by Annie West, author of Forgotten Mistress, Secret Love-Child (Harlequin Presents Extra, April 2010)
What memories stay with you longest? Happy times or traumatic? Major events or tiny snippets of everyday life, made special for some reason? How much do we recall because an event happened that way or because we’ve been told it did?
When I [...]

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by Kate Hewitt, author of The Sheikh’s Love-Child
When I was asked to write one of the books in the new International Billionaires series, I was delighted. Unlike some of my illustrious counterparts, I don’t know the first thing about rugby–the sport featuring [...]

by Abby Green, author of The Spaniard’s Marriage Bargain (Harlequin Presents Extra, June 2009)
I’m very excited to have The Spaniard’s Marriage Bargain out on the shelves in the US this month. I can’t remember exactly where the idea sprang from originally, but I know that I was thinking something along the lines of: what would [...]

by Catherine Spencer, author of The Greek Millionaire’s Secret Child (Harlequin Presents, May 2009)
My kind of hero? The flawed, emotionally wounded kind. Who better able to snag a heroine’s tender heart and never let it go than a man whose career involves his confronting grave personal danger on a near-daily basis, but who is so [...]

by Malle, Presents fan and Digital Team
The topic of secret babies had authors and readers offering fascinating and diverse opinions and theories about why the secret baby theme is so prevalent in romance novels. If there are any aspiring authors out there this commentary is like a masters class in your favourite genre! I’ve gone [...]

by Tessa Shapcott, Executive Editor, Harlequin Presents
Secret Babies. On the outside, this looks like a nonsensical phrase! For most of the time that they spend in the womb, babies are quite visible as bumps. And once a baby is born, you try keeping him or her quiet!
But, in a Harlequin Presents novel, the [...]