

So Amanda goes to Malory to apologize for the lie she made up about the two of them. A furious Nigel leaves and the next day the story of Amanda and Malory's engagement appears in the newspapers (leaked by Nigel). The next day Amanda eventually has a show-down with Nigel and leads him to believe that she and Malory are lovers and that they are going to be married, which isn't true. It seems Nigel is having a hard time accepting the fact that Amanda doesn't want to see him and that she is in the house alone with Malory. Later that night Amanda gets many phone calls (she only hears someone breathing) and a brick is thrown through her bedroom window. Nigel is also angry that Malory is there. While he's there Nigel shows up to explain and apologize to Amanda for sleeping with Clare, but Amanda turns him away. (Malory has had a feeling that Nigel, his younger half-brother, has been having an affair with Malory's "girlfriend" Clare.) Malory drives Amanda home (she's staying at her mother's house at the moment). But as she's about to jump she is suddenly pulled back. Ashurst passed away in 2017.Twenty-year-old Amanda Conroy is about to jump off a bridge after she sees her fiancé Nigel cheating on her (Nigel was in bed having sex with another woman).

In 1997, she was the overall winner of the BBC's Mastermind, winning the last final presented by Magnus Magnusson.ĭivorced twice, she lived in the Midlands town of Rugby in England, but was a regular visitor to New York City, where her twin grandchildren live.

In 1975, she sold her first romance novel to Mills & Boon, under the pseudonym of Sara Craven. After she returned to journalism, she joined the Middlesbrough Writers' Group, where she met other romance writer Mildred Grieveson ( Anne Mather).

She worked as journalist at the Paignton Observer, but after her marriage, she moved to the north of England, where she worked as teacher. In 2010 she became chairman of the Southern Writers' Conference, and the next year was elected the 26th Chairman (2011–2013) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.Īnne "Annie" Bushell was born in October 1938 in Devon, England. Her novels were published by Mills & Boon from 1975. Anne Ashurst (née Bushell October 1938 in Devon, England – 15 November 2017 ), who wrote using the pseudonym Sara Craven, was a British author of over 80 romance novels.
