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Anne Avery
Also known as: Anne Holmberg, Anne Avery
Anne Holmberg was born on 1938 in Colorado, USA, where her family resides during four generations. She obtained a degree in Engineering from the University of Colorado. Anne wrote historical romance novels as Anne Avery, contemporary romance novels as Kate Holmes, and fantasy romance novels as Anne Woodard. She has been a four-time nominee for a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times Book reviews.
LEROY JENKINS WAS hauling in a barnacle-entrusted lobster trap aboard his boat, The Kestrel, when he looked up and saw the giant ship on the horizon.
— from Fire & ice
Most acclaimed
Hidden Heart
Reluctant heir to the Controllership of the planet Dilor, Tarl preferred the danger of working undercover to the drudgery of attending state functions. Yet he never dared hope that his midnight forays would land him in the room with a naked stranger who also happened to be armed. Determined to free her world, Marna had traveled to Dior with her own secret agenda--one that didn't plan on being seduced. Determined to free her people, Mama had traveled to Diloran with her own secret agenda. And her plans didn't include being seduced by the first hard-bodied man she encountered. Although the enchanting beauty refused to forget her mission, she couldn't deny the ache Tarl roused in her. But the more Mama longed to surrender to unending bliss, the more she feared she was betraying everything she held dear.
The Snow Queen (Love Spell)
1996
Once upon a time. . .they lived happily ever after. THE LOVE OF A HEART PURE WILL QUELL THE LONELY FATE OF THE SNOW QUEEN'S SPELL When Boston-bred Hetty Malone arrived at the Colorado Springs train station, she was full of hope that she would soon marry'-her childhood sweetheart and live happily ever after. Yet life amid the ice-capped Rockies had changed Michael Ryan. No longer the hot-blooded suitor Hetty remembered, the young doctor had grown as cold and distant as the snowy mountain peaks. Determined to revive Michael's passionate longing, Hetty quickly realized that no modern medicine could cure what ailed him. But in the enchanted splendor of her new home, she dared to administer the only remedy that might melt his frozen heart: a dose of good old-fashioned loving.,
Fire & ice
Leader of the NUMA Special Assignments team, Kurt Austin must work with a former KGB spy to save the United States from a lunatic with a generations-spanning grudge in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Kurt Austin is preparing for an interview while aboard a research vessel in the Black Sea. But his television spot suddenly becomes a rescue mission when the waiting film crew is attacked on a nearby island. With little information on the attackers, and no clue to their true agenda, Austin is forced to turn to an unlikely source: his old KGB Cold War adversary Vladimir Petrov. According to Petrov, the island is actually an old submarine base that’s been commandeered by clever mobster-turned-billionaire-businessman Mikhail Razov. Razov is certain he descends from the great Romanov family and he’s out to reclaim his rightful position as czar of Russia. With a powerful resource called “fire ice”, discovered by his mining company, Razov may just have the ammunition he needs to take over the modern world. To stop him, Austin will have to work with Petrov. And he’ll have to find out fast how much trust he can offer an old nemesis in this thrilling adventure that “goes down like a chilled Stolichnaya martini.”