Meet the Author

Derek N. Burnell (born: 1952, Adelaide, South Australia)

After completing formal education at Scotch College (Adelaide) and the prestigious Geelong Grammar School (Victoria), Derek attained a Diploma in Farm Management at Marcus Oldham College (Victoria). Ensuing years on cattle and sheep properties in South Australia, Northern Territory and New Zealand prompted a career change into office equipment sales. Four years later, and keen to experience more of life, Derek ‘took-off’ and travelled extensively. His exploits include; a 12-month sailing adventure from New Zealand through the Pacific Islands to Japan, other sailing adventures around Australia and nearby Pacific countries, and overland travels through China, Asia, Europe, North and Central America. After moving to Australia's beautiful Gold Coast in 1985, Derek has worked extensively in the hospitality industry and run his own video filming and carpentry businesses. He is currently working on his second novel: a fictional story incorporating Australian historical events.

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Hearts in Conflict is an amazing and emotion-stirring story that sets colourful characters against each other, the elements, and their own inner fears.

Independence Day – a day for celebration – but not in 1947, not in America’s most revered convent and orphanage, not after the horrifying behaviour of a pregnant celebrity leaves Mother Superior with no alternative but to redefine the convent’s modis operandi.

Bastille Day, 1985, the body of a self-exiled, philandering descendant of King Louis VII is found wedged between rocks below his Italian cliff-face villa.

How could these events, separated by decades, be associated with the traumatic occurrences that in 1986 plague a small town in New Zealand’s picturesque Bay of Islands? Or could they be connected to the arrival of a debonair stranger?

Packed with action and suspense, Hearts in Conflict clearly proves: The past can be an emotional nightmare… the present even more so.

 

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