Visiting Sparkling Hills with Dani Collins!

Until two years ago, I didn’t understand
what the fuss was about visiting a spa.




A ‘spa-day’ sounded to me like something
the rich and famous do, before they walk the red carpet. Or ladies of leisure go
for ‘pampering.’ I regularly visit a registered massage therapist for the aches
and pains that come with working at a computer for a living, but I don’t get
facials or wear a lot of lotions or take therapeutic mud baths.

Two years ago, however, I went to visit my
sister in Winnipeg. She wanted to try something she’d heard friends recommend—Thermea. I was game, but when she told me,
“Everyone said we should plan to spend the day there,” I couldn’t imagine what
the two of us would do.




Well, my friends, you do nothing. That’s
the tranquil joy of visiting a spa.

Thermea is a collection of outdoor pools of
varying temperatures and saunas of varying humidity, heat, and herbal flavors. (I
could live in their eucalyptus steam room.) It’s intended to be a place of
quiet contemplation so at Thermea, attendants walk around with paddles that
read, “Quiet please” on one side and “Thank you” on the other.




Needless to say, five hours of that and I
was hooked. The next time I visited my sister, we brought our husbands—which
means my own husband is now hooked on the spa experience.




Therefore, when he unexpectedly had a few
days off early in February, we thought about flying somewhere warm, but didn’t
really have time for more than a couple of nights. We settled on visiting a spa
closer to home—Sparkling Hill in
Vernon, BC.

Like Thermea, Sparkling Hill offers beauty
treatments, fitness and ‘serenity’ rooms along with pools and saunas. Unlike
Thermea, which is a day spa, Sparkling Hill is a hotel. That proves highly
convenient when you’re wet and tired and you don’t feel like drying off and getting
dressed and driving home. You just put on your robe and take the elevator to
your room where you have the best nap of your life. When you feel like visiting
the steam rooms or hot pool again, you pop downstairs.




You’re not allowed to take photos in the
spa area so all of these are from our hotel room at Sparkling Hill. Why can’t
you take photos? Well, privacy in general, but at




Sparkling Hill in particular, they offer
‘European Hour.’ Clothing is optional for the last hour of the day and no, we
did not participate. I found putting on a bathing suit so soon after the
December indulgence to be revealing enough, thank you. 




Spas aren’t cheap, but compared to the
time, airfare and cost of chasing sunshine, this was a very reasonable
compromise, especially because I was on deadline. Sitting in a hot pool while
snow drifts through the steam is quite a lovely experience and nothing combats
the winter chills like a sauna. I told my husband it felt like sunbathing
without the worry of sunburn.




The best thing was, as we were booking it,
my husband said, “Any chance you can write this off?” I said, “My next book is
a Cinderella theme. I was trying to think of a business she could own that
could be in trouble...”




Watch Casseopeia (Sopi) Brodeur deal with Prince Rhys when he checks into her mountain spa in 2020!

A Virgin to Redeem the Billionaire

He’ll make her pay…




Until he learns of her innocence!

Self-made billionaire Kaine Michaels has just given Gisella Drummond, daughter of one of New York’s most influential dynasties, a shocking ultimatum: use her spotless reputation to save his own or he’ll ruin her family for betraying him! Kaine knows Gisella wants him, and he knows how much pleasure he can give her! But uncovering sweet Gisella’s virginity makes Kaine want her for so much more than revenge…




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About Dani Collins

Award-winning and USA Today Bestselling author Dani Collins thrives on giving readers emotional, compelling, heart-soaring romance with some laughter and heat thrown in, just like real life. Mostly she writes contemporary romance for Harlequin Presents and Tule’s Montana Born, but her backlist of forty books also includes self-published erotic romance, romantic comedy, and even an epic medieval fantasy. When she’s not writing—just kidding, she’s always writing. She lives in Christina Lake, BC with her high school sweetheart husband who occasionally coaxes her out of her attic office to visit their grown children—or travel.




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