Ooh, er! The blurb for my debut eBook, out soon from Siren-Bookstrand!

When photographer Lake Silva helps her best friend trawl online dating sites in her search for love, she is appalled by some of the pictures men upload. Totally unflattering!

So Lake takes it upon herself to do something about it with a brainstorm for a new business venture—professional online dating photos. Slick, appealing, and sizzling hot...with Lake behind the camera lens! What she doesn’t count on is meeting one male client who stirs up more than just business sense in her.

Hunter Dex is not Lake’s usual customer. He lives in a palatial abode, and he has ocean-blue eyes and a tanned, muscular body.

Despite a photography exhibition of nudes also keeping Lake busy, she can’t help having dirty fantasies about Hunter. But such a gorgeous, rich playboy like him could never be seriously interested in a feisty tomboy like her...could he?

Sneak peek of my debut eBook cover!

Out September 6, 2011, woo-hoo!

http://www.bookstrand.com/

Life-changing books!

We've all got them. Books that we'd never part with. That we flip through the pages of again and again. Or that have just helped mould our lives in some way. Here's my list. What's yours?

1. Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta. A teenage Italian-Australian girl deals with the traumas of everyday life, including her difficult relationship with her single mother, the unexpected return of her long-lost father, the disapproving nuns at her strict Catholic school, and romantic dilemmas over two very different boys.

2. The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton. This is the second book in The Faraway Tree series, in which Jo, Bessie and Fanny have their cousin, Dick, over to stay with them. They then introduce him to Silky, Moonface, Saucepan Man and all their other friends in the Magic Faraway Tree. (I was also a big childhood fan of Blyton's other series, including the Secret Seven, Famous Five, the Wishing Chair, the Adventurous Four, and more! Makes me want to thumb through a few again...)

3. Mad About the Boy by Maggie Alderson. Of all the nightmare options that passed through Antonia Heaveringham's head when her husband, Hugo, uttered the words, 'I've got something to tell you . . .', a coming-out speech never figured. Suddenly alone in their adopted home of Sydney, with no friends, Antonia soon finds that an attractive single woman is not nearly so welcome on the champagne social scene. It is only the arrival of Hugo's outrageous, lavender-haired Uncle Percy that lifts her out of her depression – and propels her into the gym to combat the effects of some serious comfort eating.

4. The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella.Samantha is a high-powered lawyer in London. She works all hours, has no home life, and cares only about getting a partnership. She thrives on the pressure and adrenalin. Until one day… she makes a mistake. A mistake so huge, it’ll wreck her career. She walks right out of the office, gets on the first train she sees, and finds herself in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, she is mistaken for the interviewee housekeeper and finds herself being offered the job. Disaster ensues...

5. Loaded by Christos Tsiolkas Ari is nineteen, unemployed, and doesn't want to be gay. He is looking for something - anything - to take him away from his aimless existence in suburban Melbourne. He doesn't believe in anyone or anything except the power of music. All he wants to do is dance, take drugs, have sex and change the world. Caught between the traditional Greek world of his parents and friends and the alluring destructive world of clubs, chemicals and anonymous sex, all Ari can do is ease his pain in the only ways he knows how.