Christine Monson
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Description
Born Judith Christin Clevinger, the author gained a love for romantic adventure tales during her childhood in a grim West Virginia mining town. Her career as a writer was jumpstarted by her self-identification with the character of Joan Wilder in the movie "Romancing the Stone." Soon afterward, her debut novel "Stormfire" was published, and Monson became well-known in the genre for her extreme storylines and harsh heroes. However, after six novels she began to feel ambivalent about her romances and began to research a novel on the Holy Grail. It was never published. Suffering from depression, she committed suicide in Greeley, Colorado on Sept. 11, 2003. Her survivors included ex-husband Jon Monson and daughter Jennifer.
Books
Stormfire
SOFT-HEARTED DREAMER All Miki Lassiter had left, now that her father had drunk and gambled away the family fortune, was her beautiful chestnut stallion and her dream - to stake a ranching claim in the newly opened Oklahoma territory and raise horses. And nothing was going to stop her. Then she met the arrogant stranger who thought he was being kind by rescuing her from the fierce prairie thunderstorm. She tried to squirm out from under the brute's protective embrace until she found herself melting beneath the smooth hardness of his long, taut body. It was impossible to voice her independence while her heart surrendered to the fire of his passionate kisses and her very soul throbbed with desire as his experienced hands caressed her rain-drenched flesh... HARDHEADED REALIST Cale Brolin knew what a cyclone and flashes of lightning could do to a rider on the open prairie. That's why the rugged horse trader grabbed the crazy, but curvaceous beauty off her plunging stallion and pinned her to the ground. But it didn't take him long to realize that the real cyclone was not in the sky, but right there beneath him, wriggling to get free...While the storm pelted him with rain, the heat of her flesh scorched him through his damp clothes, and his arms tightened around her. He wanted to lie there forever, his face buried in her fragrant silver-gold hair, his lips savoring her soft curves. No longer a free man, he was now a slave to the tumultuous ecstasy of a spitfire in a raging tempest, ablaze in the rapture of STORMFIRE...
This Fiery Splendor
The exquisitly beautiful daughter of an English missionary, Annalise Devon had a simple life until her dying Father passed her destiny into the capable hands of the Queen's Colonel, Derek Clavell. Bold as brass, as immovable as the Kashmir cliff, the dashing aristocrat seemed to have everything a man could want: a fortune in India, a future in England, and a flame-haired fiancee who satisfied his sensual needs. Then he met young Annalise and discovered a passion beyond pleasure, a fire raging beyond his or her control. As her guardian, his only choice was to send her away. And so Annalise found herself alone once more, this time forging her independence from the searing memories of Derek's touch. But love, once ignited is not easily extinguished. As India's quest for Independence engulfed the land, Derek would follow a trail of English blood to Annalise's side. Together they would face a treacherous new world of vengeful enemies and duplicitous lovers....a world destined to bring them again and again, to both the brink of disaster and the dizzying, breathless heights of rapture.
Rangoon
WILLING PRISONER IN A PALACE OF DREAMS... Rangoon. Lysistrata's heart raced with excitement. A world away from Boston. A place where she could forget... Rangoon—land of color and adventure—where, like an emerging butterfly, she would taste the exotic and dangerous life of the streets, and dance in the palaces of princes. But one man made her want even more. Richard Harley's dark and wicked eyes warned of danger...and hinted at pleasures beyond her wildest fantasies. Drawn, like a moth to the flame, by the lure of the East and the man who was its soul, Lysistrata traveled forbidden roads and journeyed deep into the heart of Burma. And in the secluded majesty of Richard Harley's castle of erotic dreams, she could at last yield to the man whose passion possessed her, as they both surrendered to the obsession of their love.
Surrender the Night
BRIDE OF REVOLUTION... SLAVE OF SHATTERING DESIRE Desperate to escape the clutches of her mother, Eliza Hilliard, 17, trades the sumptuous false freedoms of Boston society for marriage to a royal stranger... An innocent in a palace of dark intrigue, Eliza is helplessly captured in a bondage of raw desire--swept on a sea of frightening sensual ecstasy. She swears to flee from the 28 year old notorious Hungarian prince--before she loses her very will to the ruthless hunger which possesses her body and soul. But as the flames of war erupt, the lovers are torn by a scandal of loyalties divided, a private hell of dangerous betrayal. And in a last deadly game of power, they gamble the one thing they cannot live without... the radiant, forever promise of a love too long denied.