Watched the most amazing programme yesterday called NATURE'S MIRACLE BABIES. Yes, it's a cheesy title - but it's a remarkable short film about endangered species, which are being bred in captivity. There are Barbary Lions and beautiful leopards - cute and fluffy little things with a fierce snarl and razor sharp teeth. There's a very moving live birth of a gorilla at London Zoo.
The film highlights the care and dedication shown by people who look after animals and it made me fish out this photo of a monkey which I took back in March, when I was staying with friends in Singapore.
Any ideas what to call this monkey?
A glossy hardback novel for the best suggestion.
I'm very excited about my latest hero - a sexy English Duke named Titus Alexander and the woman who is driving him crazy.
Roxy Carmichael is a woman who has fallen on hard-times. A one-time singer with a dodgy background, she's the last person this blood-blooded billionaire wants in his life. But Roxy needs help and to his fury - Titus feels duty-bound to provide it. He takes her to Valeo Hall - his stately home on the beautiful Norfolk coast - and that's when the fireworks really start....
This is the UK cover, which came as a bit of a shock because I don't remember giving Titus so much designer stubble that it seems to have grown into a small beard! But the man featured here manages to convey a brooding and potent sexuality - and that is very Titus.
You can read an excerpt here
I loved writing this story and I love the chemistry which sizzles between the unlikely couple. It's a long time since I've had an English "toff" hero, and I hope you enjoy Titus as much as Roxy eventually does....
