About the Book

Book: Meet Me in the Yorkshire Dales

Author: Valerie Massey Goree

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Release Date: February, 2025

To inherit her grandfather’s estate, Roxanne Clarke has to prove the identity of her birth mother. Considering all the ancestry help online, that shouldn’t be a problem. However, the only clues Roxanne has are an old photograph and hints provided by a member of her grandfather’s household that her mother was born in Yorkshire.

Accompanied by her best friend, Avery, and Avery’s twin brother, Lucas, Roxanne travels to England. Their attempts to identify Roxanne’s mother send them from one village to another. To add to their frustration, a fellow Texan is following them, threatening them, trying to locate the woman first.

Lucas has been in love with Roxanne since high school, but botched their relationship two years ago. While helping her find her mother, can he salvage their once-blossoming romance, build a new beginning, and keep her safe when the Texan’s actions intensify?

 

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About the Author

American Christian Fiction Writers Genesis Award winner Valerie Massey Goree resides in San Antonio, Texas.

She was born in South Africa and grew up in Rhodesia—now Zimbabwe. Valerie met her husband, Glenn, at a Christian university in the USA. After they married, they served as missionaries in Rhodesia. When the family returned to Texas, Valerie began her teaching career. She served 25 years in the public school arena, focusing on children with special needs.

Her writing journey only began when their children were in high school. Attending workshops and ACFW conferences helped propel her toward publication. She has eleven romantic suspense novels published.

Valerie and her family traveled extensively throughout North America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. Now retired and widowed, she spends her time writing, reading, traveling, and spoiling her grandchildren.

Valerie loves to hear from her readers.

More from Valerie

Meet Me in the Yorkshire Dales is the second book in my series From England with Love and…Treachery. The three standalone stories feature American characters who are visiting or working in England. When they meet, romance blossoms, but is hindered by misfortune, menacing strangers, betrayal, and dead-end clues. Book One, Meet Me Where the Windrush Flows, is set in the Cotswolds. Book Three, which I’m writing now, takes place in the City of Bath during the Jane Austen Festival.

As an author, my goal is to set stories in places I’ve lived or visited. What a hardship it was for me to travel to England to research the Cotswolds area for Book One, and the next year to visit the Yorkshire Dales and Bath!

During my two-week sojourn in the Yorkshire Dales, I stayed in a cottage in each of the villages featured in the story. When I walked down the ‘Snake Path’ in Grassington, I knew I had to include it in the story.

Roxanne, my heroine, has never been to England and is enthralled by the villages’ narrow roads, cobblestone streets, and the ancient cottages, some built in the seventeenth century.

When I made the reservation for the cottage in Grassington, I didn’t know that the TV show All Creatures Great and Small is filmed there. They usually film in April, but alas, I was there in September. I did recognize many places used in the show, such as the village center, featured in the photo.

Needless to say, I loved visiting these places. Roxanne did, too.

Author Interview

1. Are you a one project at a time author or do you have multiple projects going at once? Answer: Most of the time, I have a few projects on the go simultaneously, especially if I’m plotting a series. I plan out what each book will cover and what elements need to be repeated in each book. However, I only write one at a time.
2. How has your life experience helped in your writing journey? Answer: I’ve always been an organized person. This skill helps with planning the sequence of events in a story. My husband and I were blessed to be able to travel often. We visited many countries and states. We lived on two continents and had to adapt to different cultures. These experiences showed me that there is never only one way to do something. A simple example: in the USA, we drive on the right side of the road. In several other countries, they drive on the left. I worked with children with special needs for twenty years, which gave me insight into the contributions these children make to families and society. I often include a child with special needs in my novels.
3. What is the funniest thing to happen in the process of writing one of your books?

Answer: Years ago, when I didn’t have a dedicated office space, I used the kitchen table as my desk. One Saturday, I was deep in revisions because of a looming deadline. Now, I was blessed to have a husband who shared household chores. Focused on my laptop, I didn’t hear him enter the kitchen. He bent down and whispered, “Would it disturb you if I vacuumed?” I remembered gritting my teeth as the perfect sentence I was typing flew out the window and said, “Yes. No.” We looked at each other and burst out laughing. Soon after the incident, he rearranged the furniture in our spare bedroom to create space for a desk.

4. Do you have extensive outlines when writing or do you write a book as you go?

Answer: I use both methods. I don’t have an extensive outline, but I know how I want the story to begin and end, and I know what events I want to cover in between. I usually only have two POVs, hero and heroine, and I decide in whose point of view the events will take place.  And then I write, and sometimes the characters will tell me what should happen next.

Blog Stops

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Life on Chickadee Lane, May 3

Guild Master, May 4 (Author Interview)

For Him and My Family, May 5

Fiction Book Lover, May 6 (Author Interview)

Blossoms and Blessings, May 7 (Author Interview)

Mary Hake, May 7

Jodie Wolfe – Stories Where Hope and Quirky Meet, May 8 (Author Interview)

Paula’s Pad of Inspiration, May 9

Books, Books, & More Books, May 10 (Author Interview)

Happily Managing a Household of Boys, May 10

A Modern Day Fairy Tale, May 11 (Author Interview)

Giveaway

To celebrate her tour, Valerie is giving away the grand prize of a $50 Amazon gift card!!

Be sure to comment on the blog stops for extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.

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