We learn that the h's backstory is that when she was 15 and the daughter of the housekeeper to the Local Lord of the Manor, she fell in love with his 22 year old son, the heir apparent. Filial duty wins in the end and the h makes the long trek from London to Yorkshire via the train. Since it has been ten years and a lot of emotional damage since the h has last seen her mother, the h is of two minds about going. When the book opens, the h spies an ad in the personal columns claiming her estranged mother is ill and looking for her. She also has a very select couture line that is rather sought after. She designs and manufactures clothing for ladies. The premise of this one is that the h is 26 and a budding English version of Coco Chanel.
I just can't seem to help the gut wrenching reaction I always have when I read this book, so for that alone, I give it high marks. I vacillate a lot on this one, it never fails to keep me enthralled, but I almost always have to do some drywall repair after I re-read it. Re The Dark Side of Desire - Michelle Reid does the emo wrecki angstfest trainwreck in this one and in that respect, this book is an HP classic. So twenty years on and almost forty books on, here I am still writing and still loving it! I’d found my new love, as in reading romantic fiction and inevitably writing it too. At some point I discovered Mills & Boon Romance books and that was pretty much it for me. So, I started to write, by hand at first, scribbling short stories in notebooks which never saw the light of day. To this day I don’t know why, unless it was a natural progression from my never being without a book close by-often several-because books have always been an important part of my life for as far back as I can recall. Somewhere in between my girls growing up and the grandchildren arriving on the scene, I started writing. Eventually I met my husband, we married and produced two daughters who then grew up and between them presented us with two gorgeous grandsons and one beautiful granddaughter. So what was I doing twenty years ago before I wrote books? Well, I did the all of the usual things, like growing up and attending school, finishing at secretarial college, which I hated, then spent the next several years wandering aimlessly from job to job. I know it isn’t a great average when compared with some authors but it sounds pretty good to me!
Twenty years with almost forty books published or in the pipeline. So, hang on for a minute while I take this huge milestone in. Hi, my name is Michelle Reid and I’ve been writing for Harlequin Mills & Boon for the last twenty years, and the crazy part about it is that I only realised it had been twenty years while updating this page!
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