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H M Allen
GAUCHO
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When Juliette Jones, a jaded, middle-aged, middle-manager, decides to make some changes in her life, she comes to the conclusion it requires her to fly to the other side of the planet.
From the wide-open spaces of Australia, where “the wine is fabulous, but the men are not”, she finds herself running a marathon and then embedded in the heart of Upper East Side Manhattan, with Carlos Morales, an urbane but very complicated Argentinean. The Opera, a seduction to the Tango and tragedy at home, soon leads her deeper into his world of deception and dark politics.
We retrace his journey with its roots in the “Dirty War” of Argentina, alongside a real-time sailing passage from Puerto Rico to New York, undertaken by Jules, Carlos and English sailor, Jack Watts.
Out of her comfort zone on a yacht in the Atlantic Ocean, she faces a test of character and strength which helps her decide whether she should return to Australia, the “Lucky Country”, or continue into an unknown uncertain future.
Copyright 2013
Lancaster's Race
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Jack Lancaster, high flying, British, workaholic, has a million frequent flyer points racked up in all the glamorous capitals of the world. He keeps all the plates spinning in an around the world yacht race, but his charmed life, is now fraying at the seams.
On the other side of the world, free-spirited, Australian, Suzannah Frazer, spends her days running a fashion boutique, and her nights surfing the internet, dreaming of escaping her humdrum existence. The lives of these two unlikely sidekicks collide, when they start a steamy, online relationship.
The Race has been plagued by “accidents” and when news comes through from Panama that one of the skippers, an ex-beauty queen, has disappeared, they are threatened with financial ruin. Jack’s father in law and boss, sailing legend, Sir Richard Watson, sets him the task of finding the saboteurs.
Complications arise when those online fantasies make their way to the high seas and sex lies and videotapes of long forgotten misdemeanors are revealed. With the help of a pushy television journalist and a US President’s nephew, Jack and Suzi attempt to salvage the company and their reputations in this quirky, unconventional, romantic escapade.