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Author: Kris Pearson | Website
I grew up surrounded by orchards in Hastings, New Zealand, and I've been a writer all my life.
True love story
I met my husband when we were both working for Television New Zealand. Being the newest in the department I was allotted one of the two desks down the back behind the filing cabinets. At the other sat an intriguing TV news director. Romance blossomed behind our barricade. One day we took our lunch to the botanic gardens and fell asleep in the sun. We sneaked back to work hours later with horribly sunburned faces. As easily as that, the cat was out of the bag. No wonder I'm a romance-writer...
In the years since then I've worked for a number of national and international advertising agencies - writing for TV, radio, magazines, press and direct mail. Then I became the advertising manager for a chain of furnishing stores and continued to write and write.
These days, in a total change of scene, we have our own decor company. It's amazing what you hear up a ladder while you're hanging curtains, and it's intensely interesting visiting beautiful properties and talking with an enormous variety of people. Story ideas spark all around me.
Published Works & Book Reviews
The Boat Builder's Bed
A windy day...a flyaway signboard...a hideous crunch. Sophie Calhoun can't imagine how she'll pay for the damage to the luxurious car.
Already cash-strapped, she's struggling to launch her new interior design studio and make a home for her daughter. She's only days away from disaster.
Out of the sleek black Jaguar storms super-yacht tycoon Rafe Severino. Steaming mad. Totally gorgeous. And desperately in need of a top-line decorator for his spectacular new harbor-side mansion.
Sophie fears her dream contract comes with strings that tie her to the boat-builder's bed. No matter how she tries to escape, he's always there - implacable and irresistible.
She knows he doesn't want a preoccupied single mother, but concealing her daughter's existence from the man she's falling in love with is getting harder and harder. If he discovers her lies, she'll instantly lose everything.
Warning: contains one determined golden-skinned man who knows his way around boats, bodies and bed-sheets.
The Wrong Sister
Fiona Delaporte has an impossible assignment - to care for her newly widowed brother-in-law and his tiny daughter. (The newly widowed tall, dark and delicious brother-in-law she's secretly wanted for five long, frustrating years.)
Christian Hartley would rather spend time with anyone except the tempting woman who reminds him so much of his cherished wife. But she has six weeks leave from her cruise-liner job on the other side of the world, and seems determined to do her family duty. How can craving the wrong sister feel so right?
WARNING:Contains one hot man who always gets what he wants - in bed and out.
Five Short Romantic Reads
Five Short Romantic Reads is an anthology of short stories, all with romantic themes. All have already been magazine-published or broadcast, and most have been contest winners or finalists.
Meet Anthea and her handsome truckie, stuck in a traffic jam together...Luke with his unexpected holiday stopover guest...read how broken concrete paths brought Paul a second chance...how a twenty-dollar birthday gift led to sumptuous wedding dresses for Liz...and how twenty-five bananas nearly wrecked Jan's chance of meeting Greg.
Seduction on the Cards
When journalist Kerri is assigned to interview a seriously rich anti-gambling crusader, she imagines a grandfatherly tycoon with a comb-over.
But hunky Alex Beaufort has plenty of hair - and enough of everything else to make her mouth water.
Irrepressible Kerri decides to find out exactly how much, and a sizzling game of strip-poker soon has them both peeling off their layers of self-protection.
Seduction is definitely on the cards - but who's seducing who? And what are the odds? Good enough to take a chance on?
Warning: Contains sexy Frenchman, tropical heat, and enthusiastic outdoor fun and games.
Taken by the Sheikh
Abducted. Seduced. Purring.
Laurel de Courcey is captured by terrorists, chained up in a disgusting bunker, and videoed for a ransom demand which is shown worldwide.
Ooops - wrong hostage! Who'd expect a shy Kiwi nanny to be worth anything?
Laurel's soon tied up in Sheikh Rafiq's bed instead, because he rescues her and appoints himself her personal bodyguard. Very personal. But she has good reason to distrust men.
Imprisoned in his old royal hunting lodge deep in the desert 'for her own protection', Laurel rebels. Spectacular fireworks, dangerous escape attempts, and an impossible love affair follow.
Warning: contains one red-hot Sheikh with a wicked tongue and unlimited stamina.