Ruthless makes US list

New Zealand romance writer Natalie Anderson’s novel Ruthless Boss, Royal Mistress recently featured in USA Today’s top 150 books sold over the New Year. Her book about a “billionaire businessman who teaches a spoiled heiress a lesson,” has just been released in America by her publisher, Harlequin Presents. Ruthless Boss placed 108th of bestsellers. She says one of the biggest influences on her literary career was, perhaps unusually, her grandmother. “My grandmother lived with us when I was growing up and she was a voracious reader of everything and she used to read a lot of Mills and Boons and I would read them, too.” Anderson — Christchurch mother of four children under five, including twins — has written a number of other books,  including Hot Boss, Boardroom Mistress. She is one of the few authors to have a multi-book contract with the world’s most famous romance publishers, Mills and Boon. Anderson has an arts degree from the University of Canterbury and a masters in library and information studies from Victoria University.