1973: Debra Winters has started a new life for herself as a teacher in a small Australian outback town. Given the responsibility of updating the school's fire protocol, she is thrown together with volunteer firefighter Robbie Sanderson, and there's a spark of attraction between them. Meanwhile, things are heating up: it's bushfire season, and there's an arsonist on the loose. Debra and Robbie find themselves in danger. Will their relationship flicker out - or will they set each other's worlds alight?
Alan is a widely published Australian author, concentrating mainly on women’s magazines where he pushes the boundaries way past ‘boy meets girl’ love stories.
He has had over fifty short stories published in Australia’s That’s Life. Since 2012, he’s sold stories published in Ireland, Canada and Britain where he is also a regular contributor to Take a Break magazine.
His tales cover crime, fantasy, science fiction, romance and thrillers, usually set in the here and now.
In the past six years, Alan has chosen to include novels in his writing repertoire, selling, at time of this publication, sixteen novels set in England, France, America and Australia. They have been distributed and sold country-wide as paperbacks throughout Britain and Australasia. To date, fourteen of these are or will be available in libraries worldwide in large print published by Linford Romance.
Alan also has had the following published; a short story collection ‘The Rain, The Park and Other Things’ by Ginninderra Press in Australia.
He had vowed never to write a western but recently ‘accidentally’ wrote Love in the Golden Sun- a bushranger story set in the Australian colonies. It was published in Jan 2021 and is also in large print in libraries worldwide.
Despite being both male and Australian, he is a member of the RNA (Romantic Novelists Association) ). It seems that, like many of his stories, the impossible is possible after all.
Alan is a retired Science teacher and Financial Services Manager, currently exiled and living in England with his long-suffering wife, Anne,
Alan C Williams's Firestorm sparkles - no pun intended! Heroine Debra doesn't disappoint. She is delightfully feisty, something which readers expect and enjoy from this author. Beginning afresh in a different town is challenging for her, especially as it's one in the Australian Outback. Expect drama and intrigue and you won't be disappointed.
I read this when it first came out as a pocket novel and was hooked from the first page. It's so refreshing to read a romantic suspense which is both sweet and set somewhere that's not America. I can only take so many gun-toting FBI hunks. The author gave a real sense of place, so I was totally emersed in life in the outback and the tension really racked up when the two love interests were caught ... well, I'll let you read that to find out. Great action as well as a great attraction between the two main characters.