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Samantha Bennett dreams of marriage. But, before she can fall in love with her dream guy, she needs to fall in love with herself. Easy, right?

Sam’s life is perfect until she finds out her boss wants to shag her and her fiancé is shagging someone else. Willing to do anything to avoid confrontation, she escapes to Australia packing her newly broken heart right next to her beloved flares and platform shoes.

It’s only after running into a hunky Italian Stallion that she discovers even 3,000 miles isn’t far enough to escape a troubled love life. And with this man’s nasty habit of stalking, she’s going to be hard pushed to escape him, too.

Add in a new career as the go-to designer for the pampered pups of Melbourne, and a nasty dog-napping case, and Sam has her hands full.

Sick of looking over her shoulder and needing to concentrate on her fledgling business, she’s close to swearing off men altogether when she meets Chris. This Australian is different to any man she’s ever met, he might even be her dream guy.

He might also be too good to be true.

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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.

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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.

It's also a gateway read, in that if you can cope with this, you'll be okay with the others in this series.

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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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02 Brush With Fame

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