Book description
From the author of the bestselling The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots comes
another romance novel set in the Australian outback. Perfect for rom com
fans!Wendy Hopkins arrives in the Pilbara to search for the father who
abandoned her at birth. Getting mixed up in construction site politics
at the Iron Ore wharf just out of town was not high on her  to doÂ
list. But when she takes a job as their new Safety Manager she becomes
the most hated person in the area. Nicknamed  The Sergeant , she is
the butt of every joke and the prime target of notorious womanizer,
Gavin Jones. Giving up is not an option, though. For, as it turns out,
only Wendy can save these workers from the impending cyclone, find a man
who wants to stay buried and ... put a bad boy firmly in his place. The
Girl in the Hard Hat is a deliciously romantic and funny love story, and
set to be the perfect summer read! The bestselling The Girl in
Steel-Capped Boots was Loretta Hill's commercial women's fiction debut.
Loretta drew upon her own outback engineering experiences to write Lena
Todd's journey of self-discovery into a world full of larrikins, red
dust and steel-capped boots. Its sequel, The Girl in the Hard Hat, will
publish in January 2013. Loretta always wanted to be a writer. As a kid
she filled pages of exercise books with stories to amuse her friends.
Her father, who never wasted his time on fiction, didn't see much worth
in this pass time and pushed her to pursue a 'sensible' career.
Fortunately, she had inherited some of his talent for numbers and
decided to give it a go. She graduated from the University of Western
Australia as structural engineer and took her first job with a major
West Australian engineering company. A few years later she met a lawyer
at a Black Friday party hosted by a friend. She was dressed as the devil
and he just came as himself. They are now happily married and living in
Perth with their two young sons and infant daughter. Despite her career
in engineering, her interest in law and her journey into motherhood,
Loretta continued to write. Not because she had a lot of time but
because it was and always had been an addiction she couldn't ignore.
