The Love Labyrinth - Free to Subscribers!

YAY, it's here, my first book of the year, and for you, IT IS FREE, at least for the next two weeks! Read down to discover how!

The Love Labyrinth started as an idea I had in the middle of the NZ Romance Writers conference last year, which is pretty much always what writing conferences and festivals do to me–a wild overflowing of ideas, coupled with absolutely no time to do anything about them immediately afterwards. (My friend and cover artist Alison Cooley floated the notion of taking a week off other responsibilities after the conference, an absolutely genius idea I will totally be doing as soon as money and time allow.)

Anyway, I was sitting in a room full of other writers, messing with a bunch of potential titles, and when someone hands a scrap of paper reading "The Love Labyrinth" to an author who retells Greek myth as contemporary romance and is ALSO a total nerd, she is going to think two things:

  1. The Labyrinth! The minotaur! Ariadne, that clever witch, aided and betrayed by Theseus, that smug fucker.
  2. OHOHOHOHOHO what if ESCAPE ROOMS?

Thus, Labyrinth Escapes was born, owned by Ariadne's older brother Andy, and Stirling, a huge, grumpy guy--one might even call him bull-like--with clever hands and a soft heart. Ariadne, clever and quick and a little wicked, comes back to town determined to prove herself to her high school nemesis, and maybe show off to Theo Banks, her old crush.

And lo, she and Stirling crash into each other, like unto an irresistible force and an unmovable object.

A peach background with a blue title reading The Love Labyrinth in loopy cursive. The central image is a maze with a cotton thread winding it through it. The spool lies beside the author's name: Kate Healey.
Of course there's sewing. She uses thread!

I thought it was going to be a cute little standalone short story, and then it became a cute little novelette, and now it's a cute medium-sized novella. I can write a short story under duress, I swear.

OTHER THINGS IN THIS BOOK:

  • terrifying old ladies who meddle for JUSTICE
  • Olympus Inc cameos!
  • small town gossip grapevine
  • KISSING in INAPPROPRIATE SETTINGS
  • ex-high school bullies getting their comeuppance
  • oh you know there's CRAFTING
  • adorable squabbling sibling dynamics
  • escape room puzzles which I'm almost sure would work in real life

And you, noble and heroic subscribers, get to download The Love Labyrinth for free!

IMPORTANT THINGS:

  1. You must download the book within the next 13 days, because after that it's going to be available on Amazon via Kindle Unlimited, which means I am not allowed to give it away anymore.
  2. This offer is open to all newsletter subscribers, including those who join up in the next 13 days! So if you have a friend who you think would enjoy a) this book and b) this newsletter, please forward them this email.
  3. The Love Labyrinth is absolutely free, no question, but if you enjoy this newsletter and would like to make some contribution, please consider signing up for a paid subscription for That Healey Girl. I do not regret shifting from (Nazi-incentivising) Substack to Ghost, but this newsletter costs 300USD to run every year, and the bill is coming soon. Please only consider this if it will cause you no financial stress!

And finally: download The Love Labyrinth!

That Healey Girl is the newsletter of Karen (or Kate) Healey, a romance and speculative fiction author who lives in Ōtautahi, New Zealand and shakes plots loose by wandering along the river.