Spirit (Blackwood Security, #10.5)

Elise Noble is an English rose with a few thorns who loves chocolate, sleep, and well-defined abs. Not hers, unfortunately. She lives near London with a sexy chef, a horse who eats all her money, and a dog who eats her car keys. Always a reader, she took up writing after inspiration struck in an old manor house and still pinches herself over the fact that people read her books. She spends her days working in an office and her nights dreaming up new characters for you to fall in love with.