HEIDI IN HOI AN

About the Book

AUTHOR’S SEQUEL ROMANCE NOVEL OF MYSTERY AND INTRIGUE TO THE HEIDI CONUNDRUM The Heidi Conundrum created an opportunity for Mathew Allen, a Melbourne-based real estate agent and property developer, who specialises in sourcing, developing, and directing clients’ investments and who, once teamed with Milly, became involved with a nefarious Hong Kong banking group. When meeting them to hold something over Mathew, the bankers introduced a lady of the night. But Heidi was no ordinary honey pot. Thus, a mysterious conundrum eventuated resulting in them falling in love. Mathew returned to Melbourne, and it was up to Heidi to make a massive change in her life. The book ends with, Will she or won’t she? The sequel commences with Heidi on the plane readying to land in Melbourne, and she is still debating whether she has made the right move. However, she has another plan up her sleeve, which involves Mathew and his team of professional property consultants, whom she must meet to and decide if together, they can bring her impossible dream to fruition. Later, Heidi conspires to take Mathew back to Hoi An to reconnect with her influential brother, who with Heidi’s manipulative manoeuvring, envisages a truly incredible idea that will boost her unrealistic dream of becoming a major international vision. And this will entice a major Las Vegas criminal organisation to seek a controlling influence. The expansion of Mathew’s business creates the opportunity to meld his family into the enterprise and an unexpected future direction is a bombshell for one of his children.

About the Author

Kevin Read is a retired Australian estate agent and property developer who’s had a varied career in the industry, including working in America and Southeast Asia. A chance meeting at the Frankston cricket club led him to a position with a well-known real estate agency. He was later a foundation member of the Baden Powell cricket club with his mentor. The American international division of the Jaycees later helped him obtain employment with a large Pacific Northwest estate agent and mortgage broker. Ensconced in Seattle he met several partners of a major development company creating residential communities around golf courses in many states. When the company started Pat Boone’s Ocean Shores at Brunswick Heads in northern New South Wales, Kevin became the first local salesman. He later managed the Sydney sales office and undertook several trips around Southeast Asia selling individual lots. This created an opportunity for him and his wife Jillian to move to Makati a suburb of Manila, which became their base to travel extensively over the next few years.