Book description
A seductive story of love and ghosts in Mexico. Young and successful,
Australian Maddy Maquire has fallen in love with a Mexican. She thinks
he's going to save her from her despair à Â- until he wants her to have
their baby. She can't have a child; she knows families are dangerous. On
the other side of the world, Bostonian Bill Bixton's got it all à Â-
money, power, friends in high places. After he throws the retirement
party of the decade, he realises what he's been missing all along: the
ability to truly love. Maddy and Bill's fates converge deep in the heart
of Mexico, in search of the truth about a woman who has irrevocably
changed both their destinies: Lilia de Las Flores à Â- heroine or
murderess? But when they leave behind their lives of ordered logic for
the sultry, closed town of Aaguasecas, they find that ghostly shadows
and suspicious locals make the truth hard to uncover. Erina Reddan's
career began in journalism, predominantly as a foreign correspondent for
the ABC. She won the coveted Walkley Award for her coverage of French
nuclear testing in the South Pacific in 1996. She has also produced many
documentaries. In 2001 Erina wrote Baby Daze, about the challenges of
professional women becoming mothers. As an author she has appeared on
Bert Newton's Good Morning Australia and Margaret Throsby's Desert
Island Disks (ABC FM), as well as being extensively profiled in all
major newspapers, including a three-page spread in the top national
newspaper, the Sunday Telegraph. Erina has also won a major presentation
award, the Holding Redlich pitching competition awarded by the South
Pacific Association of Film and Television. Erina is the mother of two
young girls, and Lillia's Secret is her first novel.
