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Melissa James Melissa James i(A125858 works by)
Born: Established: 1962 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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Melissa James is a Sydney-based romance writer. She has been a nurse, waitress, shop assistant, perfume/chocolate demonstrator and a history student at university.

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y separately published work icon Beneath the Skin Chatswood : Mira Books , 2017 11526851 2017 single work novel romance thriller

'I’m coming for you. This time, it’s forever…’

'Flying Doctor Elly Lavender has spent years on the run from a violent stalker. Her obsessive former patient will do anything and threaten anyone in his campaign to force her to love him. When her most recent cover is blown, she runs for help to the childhood friend she could never get out of her mind — outback cop Adam Jepson.

'Isolated, hurting, all Adam wants is to forget. After the deaths of his wife and son three years before, he’s moved to the outback with his young daughter, Zoe, to put the past behind him for good. But when Elly walks into his station, she reminds him of all the childhood joy and love he’d forgotten. Soon, he’s lost in a desire he never knew could exist. And while his guilt at leaving Elly behind years ago and the vow he made to his dying wife means he can never be the man she needs, he can’t stop caring, can’t stop trying to make Elly’s life right. Though the whole town seems against them, he can’t stop wanting the forbidden.

'But when anonymous harassment escalates to murder, Elly knows her presence in Macks Lake has put Adam and Zoe’s lives at risk. Everyone’s safer if she remains alone — a fact that her stalker is very much counting on as he gets ever closer to his prey…'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2018 longlisted Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel
y separately published work icon A Mother in a Million Chatswood : Harlequin Mills and Boon , 2008 Z1615318 2008 single work novel romance
2009 finalist Romance Writers of Australia, Romantic Book of the Year Award Short Sweet Romance
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