A Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong by Cecilia Grant

What I like about that is Sorenson shows her as a three-dimensional character with determination and ambition, not just someone who takes off her clothes for money. WILD: Zookeeper who works with elephants at the San Diego Zoo. SET THE DARK ON FIRE and STRANDED WITH HER EX: Bith heroines are animal biologists. Extra points for the heroine’s affinity for animals which plays an important part in the plot.įREE FALL: Park ranger in a national park. Here are a few:ĭANGEROUS TO TOUCH: Owner of a pet-boarding business. Anyway, Jill Sorenson’s books have some incredibly competent heroines in unconventional (or, perhaps, just rarely seen in romance novels) careers. I know this request is for unconventional occupations, as opposed to competence porn, but I find that often the two go hand-in-hand (do we want to read about an incompetent heroine regardless of her job?). There are probably more, but that’s what I can remember off the top of my head. – In The Garden trilogy – The heroines own/work at a nursery and I think one is a landscape architect. – Chesapeake trilogy: The three heroes own a boat building business, one heroine is a social worker, one cleans houses, and one is a sociologist. – Three Fates: One of the heroines is a stripper. – Northern Lights: the heroine is a bush pilot (I think that’s the right term) in a tiny town in Alaska.

– Tribute: the heroine is a former child star that flips houses. – Chasing Fire: the heroine is a wild land firefighter. – High Noon: the heroine is a cop with a specialty in hostage negotiation and the hero won the lottery and has his fingers in many pies. – Blue Smoke: the heroine is an arson investigator

– Taming Natasha: the heroine owns a toy store! – The MacGregors: in Serena the heroine is a card dealer for a casino, and in one of the other books in the series the hero runs a riverboat with a casino. – The Collector: heroine is a beginning author (has 1 book, working on another) but her main job is house sitting. – Sign of 7 trilogy: one of the heroines explores and writes about local mythologies, one is a researcher. – Bridal Quartet: 4 friends live together in one mansion a photographer, florist, pastry chef, and wedding planner, and together they own a wedding business. – Whiskey Beach has a heroine with multiple jobs: cleaning houses, teaching yoga, making jewelry to sell at a local shop Besides the ones already mentioned, here’s what I can think of. I feel like Heroines with unconventional jobs is one of Nora Roberts’ specialties.

A Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong by Cecilia Grant