welcome, heroines.
So good to see you here. I'm Anna, and I write romantic, passionate stories for Harlequin Mills & Boon.
Finding hard copies:
In the UK you can buy my stories as RIVA books. In Australia and New Zealand they appear in duo form as part of the 'Sexy' line, while in North America they transform into Harlequin Presents Extras.
RIVA, Sexy and Extra....The brands say it all, really. That Extra for example, is spot on. It means extra fun, froth, romance, intrigue, passion... Extra everything!
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Update: My next book, Keeping Her Up All Night, an emotional tale of escalating passion, will be released in the UK in July 2012. That should give you time to amass some tissues.
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The Italian Next Door
This book will appear on the bookshelves in North America also in July 2012.
I have to admit I love this one. It's so light and frothy it will float into your hand. I've had some fab responses to it, including a beautiful critique from Julie Bonello of Cataromance.
Here's some of what Julie says:
...flirty, irresistible and highly compelling... tempered with heart-tugging pathos and intense emotion...
A hugely enjoyable and wonderfully entertaining tale of past secrets, powerful passion and illicit attraction, readers are sure to lap up this steamy read in one sitting! ...
Anna Cleary’s characterization is as fabulous as ever and gorgeous Italian hero Valentino and spirited Pia are sure to win readers’ hearts.
Thank you Julie for your wonderful words!
Another very exacting critic, one you might think would warmly endorse everything I produce, is my sister Liz. Liz didn't really enjoy my first book, My Tall Dark Greek Boss--which has since gone on to sell more than 150 000 copies and is, even as we speak, one of the Harlequin Presents Bestsellers in the Amazon Kindle store--because she didn't think Ellie was feisty enough for Sam. Yes! I kid you not! That was what she said!
Liz doesn't pull her punches.
Well, imagine my anxiety when she chose voluntarily to read The Italian Next Door. I gnawed my nails down to the quick when I knew this august and uncompromising mind was focused on my latest.
To my intense relief she liked it. More than that, she LOVED it. Even more than that, she said it made her LAUGH OUT LOUD!!!!!!
Whaddya know!
Whew. (Wipes brow). The euphoria!
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The Italian Next Door
Meet Valentino Silvestri, hard, uncompromising warrior against crime and corruption.
In that other war, the battle of the sexes, Valentino has been burned. He's learned that love is a fight he cannot win.
Then Pia Renfern salsas into his life.
Pia is an artist. She travels to Positano to recuperate from a traumatic event in her past. She still has some lingering secret fears she needs to conquer. You know the sort of silly little phobias that can jump out to ambush a girl when she least expects it...Those fears we all have. High places. Deep water. The ever- present danger of being poisoned by unwashed lettuce leaves. Being eaten by dogs, raccoons etc.
Those aren't Pia's only troubles. Some horrors cut deep.
Back in Sydney, Pia believed life had thrown her a curve ball. Little did she suspect how way off -balance she could be thrown. But I suspect some of us would enjoy some of her breathtaking experiences if we were to travel to Positano and become entangled with Valentino Silvestri.
Out in the UK in September. Aus and NZ in October.
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Do Not 
Disturb
What happens when a sweet Christian Army girl meets a wild boy with a troubled past and a chip on his shoulder? The short answer is...
Everything.
From Lavender Bay to the big city, from Sydney to Zurich, from Zurich to the Cote D'Azur, find out what happens to Mirandi Summers when that rebel Joe Sinclair roars into her daddy's churchyard one fine Sunday morn looking lean, hard and experienced on his big Ducati.
As you might expect, heroines, Mirandi is no shrinking violet. She knows that every woman is a goddess in her own right and is honour bound to walk like one, no matter what a man dishes out...
Do Not Disturb Available now at
Wedding Night With a Stranger
*****Nominated for Romantic Times best Harlequin Presents Extra of 2010 *****
Imagine you're stranded in a strange country without money, a place to live or any connection to a living soul. Except for an icy, angry, stunningly gorgeous Greek who despises you, that is.
This is the situation Ariadne Giorgias finds herself in when she steps off the plane from Naxos and into a nightmare.
Can this beautiful, sad, and until now very sheltered heroine survive the cruel shocks of life in Australia?
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I'm thrilled to report that Wedding Night with a Stranger has received some fantastic reviews!
'Sweet, sexy and satisfying from start to finish.' Romantic Times ****1/2 stars.
Thank you RT for those 4.5 fabulous stars.
'Charming. Boy oh boy did the sparks fly beween them. I actually felt like a third wheel... Marilyn Shoemaker. FIVE ***** spectacular stars!
And thank you Marilyn.
Here's the Italian edition, sharing a cover with my brilliant and beautiful Modern Heat sister, Heidi Rice.
Love those Italiano covers.
Cover art used by arrangement with Harlequin Enterprises Limited. All rights reserved. ® and ™ are trademarks of Harlequin Enterprises Limited and/or its affiliated companies, used under license.
