D I A M O N D S ~ D O W N U N D E R

Bronwyn Jameson

Vows & A Vengeful Groom

His lover of ten months. His wife of ten days. His ex of ten years.

Ric Perrini, chairman of Blackstone Diamonds and Sydney’s sexiest bachelor, still had one elusive prize to catch… Kimberley Blackstone. Luring her back to her estranged father’s company, back to her birthright, would be Ric’s toughest job ever. Luring her back into his arms, his most pleasurable. Ric had laid claim to part of Kim before; this time he’d accept nothing but her total surrender...

Release Dates:

USA - January 2008

Australia/NZ - February 2008

Holland - October 2008

UK - December 2008

Sweden / Italy / Spain / Germany / Japan / Greece - January 2009

Argentina - August 2009

The pink flower on the home page is © Photographer: Brent Hathaway | Agency: Dreamstime.com

The solitaire pink diamond is © Photographer: Infomages | Agency: Dreamstime.com

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Initially, Desire's Senior Editor Melissa Jeglinski contracted Tessa and Maxine in early 2006 and mentioned that we now had enough down-under authors to do a continuity. It seemed like a fabulous opportunity to work together and so we started brainstorming and submitted several ideas. Diamonds Down Under really struck a chord with the Senior Editor - very glitzy, with a larger-than-life Dynasties style family, lots of betrayal and passionate conflicts.

The idea of developing a six-book continuity with my friends and fellow Down-Under Desireables excited and thrilled – and occasionally overwhelmed – me. Over the ensuing twelve months thousands of emails blazed back and forth across the Tasman as we brainstormed and fine-tuned the underlying premise, the locations, the characters, the conflicts and storylines.

Why diamonds? Well, we loved all the facets (pun intended.) On the surface there's the glamour, the sophistication, the sparkle, the bling. A perfect match for the Desire backdrop of wealth and privilege. But beneath the dazzle - or before the dazzle - there's the rough stone and the mining in the harsh outback environment. I love that paradox!

We started with a rare pink known as the Heart of the Outback, a stone which built one man’s wealth and rent a family in two. And yes, diamonds are mined in the Australian outback. From the Argyle Diamonds website: "Argyle Diamonds is the world's largest supplier of diamonds, producing approximately 30 million carats each year from its operations in the East Kimberley region, in the remote north of Western Australia. The company's production accounts for approximately one-quarter of the world's natural diamond production." We decided to feature pink diamonds because they are Argyle's signature stone.

The world of coloured diamonds was a new one for me, I have to say and the research was fun and very distracting. We all know FAR more about diamonds - from the mining and production angle, through valuation, cutting, jewellery making, retail--than we ever needed to know. We still swap links to news articles whenever there's a new find or an auction of a rare stone or anything else to do with the industry.

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