Jill MacLean
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Description
Jill MacLean was born on 1941 in England, UK. In 1950, her family moved to Nova Scotia, Canada. After receiving her Bachelor of Science with honours from Dalhousie University, she married. She worked at the Fisheries Research Board until her daughter was born. Following the birth of her son, she was employed by the pathology laboratory of Sydney City Hospital and the biology department of Mount Allison University. More recently, she completed a Masters in Theological Studies at the Atlantic School of Theology; her thesis juxtaposed Hebrew concepts of chaos in the book of Job with modern chaos theory. When her husband joined the Armed Forces as a chaplain, she had to stop working. They moved three times in the first 18 months, the last move was to Prince Edward Island. By then her children were in school; she couldn't get a job; and at the local bridge club, she kept forgetting not to trump her partner's ace. However, she had always loved to read, fascinated by the lure of being drawn into the other world of the story. So one day she bought a dozen Harlequin novels, read and analyzed them, then sat down and wrote one. Her first book, To Trust My Love, typed with four fingers, was published in 1974 as Sandra Field (she believes she's curiously the first Canadian to write for Harlequin). During the four years she lived in Prince Edward Island, she researched an 18th century French settlement located near present-day Brudenell, resulting in a historical book, Jean Pierre Roma, published in 1977 under her real name. She also started to write in collaboration with other Martimer writer under the pseudonym Jan MacLean. She also used to singed her novels the pseudonym of Jocelyn Haley. Her pseudonyms was an attempt to prevent the congregation from finding out what the chaplain's wife was up to in her spare time. Before she turned 40, her life was changed, she had lost three of the most important women in her life: her mother and sister to illness, and her seventeen-year-old daughter to a car accident, and she separated from her husband in 1976. One of the lasting legacies of the grief caused by these losses has been the idea that it is impossible and undesirable to live every waking moment in the knowledge that loss can strike at any time. She's been very fortunate for years to be able to combine a love of travel (particularly to the north - she doesn't do heat well) with her writing, by describing settings that most people will probably never visit. And there's always the challenge of making the heroine's long underwear sound romantic. Her novels has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Swedish, Yugoslavian, Japanese... and sold in more than 90 countries. Her first collection of poetry, The Brevity of Red, was published in 2003. When her nine-years-old grandson, Stuart, asked him a book for him, she wrote her first Children's book and decided continued writing this type of books. Jill now lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, and she's lived most of her life in the Maritimes of Canada, within reach of the sea. Kayaking and canoeing, hiking and gardening, listening to music and reading are all sources of great pleasure. But best of all are good friends, some going back to high-school days, and her family. In Newfoundland, she has a beautiful daughter-in-law and the two most delightful, handsome, and intelligent grandchildren in the world (of course!).
Books
Taken by Storm
Burke Longton has traveled to Scotland to find his brother, but instead finds himself in a dungeon, accused of a crime he did not commit. Before he can devise a plan to escape, a motley crew bursts into the cell, and he is rescued by a fiery hellion who is as beautiful as she is fierce . . .They call her Storm—an avenging angel to the wrongly imprisoned, an outlaw wanted by the Scottish government. Everything and everyone she'd ever loved has been taken from her, and now she's determined to never let that happen again. She does not have time for tenderness or love . . . until she meets Burke. Rugged and courageous, his kisses promise nights of fevered passion, while his eyes challenge her to dream of a future together. Dare she let this man storm past her defenses and convince her to trust her heart again?
Home truths
Travelling light
A collection of riveting stories full of ambition, heartache, and wisdom that have Peter Behrens an essential voice of our times.
Remarried in Haste
Back to the altar…! For the first time in his life, Brant Curtis had acted on impulse. He'd arranged to meet Rowan, his ex-wife…one last time! Only, now that she was in front of him, he found he needed to kiss her so badly that he could taste her lips. But, as Rowan pointed out, it took more than physical attraction to make a marriage work. Marriage? Brant hadn't bargained on another trip to the altar, but he wanted Rowan back in his life—whatever it took!
An Attraction of Opposites
Could she ever heal the pain inside him? Joanna knew it, knew it as well as the verdant fields and woods of her beloved brother's farm, greening with the coming of spring: she loved the handsome newcomer, Stephen Moore. But there was something-a momentary flash of agony in his eyes when he looked at a child, the way he stiffened and tore himself from her when she said, "I love you"--something terrible hidden in his past that had turned Stephen against love forever. Could Joanna ever free him from his self-imposed prison?
Goodbye forever
They were both running away Roslin Hebb was trying to escape from a life that had suddenly turned sour. Tyson McCully had a past that made him scared to trust in the future. A chance meeting brought them together and their paths seemed fated to cross. Was the spark between them just a passing attraction, and she too innocent to recognize it? Or was it something more, which he for his own reasons could not pursue? Roslin only knew that in the twelve hours they'd spent together, he had changed her life. (less)
The Nine Lives of Travis Keating
Only some strange characters and a dangerous class bully seem to take any interest in Travis when he moves to a small town in Newfoundland after his mother's death. But the discovery of a colony of feral cats gives Travis a chance to put aside his own grief and anger to care for them, a decision that results in more satisfaction and more danger, than he could have ever imagined.
Out of Wedlock
Ashley had to hide her true feelings. After all, David had failed her miserably, and her own parents had turned against her when she had decided to continue her pregnancy alone. She had made a new life for herself and her baby in rural Nova Scotia and became accustomed to the disapproval she encountered. So she was completely taken aback by Michael Gault's reactions. . . Michael condemned Ashley, not for the decisions she had been left alone to make, but for running away from love now that someone was so obviously on her side.
Wildfire
First came People’s Republic, then Indian CountryNow, Kelly Turnbull returns, locked and loaded, in Wildfire.Blue America teeters on the edge of chaos and collapse, but that’s not ex-operator Kelly Turnbull’s problem anymore – until he is called out of retirement for a crucial job in Siberia that turns out to be a deadly trap. Now Turnbull must go deep undercover inside the crumbling People’s Republic’s secret police force to stop a jihadi threat that could kill millions in both red and blue America. Working alongside his sworn enemy, he has to put his trust where he always has – in his instincts and his .45 automatic as his bloody campaign of revenge takes him from Mexico City to Germany to the bowels of the urban jungle of the abandoned Pentagon where, MAC-10 in hand, Kelly Turnbull faces his deadliest enemy.
The Mistress Deal
Media tycoon Reece Callahan would publish scandalous information about Lauren Courtney's stepfather unless she agreed to pose as Reece's mistress for a week . It was a price Lauren was willing to pay to protect her beloved stepfather's name. And it wasn't exactly hard jet-setting around the world to luxurious locations, going to glittering social occasions. Even spending twenty-four hours a day with the cool and ruthless Reece was tolerablehe was gorgeous, after all! In fact, the more time she spent with him, the more she couldn't help wanting to be his mistress/lover for real!