Ann Carberry
Personal Information
Description
Maureen Child was born 28 September 1951 in California, USA. She and her husband enjoy traveling, usually taking road trips with her parents. When she’s at home, she is kept busy with her two grown children and a somewhat confused golden retriever named Abbey. She is busy writing her next book. Under her own name, Maureen Child writes short contemporary novels—books she loves to write because of their fast pace and condensed story telling, she is also writing funny, contemporary paranormal romances. Over the years, she’s written under lots of different names and she prefers the term ‘pseudonym’ to ‘alias’. As Ann Carberry, she wrote western historical romances. As Kathleen Kane, she wrote not only Americana romances, but western paranormal romances as well. As Sarah Hart, she wrote one really spectacular western paranormal that is still one of her favorites. And once, Ann Carberry even wrote a Victorian historical which she absolutely loved doing. She writes paranormal romance novels under the pesudonym of Regan Hastings. Now, a USA Today best selling author of more than ninety romance novels and novellas, she is a five time nominee for the prestigious Rita award from Romance Writers of America. One of her novels, A Pocketful Of Paradise, was made into a CBS-TV movie called The Soul Collector, starring Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Greenwood and Ossie Davis.
Books
Frontier bride
Hannah Forrester's life did not belong to her. A contract of indentured saw to that. But no one owned her soul, and Ethan Reed knew instinctively that she was the one who belonged by his side, for now and forever.
Shotgun Bride (Wildflower)
BACKWOODS BEAUTY Hallie Benteen would never have guessed that the man who lay beside her was Ritter Sloane -- Wyoming's most notorioius gunslinger... HANDSOME HELLION He'd come to throw the Benteen family off their land, Instead, he saved Hallie's life... SHOTGUN BRIDE Carrying her from an icy snowdrift to the warmth of her bed, he revived her the only practical way: body heat. And for that he awoke to the cold metal of a shotgun and an ultimatum by Hallie's three strapping brothers: marry her or else! Now a marriage hardly made in heaven took off in a blaze of clashing desires ... where the simple words "I do" sparked a tumultuous passion -- an untamed love as wild and hungry as their own tempestuous hearts!
Maggie and the Gambler
In the years Maggie Donnelly has managed the Four Roses, she's turned the family saloon into one of the most elegant meeting places in San Francisco. It seems the ultimate betrayal to have her father sell his half--putting her in partnership with the one man she'd sworn to forget. Maggie had loved Cutter since she was a child, yet the night he made her a woman, he left her with a broken heart. Now Cutter is back...with the same hot hunger for the flaming Irish beauty, and the same determination to keep a safe distance while he settles some old business. Yet nothing can dim the memory of that one fiery night. or cool the desire that rages in his heart. But it is Maggie's bold challenge that tests the limits of Cutter's endurance.. and dares him to surrender to the overwhelming power of love.
Alice and the Gunfighter
PASSION IN DISGUISE With a ruthless competitor determined to drive her out of business, spirited Mary Alice "Al" Donnelly has her hands full running the Four Roses Mine. So she eagerly awaits the help her meddlesome father is sending to San Francisco. Anticipation turns to fury, however, when the hot-tempered miss meets her new "partner," Travis Deal--a dandified "fancy-man" used to the soft life and satin sheets. But there is more to Travis than meets the eye. From behind his flamboyant facade is a former U.S. marshal determined to get to the root of the "accidents" plaguing the Four Roses. And it's getting harder from him to keep his "dandy" act up--what with the irresistible temptation of tempestuous "Al" Donnelly so close at hand...and so ripe for touching, and kissing and loving.