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inspiration. Namaste, Becky! Without you, I would curl over my keyboard like a cooked
shrimp.
My agent, Nalini Akolekar of Spencerhill Associates, suggested I shine my heart forward
in another way and deserves the credit for Into The Fire. Why don t you write a sexy
contemporary for Entangled? she asked, handing me a large glass of wine. Nalini, you re
a genius! Jack and Lila were so much fun to write, and working with Entangled Publishing
was pure pleasure.
My heartfelt thanks to Liz Pelletier for saying yes and giving me such an amazing
creative team. The only thing more fun than writing the book was revising it based on
dazzling editorial suggestions. My passionate and perspicacious editors, Alethea Spiridon
Hopson and Lewis Pollak, rocked my written world.
My eternal appreciation to the Western New York Romance Writers for making this
journey with me, particularly Jessica Topper, Alison Stone, and Natasha Moore. You guys
are the best! A huge thank you to my wingwoman, Erin Kelly-Park, for celebrating our
long friendship with a Blackberry Smash on Venice Beach last summer, and to Melissa
Cook, yoga-buddy and partner-in-daily-chaos, for drinking them with me until I got the
recipe right!
But life isn t only about work& or so I m told. The guy who truly keeps me balanced is
my husband. I m darn certain my heart wouldn t be shining, forward or otherwise, without
him or you. Thank you for reading Into The Fire.
May your heart shine, too!
About the Author
Amanda Usen knows two things for certain: chocolate cheesecake is good for breakfast,
and a hot chef can steal your heart. Her husband stole hers the first day of class at the
Culinary Institute of America. She married him after graduation in a lovely
French Quarter restaurant in New Orleans, and they spent a few years
enjoying the food and the fun in the Big Easy. Now they live in Western New York
with their three children, one hamster, two guinea pigs, a tortoise, and a new-to-them
beagle. Amanda spends her days teaching pastry arts classes and her nights writing
romance. If she isn t baking or writing, she can usually be found chasing the kids around
the yard with her very own hot chef husband.
Want chimichurri, chocolate cake or Chicken Alighieri? Visit Amanda at
http://www.amandausen.com, where you can find recipes for many of the yummy dishes
in her books. She can also be found on Facebook
(https://www.facebook.com/amandausen)and Twitter
(https://twitter.com/#!/AmandaUsen) if you want to chat about romance, writing, or
recipes.
Want more? Turn the page for a sneak peak at another
Indulgence released this month!
Italian Affair
by Annie Seaton
Chapter One
The waiting taxi driver tooted his horn and she waved at him to stay. Five minutes, she
called out, her voice shaking. He stepped out of the car and yelled out to her across the
rows of headstones.
Look, love, I don t want to be rude, but if you want to get to the airport in time, we ll
have to go now. We re still in morning peak hour and the traffic will be heavy.
Brianna Ballantyne s whole life had turned upside down when she d received the two-
page letter from the Italian lawyer three days ago, and her plan to spend twelve months
in Australia writing her psychology book flew out the window when she read the typed
words she had waited so long to hear.
The letter had led her to her mother s graveside in a small cemetery in Sydney. The
grave was unkempt and the long grass brushed against her bare knees. She d run her
fingers over the cold marble and traced the words. Her throat clogged and the backs of
her eyes pricked with unshed tears.
Rosa Caranto. b. September 15 1949, Lipari Island d. March 11 2009, Sydney. A
loving daughter.
Her birth mother had died before her sixtieth birthday. Brianna had never met her,
despite working through an intermediary agency to locate her for more than two years.
When they d notified her that they had located her mother, all they would disclose was
that she lived in Sydney, Australia. She knew when a person was located they had to give
their consent for the applicant to be told their name and to make contact. Her mother
had declined, so she had followed the paper trail from Scotland to Australia herself,
determined not to give up.
But she had arrived too late. The letter had reached her three days after she d arrived.
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