in vain.
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I have an extract from Rachel’s latest book to share with you today. This is the third book in her Choices and Consequences series. You can find my review of Strand of Faith here and the second book, Thread of Hope here.
I will have details of all the other books in the series following the extract as well details for a giveaway. Enjoy.
Extract
Taken from the start of Chapter 1, this is set just a few hours after the end of Thread of Hope. At the end of that book, Leonie was barely clinging to life having risked everything to save others. Perry is her husband. Lord Gabriel is the head of the community to which both Perry and Leonie belong.
Perry
How often will I have to do this? How often can I even do this before it breaks me?
Perry groaned and buried his head into the pillow, trying desperately to recapture those fuzzy moments on the edge of waking. Those warm, happy moments of forgetfulness before the memories of the last few days hit him. Before his mind was swamped with thoughts of Leonie sacrificing everything to save others, of her almost lifeless body as he brought her home, of earlier this morning when they’d had to stop supporting her.
I won’t think about it. I won’t. Just the happy times, I’ll think of the good times.
“Sit up,” said Lord Gabriel. “I know you’re awake. You have to face this, not run away from it.”
Gabriel’s voice reached somewhere below Perry’s conscious mind and obedience came without thinking. He sat up. “Andrew was here,” he said slowly.
“I took over from him. I have a confession to make to you. Under the circumstances, I think it needs to be before tomorrow,” Gabriel replied with a slight smile.
Perry stared at him, frowning and puzzled. “Okay then,” he said, relieved at the distraction from his own issues.
“Not yet. You need to eat first,” said Gabriel, nodding towards where food was set out on a nearby surface. “Many years of experience have taught me never to confess to someone with low blood sugar.”
Despite the circumstances, that brought a slight laugh to Perry, and he moved to comply. As he ate, he kept glancing at Leonie’s body on the other side of the bed.
“She’s not been alone. Never alone,” Gabriel told him. “And my confession is for her, too, even if she won’t hear it.”
“I can’t keep secrets from her,” Perry confessed.
“I know. And this isn’t secret, not now. Although I’d rather my behaviour didn’t become public knowledge. At least, no more than it already is.”
Tendrils of intrigue wound into Perry’s mind, challenging the numbness he was desperate to hold on to, detachment his only protection against the ocean of pain awaiting him.
Strand of Faith
Choices and Consequences Book 1
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A girl. A monk. An unthinkable sacrifice.
When the choice is between love and life, how
can anyone decide?
In a post-apocalyptic future, a girl and a monk, both with extraordinary mental
powers, have compelling reasons not to fall in love. But their choices will
have consequences for the rest of the world.
After the troubles of his youth, Brother
Prospero has found comfort and fulfilment in the monastery.
Then he discovers something that forces him to reconsider his whole vocation.
How can it possibly be right to leave a life of worship and service for human
desire? And if he does leave, will the pressures from his past destroy him?
Orphaned and mistreated, Leonie has
found sanctuary and safety at the Abbey. When she comes into contact with Prospero everything spirals out of her control.
Everyone she’s ever loved has died. She can’t do that to him. But how can she
walk away from the first place she’s truly belonged?
Abbot Gabriel is faced with an
impossible choice. He can do nothing and watch the world descend into war. Or
he can manipulate events and ensure peace – at the cost of two lives that he is
responsible for. Is he strong enough to sacrifice those he loves?
Thread of Hope
Choices and Consequences Book 2
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What if your secrets are so dangerous they could destroy the one
you love?
Is honesty always the best policy?
Leonie may have run away but Prospero will
find her. He loves her and he wants a future with her by his side whatever the
consequences. Only when he does find her, he ought to tell her who he really
is, outside the monastery. That’ll make her run again. Dare he risk it? But if
he doesn’t tell her, someone else may…
Marriage to Prospero is what Leonie wants most and the one thing she knows she
can’t have. If he found out what she was really like, what she’d been, what
she’d done, he’d despise her and she couldn’t bear that. Better to leave now than
live a lie – but it’s harder than she expected. If only…
Gabriel is starting to discover
the secrets inherent in Leonie,
secrets that not even she knows, secrets that will tear the world apart. And
the secrets he is keeping are tearing him apart. How can sacrificing those he
loves possibly achieve peace when everything he discovers risks the death of
millions?
Cloth of Grace – coming soon February 2020
Choices and Consequences Book 4
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When the fate of the world rests on your shoulders, how do you choose between what you ought to do and the only thing you really want?
Leonie finally knows who she is. But now she needs to decide who she is going to be. Her choice will affect not just her family, not just those she knows but tens, hundreds of thousands, millions of people that she doesn’t. And every path that’s open to her will put Perry under the pressures that caused his breakdown before. How can she do what she must and still protect Perry?
Perry desperately wants to make things easier for Leonie. Somehow he has to find the strength to face the things that all but destroyed him in the past. But every way he turns some aspect of his past lies waiting to pounce – even during his happiest moments. And he can never forget that Leonie’s life is in danger from someone, somewhere. That danger may be much closer to home than anyone suspects.
Gabriel has managed to negotiate peace, at least in theory. Now he must put that into practice and reunite Leonie with the family she never knew she had. Then disaster strikes right in the middle of his own sanctuary. Can he still protect those he loves, or has he been harbouring a villain the whole time?
Author Bio:
Rachel J Bonner is the author of the compelling and enthralling four book Choices and Consequences series. The first book in the series, Strand of Faith, was published in November 2018. Book 2, Thread of Hope, released on 2nd May 2019, followed by Weave of Love on 24th October, and Cloth of Grace at the end of February 2020.
Getting a degree in engineering, followed by a career in accountancy is probably not a conventional path to becoming an author, particularly in fantasy or romance. Rachel says that, although accountancy isn’t anything like as boring as everyone thinks, writing is a lot more fun. When not writing, she can be found walking in the beautiful countryside near where she lives, which has influenced much of the scenery in her books, or shooting things with her local archery club. Shooting targets only, honest. Nothing to worry about. (Okay, sometimes we shoot Polo mints. Or cabbages. Still nothing to worry about.)
She also enjoys swimming, eating chocolate chip cookies and growing aromatic herbs, especially thyme and rosemary. It’s no coincidence that her heroine likes the same things.
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