Winds of Change release day!

Header image text - Winds of Change releases October 31st 2024 on Amazon

It’s Halloween and also the release day for Winds of Change: A Steamy Paranormal Romance Collection.

This collaborative project is the culmination of about a year of work for a group of 10 fabulous authors from my local writing group (I include myself in being fabulous!) and features a shared world in the magical town of San Destino.

Welcome to San Destino, where a magical breeze sets off a series of events including an accident and an overturned mail van, a flurry of letters scattered to the winds, setting the hand of destiny in motion.

Winds of Change: A Steamy Paranormal Romance Collection cover image

Winds of Change cover image, design by Charmaine Ross

Blurb

An accident and a magical breeze will forever alter their destinies . . .

Weird stuff happens in San Destino. Some accept it without question. Others know and protect its secrets. Cross the bridge over Starfall Bay to a town where the paranormally gifted live in peaceful anonymity. When ten couples are drawn together during the mystical time of Beltane, their hearts and minds will be challenged and changed.

Whose magical world is threatened? Whose ordinary world will be transformed by magic? Find out in this limited-edition collection of steamy paranormal romances by established and emerging authors.

This multi-author paranormal romance anthology includes stories of witches, warlocks, guardian angels, mermen, shapeshifters, psychics, seers, ghosts and strange happenings in the small coastal town of San Destino.

Authors in this collection

This collection features all-new stories from 10 romance authors from Melbourne, Australia. After months of plotting and planning, the stories are now complete and ready to read!

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. . . and me (Cassandra O’Leary)!

Buy Winds of Change now from Amazon or read for free in Kindle Unlimited!

Release Day – 12 Tropes of Christmas!

12 Tropes, 12 Authors, 12 Ways to Fall in Love. . .

I’m so excited to share that it’s finally the release date (1st October) for my latest release. The 12 Tropes of Christmas anthology is out now and features my brand new story, Girl in the Snow. This story is all new and also fits into the Girl on a Plane series of romcom books.

About Girl in the Snow

Girl in the Snow by Cassandra O’Leary

Trope: Forced Proximity

Deanna Michaelson is a flight attendant on a mission to get out of London before Christmas. She’s not sure where she’s going, but she’s in a hurry! There’s only two days to go until festive mayhem descends on the whole world. She ends up in upstate New York at the cute lodge she stayed at as a child, but she didn’t expect a snowstorm to hit. And she didn’t expect to get stuck with only Cal Winterbourne for company. The hot but grumpy lodge manager is not what she had on her wishlist. She didn’t expect to like him, or to want him. He’s far too appealing, and Deanna might get a present she hadn’t expected! It could be a merry Christmas indeed.

About 12 Tropes of Christmas

Several month ago, author Anna Foxkirk rounded up the “Super Tropers” (I’m one of them!) and a new concept for a Christmas romcom collection was born. 12 tropes from 12 amazing authors with 12 brand new romance stories. Whatever your trope, you’ll find a romantic story in this anthology to keep you merry and bright: from enemies to lovers, to best friend’s brothers and friends to lovers. There’s once married twice shy, and also a jilted bride. Feel the squeeze of forced proximity and the heart-in-your-mouth nerves of a fake date. Get your fix of reality TV and sports romance, grumpy/sunshine or bad boy/good girl.

There are a dozen ways to fill your stockings, from sweet to sassy to outright shocking. So forget your excuses and find your reason to fall head over heels this festive season! Take advantage of the 99 cent introductory ebook price before it goes up to $3.99 on 10th October. Paperbacks are now available too.

12 Tropes of Christmas New Release graphic with 99c price in a star with blue background

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Cover Reveal – Winds of Change

I’m so pleased to be able to share the cover of my latest book with readers! Winds of Change: A Steamy Paranormal Romance Collection is a new anthology of paranormal romance stories, set in the fictional coastal town of San Destino, California. I’ve been keeping this project top secret for the past few months, but it’s finally time to share more widely.

This project came together over the last few months with some members of my local writers’ group in Melbourne, Australia. We decided to create an anthology set in a ‘shared world’ with some overlap between locations, characters and stories, including an inciting incident involving an overturned mail truck and of course, a little magic. There are all sorts of paranormal creatures included in the story collection, including shapeshifters, witches and warlocks, guardian angels and mermen.

Winds of Change is a real collaboration and includes brand new stories from the following established and emerging authors:

Cassandra O’Leary

Katrina Louise

Elvina Payet

Josie Caporetto

Fleur Blüm

Michelle Somers

Savannah Blaize

Andra Ashe

Antonia Garofalo

Sandra Carmel

Winds of Change – cover design by Charmaine Ross

Isn’t the cover gorgeous? Thanks to cover designer Charmaine Ross for the original design that includes motifs representing all the different stories and the swirl of the wind, causing havoc and sometimes the hand of destiny to unfold throughout the town.

Winds of Change will release on 31st October 2024 (Halloween) on Amazon.

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Release Day for Girl on a Layover!

It’s release day for my novella, Girl on a Layover (Girl on a Plane series #2) and I’m excited, people!

#2 – Girl on a Layover

The ebook is out now at major online bookstores and I’ll be getting the paperback version ready to go soon. Sometimes it takes a little longer to format the paperback for print and to get the distribution channels to display the book online. Anyway, it won’t be too long for my print readers. I will also have copies available to buy at any book signing events I attend next year, including A Romantic Rendezvous in March (Melbourne, Australia)!

When Yuki met Declan . . .

There were times when I never thought I’d be able to publish any other stories in this ‘world’ and I’m so glad I finally have the opportunity. I just really like these characters and the themes of travel, finding love and a sense of home, and I hope you will too. Of course, this story is also heaps of fun.

When I released the ebook of Girl Under The Christmas Tree, the prequel novella in December 2020, I was rapt with the chemistry on the page between characters Yuki and Declan. I knew I’d have to revisit them as a couple and work out how they could get to their happy ever after, without making it too easy, because where is the fun in that?

I decided to skip ahead a few years when revisiting this series, as I’d regained the publishing rights for Girl on a Plane and wanted to extend the series. I moved forward so the events in newer books would occur in current times, more or less. When Yuki and Declan first met, I was writing about events a few years in the past, but I wanted them to meet again sooooo . . . TIME JUMP!

Six years have passed since Yuki and Declan first met, in the story timeline at the start of Girl on a Layover. Both characters have been through some stuff (no spoilers!) that have left them bruised and battered by love, in a metaphorical sense. But they are now ready for a real chance at love, and their second chance romance was a joy to write.

Blurb

Yuki Yamimoto has a problem with billionaires. If only she wasn’t stuck in a luxury resort with one billionaire in particular!

Yuki agrees to be her friend Sinead’s bridesmaid at her second wedding in a heartbeat. She’s a flight attendant and used to jetting around the world, but staying at a luxury resort in Thailand for Sinead and Gabriel’s renewal of vows sounds amazing – like a mini vacation. The only problem is. . . Declan Moriarty.

Years ago, Yuki and Declan shared a mind-blowing one-night stand and a few weeks of bliss, and then nothing. Nada. Was it all a dream? Or a nightmare? Because he cheated on her with his ex-fiancée and Yuki left before he could break her heart. Declan was Yuki’s big fish, the one who got away. An Irish IT geek and billionaire built like a pro rugby player with bonus soulful blue eyes and dark wavy hair.

Yuki has a sinking feeling Declan will also be at the resort for the wedding celebration. Declan is a good friend of Gabriel’s after all. But she won’t have to hang out with him, surely? Yuki doesn’t believe in second chances anymore. Besides, Yuki’s just been dumped and humiliated and all she wants is rest and relaxation on this layover.

Declan no longer believes in love. In fact, he’s probably cursed. Yuki isn’t the only woman who ran from him or broke his heart. When he sees Yuki at the airport, he can’t take his eyes off her. She’s as gorgeous as ever. Maybe his luck is changing. Another fling might be just what fate has in mind!

A feel-good, second chance romcom novella with steamy scenes. And a monkey. This book is #2 in the Girl on a Plane series.

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