Lady Beneath the Veil eBook ☆ Lady Beneath eBook

Lady Beneath the Veil eBook ☆ Lady Beneath eBook Melinda HammondBorn in Bristol England UK she grew up telling stories She would make up adventures to relate to her school friends during break times and lunch _{Lady Beneath eBook Ú} hours and she was once caught scribbling a story instead of listening to the French lesson As a punishment her teacher made her translate the story into French She left school at sixteen and worked in offices as varied as stockbrokers marine engineers insurance brokers biscuit manufacturers and even a uarrying companyShe married at nineteen but continued to work until the birth of her first child It was at that time that she decided to try her hand at her first love—writing and shortly after the birth of her daughter she had her first book Fortune's Lady published under the pen name of Melinda Hammond This was uickly followed by two historical novels Summer Charade and Autumn Bride but with the birth of her twin sons the demands of family life meant that writing had to take a backseat for a few years A compulsive scribbler she never stopped writing and continued to work on research for her novels experimenting with contemporary scenarios as well as writing pantomimes for her children's school In the family moved to an isolated Pennine farmhouse in West Yorkshire not far from Brontë country where the family expanded to include a dog two gerbils and a dozen chickens The growing family needed funding and she went back to work full time The writing had to be put on holdThen in March Sarah stepped off a curb and landed in hospital with one ankle broken and one badly sprained This laid her up on a sofa for twelve weeks and gave her the time she needed to finish a novel She wrote as Melinda Hammond and Maid of Honour was published the same year Since then she has never looked back She's published than a dozen books under this pen name and has won the Reviewers' Choice Award in from Singletitlescom for Dance for a Diamond Her novel Gentlemen in uestion was a Historical Novel Society Editors' Choice Title in November In her novel The Dangerous Lord Darrington won the Love Story of the Year by the Romantic Novelists' Association She is now concentrating on writing romantic historical adventures for Mills Boon.