Michelle Montebello's Blog
December 25, 2020
99c The Lost Letters of Playfair Street
Hi Folks,
For a limited time only, THE LOST LETTERS OF PLAYFAIR STREET, my latest historical fiction, is on sale for 99c only! Available on Kindle, Kobo, iBooks and Barnes & Noble.
Enjoy!!
Michelle x
For a limited time only, THE LOST LETTERS OF PLAYFAIR STREET, my latest historical fiction, is on sale for 99c only! Available on Kindle, Kobo, iBooks and Barnes & Noble.
Enjoy!!
Michelle x
November 23, 2019
Beautiful, Fragile
"Memories weren’t everlasting. I knew that better than anyone." — Faith, BEAUTIFUL, FRAGILE.
Beautiful, Fragile
We hardly realise it but every second of every day, we are making memories, capturing moments that would otherwise be fleeting; precious moments that we store like an internal photo album, hoping to call on at a later time.
But what if one day they weren’t there anymore? What if that internal photo album was destroyed?
It wasn’t something I’d considered all that much until I started writing my latest novel, Beautiful, Fragile. I hadn’t thought about what it would mean to lose my memories or how it could change me or those around me.
My protagonist, Faith James, a fun-loving, twenty-five-year-old Australian girl, wakes one morning in a Spanish hospital with a head injury and a third of her life’s memories gone.
You can imagine her panic at this, especially when a strange man (her husband) arrives to collect her and she’s told she’s ten years older, has a life in London with children she can’t remember and friends she’s never heard of.
Despite this panic, she returns to London with Will and begins her emotional journey to recover what she’s lost. She must meet her children, learn to be their mother, live in a house she doesn’t recognise and navigate the delicate path of a failing marriage.
Memories aren’t everlasting. They’re delicate images that we pile together in our brain in the hope that we will forever retain them. They are the perfect output of all the moments that have made up our lives. Every precious minute with our children and grandchildren, our partners, family and friends, all tucked away for safe-keeping.
Writing this novel has reminded me that memories are just that. Beautiful, fragile things that are so easy to misplace or lose forever and once gone, you may never get them back. You have to hand it to Faith. She could have run back to the life she remembered, the one from ten years earlier where everything was familiar and comfortable, and who would blame her? Instead, she digs in her heels and gives her ‘new’ life a go.
I admire her courage and positivity in the face of such a daunting task. Does it work out for her? You’ll have to find out!
Beautiful, Fragile is available now for pre-order!
Beautiful, Fragile
We hardly realise it but every second of every day, we are making memories, capturing moments that would otherwise be fleeting; precious moments that we store like an internal photo album, hoping to call on at a later time.
But what if one day they weren’t there anymore? What if that internal photo album was destroyed?
It wasn’t something I’d considered all that much until I started writing my latest novel, Beautiful, Fragile. I hadn’t thought about what it would mean to lose my memories or how it could change me or those around me.
My protagonist, Faith James, a fun-loving, twenty-five-year-old Australian girl, wakes one morning in a Spanish hospital with a head injury and a third of her life’s memories gone.
You can imagine her panic at this, especially when a strange man (her husband) arrives to collect her and she’s told she’s ten years older, has a life in London with children she can’t remember and friends she’s never heard of.
Despite this panic, she returns to London with Will and begins her emotional journey to recover what she’s lost. She must meet her children, learn to be their mother, live in a house she doesn’t recognise and navigate the delicate path of a failing marriage.
Memories aren’t everlasting. They’re delicate images that we pile together in our brain in the hope that we will forever retain them. They are the perfect output of all the moments that have made up our lives. Every precious minute with our children and grandchildren, our partners, family and friends, all tucked away for safe-keeping.
Writing this novel has reminded me that memories are just that. Beautiful, fragile things that are so easy to misplace or lose forever and once gone, you may never get them back. You have to hand it to Faith. She could have run back to the life she remembered, the one from ten years earlier where everything was familiar and comfortable, and who would blame her? Instead, she digs in her heels and gives her ‘new’ life a go.
I admire her courage and positivity in the face of such a daunting task. Does it work out for her? You’ll have to find out!
Beautiful, Fragile is available now for pre-order!
November 3, 2019
Beautiful, Fragile Release Date
Hello All,
I am so pleased to be able to share with you the cover for my latest release, Beautiful, Fragile, coming on November 25th!
Preorders are now open. This book will be available wide on Amazon, iBooks, B&N and Kobo. Are you ready for Faith and Will's story?
Beautiful, Fragile
We’d hurt each other, my soulmate and me…
Faith James is found on a remote beach in the south of Spain with a head injury and no recollection of how she got there. Recovering in hospital, she is desperate to return to her twenty-five-year-old, single life in Sydney.
But Faith has lost ten years of memories and her world becomes unrecognisable.
Her husband, Will, arrives to collect her, and she is told she has three young children waiting at home in London.
So begins the emotional journey to reclaim the life she's forgotten, learn how to be a wife and mother, and mend a broken marriage. She wants to remember everything…
But are all memories worth fighting for, even the ones that hurt?
I am so pleased to be able to share with you the cover for my latest release, Beautiful, Fragile, coming on November 25th!
Preorders are now open. This book will be available wide on Amazon, iBooks, B&N and Kobo. Are you ready for Faith and Will's story?
Beautiful, Fragile
We’d hurt each other, my soulmate and me…
Faith James is found on a remote beach in the south of Spain with a head injury and no recollection of how she got there. Recovering in hospital, she is desperate to return to her twenty-five-year-old, single life in Sydney.
But Faith has lost ten years of memories and her world becomes unrecognisable.
Her husband, Will, arrives to collect her, and she is told she has three young children waiting at home in London.
So begins the emotional journey to reclaim the life she's forgotten, learn how to be a wife and mother, and mend a broken marriage. She wants to remember everything…
But are all memories worth fighting for, even the ones that hurt?
March 6, 2019
The Quarantine Station is LIVE
THE QUARANTINE STATION is now live on all platforms. For a limited time, you can grab it for 99c!
Amazon US: https://amzn.to/2EA75S2
Amazon AU: https://amzn.to/2EvKtCq
iBooks: https://apple.co/2TgxQoP
Kobo: https://bit.ly/2C5cLmR
Nook: https://bit.ly/2TpDUed
Michelle xxx
Amazon US: https://amzn.to/2EA75S2
Amazon AU: https://amzn.to/2EvKtCq
iBooks: https://apple.co/2TgxQoP
Kobo: https://bit.ly/2C5cLmR
Nook: https://bit.ly/2TpDUed
Michelle xxx
March 4, 2019
The Quarantine Station
Ahead of The Quarantine Station's release tomorrow (March 6th), I wanted to share with you a short piece I'd written for the Australian Romance Reader's Association.
I’d been toying with the idea of writing this book for a while, long before I started putting words to paper. The Quarantine Station, on Sydney’s North Head, has always been a place of intrigue for me. I’d been on the ghost tours (which are very spooky by the way!) and loved the dark stories of the sick coming ashore to be quarantined.
But it wasn’t until I completed one of their historical day tours that I began to peel back the layers of this captivating place to reveal the potential for a love story. While the medical history of the station is fascinating, I wanted the story to convey endurance and hope, to show us the lengths people will go to when in love. I wanted this book to remain true to the history while still being the kind of fictional romance we can all escape into.
Emma and Rose are two very different women who share a complex and unique history. I hope their stories, and the time and place of this novel, whisk you far beyond the pages, into a life on the Quarantine Station.
Visit https://michellemontebello.com.au/the... for buy links.
I’d been toying with the idea of writing this book for a while, long before I started putting words to paper. The Quarantine Station, on Sydney’s North Head, has always been a place of intrigue for me. I’d been on the ghost tours (which are very spooky by the way!) and loved the dark stories of the sick coming ashore to be quarantined.
But it wasn’t until I completed one of their historical day tours that I began to peel back the layers of this captivating place to reveal the potential for a love story. While the medical history of the station is fascinating, I wanted the story to convey endurance and hope, to show us the lengths people will go to when in love. I wanted this book to remain true to the history while still being the kind of fictional romance we can all escape into.
Emma and Rose are two very different women who share a complex and unique history. I hope their stories, and the time and place of this novel, whisk you far beyond the pages, into a life on the Quarantine Station.
Visit https://michellemontebello.com.au/the... for buy links.
February 6, 2019
The Quarantine Station Release Date
The Quarantine Station has a release date!
Wednesday 6th March, 2019.
It will release wide and for 99c for a short while.
This haunting love story is coming folks so be sure to add it to your Goodreads books!
Wednesday 6th March, 2019.
It will release wide and for 99c for a short while.
This haunting love story is coming folks so be sure to add it to your Goodreads books!
August 10, 2018
The Belle Series
Did you know the Belle Series is a continuing story? Go back to where it all began with Interwoven (book 1), following on with A House of Lies (2) and Beneath the Pepper Tree (3).
August 5, 2018
Freebie Alert!
My August newsletter will issued soon and every new subscriber will receive GIFTS !!A free copy of book 1 in the Belle series, Interwoven and Chapter 1 of my recent work in progress, The Quarantine Station. Yes! Yours! All FREE!
To sign up, visit: https://michellemontebello.com.au/con...
July 13, 2018
The Belle Series
Hello Readers!
The Belle Series is now live. You can read all three books back to back without pausing!
This is a story about love and loss, of letting go of yesterday and finding the courage to move forward.
The weekend is coming. Grab your copies now!
"Wow! I am still in awe after finishing this book!"
"This book is fabulous. I just about inhaled it!"
"Beautifully written..."
"An irresistible page-turner!"
The Belle Series is now live. You can read all three books back to back without pausing!
This is a story about love and loss, of letting go of yesterday and finding the courage to move forward.
The weekend is coming. Grab your copies now!
"Wow! I am still in awe after finishing this book!"
"This book is fabulous. I just about inhaled it!"
"Beautifully written..."
"An irresistible page-turner!"
June 16, 2018
Beneath the Pepper Tree is LIVE!
Beneath the Pepper Tree is now LIVE folks! This is a beautiful story of love, loss and finding the strength to move forward, entwined with a good old fashioned mystery!
This is book 3 in the Belle series. It is a continuing story and best read after Interwoven and A House of Lies.
Buy Links:
AU Amazon: https://amzn.to/2y8ZKZJ
US Amazon: https://amzn.to/2t73FAQ
AU iBooks: https://apple.co/2JYf8wI
US iBooks: https://apple.co/2MxNVQa
Kobo: https://bit.ly/2MrQ2oC
This is book 3 in the Belle series. It is a continuing story and best read after Interwoven and A House of Lies.
Buy Links:
AU Amazon: https://amzn.to/2y8ZKZJ
US Amazon: https://amzn.to/2t73FAQ
AU iBooks: https://apple.co/2JYf8wI
US iBooks: https://apple.co/2MxNVQa
Kobo: https://bit.ly/2MrQ2oC
