Bio
Chris Sue Lewando was born a rebel. She bought her first motorbike at sixteen, and proceeded to enjoy caving, martial arts, archery, shooting, abseiling, parachuting, scuba-diving, sailing, and paragliding. She has worked as an English teacher, an energy assessor, a data analyst for a multi-national company. With an MA (hons) in Creative Writing, she has published stories in mainstream and literary magazines, a 12-part fictional soap in a national newspaper, several mainstream genre romance and erotic novels. Living the dream with her pre-owned husband, they have a smallholding in Southern Ireland, grow potatoes, and play Irish music for American tourists. If you enjoyed her work, provide feedback on an Amazon review, and join her at www.chrislewando.com (thrillers) or suelewando.com (romance), where you will also discover a portfolio of free reads.Genres
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The Angry Mogul
Even Fiona has heard of Adam Greerson, the advertising mogul, who is never seen without a six-foot, blue-eyed blonde draped on his arm. When Fiona takes a temporary post as his secretary, she doubts he’ll even notice her. After all, she's short and dark-haired, with eyes the colour of Irish bogwater.
Adam is intrigued. He’s never had a secretary who didn’t look like Barbie, and he’s not used to being argued with. Within an hour Fiona is fired and hired again… what is it about her, that he can’t just let her go?
And can Fiona allow herself to believe that this amazingly successful and talented man, with a history of high-flying conquests, has truly fallen in love with her? After all, he can sell anything to anybody...
The Ghost of a Lost Love
When Stephanie was on holiday on the South Coast of England, she had a romantic liaison with the dark eyed, sexy Tass. Believing it to be more than a holiday romance, and wondering why he didn’t contact her as he promised, she eventually goes looking for him, only to discover he had died in a diving accident, not long after she left. Rory, a rugged boat builder entrenched within the small local community, helps her come to terms with the tragedy, and affection blossoms between them. But Stephanie’s persistence in discovering the truth is met by a wall of silence. Only when she knows the secret behind Tass’s death, will she be able to lay his ghost to rest. But can she trust Rory, when he is surely keeping the truth from her? This is a dark, romantic suspense novel.
Lonely at Pinehaven
When Sarah’s parents are killed in a motor accident, and she inherits her father’s business, everything changes. She realises that Robert, her long-standing fiancé, wants the business more than he wants her, and finds herself more alone than she has ever been. When she takes a break at a hotel her parents used to patronise, she meets Ashley, the owner’s son, whose marriage had dramatically failed a few years previously, leaving him mistrustful of women in general. Complications arise when Ashley’s wife dumps their six-year old child at the hotel. The traumatised six-year-old desperately needs to learn the meaning of trust, and provides a conduit through which Ashley and Sarah might heal their respective wounds – if they can individually let go of past mistakes.
My Divine Althea
Althea Caradoc is an archaeologist, passionate about the past, embarking on the excavation of a possible Roman building, before the proposed new Motorway obliterates the evidence. Jack Chadwyck is the landowner fighting for his present. He resents the proposed Motorway that is going to tear his land in two, and resents the archaeologists from disturbing his last year of peace. When Althea calls him a barbarian, it tempts him to act like one. With respect to the bewitching girl, who is surely too young to be managing the project, he is both entranced and aggravated. In order to save himself he must overcome his own prejudices, and somehow win her trust. This is a gentle romance with strong, modern characters who must battle with their own prejudices.
The Trouble with Trust
Rose Trethwick, an artist, born and bred in America, comes to England to claim a small cottage left to her by her paternal grandmother. Her intention is to sell it to fund the studio she has set up back in America. But in order to inherit, she must live in the house for three months. She falls in love with it, knowing that was what her estranged grandmother had hoped. William Montacue, the owner of the estate, turns out to be the most attractive and attentive man Rose has ever met. But as he, his brother and uncle all want the cottage for financial reasons, Rose wonders how far he’s prepared to go to make his own plans come true. Is he in love with her or the cottage? Everyone has a different story to tell, but who is lying?
