“You’re the distracting type,” he said.

Coming from any other man it would have been a compliment. Poppy was perfectly aware, however, that Dr. Keir Traherne definitely wasn’t flirting with her.

Keir made it clear he wanted no distractions while they worked to save the West African rain forest. And that was fine with Poppy – she’d been hired as the project’s photographer.

It was a job that she loved and one that would take all of her time. But that didn’t stop her from wishing she could replace cool, immaculate Astrid, the assistant Keir kept constantly by his side.

And it didn’t stop Poppy from regretting that Keir thought of her only in terms of trouble!

Release Date: 1992

A Little Bit Extra

The Trouble With Love was only my second book, but it’s still one I get letters about.  I wrote it after I’d been out in Cameroon for five months, helping to organize an expedition, so it’s full of in-jokes, and I think you can probably tell from the book how much I loved it there.  I was the expedition PA, so amused myself by making Astrid, the PA in the story, the exact opposite: “Petite and blonde, she had her hair cut short to emphasise the icy perfection of her features, and she wore a deceptively simple black dress that contrived to look cool and sophisticated, and yet practical at the same time.”  Ah, yes … that elusive cool, sophisticated, practical look that I have always yearned for, and never attained!