Festive Fun with... Mandy Baggot

Today it's my pleasure to welcome local author Mandy Baggot to the blog for the next Festive Fun with... feature. Welcome Mandy.

Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I’m Mandy Baggot and I’m best known for writing laugh-out-loud romantic comedies featuring strong heroines, gorgeous heroes and always that happy-ever-after! 

What are you most looking forward to this Christmas? 
I’m most looking forward to some time to relax with my family and sitting down to that delicious turkey dinner. I’m cooking again this year, but I quite like doing it!

Do you have any favourite family Christmas traditions?  
My husband and I always have Chinese takeaway and watch Die Hard every Christmas Eve. Die Hard IS a Christmas movie!

Describe your ideal Christmas 
I’ve still not had a Christmas in Greece! We booked to go in 2020 and we all know what happened then! I’d love to spend Christmas in Corfu with the family, enjoying a winter Greek style.

Emma's Review: One New York Christmas by Mandy Baggot

Reviewed by Emma Crowley

Lara Weeks is heading to New York with best friend Susie for the Christmas trip of a lifetime.

A festive break in the snowy Big Apple visiting the tourist hotspots, not to mention the shopping, seems like the perfect way for Lara to get over her ex-boyfriend. Or maybe make him so jealous he begs for a second chance.

Enlisting the help of gorgeous actor, Seth Hunt, doesn't quite go to plan, but there's something about him that has Lara wishing for a different kind of happy ever after...

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Emma's Guest Review: Mandy Baggot - One Wish in Manhattan

Reviewed by Emma Crowley

The temperature is dropping, snow is on its way and Hayley Walker is heading for New York with one wish… to start over. 

With her daughter Angel, Hayley is ready for adventure. But there’s more to New York than twinkly lights and breathtaking skyscrapers. Angel has her own Christmas wish – to find her real dad. 

While Hayley tries to fulfil her daughter’s wish, she crosses paths with billionaire Oliver Drummond. Restless and bored with fast living, there’s something intriguing about him that has Hayley hooked. 

Can Hayley dare to think her own dreams might turn come true – could A New York Christmas turn into a New York Forever? 

Travel to the Big Apple this Christmas and join Hayley and Oliver as they realise life isn’t just about filling the minutes… it’s about making every moment count. 

Amazon link: Kindle

Guest Book Review & Giveaways: Mandy Baggot - Made in Nashville

Reviewed by Louise Wykes

Made in Nashville…feel the country!

An on-stage attack left Honor Blackwood with more scars than just the one on her face. It’s been ten years since she left her spot as Nashville’s brightest country music star. Is now the time to return? And is she brave enough to do it?

Country rebel and rock star, Jared ‘Jed’ Marshall is hot property on the Tennessee music scene in more ways than one. He’s wild, he’s sexy and everybody wants a piece of him. But when he sets his sights on Honor, is it pure attraction or just distraction on his mind?

Honor’s record label sign the ex-boyfriend that dumped her and suddenly going back to her old life is harder than she thought. And when a secret from the past becomes public knowledge it’s no longer just about the music… Are all the people in her life lying to her to get what they want?

Join the country scene to find out!

Made in Nashville – where the off-stage action’s as hot as the music!

Amazon link: Kindle

Books Read & Giveaway: Mandy Baggot - Security

Autumn Raine is a pop vocalist at the very top of her game.  She's a style icon, the paparazzi's darling and everyone wants to be her friend.  But when her safety is threatened, her whole life starts to unravel.

Enter Nathan Regan, an ex-elite soldier who is assigned to protect her.  He's a good man doing bad things but what drives him?  Passion?  Madness?  Or grief?  Demons from his past are threatening to consume him.  Can he win the fight alone or will he have to admit he needs help?

As the threat deepens, Autumn starts to find out who she really needs in her life.  Is there still room for personal assistant Janey or rapper boyfriend Rockweiler?  When everyone around her is feeding her lies, how does she work out the truth?  Does her record producer know more than he's letting on?  What is her mother, the British Foreign Secretary's involvement in the situation?  And can Autumn put her faith in a forty-something Jamaican woman who handles an automatic weapon as expertly as she cooks?

Eluding kidnap and trying to stay alive, can Autumn find the strength to be the person she longs to be?  And can two people poles apart forge something strong enough to survive anything?