TEMPTING TARGET - Miss Leonie Conyngham was as wealthy as she was beautiful and proud -- until family disaster stripped her of fortune and left her with only her pride to defend her beauty. - Rupert, the Duke of Thornbury, the most notorious and successful rake in the realm, made his designs on her clear. His companion in infamy, the shrewd and cynical Edward Longhurst, had his own plans to possess her. And most dangerous of all, Imogen Longhurst, the belle of the London season, set out to eliminate Leonie as a rival for the handsome, gallant Sir Guy de Lacy by the foulest means at her conscienceless command.
Leonie knew all too well that a moment's weakness would leave her undone -- especially her weakness for a certain lord whom it was folly to love -- and would mean ruin to win ...
Have you ever read a book and wished you could write one too? Have you ever followed someone else's characters and thought you would have them behave differently? Well, that's how I was. I read and read and read, especially historical fiction, but I secretly yearned to write a title of my own. Strangely, it took my three-year-old daughter's urgent admission to hospital with meningitis to finally get me going. She was so ill and I was so distracted, that after a while my father gave me a little portable typewriter 'to help take my mind off things'. By the time my daughter Sarah came out of hospital, well on the road to recovery, my first book was also well on the road.
I wrote and wrote and wrote, standing in the kitchen on one leg like a stork, with the typewriter on a work surface while my daughter played around my feet. My first ten books were medieval historicals set in England, and since then I have mostly written in the English Regency period - for which living in Britain is a definite advantage! I love romantic stories, and if I can weave history, traditions, myths, legends and sometimes Gothic elements into them, I'm happiest of all. These were the sorts of story I couldn't get enough of before I became a writer, and I'm glad to say my readers like them too.
Sandra Heath isn't my only pen name, for you'll also find me as Sandra Wilson, Jeannie Machin and Sarah Stanley. Some of these titles you'll recognize from before, but some you won't. Most of my medievals were written as Sandra Wilson, and as Sarah Stanley I've produced two new sensuous Regencies, STAR-CROSSED SUMMER and MIDWINTER MARRIAGE, which follow the same characters and should be read in the order of the titles. I hope to follow them with two more in the same series, but at the moment I have so much else to write that it may be a little while.
Sooo, over sixty-five books after my first ever title, I'm still wearing out keyboards, and loving every minute of it.
