Strategically Wed

Pamela Dalton

Jul 2012 · HarperCollins Australia

About this ebook

Marry a man she detested? Only for a very good reason...and a sting operation was the only way Maggie Bennington would consider joining Detective Griff Murdock, her late father's former partner, in holy matrimony. But after the fake wedding to catch the thieves who were robbing wedding parties, real bullets started flying! The reluctant bride found herself legally married to the now-wounded groom, sharing a remote cabin in the woods, trying to figure out who wanted them dead and who the real target was. But the weeks of forced seclusion did nothing to alleviate the growing sexual tension between them as they found the vows to love, honour and cherish easy to obey in bed!

About the author

Pamela has a four-year degree in accounting from Augusta College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She began writing when she took a community education class in Red Wing, Minnesota. After completing a correspondence course through the Institute of Children’s Literature, she realised she must pursue her true love — writing romance — and signed up for an extension class through the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

For three classes, she drove to the satellite centre in Ellsworth, Wisconsin to sit by herself and participate in the course. Then she and her family moved to Madison where she was able to finish the course with other romance writers. That’s where she learned about Romance Writers of America (RWA) and Wisconsin Romance Writers (WisRWA). Within months, she became a member of a critique group and an active member of WisRWA and RWA.

Determined to be published, she took advantage of conferences, workshops, University of Wisconsin writing classes, and contests. Pamela climbed the ranks of RWA’s prestigious Golden Hearts contest for four years. In 1992, she became a finalist in the traditional category. Her finalist book, The Prodigal Husband, sold to Silhouette Romance 10 days after the Chicago RWA National Conference, and was published in August, 1993. Second Chance At Marriage was published in August, 1995, and And Baby Makes Six in July, 1997.

Pamela has been a member of Romance Writers of America and Wisconsin Romance Writers for 14 years. She served as the WisRWA chapter president for three years and as national bylaws chairperson and the long-range planning chairperson on the Romance Writers of America board of directors.

Pamela considers her greatest achievement to be her 26 years of a very happy marriage to her husband Mark. They have two incredible children — Betsy, a recent college graduate of Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, and Peter, a freshman at Marquette University in Milwaukee.