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Smoke After Midnight

Helen Hartwood

Five moments. Five decades. One private spark after midnight.

This collection brings together five standalone adult romance stories linked by smoky chemistry, late-night confession, and the intimate choices people make when public composure finally slips.

From rainy 1958 London to Brighton in 1976, a delayed overnight train in 1993, Manchester hotel balconies in 2011, and a present-day winter wedding in Bath, each story follows adults who choose honesty, attraction, and consequence on their own terms.

Paperback £7.99 · Kindle £3.99 · Audiobook £4.99

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Shore Leave

Helen Hartwood

Kate Marlow knows how to keep a room under control.

As events lead at Portsmouth's historic dockyard, she can handle leaning ice sculptures, nervous donors, misplaced auction folders and three hundred guests with a microphone waiting. What she cannot handle quite so neatly is Jack Garrett: retired naval commander, inconveniently observant, and far too good at seeing the parts of her life she prefers to keep disciplined.

Across dockyards, boats, rehearsal rooms, late-night flats and winter harbour lights, Kate, Jack, Natalie, Isla and Leo are drawn into relationships that demand honesty before comfort.

Paperback £5.99 · Kindle £2.99 · Audiobook available