UNITED STATES AUTHOR · FICTION · ROMANCE
Christine Rimmer
Also known as: christine rimmer, CHRISTINE RIMMER
Christine Rimmer has written more than eighty contemporary romances for Harlequin Books. A reader favorite, Christine’s stories consistently appear on national bestseller lists, including the USA TODAY and BOOKSCAN lists. She has won Romantic Times BOOK review’s Reviewer’s Choice Award for best Silhouette Special Edition. She has been nominated five times for the Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA award and four times for Romantic Times Series Storyteller of the Year. A California native who first longed to be an actress, Christine earned her theater degree from California State, Sacramento and then went to New York to study acting. Later, she moved to Southern California, where she began her writing career with short stories, plays, and poems. Her poems and short stories were published in a number of small literary journals. Her plays were produced at The Back Alley and Group Theaters in Southern California and have been published by Dramatists Play Service and West Coast Plays. Christine lives in Oregon with her family.
Most acclaimed
The Marriage Agenda
1998
Together for the first time in one volume, two marriage of convenience stories from New York Times bestselling authors Christine Rimmer and Allison Leigh! The Marriage Conspiracy Joleen Tilly is facing every mother's worst nightmare—a custody battle for her son, Sam. When Sam's grandparents demand she turn over her son, Joleen turns to her best friend, Detective Dekker Smith, for comfort. Instead, he offers an astonishing solution: a most convenient marriage! But will Joleen be able to contain her growing love for her in-name-only husband? The Billionaire's Baby Plan To save her family's fertility clinic, Lisa Armstrong agrees to have venture capitalist Rourke Devlin's baby. First, though, she has to become Mrs. Rourke Devlin! Rourke wants a family the old-fashioned way and marriage will give them both what they want. But their temporary arrangement blossoms into something much deeper and their agreement could be threatened.
Wagered woman
Prim-and-proper Delilah Jones was so ornery that her no-good daddy was gambling the mercantile to buy her a bridegroom. But bushy-bearded Sam Fletcher would have to be loco to bet on bedding the cantankerous spinster who'd long since branded him a rude, crude, low-down longhair. Still, the sparks they'd always struck off each other were suddenly igniting a hot new hunger in Sam, and the prospect of taming the sexy shrew was beginning to look downright irresistible .. . . But with her snapping eyes and siren's body, little Lilah proved stiff competition for strongman Sam . . . and soon it was anyone's wager who would tame whom when Sam took on Delilah! The book is based in a small town setting. Delilah Jones tries to prove to everyone especially herself; that she is a sophisticated career woman, who basically doesn't want to be like any of her rowdy brothers. For almost 20 years her and her enemy Sam Fletcher made a silent vow, by pretending the other wasn't there. Until one day Sam Fletcher who also despises her, comes into her life all of a sudden and breaks that vow. To make it worse Sam is every bit as wild as her brothers
In Bed with the Boss
1999
Ready for business...When Tom Holloway was chosen to run the Taka-Hanson hospitality division, the new CFO had no idea single mother Shelly Winston was part of the package. But from the moment she accepted his offer, Tom knew he was going to have trouble resisting his alluring assistant and her charming little boy.Not to mention, pleasure?Shelly knew that falling for her boss was a business don't. Especially when Tom found out about the secret she'd been forced to keep. Someone was out to sabotage the burgeoning Taka-Hanson hotel empire. And it could have disastrous consequences for the future of two powerful dynasties--and her own future with the man she loved....