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It's the height of the Cold War and Finland is the playground of the Russian KGB. A former Royal Navy officer Iain is asked to work undercover. He's to investigate Vladislav Kovtun, a violent KGB spy, dubbed The Red King of Helsinki by the Finnish secret service. This is Iain's first assignment, and when he discovers the bodies left in Kovtun's wake, he quickly gets embroiled in danger. Young student Pia has two goals in life: she dreams of a career in gymnastics and she wants Heikki, a boy in her class with the dreamiest blue eyes, to notice her. But when her best friend, Anni, the daughter of an eminent Finnish Diplomat, goes missing, Pia begins to investigate the mystery behind her disappearance. Unbeknown to Pia, Kovtun, The Red King of Helsinki, is watching her every move, as is the British spy, Iain. Will Iain be able to save Pia before it's too late? The Red King of Helsinki is a Cold War spy story set in Finland during one freezing week in 1979. If you like Nordic Noir, you will love this fast-moving Nordic spy story by the Finnish author Helena Halme.

What is true happiness?London 1990. When Kaisa suffers a third miscarriage, her submarine officer husband Peter is devastated. Kaisa, who has chosen a job with the BBC over the traditional life of a Navy wife on a marriage patch in Scotland, feels guilty. Has living apart from her husband to pursue a demanding career, contributed to her inability to keep hold of a baby?But childlessness pales into insignificance when her old friend Rose tells Kaisa about a former lover's serious illness. The consequences of Duncan's condition could wreck Kaisa and Peter's future.And then life takes another heart-breaking twist ... Can love conquer all?

Betrayed and brokenhearted, Kat seeks solace in Lapland, but fate has other plans ... Kat, a TV producer nursing a shattered heart from a celebrity chef's betrayal, seeks refuge in a ski resort in Lapland. There, she crosses paths with Mikael, a Finnish ski instructor from a wealthy mining dynasty.Their worlds collide like ice and fire, yet an irresistible attraction blooms. Kat, an ardent vegan and environmental advocate, has sworn off holiday romances. Mikael embodies everything she detests about privilege: fast cars, inherited wealth, and disregard for the environment.But destiny has other plans. When disaster strikes in Lapland's wild mountains, Kat and Mikael find themselves drawn together. In their struggle for survival, they uncover shared values and a connection they never expected.Will Kat's heart thaw, granting her a second chance at love, or will it remain frozen forever?To Melt A Frozen Heart whisks you from London's bustling streets to Lapland's enchanting landscapes, where the Northern Lights and twinkling stars illuminate Kat and Mikael's path.Read To Melt A Frozen Heart, an emotional contemporary romance, a tale of resilience, redemption, and the power of love today

One family. Old secrets. New life. After her dear stepfather has a fatal heart attack, Alicia returns home to the land Islands to support her mother, Hilda. She leaves behind a new life in Stockholm with her lover, Patrick. But when her lover's ex, Mia, the daughter of the local property magnet, makes moves to rekindle her relationship with Patrick, Alicia is torn between duty and her own happiness.Alicia's hopes of a brighter future are further dashed when deeply buried family secrets surface. How can she forge a new life when everything she believed to be true about her past is a lie? Meanwhile, Alicia's best friend, Brit, has her own problems. After a life spent footloose and fancy-free, traveling the world working on cruise ships, she's both horrified and delighted when she sees the thin pink lines on a test tube. But how can she have a baby with a man she's only known for a matter of months?The Island Daughter is perfect for fans of the Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante, Everything We Keep by Kerry Lonsdale, and Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. The third novel in Helena Halme's Love on the Island series, it can also be enjoyed as a standalone read. Join Alicia's small island community for another installment in the "captivating" new series set on the most picturesque of Scandinavian islands. Once you enter her world, you'll never want to leave.

How many times have you heard bestselling authors say the route to success is to write every day?In this inspiring book, author of several bestselling titles, Helena Halme, reveals the secrets of how writers train themselves to work every day. She discusses why writing every day brings success, as well as gives you tips on how to motivate yourself to turn up to work at your writing desk every single day.Some of the topics covered in this handy guide are: Why does writing every day bring you success?The real reason why you're not writingWhy the more you write the more you thrive as an authorHow to turn off your inner criticWhy making writing a daily habit is easier than you thinkHow plotting your novel or planning a nonfiction title makes daily writing easierHelena Halme is a prize-winning author of 12 fiction and three nonfiction titles. She is a former BBC journalist, a translator, and a magazine editor, and began writing fiction after gaining an MA in Creative Writing. Her true love story, The English Heart, is a bestselling novel and has been downloaded thousands of times on Amazon.In Write Every Day, Helena shares her experience on how to motivate yourself as a writer. Using her knowledge gained as a coach and an author who's often had long gaps-sometimes lasting years-in her writing career, Helena shows you how easy it is to write every day.Get this uplifting guide to writing every day and become a successful author today

A moving novel of newfound love and old passions rekindled.Three women, three love affairs at the crossroads: One is betrayed, again.One falls for the wrong guy.One for the right one, but 40 years too late.After taking over her late stepfather's farm, Alicia finds shocking evidence of a crime. After she confides in her lover, the Swedish journalist Patrick, he realizes what a scoop she's given him. Will he sacrifice her happiness for his personal ambition?Frida could not have found love with anyone more unsuitable than Andrei. He's come to the islands to find out the truth about the demise of his younger brother Daniel. And he's likely to find out the truth about what happened between Frida and Daniel.As the summer on the islands heats up, Alicia's ex-husband, Liam makes an appearance. Alicia's mother, Hilda, also finds romance, but can she trust a man she vowed never to see again some forty years earlier?Set on the land Islands which lie between Finland and Sweden, An Island Summer has true intrigue, grown-up love stories, and stunning Scandinavian scenery. An unmissable holiday read for 2021

A Christmas baby should give hope and joy to everyone on the starkly beautiful Scandinavian islands ... While Brit awaits the arrival of her first child, avisitor to the islands threatens to reveal an uncomfortable secret from herpast. To add to her woes, her partner, Sea Captain Jukka, runs his cruise lineraground the night before Christmas, just as the baby decides to be born. Meanwhile, Alicia's ex-husband, Liam, has made the leapof faith and moved to the islands from London to rekindle their relationshipand start an exciting new business venture with her. However, a small part ofAlicia's heart still belongs to the Swedish journalist, Patrick. Two years ago, they began a passionate affair. Alicia knows she can't trust Patrick - his betrayalshave been heartbreaking and destructive, but when Patrick is rushed to hospitalin Stockholm she races to his side. Liam fears this means she still has deepfeelings for the journalist. But unbeknown to Liam, a threat hangs over Alicia andeveryone she loves. With Patrick in hospital, her best friend, Brit, alone andvulnerable, how can Alicia say no to an offer made by an old and powerfulnemesis? Talk about impossible choices ... Read The Island Child, the page-turning Book 5 in the 'sensational'(NetGalley) Love on the Island Series now.

Can one summer mend a broken heart?After the tragic loss of their 17-year-old son, journalist Alicia and surgeon Liam struggle to keep their marriage afloat. During their usual holiday to land, the Nordic islands where Alicia grew up, the rift between the couple deepens.Enter tall, blonde Patrick, with the most piercing blue eyes Alicia has ever seen. When Patrick confides in Alicia about the near loss of his daughter and the breakdown of his marriage, Alicia is surprised to feel an affinity with the Swedish reporter. He's the only person who understands her.But secrets held by people close to Alicia give her life another surprising turn and she finds there is a new reason to live - and love - again.Read this new family drama set in one of the most captivating holiday islands in Scandinavia today

On the windswept Scandinavian land Islands, the festive season is snowy and chilly--yet breathtakingly beautiful.It's time for Alicia to enjoy her first winter back on her beloved islands with her family. But her estranged husband, Liam, springs an unwelcome and devastating surprise and her ex-lover, Patrick, temps her with an altogether different kind of future, making Alicia face an impossible choice. With her world crashing around her, can Alicia create the idyllic Island Christmas she's always dreamt about?Meanwhile, Brit, Alicia's schoolfriend, returns to the islands to lick her wounds after a particularly bloody break-up with an Italian chef. When she meets her new boss, the Captain of a Baltic cruise liner, sparks fly. Brit can't help but fall quickly in love with Jukka, but when she discovers his murky past, she fears her heart is about to be broken yet again. Are the rumors about Jukka true, or just typical small island gossip?Join this quirky Scandinavian island community for a Christmas you'll never forget An Island Christmas is a sequel to Helena's first novel set on land, The Island Affair, but it can also be read as a standalone book.

A heatwave makes everyone hot under the collar on the starkly beautiful Scandinavian islands ...Alicia is happily reunited with her ex, surgeon Liam. She's pregnant and making a go of their new business venture when she sees the Russian fugitive Dudnikov - her archnemesis - disembark from a superyacht in the peaceful island harbor. Patrick, the Swedish reporter with whom Alicia had a passionate affair, is also back on the islands. Is he here to be reunited with his former wife, Mia, the daughter of island magnate Kurt Eriksson? If so, why does he want to meet with Alicia?Hilda, Alicia's mother, puts aside her doubts and past disappointments to give her estranged husband Leo another chance, but their date in Stockholm turns out to be anything but romantic.Meanwhile, young single mom Frida longs for her new love, Andrei, to leave his homeland of Romania and settle with her on the islands, but he keeps making excuses to stay. Can she win him over?Read this second chance, small-town love story today LOVE ON THE ISLAND SERIES: The Day We Met (Prequel short story)The Island Affair (Book 1)An Island Christmas (Book 2)The Island Daughter (Book 3)Love on the Island Boxed Set (Books 1-3)An Island Summer (Book 4)The Island Child (Book 5)An Island Heatwave (Book 6)All the books in the series can be enjoyed as stand-alone reads. Travel by book to these stunningly beautiful Scandinavian islands and get lost in the drama and intrigue of the Love on the Island Series.

She's a student from Finland. He's a dashing British Navy Officer. Can their love go the distance?When Kaisa is invited to the British Embassy cocktail party in Helsinki to celebrate a Royal Navy visit to Finland, she's not looking for romance. After all, her future has been carefully planned: she's to complete her degree, start her brilliant career, marry her respectable, well-to-do Finnish fiancE Matti, and live happily ever after.Enter dashing Peter, a newly qualified Royal Navy Officer. Dedicated to his career, Peter has no plans to settle down. Ever. But he's infatuated with the beautiful Kaisa. Ignoring his Captain's warnings about Soviet honey traps, Peter arranges a secret rendezvous with the Finnish girl.As the young lovers steal passionate kisses in the chilly Helsinki night, Kaisa falls head over heels in love with the handsome Englishman. Peter too knows that he's never felt like this before. But their time together is short, and in the 1980s, their love has to survive on passionate letters and infrequent long-distance telephone calls. But Kaisa's jealous ex-fiancE doesn't want to let go, and her old-fashioned father hates foreigners. Can Kaisa trust the gregarious Englishman? Wouldn't she be better off concentrating on her future career in Finland, or even going back to her fiancE? While Kaisa struggles to keep up faith in the relationship, a war breaks out in the faraway Falkland Islands ...The English Heart is the first novel in the Nordic Heart romance books.If you liked An Officer and a Gentleman or enjoy Nordic fiction, you'll love this stylish love story by the Finnish author Helena Halme.Pick up The English Heart to discover this series of Scandinavian romance novels today Previously published as The Englishman.

She's betrayed him. He's facing a Court Martial. Can their love survive?Kaisa knows she's to blame. It's her fault the relationship with the handsome Englishman, Navy Officer Peter, has ended. What can she do but move back to her native Finland? But sleeping on her sister's sofa bed thousands of miles away from her beloved Peter won't bring him back, so when Kaisa is offered a job in London she jumps at the chance.Peter is not sorry. He's angry. Angry at everything and everybody. He's about to lose the one thing that means most to him: his Navy career. All because he was stupid enough to fall in love.A chance meeting at a rooftop party in London sees the two ex-lovers steal a passionate kiss. But Peter has a new girlfriend and Kaisa's career in journalism is finally taking off.Is it too late, or can Peter and Kaisa love each other again?