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About the Author

TRISH MOREY wrote her first book at age eleven for a children’s book-week competition Entitled Island Dreairl and her life on a small island at the mouth of South Australia’s Murray River Island Dreamer also proved to be her first rejection—her entry was disqualified unread Shattered and broken, she turned to a life where she could combine her love of fiction with her need for creativity—Trish becah, as she e three juhts a run for its money

Meanwhile she fell in love and uy who cut computer code, and Trish penned her second book—the totally riveting, A Guide to Depart for the NZ Treasury

Back hohter, Trish spied an article saying that Harlequin Books was actively seeking new authors It was one of those “eureka!”to be one of those authors!

Eleven years after reading that fateful article—actually June 18, 2003, at 6:32 pical phone call came and Trish finally realised her dream

According to Trish, writing and selling a book is aout of an airplane and motherhood All three take couts, but the effort is so very, very hile

Trish now lives with her husband and four young daughters in a special part of South Australia, surrounded by orchards and bushland and visited by the occasional koala and kangaroo

You can visit Trish on her website at trishmoreycom or drop her a line at

CHAPTER ONE

‘YOU don’t knowyour baby’

Was it possible for your blood to stop flowing before you were dead? Dominic Pirelli believed it, the way his veins suddenly claeal in a heart that had itself long ago turned to stone And even if he’d wanted to slam the phone down in denial, he was incapable of y concentrated and distilled down, focused on just one tiny word

No!

And then the need to breathe kicked in and he dragged in air, and slowly his pulse resu his disbelief It was impossible! It didn’tIt didn’thim now It had to be impossible