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.

Interview with Valerie

How do you create your main characters?

I use a modified version of Susan May Warren’s Story Equation. First, I decide on the hero and heroine’s occupations and build a backstory for them. Even if I never use any of those details, they will have molded the characters and may have contributed to their dark moments. The dark moment is an event that may cause the hero or heroine to believe a lie about themselves, to doubt their abilities, etc. I determine their basic personalities, physical attributes, and goals. Sometimes, as I write, these traits may change, depending on how the plot develops.

Do you base your characters on real people?

I use quirky attributes, unusual habits, physical features, or personality traits of people I know. However, no one reading my work would be able to identify themselves in my stories.

How many books have you written? Which is your favorite?

I have eleven books published. My favorite is usually the most recently published book. That is still true, but I’m going to revise that to the last two are my favorite—Meet Me Were the Windrush Flows and Meet Me in the Yorkshire Dales, books one and two in my series, From England with Love…Treachery. The three books are stand-alone stories and are all set in England. They feature American characters who fall in love while enduring adversity, drama, and treachery. The first story is set in the Cotswolds area in England, and as per the title, the second is set in the Yorkshire Dales. The third is set in Bath, a city in England that Jane Austen featured in several of her novels. How did I conduct research for these stories? I had to visit England and spend time in each of the settings. Such an ordeal!

Where can readers find out more about you and your books?

All my books are featured on my website. www.valeriegoreeauthor.com and are available on Amazon. Sign up for my newsletter:   https://bit.ly/VGJoinMyCommunity

Any current or upcoming projects you’d like to tell us about?                                                            

As I mentioned in a previous answer, there will be three books in my new series. Book three will be titled Meet Me in Bath at the Jane Austen Festival.  When I traveled to the city of Bath, I participated in many activities related to the Jane Austen Festival, including walking with at least one thousand other enthusiasts in the parade through the town, dressed in Regency dresses and finery. The whole experience was incredible, and many of the emotions and events I experienced will be included in the story.

Blog Stops

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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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