Mari Jack
Mari is a flute player with many years of experience performing in bands and orchestras. Her musical life combined with her love of contemporary romance stories inspired her to create the Allegretto Band series.
Mari lives in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. When not writing or playing her flute, she enjoys running and fawning over Art Deco fashions.
Genre:
- Romance
Skills:
- Novelist
Branch:
Central Districts
Location:
Publications:
Facing the Music
Kylie Wake’s dream is to teach the flute. As she recovers from chronic illness, a teaching opportunity at a new music conservatory comes her way. Despite the risk to her health, she will polish her teaching skills with a young musicians’ group her handsome band conductor, Peter McNeil, has formed.
Peter’s past experiences have turned him off relationships. The attraction to Kylie is unwelcome and he fights his building desire. When their time together goes beyond music, neither can resist.
But when their pasts interfere, can the passion between them survive?
Her Big Shot
Stephanie Alexander is beyond excited when Argentinian TV soundtrack composer Alejandro Sanchez joins her band. Not only is he drop-dead gorgeous, he offers her a musical opportunity she never dreamed possible. But she must not give in to his attractiveness—she will not risk heartbreak.
Alejandro is no stranger to heartbreak and he intends to keep his heart intact. Despite their best intentions, heat flares between Stephanie and Alejandro as they rehearse. Will the passion of their music move each of them on from their pasts? Or is true love out of reach forever?
A Thing Called Compassion
Ricardo Sanchez has settled into a comfortable life in New Zealand. He has a great job, many friends and his career as a singer is taking off. Every time he sees French horn player Helena McNeil, he cannot ignore the attraction to this beautiful woman.
Helena is immersed in the book about bullying she is writing. Along with her counselling practice and the Allegretto Band, her life is full and busy. And she can’t deny her attraction to the sexy band member, Ricardo.
As danger surrounds them at every turn with suspicious events, a mysterious visitor and ghostly dreams, Helena and Ricardo must work together to let their mutual attraction develop into a loving relationship.
But can the unseen forces hinder their love, and even worse threaten their very lives?
Conducting Love
Clarinettist Alicia Maxwell had been heartbroken when her teenage sweetheart, drummer Ian Brown, moved away. They were young, in love, plus he was gorgeous, mature, and they shared a love of music. Now, years later, Ian has returned. Music reunites their friendship and conducting a youth band together brings them even closer.
Trying to keep an even tempo means more than a smooth performance and when obstacles are placed in their path, the renewed romance they yearn for seems a distant dream. As the band plays on and the beat heightens, Ian and Alicia muddle through the hurts of their younger years.
Is it time to move on and admit that it is too late to rekindle the past, or is there a promise of something special between them?