An Extract From “The Neighbour on Post Office Lane” by Teresa F. Morgan

I’m delighted to welcome Teresa F. Morgan to my blog this week to celebrate her imminent new release of The Neighbour on Post Office Lane. Teresa and I have been friends for a good many years now and I was keen to support her new book. Over to Teresa to tell readers more …

Hello, dear reader!

Firstly, thank you Morton for inviting me onto your blog. It’s been a while since I’ve done a blog tour. Nowadays it’s all about newsletters. However, I’ve found myself deleting the ones I’m signed up to without the time to read them, so I assumed that’s probably what’s happening to mine. So, I’ve started blogging (sporadically) again, and I’m sticking to that. At least the post is there for when someone does have the time to read.

The Neighbour on Post Office Lane has been on quite a journey after three years from when I started writing the story. Unfortunately, I’ve not been able to find a home with a traditional publisher, so I’ve decided to self-publish this novel. I want it off my desk and I’ve had too many friends asking when the next book is out.

It started out as The Neighbour at Wagtail Cottage, but an editor from one of the publisher’s I submitted to suggested exploring a little more about the Post Office scandal. So, I did… and decided to change the name of the book with it. (It still got rejected ☹)

The reason for self-publishing this novel is because my hero, Daryl is very close to my heart. I just love him, he’s a little dark and mysterious, and I really hope my readers will love him too.

Here’s a sneaky peak…

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“A squeak across the patio window made her jump with fright. A man, wearing a dirty boiler suit with the sleeves cut off, was cleaning the window. Rosie realised it was the scruffy guy who’d dropped off John’s parcel earlier. His face and arms were dirty, and the water running down his arms left black streaks. If John hadn’t mentioned his name, Rosie would have thought he was a homeless guy Margot had taken pity on. So, he was Daryl? He spotted Rosie, and with an expression of surprise having arrived on his face, promptly dropped the wiper blade into the bucket and entered via the patio door, opening it with a swoosh, letting cooler air into the room. He did at least take off his well-worn leather boots and leave them outside, so not completely lacking in manners.

‘Margot said nothing about a window cleaner,’ Rosie blurted at him, hating immediately that she sounded defensive and abrupt. Her heart was still pounding in her chest from the fright.

‘Oh, I’m not a window cleaner…’ he said. There was that gruff voice again, like he smoked twenty cigarettes a day, but gentle too. It unnerved Rosie. ‘I clean Margot’s when I’m doing mine.’

‘Oh.’

‘So, you must be the granddaughter.’ He scratched his unshaven jaw. ‘If I’d realised earlier, I’d have introduced myself. I thought you were arriving tomorrow.’

So had Rosie but when Abigail had asked if she could start Friday, the hire car was loaded, and so she thought why the hell not just go. She couldn’t face Anthony turning up with her father at the house for a work meeting.

‘Yes, sorry, I changed my plans. I arrived yesterday evening.’ For a moment they both stood there awkwardly. ‘So, if you’re not really the window cleaner, who are you and how did you get in?’ She frowned, folding her arms. Parcel or no parcel, she wasn’t sure she liked that he could just walk in whenever he wanted. Admittedly, she hadn’t checked if she’d locked the patio doors this morning…

‘Yeah, sorry,’ he conceded, ‘I’m Daryl.’

‘Yes. I know,’ she said tersely.

‘I’m Margot’s neighbour.’”

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Available to preorder eBook here: https://amzn.to/3Sfysec

About Teresa F. Morgan

I live in Weston-Super-Mare with my two sons and a budgie called Rio.

Family holidays in Cornwall have inspired the scenic Cornish coastline to be the backdrop for my novels. Day trips on the steam trains, Bishops Lydeard to Minehead, inspired the sleepy Somerset village setting of Lower Amble in The Neighbour on Post Office Lane.

I currently have six books published with One More Chapter and Sapere Books, and my books set in Kittiwake Cove are available in Audio through Saga Egmont.

In 2014, I was a contender for the Romantic Novelist Association’s Joan Hessayon New Writer’s Award with my debut novel ‘Plus One is a Lucky Number’.

I am at my happiest baking cakes, pottering in the garden, reading a good romance, or sitting at my PC emptying my thoughts onto the screen. I also have an obsession for superheroes and loves a cocktail (or two).

I love writing contemporary romance, creating stories with a touch of escapism and heroes readers will fall in love with.

To keep in touch with Teresa you can use the following links:

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About The Neighbour on Post Office Lane

He’s oil. She’s water. Can two very different people get along – let alone fall in love?

Rosie needs the headspace to write her next book. With her city life in turmoil, Rosie moves back in with her parents until her grandmother, Margot offers her a solution.

Reluctantly, Rosie promises to cover Margot’s shifts at the local post office, house-sit her thatched cottage – and the cats. Oh, and to keep an eye on her elderly neighbour.

Margot’s neighbour is Daryl; a mechanic, specialising in vintage cars – and not so elderly!

As Rosie learns to slow down her city pace, to her astonishment, she finds Daryl scrubs up rather hot! And could be her perfect muse…

From the darkness of his abusive childhood, Daryl wars with his insecurities. Is he worthy of love?

In the sleepy seaside village of Lower Amble, could Rosie fall for the neighbour on Post Office Lane?

Publication Date – 30 August 2026 – paperback and eBook.

Available to preorder eBook here: https://amzn.to/3Sfysec

Other Books By Teresa F. Morgan

This is the blog for Morton S. Gray, writer of romance with a mystery to solve The Secrets of Borteen Bay Series set in the fictional seaside town of Borteen for Choc Lit Publishing an imprint of Joffe Books.