After working eight years for the New Zealand Forest Service as a clerk, she decided she could spend at least that much time trying to get a novel published.
Luckily it took five years, not eight, before Fiona wrote her first award-winning novel.
She has won the Australian Romantic Book of the Year award (category section) twice, one of her novels was listed by Romantic Times as one of their all-time top two hundred favorite romance books and she has been featured in Next and She magazines.
Fiona lives in a subtropical South Seas paradise called the Bay of Islands with her two sons.
Not much of a love story. Michael Rider, SAS soldier and spread owner. Jane O'Reilly retired stocks agent and spread owner to Rider. Both married 7 yrs ago and meet for the 1st time. Instint lust/love. Jane's husband dies. Rider retires to snatch up Jane. In the midst is a neighborhood robbery, murder and rape. Written ok. No imagination imo.
I am reading this as part of Lover Beware anthology
I can't read anymore of this story. The male protagonist is so ultra male that he can't even smile. And the woman climaxes during a kiss. Okay, this is fantasy. No rating because I didn't finish it.