Their journey from grief to the angry realization that they had been manipulated is angsty enough - but MR takes it as step further as the hero tries to lash out at the heroine's employer as the first step in his revenge. And when they finally do meet again on the tiny Greek island where their son is buried, you can see the love shining through his pain and disillusionment. You know this from the first pages when the hero will not let anyone - including his father - say anything against his wife. The H/h stayed faithful to each other and to their son even while thinking the worst of each other. They have been estranged for five years because of the manipulations of his parents and her parents. Such a good angsty read! Trigger warning: this is a couple picking up the pieces after the tragic death of their toddler. So twenty years on and almost forty books on, here I am still writing and still loving it! I’d found my new love, as in reading romantic fiction and inevitably writing it too. At some point I discovered Mills & Boon Romance books and that was pretty much it for me. So, I started to write, by hand at first, scribbling short stories in notebooks which never saw the light of day. To this day I don’t know why, unless it was a natural progression from my never being without a book close by-often several-because books have always been an important part of my life for as far back as I can recall. Somewhere in between my girls growing up and the grandchildren arriving on the scene, I started writing. Eventually I met my husband, we married and produced two daughters who then grew up and between them presented us with two gorgeous grandsons and one beautiful granddaughter. So what was I doing twenty years ago before I wrote books? Well, I did the all of the usual things, like growing up and attending school, finishing at secretarial college, which I hated, then spent the next several years wandering aimlessly from job to job.

I know it isn’t a great average when compared with some authors but it sounds pretty good to me! Twenty years with almost forty books published or in the pipeline. So, hang on for a minute while I take this huge milestone in. Hi, my name is Michelle Reid and I’ve been writing for Harlequin Mills & Boon for the last twenty years, and the crazy part about it is that I only realised it had been twenty years while updating this page!

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