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    Reality In Check: A Sapphic Celebrity Ice Queen Romance
    Broken Beyond Repair: A Sapphic Celebrity Ice Queen Romance
    Audiobook series2 titles

    A South Downs Romance Series

    Written by Emily Banting

    Narrated by Angela Dawe

    4.5/5

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    About this series

    From the multi-award-winning, best-selling author of Broken Beyond Repair comes a new sapphic celebrity ice queen romance — read as a standalone or as the second book in the South Downs Romance series.

    Sculptor Arte Tremaine is thrown into the hospitality industry when her beloved late grandmother bequeaths her and her sister a charming yet rundown country hotel with zero guests. Arte is determined to make a success of the business, despite her sister snapping at her heels to sell it and painful memories confronting her inside.

    Charlotte Beaufort, heiress to a hotel empire, television celebrity, and self-confessed city woman, hits the countryside to film an episode of her reality television show, Hotel SOS, where she immediately clashes with the overwhelmed Arte and her inquisitive Labrador, Rodin.

    Arte doesn’t take kindly to Charlotte’s attitude and frank opinions about her hotel, but when they are thrown together, she begins to realise not everything is as it seems with her attractive nemesis. As Arte begins to chip away at Charlotte's icy exterior, both women begin to realise dreams and reality rarely entwine and that, sometimes, our dreams are not even our own.

    Can the artsy dreamer and ambitious heiress face the reality of their situations and discover their true paths? And if so, can those paths lead them toward true love?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSapphfic Publishing
    Release dateJul 8, 2023
    Reality In Check: A Sapphic Celebrity Ice Queen Romance
    Broken Beyond Repair: A Sapphic Celebrity Ice Queen Romance

    Titles in the series (2)

    • 1

      Broken Beyond Repair: A Sapphic Celebrity Ice Queen Romance
      Broken Beyond Repair: A Sapphic Celebrity Ice Queen Romance

      Broken Beyond Repair: A Sapphic Celebrity Ice Queen Romance

      Emily Banting
      5/5 - 21 ratings
      5/5 - 21 ratings

      GOLDIE WINNER 2023: THE ANN BANNON POPULAR CHOICE BRONZE AWARD GOLDIE FINALIST 2023: CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE LONG NOVEL WINNER OF THE LESFIC BARD AWARD 2022: ROMANCE WINNER OF THE LESFIC BARD AWARD 2022: COVER DESIGN WINNER OF THE QUEER INDIE AWARDS 2022: CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE An age gap, celebrity ice queen romance that will pull at the heart strings — even the icy ones! Sydney MacKenzie, personal assistant to the rich and famous, is looking forward to a well-earned break to go travelling in her beloved VW camper van, Gertie — that is, until Gertie cries off sick. When her boss calls in a favour, one that will pay Sydney handsomely and put Gertie back on the road, she can’t refuse. Internationally renowned actress Beatrice Russell — adored by her fans and despised by those that know her — is splashed across the tabloids, all thanks to her broken leg. She limps back to her palatial English country estate to convalesce for the summer, where she finds herself in need of yet another new assistant. Enter Sydney, who doesn’t take kindly to the star’s demands, attitude, or clicking fingers — much less her body’s own attraction to the gorgeous diva. If not for that, and Gertie’s worn-out engine, she would leave tomorrow. Or so she tells herself. As the summer heats up, the ice queen begins to thaw, and Sydney glimpses the tormented woman beneath the celebrity bravado, drawing her ever closer to the enigmatic actress — sometimes too close. Can Sydney reach the real Beatrice and help heal her wounds before the summer ends and she returns to filming in the States, or is the celebrity broken beyond repair?

      GOLDIE WINNER 2023: THE ANN BANNON POPULAR CHOICE BRONZE AWARD GOLDIE FINALIST 2023: CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE LONG NOVEL WINNER OF THE LESFIC BARD AWARD 2022: ROMANCE WINNER OF THE LESFIC BARD AWARD 2022: COVER DESIGN WINNER OF THE QUEER INDIE AWARDS 2022: CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE An age gap, celebrity ice queen romance that will pull at the heart strings — even the icy ones! Sydney MacKenzie, personal assistant to the rich and famous, is looking forward to a well-earned break to go travelling in her beloved VW camper van, Gertie — that is, until Gertie cries off sick. When her boss calls in a favour, one that will pay Sydney handsomely and put Gertie back on the road, she can’t refuse. Internationally renowned actress Beatrice Russell — adored by her fans and despised by those that know her — is splashed across the tabloids, all thanks to her broken leg. She limps back to her palatial English country estate to convalesce for the summer, where she finds herself in need of yet another new assistant. Enter Sydney, who doesn’t take kindly to the star’s demands, attitude, or clicking fingers — much less her body’s own attraction to the gorgeous diva. If not for that, and Gertie’s worn-out engine, she would leave tomorrow. Or so she tells herself. As the summer heats up, the ice queen begins to thaw, and Sydney glimpses the tormented woman beneath the celebrity bravado, drawing her ever closer to the enigmatic actress — sometimes too close. Can Sydney reach the real Beatrice and help heal her wounds before the summer ends and she returns to filming in the States, or is the celebrity broken beyond repair?

    • 2

      Reality In Check: A Sapphic Celebrity Ice Queen Romance
      Reality In Check: A Sapphic Celebrity Ice Queen Romance

      Reality In Check: A Sapphic Celebrity Ice Queen Romance

      Emily Banting
      5/5 - 4 ratings
      5/5 - 4 ratings

      From the multi-award-winning, best-selling author of Broken Beyond Repair comes a new sapphic celebrity ice queen romance — read as a standalone or as the second book in the South Downs Romance series. Sculptor Arte Tremaine is thrown into the hospitality industry when her beloved late grandmother bequeaths her and her sister a charming yet rundown country hotel with zero guests. Arte is determined to make a success of the business, despite her sister snapping at her heels to sell it and painful memories confronting her inside. Charlotte Beaufort, heiress to a hotel empire, television celebrity, and self-confessed city woman, hits the countryside to film an episode of her reality television show, Hotel SOS, where she immediately clashes with the overwhelmed Arte and her inquisitive Labrador, Rodin. Arte doesn’t take kindly to Charlotte’s attitude and frank opinions about her hotel, but when they are thrown together, she begins to realise not everything is as it seems with her attractive nemesis. As Arte begins to chip away at Charlotte's icy exterior, both women begin to realise dreams and reality rarely entwine and that, sometimes, our dreams are not even our own. Can the artsy dreamer and ambitious heiress face the reality of their situations and discover their true paths? And if so, can those paths lead them toward true love?

      From the multi-award-winning, best-selling author of Broken Beyond Repair comes a new sapphic celebrity ice queen romance — read as a standalone or as the second book in the South Downs Romance series. Sculptor Arte Tremaine is thrown into the hospitality industry when her beloved late grandmother bequeaths her and her sister a charming yet rundown country hotel with zero guests. Arte is determined to make a success of the business, despite her sister snapping at her heels to sell it and painful memories confronting her inside. Charlotte Beaufort, heiress to a hotel empire, television celebrity, and self-confessed city woman, hits the countryside to film an episode of her reality television show, Hotel SOS, where she immediately clashes with the overwhelmed Arte and her inquisitive Labrador, Rodin. Arte doesn’t take kindly to Charlotte’s attitude and frank opinions about her hotel, but when they are thrown together, she begins to realise not everything is as it seems with her attractive nemesis. As Arte begins to chip away at Charlotte's icy exterior, both women begin to realise dreams and reality rarely entwine and that, sometimes, our dreams are not even our own. Can the artsy dreamer and ambitious heiress face the reality of their situations and discover their true paths? And if so, can those paths lead them toward true love?

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