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One morning in the small town of Lakeview, Ella Harris finds a cardboard box on the doorstop of her café. At first she thinks it’s her usual muffin delivery but is shocked to find that the box actually contains a newborn baby.

But what kind of mother would abandon a defenceless baby like that, and why?

Could it have been newly single Nina who, after being rejected by the father of her unborn child, has no choice but to return to Lakeview to stay with her estranged (and slightly peculiar) dad?

Or was it Lakeview-born Hollywood actress Eva Seymour, who on the eve of her triumphant return home from LA, has a completely ill-advised fling with a handsome co-star. A baby is certain to ruin her hard-fought-for career.

Or perhaps it’s happily married Jess who, as the only non-mum amongst her friends, finds herself increasingly left out. Terrified that she will lose them altogether, she embarks on becoming a mother too. But is she really rushing into something she really knows nothing about?

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Always eagerly awaited by me are the release of Melissa Hill’s novels because they are simply brilliant! Her next book, The Truth About You, is due out on May 27th, and the gorgeous cover was released exclusively in Melissa’s newsletter. In another bit of exciting Melissa news, we want to pass on our congratulations to Melissa and her husband who recently discovered they are expecting their first child next month! Here’s the synopss of The Truth About You:

“One morning in the small town of Lakeview, Ella Harris finds a cardboard box on the doorstop of her café. At first she thinks it’s her usual muffin delivery but is shocked to find that the box actually contains a newborn baby.

Or perhaps it’s happily married Jess who, as the only non-mum amongst her friends, finds herself increasingly left out. Terrified that she will lose them altogether, she embarks on becoming a mother too. But is she really rushing into something she really knows nothing about?”

Here is the beautiful paperback cover for Melissa Hill’s latest book Please Forgive Me. It is so beautiful that I’m definitely going to buy it once it’s released on 15th April 2010. Here are our reviews for Please Forgive Me: Leah’s & Chloe’s and here’s the synopsis:

Don’t you wish you could change your life? Leonie thinks she has. The day she leaves for San Francsico, not even her best friend knows where she is.

Now she’s living in a gorgeous apartment, working in a flower shop, beginning to make new friends. Things couldn’t be more different. Until she stumbles on a bundle of mysterious love letters, and begins to wonder if maybe, instead of running away, she needs to start remembering all she’s left behind . . .

If you haven’t heard of Melissa Hill but love chick-lit then you have definitely missed one brilliant author. She is the Queen of plot-twists and is a very clever writer. I read my first Melissa Hill novel (All Because of You) last year some time and loved how well written it was. I’ve since read a few more and have her new novel to read. Here on chicklitreviews we’ve reviewed Something You Should Know, Wishful Thinking, Before I Forget & we were the first to review her new novel Please Forgive Me (which is released July 23rd). Here is our interview with Melissa!

1. Describe your latest novel in a sentence.

Before I Forget is about a girl with a head injury who tries to fight long-term memory loss by making a to-do list and having the most unforgettable year of her life.

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Leonie was happily in love and engaged to fiancé Adam, but now she’s living halfway across the world from him in San Franscisco. She doesn’t want to be found, and she doesn’t want people to know the secret she ran away from either.

When she moves into a new home, she finds a box of letters all to the same woman from the same man, Nathan, begging for forgiveness. Leonie is curious and decides to find out who the mystery recipient is.

She enlists the help of her neighbour Alex who has a fair few secrets herself - but is Leonie doing it for Nathan and his love, or to exorcise her own demons once and for all?

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As there are so many books out in July – 23! – we’re doing them in different posts. To see the other July posts, click which you’d like to see: 2nd – 3rd July | 6th – 16th July | 23rd – 30th July.

MELISSA HILL - PLEASE FORGIVE ME - 23RD JULY

Leonie was in love and engaged. But now she has fled her beloved Dublin to start again – somewhere no one knows her or the secret she’s running from.

Settling in to her new apartment she happens upon a bundle of love letters, all written by a man called Nathan to an unknown woman, and all intriguingly ending with the same three words ’Please forgive me’.

Moved by Nathan’s heartfelt words, Leonie sets out to uncover the mystery behind the couple and what went wrong between them. If she reunites the letters with their rightful owner, might the love of Nathan’s life find it in her heart to forgive him?

And along the way, Leonie might just resolve a few forgiveness issues of her own . .

DEBORAH WRIGHT - THE CELEBRITY MOTHER - 23RD JULY

Ex-girl-band-member-turned-PR-disaster Karina West didn’t see it coming. Her career’s history, her reputation’s in the gutter, and she’s completely on her own.

She needs to get back in the gossip pages, and fast. How better to achieve it than by adopting a child, the sweet, ten-year-old Devika, from a far-off place?

Karina and Devika are soon front-page news, but neither of them realise they are starting a journey that will change their lives – for ever.

VERONICA HENRY - MARRIAGE AND OTHER GAMES - 23RD JULY

Forgive and forget? Could you…? When girl-about-town Charlotte discovers her husband has been arrested for fraud, she flees to the wilds of Exmoor to nurse her broken heart. Yet despite the slower pace of life, she finds she’s not the only person whose life is in turmoil. There’s Sebastian, bad boy of the British art scene, determined to drink the local pub dry while his wife lives it up in London. Then Fitch, who married the high-spirited Hayley thinking he would find wedded bliss, but is struggling to keep up with her outrageous demands. And finally Penny, recently divorced and quietly determined to have more fun second time around – but who with? As Charlotte adapts to a life without LK Bennett and Starbucks on the doorstep, she turns to her newfound friends for advice. Can she find it in her heart to forgive her husband for what he did? And if she does, will it be too late?

LUCINDA ROSENFELD - I’M SO HAPPY FOR YOU - 29TH JULY

What if your best friend, whom you’ve always counted on to flounder in life and love (making your own modest accomplishments look not so bad), suddenly starts to surpass you in every way?

Wendy’s best friend, Daphne, has always been dependably prone to catastrophe. And Wendy has always been there to help. If Daphne veers from suicidal to madly in love, Wendy offers encouragement. But when Daphne is suddenly engaged, pregnant, and decorating a fabulous town house in no time at all, Wendy is…not so happy for her. Caught between wanting to be the best friend she prides herself on being and crippling jealousy of flighty Daphne, Wendy takes things to the extreme, waging a full-scale attack on her best friend-all the while wearing her best, I’m-so-happy-for-you smile-and ends up in way over her head.

ELLIE CAMPBELL - WHEN GO FRIENDS GO BAD - 30TH JULY

All through school tomboy Jen, snobby Georgina, hippy Meg and gentle Rowan were inseparable. But when a childish prank turned bad their friendship was torn apart.

Twelve years later Rowan organized a reunion dinner and all did not go well. Rowan never appeared; Georgina’s shocking secret was revealed; Meg behaved outrageously; and Jen finally decided it was time to move on. And that’s just what she did for the following ten years…

Until now, when in the midst of her divorce Jen receives a desperate call from Meg. On a personal mission to track down Rowan, Meg manages to convince Georgina and Jen to put aside their differences and help her. But none of them even begin to imagine the extent to which their loyalties will be tested as their past finally catches up with them.

SASHA BLAKE - BETRAYAL - 30TH JULY

Money
Emily Kent is the daughter of one of the most powerful women on the planet. Her mother and billionaire father have laid the world at her feet – it’s not enough. Emily is determined to make her own luck.

Lust
Claudia Kent is Emily’s step-sister – all she craves is love. Desperate to escape the misery of her past, she meets the man of her dreams. Or so she imagines…Vengeance – Nathan Kent is the son of no one. Adopted, and then discarded by the one family who could have loved him, he has only one goal in life – to get his revenge.

Greed
As disgraced tycoon Jack Kent and his wife Innocence fight for supremacy over their vast empire, family ties are flung aside – no one will stand the way of their obsession with money, sex and power.

ADELE PARKS - LOVE LIES - 30TH JULY

Fern is glaring thirty in the face and can’t ignore the love lies any longer. Life with Adam was amazing once – although these days swinging from the chandeliers means D.I.Y not S.E.X. She believes a romantic wedding should be the next step but Adam just won’t go down on one knee. Then a chance meeting with Scottie Taylor – the UK’s sexiest pop star – lights fireworks in Fern that won’t stop exploding. It’s mind-expanding love at first sight for them both so when he proposes in front of a sell-out crowd at Wembley Stadium, there’s only one answer. Yes, yes, yes! Before you know it, Fern is living the celebrity dream in LA and a wedding planner is arranging designer shoe fittings. But isn’t it all happening a little too fast? Why is this modern day Cinderella homesick for a rented two-bedroom flat in Clapham? How do you know whether love is telling the truth? Fern must choose which version of this fairy tale is hers …

KATIE PRICE - SAPPHIRE - 30TH JULY

Sapphire Jones doesn’t believe in relationships anymore – not since she caught her husband in bed with another woman. Now Sapphire only sees men on her terms which is why her current lover is younger than her, good looking, doesn’t place any emotional demands on her [so far, fingers crossed] and is great in bed. What more does a girl need?

Sapphire puts all her passion into running her own business – a high end lingerie and hen weekend company. She is doing well and life seems pretty good until she meets a very handsome, charming businessman who seems more than a match for Sapphire. Then things go badly wrong at the hen party she has planned for a soap star and tabloid darling.

The evening is one that everyone will be talking about for all the wrong reasons and Sapphire faces front page headlines all of her own…Suddenly her business is in jeopardy, her well-controlled private life is falling apart, and in the middle of all this Sapphire realises that she is not immune to love after all, but has she left it too late?

Wishful Thinking follows the lives of 3 women, all about to make life-changing discoveries which will really rock their worlds.

Louise’s life hasn’t been the same since her horrid accident - she’s constantly in pain, struggling to fit in at work and having problems with her massive debts. Dara has just married a wonderful man, but not The One. She’s shocked when the real love of her life suddenly comes back into Ireland, and throws her feelings into complete disarray.

Finally, Rosie just wants to enjoy her old age and make her 2 children happy. But Rosie’s children haven’t turned out as she wanted them too, and she’s forced to make some tough decisions. 3 women - 3 lives - 3 excellent stories in one.

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Melissa Hill, one of my favourite authors and queen of the plot twist, has a new novel out on July 23rd titled Please Forgive Me. It sounds like another brilliant read from Melissa:

Leonie was in love and engaged. But now she has fled her beloved Dublin to start again - somewhere no one knows her or the secret she’s running from.

And along the way, Leonie might just resolve a few forgiveness issues of her own . . .