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Author: Mona Risk | Website

A Chemist and a Writer

As a Ph.D. in Chemistry and former director of an analytical laboratory, I traveled to more than fifty countries on business or vacation. To relax from my hectic schedule, I avidly read romance novels or mentally plotted my own books. I like to set stories in the fascinating places I visited and throw conflict at the American heroines and foreign heroes I create.

I wrote two international romantic suspense novels available at Cerridwen Press. To Love A Hero and French Peril.

My contemporary romances, Babies in the Bargain, Prescription For Love and Prescription In Russian — the last two are part of Doctor’s Order series— are available at The Wild Rose Press.

Last March, I had the unique opportunity to travel to Egypt. I cruised the Nile River, visited the monuments of Ancient Egypt and immersed myself into the pharaonic civilization. I brought back hundreds of pictures, brochures about Egyptian gods and a map of Ancient Egypt to help in my research for a paranormal book set in mythological Egypt: Osiris’s Second Life.

Now I live in sunny Florida with my husband and write full time. When I'm not in my office writing, I'm probably walking on the beach and plotting my next scene.



Published Works & Book Reviews

Osiris' Missing Part

Blush sensuality level: This is a sensual romance (may have explicit love scenes, but not erotic in frequency or type).

According to the legend, the evil Egyptian god of storm, Seth, killed his brother Osiris, chopped him into fourteen pieces and flung them all over Egypt. Isis, goddess of family, reassembled thirteen of his body parts. Since she couldn’t find his supernatural male member, where his godly power was stored, she reattached a human one.

Isis has always loved Osiris, the charming god of labor. While dreaming of marriage, family and a son, she helps him fight Seth. Together they struggle to survive iniquities and perils.

His trip to the Afterlife has changed Osiris. He regrets his past womanizing. Guided by oracles she utters when they make love, they search lands and seas for his missing organ so he can recover his godly attributes. Osiris has fallen in love with Isis but the sins of his past and their unexpected consequences threaten to separate them more painfully than Seth's mayhem and curses.  

Reviewer: Tamazon
Review: Aug 9, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Mythology
Mona Risk takes on a new genre and takes us on an Egyptian adventure. She delves deep into the subject of infidelity, love, forgiveness and commitment. In Osiris' Missing Part you have a brother's betrayal. Osiris is an Egyptian god. He is tricked by his brother Seth into trying out a sarcophagus. In the end Osiris gets trapped and cut into 14 parts. His body is hidden around Egypt. Isis loves Osiris and she

Prescription in Russian

Fyodor Vassilov is a Russian surgeon and an officer- Jillian Burton is an American pediatrician on a mission to improve medical conditions in Belarus. Jillian blames herself and her ex-husband for their son's death-Duty demands Fyodor provides a mother to his four little boys. She has lost her illusions about men and marriage-He has to marry a woman who loves children and big family. When they work together for six months in his hospital, their fascination with one another shocks them both. Can attraction and love overcome guilt, duty, and a clash of cultures?

Reviewer: Tamazon
Review: Jun 29, 2011
Genre(s): Contemporary, Romance
Mona Risk is one of my favorite authors for several reasons. She knows how to pull a reader into the minds of her well-crafted characters and she also makes you want the best for them. Her work also takes me on a journey be it local or overseas. She does all of this again as she took me into Russia in her latest medical inspired romance. In Prescription in Russian Ms. Risk delves into the life of a Russian s

No More Lies

A lie that brings a smile or a truth that draws a tear?

Successful physician and loving mother, Olivia Crane fiercely believes youthful mistakes should be kept secret and skeletons are better left in closets. Unfortunately, Dr. Luc George, the French psychiatrist, she loved ten years ago, detests secrets and has a professional tendency to dig into people’s minds.

Determined to rekindle their former relationship, Luc strolls back into her hospital and her life, tries to unravel her many secrets and threatens to shatter her carefully constructed world. Against her better judgment, Olivia succumbs to his charm and welcomes her second chance, but on her own terms. The past forgotten, no questions asked.

Can Luc help her conquer her inner fears or will he get burned by the past too? Will Olivia grab her second chance and finally find happiness with the love of her life?

Reviewer: Silvermage
Review: Oct 11, 2011
Genre(s): Contemporary
Olivia Crane and Luc used to be an item. Olivia, a psychiatrist, and Luc meet again. At first she didn't know who he was because he is was listed under a different name. They now have to work together, while dealing with the past.ÿ Luc wants them to get back together. They meet often on the job as he oversees a lot of her patients. Soon Olivia and Luc meet a woman that has been abused by her husband and they

Babies In The Bargain

220 Pages, Spicy

With only one year left to complete her medical training in Neonatology, Dr. Holly Collier vows not to let anyone mess up her sacrosanct schedule. Especially not the drop-dead gorgeous Dr. Marc Suarez who broke her heart seven years ago.

When a tragic accident transforms the carefree playboy into a dedicated but novice father to his nephew, Holly gives in to her maternal instincts and turns her structured life upside down for the orphaned preemie. But can she learn to trust Marc again and believe in true love?

Reviewer: Tamazon
Review: Aug 30, 2009
Genre(s): Contemporary
Babies in the Bargain is a sweet and sexy medical romance that will have you cooing and awing while also shedding a few tears.   Dr. Holly Collier is a senior fellow in neonatology and is heading toward exams. She has a full plate when it comes to work and study. Enter a man from her past, anesthesiologist Marc, one who left her heart broken and she doesn’t know how to proceed with her life. 

To Love a Hero

Dr. Cecile Lornier is an ambitious chemist who fought hard to win and keep her first international contract. She travels to Belarus to coordinate the environmental cleanup and literally starts her contract on the wrong foot as she stumbles on the broken escalator at the airport. When a muscular chest cushions her fall, she finds more chemistry than she bargains for in the arms of the handsome Major General of Belarus.

The widowed Sergei has pledged to clean his country of the pollution left by the Chernobyl disaster. With a glass of vodka in his hand and the lovely Cecile nestled in his arms, Sergei has more on his mind now than nuclear pollution, and Cecile soon learns that chemicals are not the only things that generate heat.

The general doubts he can fulfill his mission if he surrenders his heart while Cecile fights his chauvinistic officers to perform her contract. Soon she will have to choose between betraying Sergei's trust or abandoning him to the evil plot of his hateful ex-father-in-law.
 

Reviewer: Tamazon
Review: Feb 9, 2009
Genre(s): Contemporary
To Love a Hero by Mona Risk is a wonderful & adventurous story of love overseas.   Dr. Cecile Lornier is a female chemist and working her way to the top of her field. She has just secured a prestigious project in Belarus. She is to be the head of an American delegation that will help clean up the country because of the horrible disaster at Chernobyl. On her first trip to Belarus she takes in t

French Peril

A summer job in France with room and board in a chateau owned by a handsome count. Can it get any better for Cheryl Stewart? The graduate student in Architecture is now officially on a mission for her sick professor.

Count François can't hide his disappointment when Cheryl arrives instead of the eminent professor. But the aristocratic playboy is not one to turn away a beautiful young woman. He allows her to manage the restoration of the chateau's chapel while keeping his search for a valuable historical statue a secret from the other students working on the project.

Soon things deteriorate. The professor is poisoned, the chateau's butler attacked and Cheryl's room burglarized. When Cheryl's summer job changes into a romantic involvement and dangerous treasure hunt, Count François is faced with a difficult choice. Is the priceless statue worth jeopardizing the safety of the impetuous young woman who has stolen his heart?

Reader Advisory: This story contains explicit sex scenes.

Book Length: Plus Novel

Reviewer: Tamazon
Review: Nov 30, 2008
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense
Mona Risk will pull you in with her amazing characters and in-depth twisting suspense. She takes armchair travel to whole new heights as her characters travel to their heart wrenching and spine tingling doom.   Cheryl met Count François a couple of years ago when he was visiting her professor. She was extremely attracted to him, but knew he would see no appeal in her. She was the academic sort w

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