Her Name Is Trouble: A small-town contemporary romance (The Daimsbury Chronicles Book 2) (11 page)

Acknowledgements

This book wouldn’t have been possible without the input and feedback of all my writing circle ladies. At the Romance writers of South Africa – Kathy, Yolande, Gaeille, Elsa, Inge. My crit loop – Chicki Brown for help with the Southern aspects of the book. Natalie G. Owens, for always being my cheerleader and having my back. Lynn Spangler and Elizabeth Morgan, for always being ready to read my stories. Jessica E. Subject & Sharon Buchbinder for taking a look at this one. If I’ve forgotten anyone, please forgive me! (and let me know and I’ll make amends…)

Missy Taylor, for giving me the name and background for writing my calamity. I hope she’s true to life.

Big thanks also to everyone who’s helped scrape me up when I hit a very rough pass with this book and series – you know who you are, but a special mention to Anna Erishkigal for soothing my mind on some critical points regarding that crisis.

Of course thanks go to my husband and son, for making do with writer me who’s not always human most of the time… *grin*

Last, but the biggest of thanks, to God for allowing me to put across these stories crowding my mind and for granting me another chance every single day that I get to wake up.

And thank you, my readers, and everyone who’s picked up this book and is reading this. I always, always love your feedback and if you deign give me a review as well, I will definitely treasure you, promise!

From Mauritius with love,

Zee

About The Author

Zee Monodee

Stories about love, life, relationships...in a melting-pot of culture

Author, editor, smitten wife, in-over-her-head mum to a tween boy, best-buddy stepmum to a teenage lad, bookaholic, lover of all things fluffy & pink (& handbags!), chronic shoeholic, incompetent housewife desperate to channel Nigella Lawson (and who’ll prolly always fail at making domestic goddess status)...

Zee hails from the multicultural, rainbow-nation island of Mauritius, in the southern Indian Ocean, where she grew up on the figurative fence—one side had her ancestors’ Indian and Muslim culture; the other had modernity and the global village. When one day she realised she could dip her toes into both sides without losing her integrity, she found her identity.

This quest for ’finding your place’ is what she attempts to bring in all her stories, across all the genres she writes. Her heroines represent today’s women trying to reconcile love, life, & relationships in a melting pot of cultures, while her heroes are Alpha men who often get put back into their rightful place by the headstrong women she writes. Love is always a winner in her stories, though; that’s a given.

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Coming Soon in 2015

Upon A Stormy Night (
The Daimsbury Chronicles: A Spin-Off
)

British billionaire from Daimsbury, Lars Rutherford, came to the tiny island of Mauritius to take over directorship of his best friend, Stellan Elricksen’s, shipping company. He’s not here for anything but the job, or—to the chagrin of the many matchmaking society mamas in the country—to find the ‘right woman’ for him.

Corporate legal affairs specialist Simmi Moyer is rich, beautiful, successful, and climbing the executive ladder with tremendous speed. She’s got it all—or does she? Mauritian society shuns her for being single and childless, and nothing she accomplishes will ever be enough.

Lars isn’t looking for a woman; Simmi isn’t looking for a man. Both just want one night to forget their precarious position in this traditional, culture-driven society.

The tempest brewed by uncalled-for yearning in their hearts when they meet, and the desire for something more substantial than one night of pleasure, builds between them, while outside, a real-life cyclone storms on the island and ensconces them in a world where only the two of them exist.

Before the night is over, both Lars and Simmi will have to decide whether each will walk out the next day alone, or if they can put themselves on the line to step out together.

Against All The Odds (
The Daimsbury Chronicles, Book 3
)

There’s truth in the saying, “It happens when you least expect it...”

Word has it that Megha Saran is a shrew. Why else would a modern 29-year-old be ‘on the shelf’? Crafty and resilient, Megha has carved her own midsummer pond from the shark-infested waters of Indo-British society. Until the day she is diagnosed with breast cancer and a twist of Fate—along with her big mouth—lands her on the path of a man a million times removed from her reality.

Billionaire playboy Magnus Trammell has been summoned by his illustrious family to get his act on the straight and narrow before his thirty-fifth birthday. When he meets Megha, he proposes a deal—agree to help with his company’s goodwill endeavours by becoming the brand ambassador of a breast cancer awareness campaign, and in return get the best medical care and support money can buy.

As they embark upon this supposedly win-win bargain, both find themselves on the brink of losing all they have stood for, when their hearts get on the line. Megha, her body and soul mutilated from the cancer treatments, cannot fall for a man who only dates airhead pin-ups. Magnus, who has been hiding behind the veneer of shallow, carefree sophistication all his life, is reluctant to test the unfamiliar, bottomless waters that surround this strong and independent woman.

Both crave the fulfilment that letting go will bring. But will they allow themselves to find it, against all the odds?

Related Work

Before coming to Daimsbury, Luke Morelli met up with his ex-girlfriend, supermodel Mary Beth Beresford while she was going through a personal and professional storm of her own.

Catch her story in
Whisk Me Up
, Book 1 of my other small-town series,
Havisham Park
, set in North Yorkshire.

Whisk Me Up (Havisham Park, Book 1)

After fainting backstage at a fashion week, supermodel Mary Beth Beresford is forced to go into hiding in the sleepy North Yorkshire village of Stonydale in Havisham Park when her sisters kidnap her and bring her there to their late father’s family stronghold so she’ll face the truth—she is anorexic.

Never one to be bossed around, Mary Beth attempts to break out the very next morning...only to land onto the path of the gorgeous, Viking-like pub owner and chef, Niall Barry.

Suddenly, sticking around in this one-horse town doesn't look like Purgatory anymore.

But Niall is a very private person who shies away from celebrity, and Mary Beth is one of the biggest celebs on the planet. Not to mention that she is an aristocrat—daughter of the late earl and member of the peerage—while he is simply a working-class chef.

Is any relationship between them doomed to collapse like a failed soufflé?

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