UNITED KINGDOM AUTHOR · ROMANCE · LARGE TYPE
Betty O'Rourke
Also known as: Betty O'Rourke, Elizabeth Margaret Smith O'Rourke
Elizabeth Margaret Smith was born on 1930 in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK. She started to work in a library at 20, and met Mr. O'Rourke, her future husband at Library School. During her first two years of marriage they lived in USA. They had four children. She has worked as both a bookseller and a librarian and has published over ten books with various publishing houses as Betty O'Rourke. She was a former vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association and she is currently the acting Membership Secretary of the RNA. Betty lived in her native Reading, where she passed away in 2006.
Most acclaimed
Mists of remembrance
When she woke up in hospital the name 'Carol Legat' was on her name tag, and although it didn't sound right she accepted it. She began a new life with a man who wanted to help her trace her past. But she wanted to forget. Gradually, the nightmare she had shut out of her mind caught up with her, and then there was only one thing to do: confront it, with the help of the man who loved her.
Penhaligon's Rock
To escape from a devastating experience in connection with her job in London, Rachel Hayward goes to stay in the little Cornish village of St Morwenna's Bay. At first, it seems to be a place where nothing much ever happens, but things are not quite what they seem. Rachel's fascination with a rocky island out in the bay, reputedly the haunt of the long-dead smuggler Penhaligon, leads to danger and the discovery of a shocking secret -- shared with a man who is also escaping his past.
After Michael
Fiona's eyes turned to the other people in this small, select group, then paused. Who was that young woman standing behind and slightly to Colin's right? She knew everyone else gathered here; close friends and neighbours of Michael and herself, but she was quite sure she'd never seen this young woman before. When Fiona Latimer learns that her husband Michael has died of a sudden heart attack alone in his London flat, she is shocked but not devastated. She and Michael had led increasingly separate lives in their last few years. At the funeral, two people arrive unexpectedly, each of whom will have a great deal of influence on future events. There is Anthea, a girl who knows more about Michael than she will admit, and Simon, a man from Fiona's past whom she now realises she should have married instead. Gradually, the secrets of Michael's past are uncovered, and when the final, shocking betrayals are at last revealed Fiona discovers her life with him was not at all what it had seemed.