The Castle in the Bay is going on tour with Rachel's Random Resources, if you wish to participate please contact me on rachel@rachelsrandomresources.com with your name, blog name, preferred post type and availability.
The Castle in the Bay by Margaret Amatt
Genre: Romance
Tour Dates: 14th - 18th April 2025
Publication Date: 28th February 2025
Estimated Word Count: 82k
Standalone First book in the Love on the Edge – Barra series
Formats available: Epub
Types of post available: Reviews and Q&As
Author Content Warning: One main character has just lost his father and is tasked with scattering his ashes – some themes of grief and coming to terms with loss, but the overall tone of the book is upbeat
Pre-order Link: https://mybook.to/castleinthebay
What if the castle has the key to mend their broken hearts?
After a miserable few years, fun-loving Iona McKenzie tossed her corporate job to the wind, swore off long-term relationships, and escaped to the Hebridean island of Barra to teach water sports.
Recently dumped by an ex who labelled him 'boring', Monty MacNeil is having a tough time. When he's tasked with carrying out his late father’s last request to scatter his ashes at Kisimul Castle – the famous castle in the bay – he doesn't expect his trip to Barra to begin by running smack bang into a feisty and gorgeous woman, knocking her off her bike, and almost dropping his father’s urn into the sea.
Iona turns out to be the person he needs to take him over to the castle, but Monty soon sees another way she can help him. A few paddleboarding lessons would make him look more adventurous and give him a way back to his ex when his holiday’s done. But an unexpected attraction begins, despite both Monty and Iona fighting it, and the lessons soon develop from boarding and snorkelling to ‘love lessons’. Suddenly it’s harder to separate real from pretend.
True love may be closer than they think, but if they want it, both must take a chance – and soon – before Monty returns to his life on the mainland.
About Margaret Amatt
Margaret is a bestselling Scottish author and chocolate lover who has been writing stories for over twenty years (possibly more if you count her primary school efforts). Her early works will never see the light of day and are locked in dusty vaults on some old floppy disks. But after all those years of practise, Margaret released her first novel in 2021. It was the first of a ten-book series set on the gorgeous Scottish Isle of Mull.
Margaret is also the author of the acclaimed Glenbriar Series, based in the fictional Scottish town of Glenbriar. This is an ongoing series with more books coming in 2025.
More Scottish island books – this time set on the Isle of Barra – are also planned. The first of these is The Castle in the Bay, which will be out this spring.
All Margaret’s stories are unashamedly romantic with lots of drama, banter, and an eclectic mix of characters. Each book can be read as a standalone, but followers of the series will enjoy catching up with the characters.
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Blog Tour Schedule
Maximum 5 stops per day. Confirmed blogs will appear here.
14th April
Lifemeandbooks
Bookmadjo
Tizi's Book Review
Bookish Jottings
15th April
Kirsty_Reviews_Books
Books, Life and Everything
Captured on Film
Little Miss Book Lover 87
16th April
bookescapeswithBabsW67
jen_loves_reading
Frugal Freelancer
A Knight’s Reads
17th April
Staceywh_17
Becca’s Book Reviews
Splashes Into Books
Eatwell2015
18th April
@teaandbooks90
annette_reads_daily
Bookmarks and Stages