A jilted bride, a sexy fireman, a tropical island, a fear of the ocean,
a fear of commitment, a new neighbour, an old flame, a secret identity – this is the story of HEARTS AFIRE.
Cassie Callahan is not having a great day. First her fiancé jilts her hours before the wedding and then her sister sets off the alarm and sprinklers at her catering business, flooding the premises, soaking the wedding banquet and bringing the fire department.
When Jack Urquhart the cute fireman offers her a shoulder to cry on they both feel an instant attraction but they each know the other is not what they are looking for. She isn’t looking for a player and he is definitely not looking for the marrying kind.
Hearts Afire takes them on a journey from Sydney’s inner-west to Tropical North Queensland, and back, in search of and avoidance of love.
Will either of them realise that there is no risk at all in trusting your heart to the right person?
I am an Australian author who writes contemporary women’s fiction including chick lit and romance. I live on Sydney’s Northern Beaches with my husband and daughter, and despite my dog phobia, with a dog called Skip. I have written all my life especially as a child when I loved to write short stories and poetry. At University I studied Creative Writing as part of my Communication degree. After wards I was busy working in public relations I didn’t write for pleasure for quite a few years although I wrote many media releases, brochures and newsletters. (And I still do in my day-job!) When I began to write again I noticed a trend – writing dark unhappy stories made me unhappy. So I made a decision to write a novel with a happy ending and I have been writing happy stories ever since. I began a year-long writing course at the NSW Writers Centre and (thank goodness) its’ members morphed into a writing group known as The Writers’ Dozen. We published a highly successful anthology, Better than Chocolate, in 2008. In 2008 I was also selected for the QWC/Hachette Livre Manuscript Development Course for my novel Mr. Right and Other Mongrels. In 2009 I received a Highly Commended in the Romance Writers of Australia’s Valerie Parv Awards for my novel Hearts Afire. These are the first two books I will be e-publishing in 2012. along with a third novel, A Fair Exchange. I’m not really like the characters in my books at all although I do share something in common with each of them – Allegra (Mr. Right and Other Mongrels) has a dog phobia like me, Cassie (Hearts Afire) falls in love on a tropical island and I met my husband that way. To learn more about Monique McDonell and her upcoming books please visit her at www.MoniqueMcDonell.com.au.
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