Australia: In Bed with the Playboy: Hidden Mistress, Public Wife / The Secret Mistress / Claiming His Mistress

by Emma Darcy

In the arms of a playboy… but for how long? Sydney’s most eligible bachelor, billionaire Jordan Powell, is a favourite of the gossip pages – there’s always a new woman on his arm! So he finds the challenge of seducing farm girl Ivy Thornton a diverting amusement. But Ivy isn’t willing to be the latest in a line of Jordan’s disposable mistresses…Believing Luis Martinez was committed to marrying another woman, Shontelle had ended their affair. Two years on, Luis wasn’t married and he was the only man who would get her brother out of danger…in exchange for one more night with her! When business hotshot Carver Dane attends a masked ball, he isn’t expecting a fiery encounter with a woman who ignites the compelling desire he’s known only once before. When the masks come off, Carver is determined to claim Katie…

553 pages, Paperback

First published April 18, 2014

About the author

Emma Darcy is the pseudonym created by the married writing team of Wendy (1940-2020) and Frank Brennan (1936-1995). Their life journey has taken as many twists and turns as the characters in their stories, whose international popularity has resulted in over sixty-million book sales. With more than a hundred titles, Emma Darcy appeared regularly on the Waldenbooks bestseller lists in the U.S.A. and in the Nielson BookScan Top 100 chart in the U.K.

Wendy was born 28 November 1940 in Australia. Her sister was the novelist Maureen Mary (Miranda Lee). Her father was a country school teacher and brilliant sportsman. Her mother was a talented dressmaker. She obtained an Honours degree in Latin and initially worked as a high school English/French teacher. She married Frank Brennan, an Australian businessman born in 1936. She changed careers to computer programming before marriage and motherhood settled her into a community life. She was reputedly the first woman computer programmer in the southern hemisphere.

As voracious readers, the step to writing their own books seemed a natural progression and the challenge of creating exciting stories was soon highly addictive. They were published since 1983. In 1993, for the Emma Darcy pseudonym's 10th anniversary, they created the "Emma Darcy Award Contest" to encourage authors to finish their manuscripts. After the death of Frank Brennan in 1995, Wendy wrotes books on her own. She lived in a beachside property on the central coast of New South Wales, and liked to travel extensively to research settings and increase her experience of places and people.

Wendy Brennan passed away on December 21, 2020. She is survived by her children, grandchildren, and sister, writer Miranda Lee.