Land of Dreams Romance Extract My First Published Novel

One

'Come on, Andy,' Rosalie pleaded again. 'Tell me what he's really like.'

They had just arrived in Resolute in the high Canadian Arctic and were to
spend the next month working with Professor Lucien Tesseron on a research
project in one of the loneliest places on earth. She felt entitled to know what
to expect.

She had only changed her course at university six months earlier, despite her
family's opposition, and this was her first field trip. Already teetering between
high excitement and a stomach-churning nervousness, Andy's evasiveness
wasn't helping. 'Surely the world-renowned Professor Tesseron hasn't got
some dark and shaming secret that you're trying to protect?'

She kicked at the snow-covered ground and huddled further into her hooded
parka as the icy March wind cut across the airfield, making her shiver. The
pilot of their plane had said it was quite warm today - only twenty-five degrees
below zero. Andy still hadn't answered and now she gave him an encouraging
nudge.

He sighed. 'I don't know what else to tell you. Anyway, you'll meet him
yourself in a few minutes, so why not wait?'

Exasperated, she pulled a face. 'I only want to know a little about his
personality. I'm not asking for a blow-by-blow account of all his bad habits.'
She paused, then added with a disarming grin, 'Though it might be a help to
know some of them.'

Against family opposition, Rosalie Meredith joins a research

expedition to the lonely Canadian Arctic, but her thrill at finding

she is to work with the renowned marine biologist, Professor

Lucien Tesseron, is reduced when, to her bewilderment, he

makes clear that he considers her an unwanted passener.