FICTION · MAN-WOMAN RELATIONSHIPS
Connie Brockway
Connie was born on 16 December 1954 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA but spent several years in suburban Buffalo, New York. Her family returned to Edina, Minnesota where she attended high school. In 1976, Brockway received a B.A. from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, she earned an M.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota. In the University she met her future husband, David Brockway, medical student, now a family physician, and they married on November 1976. The couple currently live in her native Minnesota, they have a grown daughter. Connie decided to take a year and try to write a book once her daughter entered school. In 1994, she published her first book, Promise Me Heaven. Over 1.5 million copies of her books are now in print, and they can be found in thirteen countries. Brockway has been a finalist for the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award eight times, winning twice. Although Brockway made her mark with historical romance, in 2005 she announced that she would take a hiatus from historical romance and begin writing contemporary romance novels.
WELL NOW, THOUGHT KATE, just when she'd thought life couldn't hold any more surprises, here was another; she'd no idea Sue McCray could write.
— from My seduction
Most acclaimed
The Lady Most Likely
A Novel in Three Parts Hugh Dunne, the Earl of Briarly, needs a wife—so his sister hands him a list of the very best young ladies on the market. And then, because he refuses to tear himself away from the stables where he trains Arabian racehorses, she invites all those ladies to a house party, along with some other bachelors, of course. So who will Hugh choose? The Botticelli-esque, enchanting Gwendolyn? The outspoken, delightful Katherine? If he doesn't work fast, he'll lose those ladies to his closest friends, and then where will he look for a wife? Perhaps, just perhaps, toward a lady who's not on a market at all, and would require a great deal of persuading...
The bridal season
Victorian England... a glittering world of titled society and scandalous secrets... the enchanting story of a woman who lives by her wits--and who commits the most startling indiscretion of all: She falls in love.... Letty Potts has gotten into a few fixes in her twenty-five years, but this is her worst predicament yet. A petty schemer by necessity, the struggling music hall performer has decided to go straight. But after narrowly escaping the wrath of her partner in crime, she finds herself at Paddington Station with nothing but the gown she's wearing ... and another woman's train ticket clutched in her hand. Now masquerading as the redoubtable "Lady Agatha," of Whyte Wedding Celebrations, Letty arrives in the backwater burg of Little Bidewell, where she is to arrange the nuptials of a young society bride. Amid the dizzying whirl of pre-wedding festivities, nobody suspects Letty's secret ... except the sensual and aristocratic Sir Elliot March. A war hero who has forsworn love, Elliot senses something decidedly amiss about this outspoken young woman. Yet she awakens a passionate yearning he'd thought was lost to him forever. And soon a desperate masquerade embroils them both in a web of scandal and danger as Letty's past catches up with her--threatening their lives ... and a love without peer.