A Christmas honeymoon—without a husband Mollie was supposed to be celebrating the yuletide season in sultry New Orleans—on her honeymoon. The aspiring actress was in New Orleans, all right, but the Big Easy wasn't so hot. In fact, it was covered in ice. And the man she was with—Pearce Goddard—was a blind stranger she'd befriended on the flight from New York. Was nothing going to go right? She'd been jilted by her fiancé, robbed in the airport and now she had nowhere to stay. But when Pearce offered her lodgings in return for her guidance around the icy city, Mollie sensed there was one thing more she could lose—her heart.
Author
Sally McCluskey (aka Bethany Campbell) was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, as an only child. She attended college beginning as a chemistry major, after quickly switching her major to English. She obtainded a B.A. from Wayne State Teachers College, and an M.A. in English from the University of Arkansas. She met her husband, Dan Borengasser, while both were graduate students at Northern Illinois University, where she obtained a Ph.D. in English. Sally taught and in her spare time wrote, but after marriage, the couple moved to an area where teaching jobs were scarce, and she turned to writing full time. She wrote poetry, articles, short stories, and contributed to textbooks, but finally decided to try a romance novel at the urging of her mom and aunt, both avid romance fans. To Sally’s amazement, Harlequin bought her story After the Stars Fall and published it in 1985 under the pseudonym Bethany Campbell. She has also written as Lisa Harris. She has won three Romance Writers of America (RWA) RITA Awards, three Romantic Times Reviewer Awards, a Maggie Award, and the Daphne du Maurier Award of Excellence. She lived with her husband in northwest Arkansas. Her husband, who serves as Vice President of Ozark Film & Video Productions, also writes, and has had several short films and plays produced.
