Real life doesn’t play out like a movie. Electric connections mostly mean you’ve got static in your jumper. Camila Moore knows that; she’s not daft. She has two teenage boys and bills to pay, plus the only man she’s ever been with has traded her in for a gym bunny. Returning to work’s the answer, but when she finds herself in the wrong room, wrong place at the wrong time, the last thing she expects is to be promoted out of obscurity into the arms of Harriet Imogen Pearson, media darling, hotshot entrepreneur and notorious lesbian playgirl.

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“She said she wanted to test my boundaries!” squealed Camila towards her car’s passenger seat where her mobile phone was lying on loud speaker.

Julie’s voice was gasping from the other end of the connection.

“Where is she?”

“Behind me! In her Lamborghini!”

Looking in the rear-view mirror, Camila debated how they’d got to this point.

She looked away.

She knew how they’d got to this point. Harriet had been right: she’d said yes.

She’d gone to the office at the end of the corridor at five and said yes.

Why had she said yes?

Real life doesn’t play out like a movie. Electric connections mostly mean you’ve got static in your jumper. Camila Moore knows that; she’s not daft. She has two teenage boys and bills to pay, plus the only man she’s ever been with has traded her in for a gym bunny. Returning to work’s the answer, but when she finds herself in the wrong room, wrong place at the wrong time, the last thing she expects is to be promoted out of obscurity into the arms of Harriet Imogen Pearson, media darling, hotshot entrepreneur and notorious lesbian playgirl.

Camila can’t believe it; she’s an ordinary woman, nothing special – in her view – so what’s Harriet’s motivation? What’s her end game?

Are Camila’s feelings just infatuation or is it real life love?

Kiki Archer is the mistress of chick-lit romance for girls of all ages and inclinations.

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2. What song can you not get enough of right now?
I absolutely love Gold by Neon Hitch. It’s all about someone who lights up a room. Someone who makes you smile. Someone who brings light and laughter to all situations. Someone you just love to spend time with. In summary it’s saying: There’s no light in this room, but it’s all right because I’ve got you, and you shine like gold.

3. Which celebrity would render you totally star struck if you were to meet him/her?
Any of the big singing Divas. Mariah. Celine. Beyonce. Whitney (obviously, I’d be rendered speechless for a different reason entirely if I were to meet her). But any of these power women who have the ability to enchant the entire human race with a simple song are worthy of my adoration.

4. What would be your best piece of relationship advice?
Be brave. Always. That’s where you’ll find true happiness.

5. If you could wake up tomorrow with one talent or skill you don’t presently have, what would you want that to be?
To be a power ballad singer. To be up there with Mariah, Celine, Beyonce, possibly not Whitney. But to have that skill would be a dream come true. I can’t sing, at all, and anyone who has pipes should use them, loudly.

Lambda Literary Award finalist, Kiki Archer is the UK-based author of eight best-selling, award-winning novels. Her debut novel But She Is My Student won the UK’s 2012 SoSoGay Best Book Award. Its sequel Instigations took just 12 hours from its release to reach the top of the Amazon lesbian fiction chart, and Kiki’s third novel Binding Devotion was a finalist in the 2013 Rainbow Awards. All quickly became bestsellers in their genre. Kiki’s fourth offering One Foot Onto The Ice broke into the American Amazon contemporary fiction top 100 as well as achieving the US and UK Amazon lesbian fiction number one. The sequel When You Know went straight to number one on the Amazon UK, Amazon America, and Amazon Australia lesbian fiction charts, as well as number one on the iTunes, Smashwords, and Lulu Gay and Lesbian chart. Too Late… I Love You won the National Indie Excellence Award for best LGBTQ book, the Gold Global eBook Award for best LGBT Fiction and made that transition into the mainstream contemporary romance charts. It was a Rainbow Awards finalist and received an honourable mention. Lost In The Starlight was a finalist in the 2017 Lambda Literary Awards best lesbian romance category and was named a ‘Distinguished Favourite’ in the Independent Press Awards. Her latest novel A Fairytale of Possibilities is out now.
Kiki was crowned the Ultimate Planet’s Independent Author of the Year in 2013 and she received an honourable mention in the 2014 Author of the Year category.

She won Best Independent Author and Best Book for Too Late… I Love You in the 2015 Lesbian Oscars and was a finalist in the 2017 Diva250 Awards for best author.

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Wedding planner Lauren Hilliard weaves fairytales out of possibilities. It’s her business and she’s good at it.

Her brides love her for making their dreams come true, but she’s not managed to make the magic happen for herself — yet.

Trouble is, Lauren’s in love with her best friend and has been for 11 hopeless years. Years in which she’s secretly imagined the fairytale of possibilities if she had the courage to speak … which she hasn’t. So she doesn’t. And she won’t.

But what if the feelings are mutual?

Cue the latest magical rom-com from best-selling, award-winning author Kiki Archer.

Buy the book here:
Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0721QDM5L
Amazon.co.uk: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0721QDM5L

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“Lost In The Starlight” hit No. 1 for lesbian fiction in the United Kingdom and Australia, it was in the top three here and in Canada, and it stormed up the mainstream romance charts on your side of the pond, so is your readership driven any longer by their sexuality?
I promote myself as a lesbian fiction author. I write lesbian fiction, i.e. the heroine of the story will always fall for a woman as opposed to a handsome hunk. However my latest two novels were aimed predominantly towards the straight female reader. I have a wonderful lesbian following who know what they’re getting with a Kiki Archer novel: laughs, loves and lesbians. For the straight woman, however, I wanted to show them it’s okay to be curious, it’s okay to read about love between someone other than the tall, dark and handsome business hunk and his quiet and shy, eager to please secretary. Lesbian love and the interactions between women are so deeply fascinating. You get pulled in to their emotional connection. There’s an intrigue that’s appealing more and more to the straight reader regardless of their personal sexuality preference.

So basically (as if us gals over here didn’t know) you don’t have to be a lesbian to enjoy lesbian fiction?
Exactly. Women are notoriously curious in all walks of life, yet there’s been a slight reluctance in the past for some to own up to this in the realms of sexuality for fear of labeling or stigma among friends and partners. Now, however, with greater acceptance and understanding, those women are able to delve into this wonderful world of lesbianism – even if simply through the reading of a novel – and explore the excitement that we’ve been lucky enough to know about for so long.

And what excitement’s in store for the readers of “Lost In the Starlight”?
It’s the story of A-list singing superstar, Honey Diamond, who has it all — the albums, the talent shows, the upcoming Hollywood film. But it’s her gentle light, endearingly shining through all the glitz and glam, that warms the hearts of so many. She a shy girl, who’s only ever known fame, born into a world that’s not true to life. The novel discovers how Honey finally experiences the love she so knowingly sings about. It’s a heartfelt romance peppered with laugh-out-loud humour and warming observations about falling in love.

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“Lost in the Starlight” is available on Amazon.com.

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