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A story about life, loss, love... and sexual desire.
Giuliana Cilauro returns to Sydney after a self-imposed nine-year exile, with a Doctorate from Oxford, enviable experience at a London critical-issue advisory firm, and a 3-year-old Jack Russell named Smudge.
All Giuliana wants is a fresh start, but there are scents, people, pictures and places that keep pulling her back into a past overshadowed by grief and guilt. So, when she's not speaking at press conferences, or managing the political fallout from a fossil fuel divestment strategy, or handling public relations for a billion-dollar global renewable energy project, she dances and she runs until it hurts to numb a different type of hurt.
Proudly adept at keeping herself emotionally detached, Giuliana prefers casual affairs and relationships of convenience over romance and commitment and she uses such trysts to satisfy her strong sexual needs. But the barriers she built to protect herself start to slip when she finds herself drawn to Christian Worne, the Managing Director at Worne Group, where she works in Corporate Affairs with his younger brother, Thomas.
Can Giuliana overcome Christian's unpredictable behaviour towards her and the miscommunications between them, not to mention the corporate structure, and connect with him? And can she overcome her history, with all its heartache and loss, and trust herself to conquer the insecurities and bad habits that would normally send her running in the opposite direction?
About the Author
Rebecca Campbell is an amateur cook and non-practising scientist living in the New England region of northern New South Wales with her husband, two stepsons, two cats and a dog. After studying and researching zoology, animal ecology, entomology, myrmecology and climate change for ten years, she realised academia wasn't for her and rediscovered her passion for creative writing. When she's not feeding people and sharing her love of food or favourite recipes, or blogging about homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck and hyena clitorises, or recounting some of her best late-night, whisky-fuelled arguments with people who were wrong on the Internet, Rebecca writes fiction. Rebecca's first novel, Sandalwood, touches on grief, guilt, sexual desires, the power of scent, and confronting the past. Her second novel, Disrupted, which she is currently working on, explores the societal implications of an age-hypogamous intimate relationship between a 40-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man. After recording some very ordinary backing vocals on her husband's album, she now likes to think she's a little bit garage-punk and bluesy-swamp-rock when really she's a little bit more perfume and red lipstick. She needs you to know that myrmecology is the scientific study of ants, not mermaids.
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