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H M Allen
GAUCHO
When 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 embedded in the heart of Upper East Side, Manhattan, with 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. 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 on into an unknown uncertain future.
The truth is, I was as happy as a man could be. I was paired up with a girl that could follow like she could read my mind; the Tango was having its way with us, whirling us this way and then that and losing us and calling us back again and finding us.........
Jorge Luis Borges, Man on Pink Corner, 1933
Lancaster's Race
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.
