Margaret Mayo was born on 7 February 1936 in Staffordshire, England, and has remained within the country all of her life. She always loved reading, even to the extent of reading comics out loud to her twin brother when she was 8 years old. She left school at 15, and became to work. She married at 22, taking a break to have her two children, Adrian and Tina. Once they were at school she started back to work for the UK manager of a Danish company, and planned her further career by becoming a bilingual secretary. Unfortunately, she couldn't speak any languages other than her native English, so she began evening classes.
In June 1974, she got the idea for a romantic short story—to this day she doesn't know where the idea came from or why, but she thanks her lucky stars because it kick-started her career. Pretty soon, the short story turned into a novel. At this point, she was unsure what step to take next. Margaret, and her mother before her, had always read Mills & Boon romance novels, and to actually be writing one excited her beyond measure. It was never her ambition to become a writer, in fact, her only writing experience was in letters to various pen pals around the world. She has, unfortunately, lost touch with them now and often wonders whether any of them have ever discovered that her chatty letters were the forerunner to her writing career. Luckily for her, the President was a Mills & Boon author who helped to guide her. While her first novel wasn't picked up, the next two she wrote were accepted at the same time, published on 1976, when she was 40. After published 8 books, she began writing full-time, and now she has over 80 to her credit. When she looks at them lined up on her bookshelf she wonders how she has managed to write all those millions of words. She is a hopeless romantic who loves writing. She falls in love with every one of her heroes and likes to boast about how many "love affairs" she's had.
How had Lorna managed to fall in love with the man who had just jilted her sister Margo? She should hate him! Only one thing was quite certain -- she could hope to find no more happiness with Ashley Ward than had her sister. Hero: Ashley Ward ...
When she first went to work as secretary to Brad Stuart, Laura thought he was the most difficult and unreasonable man she had ever met. By the time she had come to understand him better, she had fallen hopelessly in love with him. Then yet anothe...
Devlyn Quinn made no secret of his desire to marry Lenca. He was attractive and she knew how easy it was to love him--but how could she take him seriously, when she simply couldn't trust him?...
Alex's job as courier in Iceland wasn't going very well in fact, it was a complete disaster! And it hadn't helped that the man in charge, Bjorn Einarsson, hadn't wanted her in the first place and didn't trouble to conceal his low ...
Taryn scoffed at the village theory. How could a special rainbow bring about a change in one's life? But when she saw it, she couldn't help her growing excitement. Her meeting with Luke Major immediately afterward was a distinct letdown......
Coral had fallen well and truly in love with the lordly Tristan Carey. But he never said he loved her, and he persisted in treating her like a child. Was she making too much?...
The celebrated scientist Finch Halifax didn't like publicity but it was Jaine Browne's job as a budding reporter to get an interview with him. As it happened, it was by sheer chance that she met him and found herself staying in his house-which should...
She would never trust him again Ruth had been shocked by her widowed father Patrick's hasty remarriage, but when she arrived on the Isles of Sicily to meet her new stepmother, she was even more shocked to discover she had a stepbrother -- Matt...
Her fun holiday had become a nightmare! All Amber Christy wanted while she was in Tunisia was peace and quite after the hard time she had had been through; but she was not destined to get it. Who did Hamed Ben Slouma think he was, spoiling her hol...
Damon had decided she was no good Corrie Maitland's trip to Ireland didn't go quite as planned. She'd set out to find her mother; instead she met Damon Courtney. Her first encounters with him were in the worst possible circumstances...
Janine had wanted to forget Leon Wild Though they had grown up together, Janine hoped she would never see Leon Wild again. As a child he had been uncontrollable. As a man he had caused Janine's beloved sister's death. Four years had pas...
"I WISH I'D NEVER SET EYES ON YOU!" Tamsin Swift gasped and stared at Hugo Kane, her green eyes wide with distress. "You really know how to make a girl feel uncomfortable, don't you? How do you think I feel knowing I'm only...
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Having spent most of her life in an orphanage, Leanne felt rather like Cinderella going to the ball when her unknown Fairy Godfather, Roberto Malaspina, sent for her to go and live with him in his beautiful home in Sardinia. But although she was g...
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No doubt about it, Verna was inhibited She'd always kept her relationships with men light, friendly. Whenever stronger feelings threatened, her mother's biased cautions would come back to save her. But Verna had never before met anyone ...
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Miranda had to know what was wrong! When Georgios, her husband of three months, hurried back to Greece because of family troubles, Miranda wasn't too alarmed. When he didn't come back, she decided to look for him. The problem was that G...
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When Holly learned of the deaths of the grandparents she had loved so dearly, she bitterly regretted having allowed her mother to prevent her from seeing them more over the last few years. Returning to the beautiful Scottish village where she had...
"I'm so happy that I will die. I'm sure any day now Saxon will propose marriage me. I don't know what it is, what attracts him to me. Sometimes I fear I have. Everything is so perfect, it can not last." With these prophetic wor...
Nothing ever seemed to come right for her! Terri Denning's new job as surgery nurse in the Lake District was spoiled when her boss, Dr. Kiel Braden, was convinced she had taken it on just to be near Barry, his brother and partner. No amount...
Justine Jamieson's head was spinning She'd weathered her mother's death, the shocking revelation that the man she'd called father was not her father. But losing her job on trumped-up charges or having pirated designs to the competi...
She hated Nathaniel before they even met Gisele Latham was wary of all men--because of her miserable stepfather and her own disillusioning love affair. And Nathaniel Oakley was a typical example of the arrogant male Gisele hated. Reluctantly, ...
Rhiannon was happy in her life She had become tired of repelling the cunning advances of fortune hunters after the daughter of a rich hotelier. Now she enjoyed operating the elegant little hotel in the Canary Islands. But quite unexpectedly the...
He made it clear just what he was after Maybe everyone else on Lakades, including Kara Lincroft's sister who insisted she visit, thought Aleko Tranakas the perfect antidote for a young widow's loneliness and grief. But not Kara. She did...
He was her first love--now she hated him When lawyers summoned her to St. Lucia to accept her inheritance, Alice Alexander was apprehensive. She and her mother had been disowned before Alice's birth, and Alice was bitter toward her unknown gra...
She was at war with her emotions When Conan Templeton, head of a large English corporation, had taken Lucy's father to court, he'd effectively killed him. Lucy never imagined she'd wind up being Conan's secretary, forced to endu...
She'd have to challenge the harsh jungles of Peru When her father mysteriously disappeared, searching for the lost city of the Incas, Charley was set on finding him. And, infuriatingly, she needed the help of arrogant Braden Quest, the brillia...
"You're an interfering busybody." That's what the arrogant Dervan Deville told Talia Winslow when she followed her young sister, Serine, to Lanzarote. Talia felt Dervan ought to understand that Serine was too young and immature ...
The man was unscrupulous And he'd won. Tamara's late father had left his renowned jewelry company to Kiel Kramer--not to her! And Kiel had wasted no time in seizing complete control. He'd always been a thorn in Tamara's side--but now it appeare...
He wanted his pound of flesh .. . Despite the desire generated the instant they met, Leon Alexander believed Georgina Gregory was a gold digger who'd used and discarded his nephew after accepting lavish gifts bought with company money. Dete...
A matter of time Jordan Quest was a man to whom power was everything. He expected his employees to jump at his beck and call, and Hannah understood why no secretary had ever stayed with Jordan long. She was about to continue that revolving-door tr...
"Perhaps I ought to warn you that I make a formidable enemy." Not that Elizabeth Eaton needed warning! It hadn't taken her long to realize that Warwick Hunter wasn't the sort of man who was easily crossed. He believed that Libby...
Could yesterday's dreams become today's happy ending? Businessman Drake Rivelin was still Sapphire's husband. But their marriage was long since over, killed by Drake's driving ambition and lack of consideration. Their parting had b...
"With a bit of cooperation it could work very well..." But Nicholas Grant expected Briony to do the cooperating while he walked roughshod over her life! Thornton Hall belonged to her and there was no way, Nicholas could take it away from ...
"So we meet again..." When their passion affair came to an abrupt end, Tanya Elliott and hadn't expected-or wanted-to see Alejandro Vazquez Herrera again, although the memories of their time together still haunted her. So when she bump...
"You're nothing but a scheming little gold digger, interested in lining your own pockets." How dared Rohan Courtenay accuse her so unjustly? He'd always disapproved of Charlotte's marriage to his younger brother, and now that G...
Saira was convinced that Great-Aunt Lizzie would never willingly have sold her beloved Honeysuckle Cottage. And in her will Lizzie had bequeathed the cottage to Saira. So how dared Jarrett Brent claim ownership? He must be bluffing. Or, worse, he'...
Kiss and tell.... It should have been the job of a lifetime! But when Julie Drummond found herself on a Pacific island working with Cameron Storm, it was anything but paradise. Oh, Cameron was gorgeous, all right... and didn't he know it? Juli...
"Will you take the job, Celena?" That was how it all started -- When Luciano Segurini persuaded Celena to work for him for triple her current salary. But before she knew it he had persuaded her to pose as his fiancee -- and eventually to ...
A powerful persuasion Abby Sommers is an excellent lawyer, with a particular interest in representing teenagers, so it's no surprise when she secures the case of young Greg Lane. At Greg's insistence she sets up a meeting with his father, ...
She forbade him to be her husband! Danielle had once been married to Byron Meredith. Theirs had been a whirlwind romance and they'd married young. Byron had thought them happy, until one day he'd come home to find her gone. Now, ten years ...
Ford Fielding had spent a year caring for his fiancee after an accident injured her severely, robbing her of her memory. Karina was now fit but her memory hadn't come back, and Ford's good intentions were being severely strained. If anything,...
From revenge to seduction... Adam Sterne needed a companion for his mother, and when Penny Brooklyn applied for the job he knew she was perfect. He was almost sure he'd met her somewhere before, but Penny denied it. By the end of the interv...
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A secret millionaire... It was a case of instant attraction for Australian millionaire Bryce Kellerman. Lara was so totally unlike the affected gold-diggers he had to fight off every day! Lara thought Bryce didn't have a penny to his name.. ...
Tempted by the tycoon... Peta James was finding it difficult to juggle single motherhood with the demands of her new boss, Andreas Papadakis. So when the Greek tycoon made a surprising offer, it seemed like the perfect solution to all her problems...
As irresistible millionaire - and an impossible choice... Five years ago Kristie Swift adopted her late sister's baby, and has happily brought Ben up as her own ever since. Until the day she meets Radford Smythe... Kristie is instantly stru...
She's his mistress... When Leanne inherits a vineyard it means living and working alongside Joshua Powers -- her ex-husband! But the passion between them has never died, and Leanne knows it won't be long before she's Joshua's lover...
When Italian businessman Luigi Costanzo discovers that Megan, his beautiful estranged wife, is also the mother of his child, he is incensed! How dare she keep his daughter from him? Now he will do anything in his power to reclaim his wife and child. ...
For his pleasure! When Lucio Masterton discovers that he has a daughter, the Spaniard takes immediate action. He confronts Kirstie Rivers, the girl's mother, who he is sure has deceived him! But Kirstie believes that Lucio loves only money....
Bought bride... Dione Keristari will do anything to help her sick father. But begging gorgeous Greek billionaire Theo Tsardikos for cash is more than she bargained for. Now he's demanding a marriage contract in return for the money! She has no c...
At her boss's bidding? When Lucinda Oliver first worked for Zane Alexander, she considered him an arrogant, womanizing playboy. But she was just his lowly employee, and he called the shots.... Now Lucinda has built her own successful interi...
The married mistress... Hunter Donahoe is sexier than ever, and he's out for revenge on the pretty young wife who abandoned their marriage. Keisha needs cash, and Hunter has plenty. He makes Keisha an offer: she can work for him, no strings at...
Blackmailed into the billionaire's bed... Simone Maxwell will do anything to save her family's business; it's her pride and her passion. But she certainly doesn't expect her lifeline to be Cade Dupont, the man who broke her heart y...
Pregnant with the boss's baby! Nanny Penny Keeling knows working for strong-but-silent Santo De Luca will be a challenge, but she's determined to do it for his little girl's sake. And she's equally determined not to fall for her da...
From the Greek's secretary... When fresh-faced Rhianne Pickering agrees to work for masterful Greek Zarek Diakos she knows it's a mistake -- no man has ever made her heart quicken and her body quiver like this! But with her life in tatters she needs...
Forced bride Called home unexpectedly, Elena not only finds her sister has fled her own wedding, but that she must take her place as the bride if the family business is to be saved from ruin! Willing on her wedding night! Arrogant billionaire Vidal ...
Wanted for the marriage bed! When Sienna met sexy entrepreneur Adam Bannerman, she thought she'd found true love. With stars in her eyes she whispered, 'I do!' But Adam's head was always buried in business, and their whirlwind marriage broke down be...
She's having the boss's baby! Kara Redman has been Blake Benedict's right-hand woman for almost a year, and she prides herself on keeping their relationship purely professional - until a business trip to Italy proves to be her undoing! The heat of th...
Heartbroken Rianne had built a new life for herself after her boyfriend, Javier Marquez, walked away from her without a word of explanation. Now, six years later, she bumps into him while on holiday in Spain and cannot believe it when he pretends no...
Margaret Mayo celebrates the publication of her 80th romance novel. Rachel is shocked when Liam Mallory, a man she once loved, is the new prospective investor in the bistro she co-owns with Steve Wild. Having once worked for Liam, she helped almost r...
When Abby flies to Paris for a trade fair, she is met at the airport by a man calling himself Temple Townsend, a friend of her brother. He stops her from delivering a parcel on the grounds of her own personal safety, and whisks her away. Abby is furi...
Walking along the beach, Frazer Benedict makes a startling discovery. He finds a young woman, barely alive, without identification, and rushes her to the hospital. Grace Anders is so filled with despair and sadness she can no longer face the life str...
With each turn of the tabbed page, discover the trucks and tractors, fire engines and helicopters that like to work hard all day. This bright and bouncy, noise-filled board book brings together all the vehicles that kids adore! ...