The Last Encore: The breathtaking and unforgettable new novel from the number one bestselling author

Don't miss the third book in the breathtaking new series from the number one bestselling author Santa Montefiore - coming soon!
One final show.
A love that defies time...

"I started this, but truly, I have no idea how to end it without breaking my heart."

When Pixie Tate is sent to solve a mystery at the old Aphrodite Theatre in Cornwall, she expects to find another restless spirit waiting behind the velvet curtain.

But when she discovers the theatre is just a few miles down the coastline from where she met the love of her life, Cavill Pengower, she realises that it is no coincidence.

As she slips back one hundred years, Pixie knows she must not only unveil what happened to the woman whose spirit haunts the stage today, but somehow sever this powerful connection with Cavill once and for all.

Yet, as she embarks on this final journey to settle the soul and save the theatre's production of Macbeth, she fears that this time, it might just break her forever...

Readers love Santa Montefiore's Timeslider series...

Hi, I'm Santa Montefiore and I've been writing a novel (sometimes two) a year for twenty-six years now, which is quite astonishing as I didn't really think beyond the first book, which took me five years to write. I didn't think I had another in me, but here I am, celebrating my thirty-third and polishing my thirty-fourth for publication next year! - that's including the four Royal Rabbits of London children's books I have co-written with my husband, my two Flappy comedies, and The Kiss which I wrote for Quick Reads. Most of my novels are set partly in England and partly in a beautiful location, like Argentina, Italy or France, Ireland or America. I write primarily for myself so I figure, as I'm going to be living in my imagination for the best part of six months, I might as well choose somewhere lovely. I adore nature, so I tend to plant my characters in rural settlings - by the sea or in the countryside - and most of them are stand alone, except Last Voyage of the Valentina and The Italian Matchmaker, and my recent trilogy, The Deverill Chronicles, which is set in Ireland from 1910 to the sixties. It started out as three books, but is now five, soon to be six: The Secret Hours is number 4 and The Distant Shores is number 5. I suppose I just love writing about that family so much, I don't want to stop.

I'm excited to have written an exciting new series for adults called The Timeslider Series. The first is called Shadows in the Moonlight, and it follows my time-travelling, psychic medium heroine Pixie Tate as she investigates a mystery in Victorian Cornwall. The second one is based in New York's Gilded Age where she has to travel back to The Aldershoff Hotel in New York, to the early twentieth century when it was a magnificent private home. The third and final book, The Last Encore, will be published in July 2026. Pixie slides back to a theatre in Cornwall in 1923 where she finds herself once again faced with the love of her life - and a heartbreaking choice.

I adore writing. I've always loved stories, both reading them and writing them. I can't imagine life without them. Not only are they entertaining, but they teach us so much about life - and enable us to live vicariously through characters who experience more drama than we do! I'm emotional. I love to be moved. There's nothing better than sinking into a novel and empathising with the characters as they journey through the novel, experiencing both the ups and downs...I love to laugh and cry and I want the book to stay with me after I've turned the last page. I don't need a happy ending, but I need a satisfactory one. I hope I deliver satisfactory endings in my own novels.

I also wrote four children's books with my husband, Simon Sebag-Montefiore.