Stepping out of the shadows - Robyn Donald

Once touched. Marisa Somerville has changed.

Now a confident, groomed, successful businesswoman, in some ways she's nothing like the scared wife of an abusive husband that Rafe Peveril survived a plane crash with six years ago.

Never forgotten. She has a different name, but he'd know those siren green eyes and lush lips anywhere. Yet she insists they've never met, and Rafe wants to know why. She might deny knowing him - but she can't deny how she responds to his touch.

As a child books took Robyn Donald to places far away from her village in Northland, New Zealand. Then, as well as becoming a teacher, marrying and raising two children, she discovered romances and read them voraciously. So much she decided to write one. When her first book was accepted by Harlequin she felt she'd arrived home. Robyn still lives in Northland, using the landscape as a setting for her work. Her life is enriched by friends she's made among writers and readers.