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Author: Catherine Andorka | Website

Catherine Andorka began her writing career in 1979, after receiving a speeding ticket. (In her opinion, undeserved.) The poem she authored lamenting the injustice of the justice system served her well, both in the courtroom and later, when it was published in her local newspaper. She graduated from poetry to writing short story fiction and non-fiction. Eventually she went on to become the Editor-in-Chief of the Weddingpages Bride and Home Magazine (Chicago Edition).

These days, Catherine is devoting her working hours to various types of book length fiction. She is a member of Romance Writers of America and belongs to the Chicago North Chapter. Since she is a romantic at heart, the romance genre is the perfect venue for her to create characters who inspire reader's fantasies.

Catherine lives with her husband in a Chicagoland suburb. Currently, she is trying to balance her writing career with her need to be an involved grandmother to Logan and Brynn, who light up her life every day. 


Published Works & Book Reviews

Once upon a Secret

According to the tabloids, Brad Daniels is "Rock Music's Sexiest Bad Boy!"

Talented, Successful, rich, good looking and charming, he seems to have everything going for him.

Doctor Tori Glenn, Chiropractor and caretaker for her teenage brother, Kevin, doesn't know much about rock music, but even she has heard of Brad Daniels. While meeting him backstage during an interview Kevin is conducting for his school paper, all hell breaks loose.

When Brad suffers an injury that keeps him in town, he uses it as an excuse to get closer to Tori. She wants nothing to do with the infamous big city playboy, but her brother is thrilled.

Only after Kevin makes a rash move that will affect his entire future, does Brad realize what an influence he's had on the boy. And only then does Brad take drastic measures to free himself of the restrictions that the secret has put on his life- and that of the woman he loves.


Fly Me to Paradise

Madeline Holt's elation at being pregnant by her late husband's sperm is short lived when she learns the lab made a mistake. The real biological father, Kurt Williams, is as shocked and resentful as she. When they meet, they clash. Madeline is an independent business woman who wants nothing to do with this stranger. But Kurt is determined not to follow in the footsteps of his own father, who abandoned him and his mother early on.

The relationship is further complicated by Kurt’s fight with his inner demons. A cancer survivor, the reason he donated his sperm so he could still have children, he’s coping with his unpredictable future by racing cars, jumping out of planes—whatever dangerous activity that proves he can outsmart the Grim Reaper. Madeline has already lost a husband and a father. She doesn’t need another chapter of living on the edge.

Will their growing attraction and Kurt's involvement in her pregnancy be enough to build a future together?

Reviewer: Bassetbarb
Review: May 13, 2011
Genre(s): Contemporary, Romance
Madeline and Charles Holt have been married for seven years. When Charles decides he doesn't want children, Madeline convinces him to set some sperm aside before he has a vasectomy, just in case he changes his mind. Charles dies in a car accident and after some soul-searching; Madeline decides to be inseminated with Charles's sperm. She is very happy when she gets pregnant. A happiness that turns to ang

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