When sexy and sassy older actress, Angela Cunningham takes the Midnight Train to Cariastan, she meets the gorgeous but mysterious Michael Fairfax. They are forced to share a cabin on the train, but soon they're sharing a very dangerous journey that threatens both their lives.
An adorable child, a bunch of bad guys and a bomb that could go off at any second add to a thrilling story.
Sally Quilford has had stories published in most of the major women’s magazines, and had seven pocket novels (to date) published My Weekly Pocket Novels. They have subsequently been sold to Ulverscroft Publishings Linford Romance Library, for large print publication. She has also won and been placed in many competitions. As well as running a popular competition calendar (linked to her column in Writers’ Forum magazine) Sally has judged writing competitions.
Sally is a monthly columnist with Writers Forum magazine and has also had articles published in The New Writer. Sally lives in Derbyshire with her husband and four westies. When the weather is nice enough she writes in her shed, hence her own ‘publisher’ on her Kindle ebook being labelled ‘Tales From the Shed’. Her proudest moment so far, not counting the birth of her children and the day she married, was when the King of Twitter, Stephen Fry linked to her (old) blog from his Twitter page, describing her as ‘pleasantly sane’.
Sally is a member of the Romantic Novelists Association. She is also available for workshops (mainly on writing romance and short fiction for women’s magazines).
Sally has had novellas, stories and articles published in the following publications:
Novels/Novellas
My Weekly Pocket Novels
The Secret of Helena’s Bay
My True Companion
Bella’s Vineyard
A Collector of Hearts
Imitation of Love
Sunlit Secrets
Mistletoe and Mystery
The People’s Friend Pocket Novels
Our Day Will Come (tbp 9th August 2012)
Easy Read/Bridges and Knight
Bonfire Memories (Oct 2012)
Linford Romance Library (Large Print)
The Secret of Helena’s Bay (in libraries now)
Bella’s Vineyard (in libraries now)
A Collector of Hearts (in libraries now)
My True Companion (in libraries now)
An Imitation of Love (in libraries now)
Sunlit Secrets (in libraries now)
Mistletoe Mystery (due 1.12.2012)
Our Day Will Come (due in 2013)
Siren Publishing
Command Performance – as Sally Quilford (January 2012)
Let Me Be Your Hero (The Peak of Love 1) – as Elise Hart (April 2012)
The Future Mrs. Winter – as Sally Quilford (May 2012)
A New Flame (The Peak of Love 2) – as Elise Hart (August 2012)
A Christmas Moon – as Sally Quilford (December 2012)
Articles
Writers Forum – as monthly columnist
The New Writer
The First Line
Writing Magazine
Stories
Magazines
Take A Break Fiction Feast
My Weekly
The Weekly News
Best
That’s Life Fast Fiction (Australia)
Allas (Sweden)
Dark Tales
Dark Horizons (British Fantasy Society’s publication)
Anthologies
Sexy Shorts for Lovers (Accent Press)
Sexy Shorts for the Beach (Accent Press)
The Creature in the Rose (BeWrite.net)
Several Xcite anthologies (under different pseudonym and as Sally Quilford)
Diamonds and Pearls (Accent Press)
Tears and Laughter and Happy Ever After (Blot Publishing)
Scream (Bridge House)
Going Places (Bridge House)
The Dogstar and other Science Fiction Stories (Leaf Books)
A romantic thriller which I read on my Kindle. Despite being relatively short, the two main characters are three dimensional, and the story is fast-paced and exciting.
I'm not sure how authentic the politics and scheming could be, or the plot to blow up a train, or indeed the stresses of a potential monarch with enemies. But that doesn't much matter. The destination of the train is a fictional Eastern European micro state, although passengers and terrorists of other (real) nationalities are minor characters.
There's some violence but nothing gratuitous, no bad language that I noticed, and nothing 'adult' despite a few hints of what the future might hold. A few proofing errors made me pause slightly, but not sufficiently to disrupt the flow.
All in all, a good light read if you like this genre.