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Author: Maggi Andersen | Website

Maggi Andersen is an Australian author with a BA in English and an MA in Creative Writing. She lives in the countryside with her lawyer husband and their cat, and the assorted wildlife she feeds: chickens, ducks, parrots and possums to name but a few. She writes historical romance, contemporary romantic suspense and young adult novels.


Published Works & Book Reviews

Hostage to Fortune

Viscount Beaumont has buried himself in the country since his wife died. As the French Revolution rages, French actress Verity Garnier is ordered to England to seduce him back to France. She despises men, but she must not fail.


The Reluctant Marquess

When country-bred, Charity Barlow finds herself a marchioness, she is totally unprepared for the role. It doesn't help that her new husband, Lord Robert, has a problem with intimacy, and Charity, who wanted to marry for love, grows more attracted to him with each day and lonely.


Dog Head Code

After inheriting an old book containing a map from his Great Uncle Jake, Joe Jones travels to Dog Head Island, keen to find buried treasure. But in this isolated, inhospitable place, nothing is as it seems. Nothing, but the snakes that inhabited it. And Jake has a strong aversion to snakes! 


Waving at the Moon

In a post-apocalyptic world, Evie French has just turned seventeen. She and her cousin, Marcus Peters, sixteen, struggle to survive after being left alone in their parent’s bed and breakfast hotel in outback Australia. An endless drought has killed Evie’s father’s avocado trees and all the surrounding habitation. Nothing grows in the fetid soil. Hope comes in the form of a nineteen year old boy, Joel Pitt. He arrives on his motorbike with his dog, Rasputin, bringing supplies. He climbs the tallest tree on the crest of the hill, and locates an area of green down along the coast, hundreds of miles away. The three pile onto the bike, with Marcus and Rasputin in the sidecar, and embark on a trip that will take them over mountainous terrain with a limited supply of food and water. What might they find if they reach the coast? Will other people have survived the devastation? And who bombed their country? No one seems to know.

Reviewer: ReaderGirl
Review: Oct 29, 2010
Genre(s): YA / Teen, Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Apocalypse
Evie French and her cousin Marcus Peters, live together at her parents' bed-and breakfast in Australia after most of the country has been destroyed. No one knows for sure what has really happened. Joel and his dog find their way to the bed and breakfast the three of them head towards a spot of green in a sea of gray. It's a long way down the coast. They find their way to Paradise, a city made up of survivors,

If You Dare

A race against the clock. Does love conquer all?

Lucy Reed and Steve Fleming seem to have it all: a beautiful home they’re in the process of restoring, a loving relationship, and quite a sating sex life. Sure, mortgage payments and a few arguments are always around the corner, but no life can be perfect, right?

Lucy discovers exactly how tricky life can be when she wakes up one morning to find that Steve seems to have vanished into thin air. When the police refuses to do anything until seventy-two hours have passed, Lucy is forced to take matters in her own hands. Her frantic search brings her to the doorstep of her unsettling Italian neighbors, the Martone’s.

Just like that, Lucy finds herself sucked into a race against time that might force her to choose between remaining faithful to the man she loves, or save his life.

Reviewer: Edelweiss
Review: May 31, 2010
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense, Adventure / Action
Lucy and Steve are lovers celebrating their six month anniversary in the beach front cottage they sank everything they had just for the down payment. Despite the staggering mortgage, life is sweet (if tight), and the lovemaking fresh. When Steve is missing from her bedside the next morning, she assumes he’s out for his morning run. When he doesn’t turn up, she assumes he stopped at the mansion nex

Night Garden

Laura Palmer marries the mysterious baron, Lord Nathaniel Lanyon, and goes to live in his ancient home in Cornwall. A dark cloud hovers over Wolfram. The death of Nathaniel’s first wife has never been solved, and some of the villagers believe him responsible. Struggling to understand the distant man she married, Laura tries to uncover the truth. With each stone unturned, she comes closer to danger.

Reviewer: ArtWay
Review: Mar 30, 2010
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Romantic Suspense, Historical Romance, Adventure / Action
Night Garden is a story of intrigue and smuggling. Maggie Andersen is a very descriptive writer that leaves the reader with a great sense of the surroundings in the novel. Even though I found Laura's character to be quite childish, uninteresting, and her self-proclaimed independence quickly diminishing I finished this novel. I also felt that there was no real chemistry or love between the two main characters

Love and War

She couldn’t accuse him of paying her Spanish coin! Gyles Devereux made it clear he had no wish to marry at all but was constrained by his circumstances. She could not be expected to keep refusing Lord Devereux, she thought crossly. She was only flesh and blood after all. What woman on earth could resist the pleas of a man such as Devereux?

Reviewer: Lexile
Review: Aug 30, 2009
Genre(s): Historical Romance, Regency
Love and War was a simply charming read.  It did not feel like it was forty odd pages long at all.  This was definitely a character driven story, and at that mostly around Selena and her reactions towards her husband, Gyles (Lord Deveraux) and the mystery of her marriage.  Its very clear early on how she feels about Gyles, but its made equally clear that she wasn't going to let her feelings mak

Painted Lady

LENGTH: Novella
SENSUALITY:Sensual

Were Astrid and Dylan merely caught up in their roles as they performed the screenplay based on the life of painter Milo Russo and his daughter, Gina? Or was the magic that seemed to explode between them with each on-screen kiss real?

Rating: SENSUAL

Reviewer: Jack
Review: Jul 28, 2009
Genre(s): Historical Romance
Painted Lady is really two parallel stories that dance all around each other, hooking up occasionally, but mostly just mirroring and teasing one another. In one story, set in 2008 London, two actors -- Astrid and Dylan -- develop a relationship on the set of a film in which they portray lovers. They haven't met before, and both are coming off of unsuccessful relationships. They experience a spark not unexpect

How To Tame A Rake

It was plain to see from the moment Wilhelmina arrived at his country estate that the devastatingly handsome Blake, Viscount Dangerfield, disapproved of most everything about her.

The codicil to his father’s will came as an unpleasant shock to Blake, Viscount Dangerfield. He had no desire to tie himself down at all, let alone to Wilhelmina--a skinny urchin, barely out of the schoolroom, with mousy hair, no bosom, and a hoydenish disposition.

Rating: Contains sexual situations and adult content

Reviewer: Chris
Review: May 3, 2009
Genre(s): Historical Romance, Victorian
The last time Blake, Viscount Dangerfield, saw Wilhelmina she was in pigtails and in a tree rescuing a kitten. Now he finds if he is to inherit the title and estate, he must marry the less than desirable Willy. Related by marriage, his memories of his betrothed are few and unpleasant. While he doesn’t need the money, he does have a responsibility to his heritage, and will do what must be

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