Elsa Winckler
I have been reading love stories for as long as I can remember and
when I ‘met’ the classic authors like Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell,
Henry James The Brontë sisters, etc. during my studies, I was hooked for life.
I married my college boyfriend and soul mate and after 38 years, 3
beautiful children and three grandchildren, he still makes me weak in
the knees. We are fortunate to live in the picturesque little seaside
village of Betty’s Bay, South Africa with the ocean a block away and a
beautiful mountain right behind us.
And although life so far has not always been an easy ride, it has always been an exiting and interesting one!
I like the heroines in my stories to be beautiful, feisty,
independent and headstrong. And the heroes must be strong but possess a
generous amount of sensitivity. They are of course, also gorgeous! My
stories typically incorporate the family background of the characters to
better understand where they come from and who they are when we meet
them in the story.
I was fortunate to win the best romance award for an Afrikaans story in 2010 and again in 2014.
Dana Roux doesn’t need sexy hotel tycoon David Cavallo to add to her
troubles. They have absolutely nothing in common—she’s a simple
schoolteacher in a small coastal town, and he has more money than he
knows what to do with. Besides, as a former journalist, he’d remember
the news stories about her dad’s alleged involvement
in a dirty, Ponzi-like scheme, and his subsequent suicide. The last
thing she wants is for the dark shadow of that scandal—and tragedy—to
fall upon her once again. Especially since she knows her dad was
innocent.
For David, flirting with a beautiful woman comes as naturally as breathing.
So when he winds up kissing his sister-in-law’s best friend, he
realizes Dana isn’t just another pretty pair of lips. But things between
them get complicated quickly when he discovers who her father was, and
that it was David’s own news story that blew the case wide open and sent
her father to jail—and to his death. David’s not sure what to believe,
but he knows he can’t let Dana blame him forever. Especially since she
insists her father was an innocent man. But when Dana’s life is
threatened, he realizes that he might not have uncovered the whole
story. And that now, older and wiser, he just might be the only one who
can uncover the truth.
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