Have you ever met someone just
fleetingly, yet you can’t get them out of your head?
That happened to me with a minor character named Cristos in my last
novel for Harlequin Romance, ConvenientlyWed to the Greek (May 2017). Cristos
was the cousin of that book’s hero. I didn’t know a lot about him other than he
was extremely good looking. But I couldn’t stop thinking about Cristos. Why was
someone so handsome on his own? Why did I sense secrets and sadness behind his
happy-go-lucky mask?
I had find out more about Cristos Theofanis—so he had to have his own story!
I discovered Cristos was estranged from the wife he’d adored, Hayley Clements. They’d
married young but trauma and tragedy took the gloss off their marital bliss and
they’d spiralled apart. When Hayley unexpectedly reappears, she and Cristos get
a last chance to save their marriage.
Stranded with Her Greek
Tycoon is set in the beautiful Ionian Islands in Greece. What a perfect place
for a couple to reignite the spark of their passion and fall in love all over
again—just in time for Valentine’s Day!
I’ve been fortunate enough to visit those beautiful islands and hope to
return. Our visit was in September when the weather was hot but not too hot and
the water glorious for swimming. People there told me, however, that they could
have a cold winter on the islands. I discovered that sometimes it actually
snowed.
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What’s more romantic? Summer where clothes are minimal or winter where
you can snuggle to keep warm? I decided to set Cristos’s story in winter—with
snow!
Where I live in Australia, we get snow. Not in Sydney but certainly in
the mountains. In fact I learned to ski on the Australian snowfields. We’re
having a very hot summer DownUnder. But I know right now friends in the
northern hemisphere might be snowed in. Is it actually as romantic as
we authors suggest in romance novels like Strandedwith Her Greek Tycoon?
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Kandy Shepherd is a multi-published,
award-winning author of contemporary romance and women’s fiction. She lives on
a small farm in the Blue
Mountains near Sydney, Australia, with her family and a menagerie of
four-legged friends.
Visit Kandy at her website
