Tempestuous Shore

by Clare Benedict

For orphan Miranda Foster, the job as live-in secretary to former film star Nita Montez is a godsend. But when she arrives at the Laurels, a gloomy house on the clifftop, it is like a scene from an old movie. Miranda suspects the devastatingly handsome Paul Kovac and his companion Claudine are a threat to her employer. As she begins to unravel the secrets of Nita's past, she must balance her concern for the ageing actress with her growing feelings for Paul.

160 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1996

About the author

Benita Brown was born and brought up in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England where she now continues living. Her mother, was an English, who was the youngest of thirteen children, and her father, a Indian, who on 1930's came to Newcastle to study medicine and fell in love with the place, the people, and her mother. She went to drama school in London where she met her husband who, also from Newcastle, was working for the BBC. After marrying and having four children she became a full time writer; writing for radio, and then girls' and teenage story papers such as Mandy, Judy, Jackie and Blue Jeans.

When her first romance, written under the pseudonym Clare Benedict, was published in 1991, she joined the Romantic Novelists' Association. After six more romances she changed genre and now writes sagas under her own name, Benita Brown. First novels under this name are set in Victorian/Edwardian Tyneside. One of these, Fortune’s Daughter, was long-listed for the Romantic Novel of the Year Award. In her more recent books she has moved forward to the mid-twentieth century and although not all the action is set in Tyneside the area still has a strong influence. She died at 77 on 15 April 2014 in Newcastle's Royal Victoria Hospital.