About the Author: JoAnn Smith Ainsworth
When author JoAnn Smith Ainsworth carried wood as a pre-teen so her Great Aunt Martha could stoke up the iron stove to prepare dinner, she wasn’t thinking, “I could use this in a novel someday.†Yet, the skills she learned from her horse-and-buggy ancestors translate into backdrops for her historical romantic suspense and supernatural thriller novels.
Believing it’s never too late to create your dream, she resurrected a desire to write when in retirement. Her debut medieval romantic suspense novels, MATILDA’S SONG and OUT OF THE DARK, received 4 stars from RT Book Reviews. Her two historical western romance novels released from Whiskey Creek Press (POLITE ENEMIES and THE FARMER AND THE WOOD NYMPH).
Her supernatural thriller, EXPECT TROUBLE, Book 1 of the Operation Delphi series, has the U.S. govt. recruiting psychics to find Nazi spies during WWII. It won a semifinalist award from the East Texas Writers Guild June 2015. EXPECT DECEPTION, Book 2 of the series, will release June 21, 2016, from SheWrites Press.
Among JoAnn’s achievements are Chief Clerk of a U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, database administrator for an international law firm and a 3 1/2-mo. trip around the world.
She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a double major in English and Social Science. She has her Masters in Teaching from Fairleigh Dickinson University with an E.S.L. minor and her M.B.A. studies from Pepperdine University. She’s most proud of becoming an author as a senior citizen.
Visit this award winning author on her Facebook JoAnn Smith Ainsworth Fan Page and on Twitter @JoAnnAinsworth or @JoAnn Paranormal.
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JoAnn Smith Ainsworth
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Paperback, Published in Jul 2009 by Samhain Publishing
ISBN10: 1605043230 | ISBN13: 9781605043234
Page count: 232
Duty requires sacrifice.but the heart will not be denied. At the time, pretending marriage to her middle-aged widower cousin seemed like the best way to escape a politically motivated betrothal to a brutal knight. Now, her journey toward a new life has landed her in hot water-she's been waylaid by a local Norman baron who's mistaken her for a real bride. And he demands First Night rights. Hot water turns to steam in a scalding night of passion.passion she has never known. And now must live without. Lord Geoffrey is entranced at first sight of the Anglo-Saxon beauty, and finds that one night in her arms is not nearly enough. But all he can offer the low-born Matilda is a life in the shadows-as his mistress. Her head warring with her heart, Matilda resigns herself to her duty in a masquerade of a marriage. It's a choice that could cost her life. For the knight who first sought her hand is back with murder on his mind. Now it's Geoff who's faced with the ultimate choice: which is more precious.his estates or the love of the one woman who can heal his soul? Warning, this title contains the following: a Norman baron who teaches an Anglo-Saxon beauty the medieval mambo in the bedroom. Men fight to the death for this lady's honor.
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