Elizabeth Bevarly
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Elizabeth Bevarly was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.. Her grandmothers, Ruth Bevarly and Hazel Robinson went her models to follow. She says: "Both women lived in times when women were viewed as weak, fragile creatures, yet both of them were strong, forceful women who struggled to overcome poverty and hardship. They were anything but weak or fragile." She wrote her first novel when she was twelve years old. It was 32 pages long-and that was with college rule notebook paper-and featured three girls named Liz, Marianne and Cheryl, who explored the mysteries of a haunted house. Her friends Marianne and Cheryl proclaimed it "Brilliant! Spellbinding! Kept me up past dinnertime reading!" Those rave reviews only kindled the fire inside her to write more. Elizabeth earned her B.A. with honours in English from the University of Louisville in 1983. Although she never wanted to be anything but a novelist, her career detours before making the leap to writing included stints working in movie theatres, restaurants, boutiques and major department stores. She also spent time as an editorial assistant for a medical journal, where she learned the correct spellings and meanings of a variety of words (like microscopy and histological) that she will never ever use again. Finally, in 1989, she sold her first novel, Destinations South, to Silhouette Books. Since then, she has gone on to sell more than 30 novels and six novellas to five different publishers. Her books have appeared on a number of bestseller lists, including the USA Today bestseller list. She's been nominated for several Romantic Times awards. She was recently given a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times magazine for Series Love and Laughter, and her Silhouette Desire, The Perfect Father was awarded the National Readers' Choice Award in 1996. Her novels have been published in 19 languages and more than two dozen countries. There are more than five million copies of her books in print worldwide. Elizabeth is married with a member of the Coast Guard, and they had a son in 1995. "My husband and I met when we were teenagers, and back then, our idea of romance was necking in the back seat of his Pontiac Firebird. My husband was stationed in San Juan, Puerto Rico with the Coast Guard when we married, and that whole period of our life was so idyllic. It's just a wonderful city all around. When we were living as newlyweds, romance was sitting on the beach at sunset, holding hands and listening to a live salsa band. Now, with a young child, romance is having our son at my mum's for the night, so that we can rent a movie and watch it by candlelight with a nice bottle of Pinot Grigio." She has claimed as residences Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., northern Virginia and southern New Jersey, but she now resides with her husband and young son in her native Kentucky, where she fully intends to remain. When she's not writing, Elizabeth enjoys old film, old houses, good books, fine antiques and salsa music, and she has a tendency to rescue abandoned animals. Both of her cats, Quito (named after a bar on Tortola) and Wallo (named by her then-two-year-old son for reasons she and her husband will never understand) are refugees the first from a rest area beside a main road, and the other from a park near where she used to live.
Books
The thing about men
Running a lifestyle business doesn't leave much time for Claire Willoughby to have a lifestyle of her own. But, hey, you've got to give up a little if you want to be revered as the Nigella Lawson of the simplicity set! However, Claire's gotten herself a number-one fan, and this number-one fan has willed everything to Claire.including one Anabel Sage, aged 13 months.
Up Close
The way reporter Mason Thorne saw it, Halouise Lofton was like a transplanted flower in need of careful nurturing. And since he'd been responsible for uprooting her from rural Hack's Crossing, he'd be the one to protect her. Never mind that Lou was blossoming into an ace journalist and a beautiful woman - or that lately his response to her was more passionate than platonic. Only... Lou didn't want or need another brother. She was in love with Mason - and had decided to let him know it. During their coming trip to the tropics, she would prove her journalistic talents, but getting up close and personal with her overprotective partner would be the true challenge..
Close range
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short-story collections of our time. Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in these breathtaking tales of loneliness, quick violence, and the wrong kinds of love. Each of the stunning portraits in Close Range reveals characters fiercely wrought with precision and grace. These are stories of desperation and unlikely elation, set in a landscape both stark and magnificent -- by an author writing at the peak of her craft.
The Wedding
El Principe De Mis Sueños
Un príncipe, algo peligroso y rudo, se enamora de una princesa prometida con otro hombre. El príncipe Nikolás, un hombre rico, esquivo y belicoso, lamenta no poseer un don especial para conquistar a una dama, pues sólo es capaz de seducir a Emma con tenacidad y graves amenazas. Además, el amor de Emma no produce ningún cambio en su corazón de hielo. Sin embargo, una súbita pasión logra modificar de repente su atormentada naturaleza. Nikolás encuentra por fin el éxtasis que siempre eludió... y aprende a amar.
Silhouette Sensational
A collection of four complete novels by top-selling authors Maggie Shayne, Barbara Boswell, Susan Mallery, and Marie Ferrarella includes stories about forbidden love, instantaneous passion, a man who would do anything for his adopted daughter, and a dog who finds true love for his unsuspecting owner. Reprint.
Lucy And The Loner (Man Of The Month/ The Family Mccormick) (Silhouette Desires)
How to trap a tycoon
The author of a bestseller on marrying a millionaire, staid sociology professor Dorsey MacGuinness transforms herself into a sultry bombshell to do research on the topic, never expecting to fall in love with one of her subjects.
The ring on her finger
Heiress Lucinda Hollander decides to get engaged -- to a man who thrusts a rock on her finger and promptly disappears -- leaving Lucinda to take the rap for a crime she didn't commit. Lucinda goes on the lam, and even though she's never held -- or used -- a dust mop she goes "underground" as a housekeeper on a large estate. After all, she knows her way around big houses, and making floors sparkle is a whole lot better than making license plates. She quickly figures there's something suspicious going on in the servants' quarters -- especially with Max Hogan, "the car guy." He's strong, sexy -- and sure knows how to work with his hands. But he's more than a little silent about his past, which makes Lucinda wonder what he's up to ... and what will happen when "her secret comes out. Still, she hopes they can have a future together ... If only she could get that darn ring off her finger.
Overnight male
Is there any mission more dangerous than a hot one-night stand?In the world of international espionage, Lila Moreau is as tough as they come. But she's finally ready to trade in her secret double life for domestic bliss. That is, after she takes care of one last vendetta: to bring in rogue agent Adrian Padgett before he unleashes disaster.But to find him and his band of merry hackers, Lila must infiltrate small, snooty Waverly College. All while breaking in her sexy new partner, Joel Faraday. Sounds like a challenge--even for a superspy.Soon Joel starts to distract her in more ways than just the professional. And he's determined to lure Lila into the most impossible mission of all...love.
You've got male
Can you really find the perfect man online?Avery Nesbitt thought she might have struck online-dating gold--Adrian was perfect onscreen. But as the adage goes, if something seems too good to be true... Before Avery knows it, a flesh-and-blood man calling himself Dixon breaks in to her home. Apparently she's been under surveillance by his agency for some time, and now she's in deep, deep trouble.Dixon has worked for OPUS for years, and he's wanted to get his hands on Adrian Padgett for most of them. He assumes that Avery is part of Adrian's criminal pursuits. But could she possibly be as innocent as she's claiming?One thing's for sure--if Avery agrees to go undercover for OPUS, she and Dixon will be working in very close quarters....
The house on Butterfly Way
Once upon a time, in Manitou Hills, there was a home so radiant and vivacious it was christened with its own name: Fleurissant. Now it's in ruins, forgotten and neglected-except by a woman who sees her own life reflected in the broken windows of that house on Butterfly Way... As a child, from afar, Eugenie Dashner loved Fleurissant and the elegant, youthful fantasies it provided. Now, with a failed marriage behind her, a troubled son at her side, and a contentious and bitter mother to care for, Eugenie returns to the Louisville neighborhood of Manitou Hills to fulfill a dream: buy and renovate the house that once meant so much to her, and maybe, in the process, rebuild her own life. Day by day, as the house reveals more and more of its forgotten beauty, Eugenie sees her dream come to fruition-especially when the attentions of two men help to reawaken in her feelings of romance and passion she thought were gone forever. As she navigates her rediscovered emotions, Eugenie comes to realize that there is no such thing as irreparable damage-not in herself, not in the house on Butterfly Way, and not in the family who now calls it home...