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Penelope Janu Penelope Janu i(7513076 works by) (a.k.a. Penelope Watson Janu)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Originally a lawyer and legal academic, Penelope Janu later undertook a Masters in Creative Writing (UTS). Her first novel was published in 2017.

In 2017, she was based in Sydney.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon A Country Vet Christmas Sydney : HQ Fiction , 2023 26516379 2023 anthology novel romance
2023 finalist Australian Romance Readers Awards Favourite Contemporary Romance
y separately published work icon Clouds on the Horizon Chatswood : Mira Books , 2022 23095707 2022 single work novel romance

'Will a misunderstanding and past trauma stand in the way of profound attraction? Immovable determination meets irresistible charm in this delightful rural romance from an award-winning and much-loved author - for readers of Rachael Johns, Karly Lane and Fleur McDonald.

'When Phoebe Cartwright finds Sinn Tørrissen, a naval officer and meteorologist, frozen half to death in the middle of a thunderstorm, she believes she's saved his life. Sinn, unfailingly competent and infuriatingly arrogant, disagrees. In Phoebe's small country town to track down the members of an illegal horse-racing syndicate, the last thing he needs is to become entangled with Phoebe.

'A much-loved member of her community, the prickly and independent Phoebe is used to solving other people's problems. So when she learns her younger sister could be implicated in their father's dishonest accounting for the syndicate, she insists on working with Sinn to uncover the truth.

'Sinn is both confused and entranced by the passionate Phoebe and in spite of her resistance, Phoebe finds herself drawn to him. But Phoebe is determined to protect her sister above all, and the secrets she cannot tell Sinn threaten to sweep his investigation - and their romance - way off course.With clouds building on the horizon, can Phoebe and Sinn weather the gale and find in each other a shelter from the storm?' 

Source : publisher's blurb

2022 runner up Australian Romance Readers Awards Favourite Romantic Suspense
y separately published work icon On the Same Page Sydney : XO Romance , 2018 14171312 2018 single work novel romance

'Sometimes a girl just has to do what’s in her heart …

'By day Miles Franklin, named after the famous author, is a successful lawyer. But by night she writes historical romance novels under the pen name Emma Browning. When Miles’s assistant covertly enters her boss's novel in one of Australia’s biggest literary awards—and it wins—Miles’s perfectly ordered world is torn apart.

'Lars Kristensen smells a rat. As the CEO of Iconic International, the company publishing Miles’s prize-winning novel, he’s determined to meet the author and uncover her true identity.

'But Miles is equally determined to protect her privacy—and to keep writing—even if it means mastering pole dancing, and choreographing a love scene in the back of a horse-drawn carriage … Well, she is a romance writer, after all.

'Miles has the grit to keep her secret, but Lars has the smouldering looks and arrogance of any romantic hero she has ever imagined.

'Hmm. Sometimes a girl just has to turn the page …'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2017 winner XO Romance Prize
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