The author was a new mother in her thirties when she picked up and read her first romance novel in years. She spent years without touching a single romance novel, and her busy schedule gave Joanna plenty of excuses to neglect her reading habit. She obsessed over the genre and read nothing else for so many years.īut then she fell away rather suddenly and completely cut her ties with romance.

Joanna started reading romance as a teenager. Her big opportunity to finally put pen to paper came when she rediscovered romance. Her teens and twenties came and went and at no point did Joanna give into the urge to write. She got married and children eventually came into the picture. Rather, it became an itch in the back of her mind that manifested from time to time.Īs Joanna Chambers grew, she became busy. And even though she was heavily discouraged, the desire to write never went away.

She was only seven-years-old at the time and so it wasn’t so surprising that the experience dissuaded her from writing any further.īut she never forgot the excitement she felt the day she sat down to write those first few words. Joanna’s story wasn’t up to standard, or so she was told. The Brownies are like girl scouts but they are based in the UK. Joanna’s first writing endeavor came back when she attempted to produce a story for a writing badge in the Brownies. She took to reading at an early age and that drew her into writing. Joanna Chambers was born in a working class town in Scotland. What's more, when David discovers Elizabeth is facing far greater danger than even her father feared, he is determined to help her, no matter the cost to his own safety.Īs the stakes rise, it is Murdo who must choose what he is prepared to sacrifice to keep David at his side, and ask whether there is any possibility of lasting happiness for men like them.Joanna Chambers is a popular author that writes contemporary and historical romance. No sooner have the two men arrived in the capital than they encounter Murdo's ruthlessly manipulative father, who reveals a shocking secret that rocks David to his foundations. But to carry out his old mentor's wishes, David must travel to London, with Murdo. But when David's mentor, Patrick Chalmers, asks David to return to Edinburgh to visit him on his deathbed, it seems that day has come sooner than either David or Murdo would have wished.Ĭhalmers begs David to undertake one last piece of business for him: to secure the future of Chalmers's daughter Elizabeth. At Laverock, he has regained his health and confidence and has found-with Murdo-more happiness and contentment than he has never known before.ĭavid is all too aware that some day soon he will have to leave Laverock-and Murdo-and return to his legal practice in Edinburgh, just as Murdo will have to return to his life in London. David Lauriston has been recuperating at Lord Murdo Balfour's Laverock estate for the last five months.

Enlightened by Joanna Chambers