Cooking Up Trouble
by Emma Craig

Heather Mahaffey was a beauty, true, and clever, but her father had a tendency to run off at the mouth. And that could land a girl in a whole mess of problems - especially when the man was praising her to the wealthiest rancher around, telling him that she could out-cook anyone in the New Mexico Territory. the whole situation was mortifying, especially when Heather knew she had difficulty boilng water. Worse the wealthiest man in the territory was also the best looking. Philippe St. Pierre had a face women would die for ... and a body to match. But was it worth feigning ability just to earn money for her family...and mayber for a chance to be near Philippe? And was the devilishly handsome man who offered to assist her - one Mr. D. A. Bologh - the up and up, or did her have a purpose far more sinister? Either way, with on kiss from Philippe and faster than she could say Rumpelstiltskin, Heather was in the kitchen and Cooking Up Trouble.

Emma Craig's Bio

In an effort to avoid what she knew she should be doing with her life (writing -- it sounded so hard), for several years Alice expressed her creative side by dancing and singing. She belonged to two professional international folk-dance groups, one specializing in Balkan dancing, and the other in dances from Romania and the Middle East. Dancing made for a lousy living, but it was certainly fun, and it gave her a broad view of the world. Heck, she knew where Bosnia was in 1980. She also sang in a Balkan women's choir. Since she moved to New Mexico, where there's a distinct paucity of Balkan women's choirs, she's been singing tenor in the Trinity Methodist Choir. She now has the distinct pleasure of belonging to, possibly, the worst choir in the state of New Mexico.

In September of 1996, Alice and her herd of wild dachshunds moved from Pasadena, CA, to Roswell, NM, where her mother's family settled fifty years before the aliens crashed. The move allowed her to write full time. She started writing full-length novels in October of 1992, and sold her first book, ONE BRIGHT MORNING, to HarperMonogram in January of 1994. She now writes romances as Alice Duncan, Emma Craig, and Rachel Wilson, and has written two westerns for Signet as Jon Sharpe.