Joan Kilby | SuperRomance Author

JANUARY 2008

Books by Joan Kilby

HOW TO TRAP A PARENT

Jane Linden returns to Red Hill, the small town she fled, pregnant and alone, twelve years earlier.There she meets up with her ex-boyfriend Cole Roberts. The old attraction smolders but both have good reasons not to fan the embers.

Their daughters, Mary Kate and Stephanie, decide their parents are throwing away the great love of their lives and plot to reunite Jane and Cole. The girls' efforts backfire, tearing the fledgling family apart.

Is Jane and Cole's love great enough to overcome their daughters' meddling?

A romantic comedy with vineyards, horses and movie stars.

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SIZZLE, SEDUCE & SIMMER Mira November 2007

A collection of stories and recipes from 26 top Australian Authors, including:
Joan Kilby, Trish Morey, Lilian Darcy, Amy Andrews, Fiona Lowe, Carol Marinelli, Helen Bianchin, Robyn Donald Miranda Lee, Barbara Hannay, Meredith Webber and many more. Collected by award-winning author Marion Lennox.

NANNY MAKES THREE August 2007 Harlequin Superromance

She'd been looking for "Something Big" to change her life...
But playing nanny to Gregory Finch's daughter wasn't exactly the Something Big Melissa had anticipated. And she would've turned down his job offer if it hadn't been for the family of fugitives she found hiding out in an abandoned cottage on Gregory's farm. They needed to stay hidden, and she was the only one who could help. Playing nanny is the perfect cover for Melissa until she can be sure these three lost souls are safe.
Except Gregory can never find out what she's doing. And she can never let herself love a man she has to lie to. Besides, she can't find Something Big if she's busy taking care of Gregory and his sweet little girl... Can she? Read an excerpt

WHEN LOVE IS TRUE June 2007 Everlasting Love ISBN # 0-373-65412-X

Falling in love was easy for Chloe. She met Evan, a handsome Australian doctor, and felt sure he was the man for her. But Chloe's whirlwind romance ended abruptly when Evan left to work overseas. For comfort Chloe turned to her new friend, Daniel Bennett. When she discovered she was pregnant, Daniel married her, despite Chloe's feelings for Evan.

More than twenty years later--twenty good years--Chloe finds herself once again torn between the two men. Daniel, with whom she's raised a daughter and shared the everyday problems and triumphs of life. And Evan, the man who--she believes--has always held her heart.

Only now, after two decades of marriage and a crisis, does Chloe learn what true love is...and what it isn't.

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BEACH BABY August 2006 Superromance ISBN # 0-373-71364-9

Nina Kennerly has a full life, but she's always regretted giving her daughter up for adoption and losing Reid Robertson, her first love. Now her grown daughter has found her-with her own baby girl in tow!-and Nina must face Reid again.

Nina and Reid are determined to be there for their new family. But spending so much time together brings back a lot of complicated feelings. And complicated is not something Reid, a widower with another daughter, needs. Are Nina and Reid just dredging up the past...or are they actually making a future? EXCERPT

PARTY OF THREE January 2006 ISBN 0-373-71324-X 2007 HOLT MEDALLION FINALIST, BEST ROMANTIC COMEDY

Ally Cummings may be the only " normal " one in her family, but her love life is anything but. No sooner does she find a stable, secure, predictable guy than she wants out. She ' s through with romance until she can figure out what kind of man is right for her. Certainly not her new tenant, Ben Gillard, who is the exact opposite of everything Ally 's looking for. Suits him just fine. He ' s sworn off a social life so he can be a full-time dad to his twelve-year-old-son, Danny. And he doesn't need any more women " organizing " his life, especially not the uptight and prim Ally. It's agreed, platonic friends is as far as this will go. Except it ' s not just his skill with a sauté pan that ' s creating the sizzle between them... Single Father -- Sometimes he gets things right. Sometimes he needs a little help... Read an excerpt

A MOM FOR CHRISTMAS November 2004 ISBN 0-373-71236-7 The holidays are when family comes together... Ski patroller Aidan Wilde has never felt very festive during this time of year. Not since his wife, Charmaine, plunged to her death off Whistler Mountain on Christmas Eve six years ago. His failure to save her had the whole town gossiping but he'd been able to hide the horrifying circumstances of that day from his daughter, Emily. Until Charmaine's cousin, Nicola, returns home. She starts digging up the truth, finding some unexpected answers--and working her way into Emily's heart. With Nicola's help, he might just be ready to give up the past and give his daughter the one thing she really wants for Christmas--a mom. Read an excerpt.

FAMILY MATTERS September 2204 ISBN 0-373-71224-3 Buy From darkness to light... Marc Wilde once prided himself on living up to his last name. He was a respected foreign war correspondant and former champion snowboarder, but his life took a brutal twist when a bomb blast in the Middle East landed him in a wheelchair with only a tentative chance of recover. Frustrated and back at home in Whistler, Marc finds himself turning to drink to obliterate his shattered reality. That is until Fiona Gordon-living with tragedy and responsibilities of her own-helps him understand his future is wide open, full of light...and even love.As hard as he tries, Marc finds it's impossible to remain cynical around Fiona. But as the reality of his life sinks in, Marc must decide to choose life-and overcome his greatest fear-or risk losing Fiona forever. Excerpt

CHILD OF THEIR VOWS February 2003, ISBN 0-373-71114-X Buy! He wants a son. Max Walker loves his daughters with a ferocity and depth that constantly surprises him. But in the deepest corner of his heart, in a place not even his wife knows about, he's always wanted a son. She wants a life. Kelly Walker adores her children—and she adores her husband of thirteen years. But recently she's developed interests outside the home. They each get what they want...in unexpected ways. Now they ought to be completely happy together. So how come their marriage is falling apart?

CHILD OF HER DREAMS August 2002, ISBN 0-373-71076-3 Buy!
How can she love him? He doesn't take her seriously! Hainesville, Washington, might not be glamorous, but it's the place supermodel Geena Hanson wants to be after she collapses on a Milan runway and has a near-death experience that sends her back into life with the promise of having a child. How can he love her? She's seriously offbeat! Dr. Ben Matthews is in Hainesville filling in for the local family physician. A man different from warm and intuitive Geena, his temporary receptionist. Opposites attract? Geena and Ben certainly do. The swift attraction blossoms and love looks as if it will endure. Until Ben's brother goes missing and Geena tries to comfort Ben with what happened to her "on the other side"...

CHILD OF HIS HEART December 2001, ISBN 0-373-71030-5 Buy!

He's raised one child who might not be his own. Does he have it in his heart to do it again? Fire Chief Nick Dalton has a lot on his plate. He's had to move to a small town in Washington to get his twelve-going-on-twenty-year-old daughter away from the rough crowd she was hanging out with in Los Angeles. He's also struggling with the knowledge his late wife imparted on her deathbed—their child might not be his biologically. Erin Hanson has returned to the small town she grew up in to come to grips with a failed romance, and Nick is just the kind of man to make her quickly forget her woes. But suddenly she has a more wrenching situation on her hands—she's pregnant with her ex-fiance's child. Erin knows Nick loves her. Now they both have to find out if he can love her baby, too.

THE SECOND PROMISE January 2001, ISBN 0-373-70965-X Buy!
Promises, promises… Maeve Arden had promised to love forever, but the marriage failed. Now, five years later, Maeve has finally found peace—peace she's promised herself to keep. The last thing she wants is a new man in her life. Her joy comes from her work—designing landscape gardens. Will Beaumont hires Maeve to design his garden. He, too, isn't looking to have anyone else in his life—no matter how much she attracts him. He's just agreed to a platonic marriage with another woman—and it's a promise he intends to keep. But circumstances conspire to remind Will of a second promise he's made. The most important promise of them all…

THE CATTLEMAN'S BRIDE September 2000, ISBN 0-373-70832-7
She has it all worked out. Sarah Templestowe figures she'll take two weeks off work, fly to Australia and buy out the other owner of the outback cattle station her father left her. Then she'll return to Seattle, give the station to her mother as a retirement present and pick up big-city life where she left off. But Luke Sampson is not about to let go of his dream of owning a cattle station. He's not about to let go of Sarah, either. Warm, caring and frank, she stirs him the way no other woman has in years. Luke, though, is a man of few words, and he can't seem to tell her that. Who said a cattleman wooing his bride would be a simple matter?

SPENCER'S CHILD November 1999, ISBN 0-373-70873-4 Buy!
Meg McKenzie, a marine biology student with a passion for killer whales, is shocked to discover that Spencer Valiella is her thesis supervisor. Spencer is an old flame—the love of her life, actually, and, although he doesn't know it, the father of her son. They met and fell in love one summer while Meg was an undergraduate student…but then Spencer left. To the surprise of neither Meg nor Spencer, the intense feelings they had for each other still exist, and when Spencer learns Meg had his child, they grow even stronger. But old demons plague him—that restlessness, that yearning, that need to be unattached. In spite of Spencer's great love for her and their son, Meg knows he has to leave. It takes a terrifying experience for Spencer to see that living with Meg and his son, loving and caring for them with abandon, is what will truly make him free.

TEMPORARY WIFE April 1999, ISBN 0-373-70832-7
Unfair exchange? Veronique Dutot and Burton O'Rourke—each has something the other needs. Veronique is a talented chef, while Burton happens to need a chef for a new cooking show he's about to produce. Veronique, on the other hand, needs her visa extended so she can live in Vancouver near her former mother-in-law. Burton proposes and old-fashioned solution to their very modern problems. A temporary marriage. A marriage of convenience. Veronique accepts—although there's nothing temporary or convenient about the way she's starting to feel!

A FATHER'S PLACE February 1998, ISBN 0-373-70777-0
* RITA finalist for Best First Book
* finalist National Readers Choice Award
* finalist Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice award for Best First Book.

A man with a child needs a home… Daniel had a young daughter with the flu and no place to live after flying to Vancouver from Australia. He thought he'd rented rooms from Karina, but Karina thought otherwise. After a personal crisis, Karina had found that she was happiest living on her own, creating whimsical papier-maché creatures and filling her house with music and friends. She was not hiding from her fears—or so she told herself. Karina couldn't say no to a sick child, though, and soon Daniel and Natalie had made their own place in her chaotic household…and her heart.