As so many of the characters in my books pop up in other stories, I’ve decided to do a backlist with a difference. Not just the general book details, but also character sketches, other appearances info and details of where the books appear in a series, if any. Hope it’s not too much information.
The Good, The Bad & The Wild
- UK: March 2012 M&B Riva
- US: July 2012 Harlequin Presents Extra
- Hero: Nick Delisantro, a former North London runaway who is now a successful Hollywood scriptwriter living in San Francisco, and the illegitimate heir of an Italian dukedom.
- Heroine: Eva Redmond, a studious London-based genealogical researcher who’s sent to San Francisco to locate the mysterious heir to the Italian Duc D’Alegria — and unfortunately has a wild one-night stand with him instead, putting her job and her heart in jeopardy.
- Locations: San Francisco (Union Square, Haight Ashbury), Lake Garda Italy, London (Stoke Newington)
- Series: Brothers & Sisters Book Three
- Other appearances: Nick and Eva both appear in Brothers & Sisters Book Four, the story of Eva’s best friend Tess Tremaine and CEO Nathaniel Graystone.
On the First Night of Christmas…
- UK: Nov 2011 M&B Riva — ISBN: 978-0263884012
- US: Dec 2011 Harlequin Presents Extra — ISBN: 978-0373528431
- Hero: Jace Ryan, a London-born internet billionaire now living in New York who returns to his home town one Christmas to sell his company and accidentally splashes Cassie Fitzgerald with his rented Mercedes while driving down Oxford Street.
- Heroine: Cassie Fitzgerald, a London illustrator who’s contemplating the tragic state of her love life one Christmas night on Oxford Street when she gets splashed by a bozo in a Mercedes. By a remarkable Christmas coincidence, the bozo turns out to be the very same gorgeous bad boy Cassie had a huge crush on in secondary school, now all grown up, even more gorgeous and a lot more dangerous.
- Locations: London (West End, Hoxton & Clerkenwell)
- Other appearances: None, yet!
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Cupcakes and Killer Heels
- UK: May 2011 M&B Riva — ISBN: 978-0263883770
- US: Mar 2012 Harlequin Presents Extra — ISBN: 978-0373528608
- Hero: Callum Westmore, a London barrister who is taking a rare break from work one long August weekend when his new Ferrari rear-ends feisty cupcake baker Ruby Delisantro’s ancient VW Beetle on a Camden street.
- Heroine: Ruby Delisantro, a London cupcake entrepeneur who finds the perfect excuse to indulge in her favourite pastime – flirting – when she has a fender-bender with handsome barrister Callum Westmore.
- Locations: London (Camden, Lincoln’s Inn), Cornwall (Trewan Manor)
- Series: Brothers & Sisters Book Two
- Other appearances: Callum appears in Brothers & Sisters Book One, Surf Sea and a Sexy Stranger, the story of his sister Maddie, while both Callum and Ruby appear in Brothers & Sisters Book Three, The Good the Bad and the Wild, the story of Ruby’s long-lost brother Nick Delisantro.
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Surf, Sea and a Sexy Stranger
- UK: Nov 2010 M&B Modern Heat — ISBN: 978-0263877519
- US: Apr 2011 Harlequin Presents Extra — ISBN: 978-0373528110
- Hero: Ryan King, a former surfing champion turned extreme sports entrepeneur, who is recuperating at his grandfather’s forbidding Cornish mansion, Trewan Manor, after being badly injured in a motorbike accident. He’s trying to surf again, with disastrous results, when – to add insult to injury -he’s rescued from the water by a beautiful young female lifeguard.
- Heroine: Maddie Westmore, lifeguard and beach café waitress who saves bad-tempered surfer Rye King from drowning one chilly October morning on Wild Water Bay in Cornwall, then cycles up to his cliff-top mansion to check on him that afternoon.
- Locations: Cornwall (Wild Water Bay, Trewan Manor), London (Kensington)
- Series: Brothers & Sisters Book One
- Other appearances: Maddie and Rye both appear in Brothers & Sisters Book Two, Cupcakes and Killer Heels, featuring Maddie’s older brother Callum Westmore.
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Unfinished Business with the Duke
- UK: May 2010 M&B Modern Heat — ISBN: 978-0263877397
- US: Oct 2010 Harlequin Presents Extra — ISBN: 978-0373527885
- Hero: Giovanni Hamilton, an English-Italian architect with a practice in Florence who is also the new Duke of Connaught. He’s at an exclusive gentlemen’s club in Mayfair when a stripper appears to perform to a group of drunken Hooray Henries who looks remarkably familiar…
- Heroine: Isadora Helligan, the one-time daughter of the Connaught housekeeper, who had a major crush on Gio in her teens, but is now the manager of a struggling London pub theatre, The Crown and Feathers. She’s moonlighting as a singing telegram girl when one of her performances at an exclusive gentlemen’s club in Mayfair goes disastrously wrong… Not least because her rescuer is someone she has sworn to forget forever… And he mistakes her for a stripper!
- Locations: London (Islington, Mayfair), Shropshire England (at the Connaught estate), Florence Italy.
- Other appearances: none, as yet.
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Public Affair, Secretly Expecting
- UK: Nov 2009 M&B Modern Heat — ISBN: 978-0268372538
- US: Mar 2010 Harlequin Presents — ISBN: 978-0373129065
- Hero: Cormac Brody, famous Irish movie star living and working in LA who is accosted at Heathrow airport by a young woman insisting he come to his estranged brother Connor’s wedding.
- Heroine: Juno Delamare, introverted Portobello Road shop assistant who is determined to get her best friend Daisy’s soon-to-be brother-in-law Mac to Daisy’s wedding in the South of France to Mac’s estranged brother Connor. Unfortunately, her mission entails accosting the bad boy movie star at Heathrow airport and getting rather more than she bargained for.
- Locations: London (Notting Hill), South of France, Los Angeles (Laguna Beach, Westwood)
- Series: Brody Brothers Book Two
- Other appearances: Juno appears in Brody Brothers Book One, Hot-Shot Tycoon, Indecent Proposal as Daisy’s best friend.
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Hot-Shot Tycoon, Indecent Proposal
- UK: June 2009 M&B Modern Heat — ISBN: 978-0263872439
- US: Sept 2009 Harlequin Presents — ISBN: 978-0373128570
- Hero: Connor Brody, millionaire Irish property developer who has survived an abusive childhood in Dublin, and recently moved into his latest development, a hugh Georgian pile in Notting Hill. He is nursing a bad case of the flu one night when he spots someone climbing over his back garden wall…
- Heroine: Daisy Dean, dress designer, Portobello market stall holder and all round good neighbour who gets caught one night climbing into her reclusive new neighbour’s back garden in search of her landlady’s missing cat.
- Locations: London (Notting Hill), New York
- Series: Brody Brothers Book One
- Other appearances: Connor and Daisy appear in Brody Brothers Book Two, Public Affair, Secretly Expecting, the story of Connor’s long-lost brother Mac and Daisy’s friend and shop manager Juno Delamare.
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Pleasure, Pregnancy and a Proposition
- UK: Nov 2008 M&B Modern Heat — ISBN: 978-0263863895
- US: Mar 2009 Harlequin Presents — ISBN: 978-0373128099
- Hero: Luke Devereaux, a self-made millionaire financier and the new Duke of Berwick whose past is shrouded in mystery and he wants to keep it that way.
- Heroine: Louisa DiMarco, a women’s magazine journalist who makes the mistake of putting Luke at number three on Blush magazine’s top ten most eligible bachelors list… Before long she’s discovering why she should have put him at number one.
- Locations: London (Camden), Wiltshire England (at the Berwick estate)
- Other appearances: Louisa appears in The Mile High Club as Mel’s best friend.
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The Tycoon’s Very Personal Assistant
- UK: July 2008 M&B Modern Heat — ISBN: 978-0263863802
- US: Sept 2008 Harlequin Presents — ISBN: 978-0373127610
- Hero: Zack Boudreaux, former gambler turned Las Vegas hotel magnate who’s a sucker for a damsel in distress, especially if she has sparkling blue eyes and an attitude to match.
- Heroine: Kate Denton, British PA who finds herself stranded in Zack’s hotel with no money, no job and virtually no clothes!
- Locations: Las Vegas, Big Sur California
- Other appearances: Zack appears in Brother & Sisters Book One, Surf, Sea and a Sexy Stranger, as a close friend of Rye King.
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The Mile High Club aka The Millionaire’s
Blackmail Bargain
- UK: Nov 2007 M&B Modern Extra — ISBN: 978-0263854008
- US Mar 2008 Harlequin Presents — ISBN: 978-0373820733
- Hero: Jack Devlin, a reclusive best-selling American crime novelist, hiding out at the Ritz Hotel in London, who makes a startling discovery in his bathroom one night just as he’s about to step into the shower… Completely naked!
- Heroine: Carmel Rourke, a lowly editorial assistant on a London tabloid badgered by her best friend, reporter Louisa DiMarco, into sneaking into Jack’s hotel room to find out if he is the reclusive crime novelist Devlin? She hears the door open as she’s snooping around and hot tails it into the bathroom to hide.
- Locations: London (West End, Chiswick), Paris, New York City.
- Other appearances: Jack and Mel both appear in Pleasure Pregnancy and a Proposition, the story of Jack’s friend Luke and Mel’s best friend Louisa.
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Bedded by a Bad Boy aka Bedded by a Playboy
- UK: April 2007 M&B Modern Extra — ISBN: 978-0263853872
- US: Jan 2008 Harlequin Presents — ISBN: 978-0373820634
- Hero: Monroe Latimer, a Harley riding bad boy of no fixed abode, and long-lost brother of millionaire businessman Linc Latimer. Travelling through he stops on his brother’s road in Long Island. Unaware of his brother’s exact address, he has already decided not to pay him and his family a visit, but decides to cool off in the pool of one of the large estates which is empty for the summer.
- Heroine: Jessie O’Connor, an English art gallery assistant staying at her sister Ally and brother-in-law Linc’s Long Island estate for the summer, who returns one afternoon with her heavily pregnant sister to discover a man she doesn’t know skinny dipping in their pool.
- Locations: Long Island, New York City
- Other appearances: Both Monroe and Jessie appear in the first Brody Brothers book Hot-Shot Tycoon, Indecent Proposal
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