Windfall (2 Novels in 1)
Dear Reader -Writing has always been a very personal thing for me and like many of my stories, Without Precedent (the first novel in Windfall), which was written as a Harlequin Temptation romance in 1985, mirrors my own life.Like my heroine, Jessica O'Neal,  I was a divorced, working single mom.    Also, in those days when women still foolishly believed in the myth of Superwoman,  I was struggling to bring home the bacon, fry it up in the pan, and still muster up enough energy to play family cheerleader at my daughter's dance recital. (Okay, in my case it was my son and YBA basketball games, but you get the idea.)    As for a sex life. . . Did I mention I was a single working mom?By the time a man very much like Quinn Masterson (my ex-husband, actually, but that's another story) came storming into my life, I'd given up believing in happily-ever-afters, and while Cosmo was touting love as a dynamite complexion brightener, I'd come to the conclusion that it was very bad for a woman's independence.Both my fictional hero and my real life one set about proving to their skeptical women that marriage truly could be a union of equals, two people sharing a life based on mutual respect and love.  It wasn't easy, but they eventually won us over and now Jessica and I are both living our own happy endings.While I'm writing longer, more complex novels these days, Jessica and Quinn's love story -- set in San Francisco, one of the world's most romantic cities --  remains one of my personal favorites and I'm delighted Harlequin has chosen to reissue it.Happy Reading!JoAnn Ross