Breve biografia: I grew up in the Midlands, but when I moved to Wales, over twenty years ago, I found a place to finally put down roots. I married into a farming family and embarked on a massive learning curve which also saw me learning Welsh when my two children were small.
Writing is something I have always wanted to do and I can still remember the thrill of one of my short stories being held up as an example to the class when I was about nine. It wasn’t until my own children were in school that I seriously started to pursue my dream. I joined a local writing group which met every Monday afternoon and being with like-minded people was the boost I needed.
Reading romance had always been my first love, and just about every short story I wrote was romance, so I decided to write my first book. During that process I also attended my first weekend writing course with Kate Walker and joined the RNA’s fabulous New Writers’ Scheme. A short time later I joined Romance Writers of Australia and learnt a lot from entering their competitions. I sought out courses and you can imagine my joy when I discovered Sharon Kendrick’s course in beautiful Tuscany.
Behind the Scandalous Façade, my So You Think You Can Write entry, is my thirteenth book and although only eight have those magic words ‘the end’ written on them the others are definitely part of the learning process I have enjoyed over the last six years.
I love escaping to distant shores with my characters, entering their glamorous world and feeling all the emotions they experience as they discover their love for one another. A love so strong it will overcome all obstacles eventually, leading to that promised happy ever after.

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Craving Her Enemy's Touch (Harlequin Presents) di Rachael Thomas

Craving Her Enemy's Toucb by Rachael Thomas was a cute, quick read that definitely fit the Harlequin Passion series. The small novel followed Charlotte Warrington after her brother is killed, and she wants to uncover the secret about his death. She goes to the racing circuit expedition and is immediately drawn towards Sandro Roselli, the man her brother used to call a friend.

The book follows the intense relationship that goes on between Charlotte and Sandro, and it includes a lot of R rated passionate scenes that can heat up the pages pretty quickly. I found that the book moved at just the right speed that I did not get bored with the relationship, but it didn't move to fast either. Rachael Thomas did a good job pacing this novel out.

The novel doesn't have many faults, other than I felt it ended rather abruptly. I would have preferred a drawn out ending explaining more of what happened, but that is more of a preference than a problem. It seemed very short, but it is a Harlequin novel, and they are not often the longest pieces of fiction.

Overall, it was a good, quick read but it wasn't the most interesting novel in the world. The plot is often used in many different romances, but the setting was unique. I would definitely recommend this novel to readers who like passionate romance, but it wouldn't be the first book I recommend to just any reader.

3 out of 5 stars, due to the lack of originality in the plot. Still a cute little novel though! I liked it!

I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads.… (altro)

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Briars_Reviews | 1 altra recensione | Aug 4, 2023 |

From One Night to Wife (One Night With Consequences) di Rachael Thomas

OMG Could it be any more the same old thing. Nothing new here. Meh

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Luziadovalongo | Jul 14, 2022 |

Di Marcello's Secret Son (The Secret Billionaires) di Rachael Thomas

Secret Son story-line. This book has a bit more of a complicated story, secret under cover work and her being unable to contact him.
It's a good story the secret child has been re-hashed several times but the under cover adds something a little bit different.
Antonio Di Marcello is dominant and arrogant and all about duty and family obligation. Sadie is hurt and desperate not to fall for Antonio again.
As always is they had communicated they could have resolved things quicker.
A good enough story.

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izzied | Oct 29, 2020 |

Seducing His Convenient Innocent di Rachael Thomas

Beautiful pianist Rio finds herself falling in love with her best friend's brother, the powerful shipping magnate Lysandros. On the very night that she decides to give herself to him, she is assaulted by another man, and it traumatizes her to the point where she breaks things off with Lysandros completely, unable to give him an explanation as to why. Six weeks later, her BFF Xena is in a terrible car accident, resulting in amnesia. Lysandros asks Rio to accompany Xena back to Greece to help her recover, and proposes that they enter into a fake engagement to surround Xena with happiness, coaxing her memory back. Once she recovers, they'll break up for good...if they can.

This is my first HQN "Presents," and it's obvious from the start that this is a line of pure fantasy, with glitz, glamour, drama, and foreign accents. Everyone is impossibly rich and cultured, and live their lives on a completely different planet that us mere mortals. Alpha males and innocent girls abound, matched together in purely ludicrous circumstances. This sort of thing has limited appeal for me, but I am a sucker for second-chance romances, so I pulled the trigger on this book, and its tropey goodness did not let me down.

Sometimes you just have to meet a novel where it is, and adjust your expectations accordingly. This is not the best story I've ever read, or the best treatment of any of these tropes. It is very simply plotted and very simply written, with an almost irritating emphasis on Rio's "innocence" and her virginity and how cold and emotionally unavailable Lysandros is, but when the writer gets out of her own way, she weaves an emotional story about two people who are afraid of putting themselves out there and being rejected. It is a base fear that we all have, so watching it play out not once, but twice over, is alluring.

This is pure id-fic, and on that level, it works. It satisfies a craving for my favorite guilty pleasures. Sometimes you just have a fever, and the only solution is more cowbell.… (altro)

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eurohackie | Mar 30, 2019 |

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