Book description
the eight-year marriage of the once mutually-adoring couple, Lord and
Lady Lovett, is rejuvenated through the anonymous counsel of Lord
Lovett's former mistress. Eight years of marriage has not dimmed
Cressida, Lady Lovett's, love for her husband, but the birth of five
children has cooled her ardour. Now rumours are circulating that the
kind, dashing and seemingly ever-patient Justin, Lord Lovett, has
returned to the arms of his former mistress and Cressida believes her
choices are stark-welcome her husband back to the marital bed and risk a
sixth pregnancy she fears will kill her, or lose him forever. With the
astonishing discovery that methods exist to enable the innocent Cressida
to transform herself into the vixen of her husband's dreams without
expanding her nursery, she seeks to repay the woman responsible for her
empowerment...only to discover her unlikely benefactress was, and
perhaps still is, her husband's mistress. Beverley Oakley (aka
Beverley Eikli) wrote her first romance novel when she was seventeen.
However, drowning the heroine on the last page (p550!) was, she
discovered, not in the spirit of the genre so her romance-writing career
ground to a halt and she became a journalist. Throwing in her secure job
on a metropolitan daily four years later, she travelled to Botswana to
manage a luxury safari lodge in the Okavango Delta. There she met a
handsome Norwegian bush pilot. Beverley resumed her romance writing
career in a thatched cottage in the middle of a mopane forest with the
aforementioned handsome Norwegian bush pilot (who is still just as
handsome) and once again called Africa home. Seventeen years later,
after exploring the world in the back of Cessna 404s and CASA 212s
during low-level survey sorties over the French Guyanese jungle and
Greenland's ice cap (part of the only husband/wife team in the
business), Beverley is back in Australia living a more conventional life
with her husband and two daughters in a pretty country town an hour
north of Melbourne. She writes traditional Regency Romance as Beverley
Eikli and sensual historical romance as Beverley Oakley. Her next
release, *Lady Lovett's Little Dilemma* is due out on July 2, while an
erotic English-Civil War romance *The Cavalier* is due out as part of a
summer collection on July 16.
