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Broke and alone, this street smart cynic is about to discover family is about more than blood, and definitely more than money.

Brenda Munroe was mercenary even as a child. It was that or going hungry, or worse. From stealing school lunches, she’s moved onto bigger, better and even legal things. Life is finally looking up when her carefully created world comes crashing down. Stuck broke in London, it’s going to take every ounce of her street smarts to survive this time.

Strapped for cash — and with a real aversion to the old nine-to-five — Brenda opens a residential school for girls, teaching them in weeks what it’s taken her years to master. Namely, how to get by on good looks and a bucket-load of charm. And no need to screw the old guys, thank you very much.

Will her students be the only ones learning new skills, or will Brenda finally understand family’s about a whole lot more than the blood relations you’ve been lumbered with?

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Have you ever wondered what happened to those characters that appear briefly in a series, only to then be left alone to get on with their lives?

HEELS AND A TIARA

Ever wondered what Brenda was up to before she joined forces with Sam and Jennie in Friday Night Fever? She was busy working as a bikini-clad Gold Coast Meter Maid. It’s only a stepping stone, but a big one.

OUT OF BOUNDS

We revisit Janey and Maria, those good Italian girls who helped Sam deal to ‘Salami Boy’ in Friday Night Fever. And with major consequences if their mama finds out the cops are after them.

MAID IN CHELSEA

Get to know Vivienne and find out why an intelligent woman is stuck working as a general dogsbody and nanny to a spoiled purple poodle. She’d have to be on the run from something truly terrible, wouldn’t she?

GOLD DIGGER

Join Stef as she puts all that training from Eadie to good use. Lucky for this strapping Cockney girl, she strikes it rich in more ways than one. And of course she takes care of her old mentor in the process.

Note this Author's Vintage Edition is exclusive to Curios.

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Sixteen hundred kilos of German engineering, enough alcohol to preserve a dead wallaby, and a crazy woman who's in possession of all three? How's Brenda going to escape this time?

It's 1977 and the height of the sexual revolution when we join Brenda in Surfers Paradise, Australia. Enter a world of gold bikinis, lots of sunshine, and no regrets. It's also where a man can be viewed as attractive because of the size of his wallet. At least in Brenda's eyes.

Okay, so Hilton isn't the only thing stopping her from being hungry and homeless. But working as a famous Surfers Paradise Meter Maid to make ends meet hadn't been high on her list of life goals, either.

And while she'll happily strut around town in a gold lamé bikini, tiara, and sash, doing so while wearing gold platform shoes has her feet crying out for relief. If it wasn't for the excellent opportunities it provided for spotting potential 'meal tickets', she'd have given it up long ago.

'Heels and a Tiara' is a prequel novella to Andrene Low's That Seventies Series, and is Brenda's unfiltered story. It unapologetically delves into the gritty underbelly of the Gold Coast, taking you on a journey you won't soon forget.

Note this Author's Vintage Edition is exclusive to Curios.

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She's lost her soul mate. She doesn't believe you get a second. Will the least likely candidate of all be able to change her mind.

Jennie Farrell always believed there was a happily ever after out there for everyone. Shame she’s missed out on her own. Rocking up in London with close friend Samantha, Jennie falls back on her long-ignored artistic skills to make ends meet. Her future is even looking bright when she runs into Rupert Smythe-Brown, an aristocratic prat used to getting his own way, no matter who gets hurt in the process.

Painted into a corner, Jennie turns feral and Rupert doesn’t know what’s hit him. Well he does, but for once he’s not enjoying it. Thank goodness she’s got Mark, a strapping six foot four Aussie bloke watching her back and keeping her out of trouble — at least when he’s not trying to get her into it.

Brush With Fame is a chuckle along, feel good book for any woman who’s ever wanted to fight back but hasn’t felt strong enough.

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