Jane Bonander
Description
Jane has always had a flare for the dramatic. Just ask her mother. When she was five, she ran home from kindergarten and scrambled under her parents’ bed, hiding there until her mother came looking for her which was longer than Jane had anticipated, for she fell asleep. When her mother woke her, she told her that a big, hairy monster had chased her home. Since over an hour had passed, the drama of the moment was gone. She sold her first novel, SECRETS OF A MIDNIGHT MOON, to St. Martin’s Press in 1990. Since then she has published twelve more novels and novellas. Although Jane lived in California for nearly twenty years and wrote most of her novels there, she returned to her roots in Minnesota in 1997, where she makes her home in St. Paul. After the death of her first husband, Alan Bonander, she remarried with Richard Noer in the fall of 1998. The new man in her life is an avid skiier and for the past twenty six years has been on the ski patrol at a local ski area. Although she doesn’t ski and refuses to start now, she does “chalet” and enjoys people watching as she does so! Her oldest son, Jason, who obtained his PhD from Brown University in Providence, RI, is living in Atlanta, GA with his wife, Melissa, who has recently graduated from Emory University with a law degree. She is employed with the ATF. Ross, her younger son, is also a writer. He teaches at the Berlitz School in San Francisco where his new bride, Amber, works in Product Publicity for Levi Strauss.
Books
Forbidden Moon
hey met when she was only a girl ... but woman enough to stir a man's blood to fever pitch. Tawny-haired, fiery-tongued Molly Lindquist was a tempting Texas hellion. Buck Randall was the proud, arrogant half-breed sworn to possess her -- when and if she ever grew up. Seven years later, Molly was engaged to a powerful rancher -- her ticket out of the life she hated. But, determined as she was to put the past behind her, she still burned for the man her heart wouldn't let her for
The Dragon Tamer
Once in a while there is something that a woman must fight for…Widowed at age twenty-one when her husband was killed aboard a whaler, plain but witty Eleanor Rayburn, determined to hire a new crew and carry on her late husband’s work, is dismayed to learn that he has sold his shares in the ship. In her search for the company that now possesses it, she encounters the handsome, arrogant owner, a man with a flagrant dragon tattooed on his torso, who not only greets her coldly, but who obviously feels women are not endowed with enough brains to be equals in a man’s world.And a man must win…Dante Templeton, a marine naturalist, charms women easily but cares for none. Abandoned as an infant, he was raised in an orphanage and went to sea at an early age, only to be regularly beaten by the ship’s cruel captain, whom he also blamed for his brother’s death. When his enemy’s widow comes looking for a loan, he impedes her at every turn, determined that her ship will never hunt whales again. Circumstances throw Eleanor and Dante together. The handsome, tattooed naturalist and the seemingly plain, intelligent widow cannot deny their fiery attraction. Although Dante knows a secret about Eleanor’s late husband that would certainly hurt her, he now realizes that to destroy this vibrant, passionate woman would mean destroying himself.
A Christmas Together
The greatest gift of all is the gift of love... — ANGEL FACE by Jane Bonander — A lonely schoolmarm fleeing a Minnesota blizzard seeks refuge with an embittered farmer and his half-breed son -- and experiences a miracle of love by the Yuletide fire. — HEAVEN'S GATE by Tanya Anne Crosby — Choosing Christmas to do the deed, a dashing English duke breaks off his long-standing engagement -- only to discover the innocent fiance he ignored for years has unexpectedly blossomed into a fiery and irresistible woman. THE ICE QUEEN by Jennifer Horsman In a season of giving, a brash, handsome doctor tending to a sickly youth is smitten by the child's sad and beautiful mother -- and vows to melt away the young widow's grief with the passionate heat of his sensuous, seductive care. THE CHRISTMAS BABY by Joan Johnston Having wed to end the warring ways of their feuding Texas families, a reluctant bride and groom find life together an unending battle -- until a beautiful arrival at Christmastime teaches them the true meaning of peace and love.
To have and to hold
A stirring saga of a nurse who only wants to do her duty in World War Two – and who ends up having to make an agonising choice. Set in Ireland and Birmingham, this is the latest from emerging star of the genre Anne Bennett.Carmel Duffy is the eldest child of a brutal and abusive marriage, and she can't wait to leave home. She's equally determined to have no husband or children of her own – what she wants more than anything is to be a nurse. As soon as she turns eighteen, she heads for Birmingham and begins her training.With her beautiful auburn curls, she draws plenty of attention and her resolve to concentrate on her career is tested when Dr Paul Connolly comes onto her ward and into her life. Gradually he wins her heart, and they agree to marry, both certain that they want no children. They have valuable jobs to do – all the more so when World War Two looms. But those years will change everything: their relationship, their priorities, their very characters. Carmel will find that the future is very different to the one she thought she wanted for so long...
Wild Heart
Born in 1876, Natalie Barney-beautiful, charismatic, brilliant and wealthy-was expected to marry well and lead the conventional life of a privileged society woman. But Natalie had no interest in marriage and made no secret of the fact that she was attracted to women. Brought up by a talented and rebellious mother-the painter Alice Barney-Natalie cultivated an interest in poetry and the arts. When she moved to Paris in the early 1900s, she plunged into the city's literary scene, opening a famed Left Bank literary salon and engaging in a string of scandalous affairs with courtesan Liane de Pougy, poet Renee Vivien, and painter Romaine Brooks, among others. For the rest of her long and controversial life Natalie Barney was revered by writers for her generous, eccentric spirit and reviled by high society for her sexual appetite. In the end, she served as an inspiration and came to know many of the greatest names of 20th century arts and letters-including Proust, Colette, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Isadora Duncan, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and Truman Capote.A dazzling literary biography, Wild Heart: A Life is a story of a woman who has been an icon to many. Set against the backdrop of two different societies-Victorian America and Belle Epoque Europe- Wild Heart: A Life beautifully captures the richness of their lore.
Scent of Lilacs
The sweet fragrance evoked the possibilities of love... When Lexy Tate dreamed of practicing medicine, she hadn't imagined setting up her practice in an abandoned brothel, or delivering a calf in a ramshackle barn. But as one of the first woman doctors in America, Lexy couldn't afford to be fussy, especially with a young daughter to consider. Little Krista needed the warmth of the California sun for her health, and Lexy was determined to make a home for the two of them on the California frontier. Lexy was prepared for the hardship and difficult working conditions, but she wasn't ready to meet Jake Westfield again. Four years earlier, Jake had shown how little he cared for Lexy when he left her without giving her a chance to tell him she was bearing his child. Now, faced with the man she'd loved since she was a young girl, Lexy knew that this time she could not afford to give in to the passion that still bound them. This time, she had to make the right decision, not just for herself but for her precious daughter.