Coombethwaite, the lakeside town where passions run deep, is the setting for the stories in Blaze, the first anthology from The Minxes of Romance. 8 scorching tales from The Minxes of Romance. Romance is in the air for Coombethwaite’s retained firefighters, and none of them will escape its heat unscorched! MEMORY’S FLAME by Maya Blake A fiery reunion – when Ellie returns after twelve long years to bury her grandfather, the last person she expects to see is her first love, Jake Spencer. One look, one touch and they know memory's flame is as sizzling as ever! THE FIRE INSIDE by Romy Sommer Fire fighter Sam Redfern is used to being seen as just one of the boys. Until TV talent scout and celebrity Ryan Morgan shows up in Coombethwaite and starts to make her feel very much like a woman. A woman with needs. A SMOULDERING ATTRACTION by Suzanna Ross Shelley Fox is finished with all things romantic. So is Harrison Reid - until he meets Shelley and realises he might easily be persuaded otherwise. LOCKED INTO LOVE by Catherine Coles Journalist Cassie Parker returns to Coombethwaite with her dream in tatters—the last thing she needs is to rely on her ex for anything but on her second day back she needs hunky fireman Ben Spencer to release her from handcuffs! HOT, BOTHERED AND BEWITCHED by Kat French All alone on her birthday, Wiccan vet Seraphine conjures up more than she bargained for when she casts a Halloween love spell. Five minutes later a knock on the door heralds the arrival of handsome fireman Isaac Quinn, complete with a stray black cat. Is it just coincidence, or has Mother Nature answered Seraphine's request with lightning speed? LIGHTING LOVE’S SPARK by Sally Clements Primary school teacher Annabel Jackson knows flirting with the parents is a no-no, but when single father Daniel Walker arrives at Coombethwaite Primary in full fire fighter garb clutching an axe, how can she resist? WORTH THE RISK by Tara Pammi Baker Annie Bennett has always stood on the sidelines while life passed her by. And it has brought Annie nothing but loneliness. With the New Year coming in, Annie decides it's time to come back home, risk her heart with the man she's always loved. Will her risk pay off or will Marcus never see her as anything but his best friend? A KINDLING ROMANCE by Lorraine Wilson Stressed out lawyer Polly Minton felt trapped in her city job and now she's trapped again, this time in a Lake District chimney; hunky fire fighter and local landowner Drew Reynolds has problems of his own but will he be the one to set her free in more ways than one?
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The daughter of a military father, Catherine was born in Germany and lived most of the first 14 years of her life abroad. She spent her school years devouring everything her school library had to offer! Her favourites were romance and mysteries. Her love for the Nancy Drew books led Catherine to check out every mystery story she could find. She soon found Agatha Christie who quickly became Catherine's favourite author. Catherine writes cosy mysteries that take place in the English countryside. Her extremely popular Tommy & Evelyn Christie mysteries are set in 1920s North Yorkshire. Her new series, the Martha Miller cosy mysteries, are set in the years following the Second World War in Berkshire. Catherine lives in northeast England with her two spoiled dogs who have no idea they are not human! You can connect with Catherine on her website - www.catherinecoles.com
I write as Suzanna Ross and as Suzanne Ross Jones - there is a story behind this, but there's probably not enough room to go into it here. My romances are sweet and modern. Trust In Me has been published by DC Thomson as a Pocket Novel and is available for download from Amazon now. It will be published as a large print book from the summer of 2013. Hidden Heartache was published by DC Thomson as a My Weekly Pocket Novel in January 2013 and is now available as an e-book. Sean McIver's Return will be published by DC Thomson as a People's Friend Pocket Novel in April 2013. A number of my short stories have been published in women’s magazines in the UK and in Australia. And a collection of some of these stories - The Baby of the Family & Other stories - was recently published and is available for Kindle.
Tara Pammi can't remember a moment when she wasn't lost in a book, especially a romance which, for a teenager, was much more exciting than mathematics textbook. Before long, she was hiding romance novels within bigger textbooks, smuggling them into the home through her unsuspecting younger cousin’s school bag, and cycling more than a few miles to her favorite library to borrow more. Through numerous ‘true’ loves :-) and traveling thousands of miles from family and friends, her attachment to books and especially romance novels stayed constant. One fine day, toiling away as a grad student in a basement lab, Tara started typing the beginning of a story instead of her thesis. But it wasn’t until years later, encouraged by her real life hero, Tara realized what she truly wanted to do was to write. Tara lives in Texas with her real life hero and her two little girls. When she isn't writing or reading, Tara can be found failing in the kitchen, watching TV or making resolutions to exercise more, or even a little.
Romy Sommer is the author of seven contemporary romance novels published by HarperCollins London, and she has also indie-published a further eight books, including "The Beginner's Guide to Writing Romance." Romy was the founder and first Chairperson of ROSA (Romance writers Organisation of South Africa). Through ROSA, she discovered a passion for teaching and mentoring aspiring writers, and, after two decades in film production, became a full-time writing coach and developmental editor. Though Romy's heart lies in Europe, she doesn't cope well with the cold, so she lives in sunny South Africa, in the City of Gold, Johannesburg, where she writes contemporary, feel-good fairy tale romances. She loves binge-watching foreign language Rom Coms on Netflix, travel and musical theatre. Her current obsession is romantic K-dramas.
Romantic comedy writer, disorganised mum, fairy light lover, and champion wine drinker. Slightly less smutty alter-ego of Kitty French, USA Today bestselling smut fictionista. Twitter ~ @katfrench_
I write romance from sweet to steamy, and I'm a hybrid author: both traditionally published and indie. MY AMAZON AUTHOR PAGE IS HERE https://www.amazon.com/Sally-Clements... MY FACEBOOK AUTHOR PAGE IS HERE https://www.facebook.com/SallyClement... MY WEBSITE IS HERE http://sallyclements.com/ MY TWITTER IS HERE https://twitter.com/sallywriter My Books: SWEET SERIES:
Jodie James has worked in an old folks home, sold toys in a department store, had a brief job in a chocolate factory, worked as a waitress for a sports centre, and years ago was a feature writer for a now defunct teen magazine. She is eternally grateful the sealed section involving an interview with a to-be-disgraced sex therapist never made it into print. Not surprisingly, she loves reading! She reads romance from Nora Roberts to Jane Porter, suspense from Brad Thor to Joel Rosenberg, inspirational fiction from Robin Lee Hatcher to Francine Rivers, and chick lit from Helen Fielding to Sophie Kinsella. She now writes cosy novels about love, romance and emotion, and is thankful she can now write the kind of books she loves to read. She makes her home with her family – and two guinea-pigs who have taken possession of the back yard.
