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Judith A. Lansdowne
Judith A. Lansdowne (b. 1944) attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and then spent several years touring the country as an actress and puppeteer before earning a bachelor's degree in English at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. She became a full-time writer in 1992. Her first novel, Amelia's Intrigue, was published in 1995 in the Zebra Regency Romance imprint. Animals (cats and a parrot) play major roles - and cupid - in her novels and novellas and she also wrote novellas with paranormal elements. According to What ever happened to... she gave up writing due to family obligations. Her last novel, Just Impossible, was released March 2004. Source: Romancewiki
Most acclaimed
Balmorrow's Bride
Her marriage saved her family, but could she save the husband she had grown to love? — Clarissa Beresfont had never met Alexander St. John Sinclair, Earl of Balmorrow, but it made no difference. He required a wife, and Clare?s family required the generous terms he proposed in his written offer of marriage. With her heart steeled to duty, Clare set off for the borderlands. But she never expected Castle Balmorrow to be so utterly barbaric and her giant of a husband to be such a Philistine and Bedlamite! Yet once Clare discovered the true Alex, a man of tenderness and courage whose pride and honor ruled his head and whose disastrous first marriage tortured his heart, she became determined to secure wedded bliss for them both. And she might very well be able to do it, if she could keep Balmorrow from being hanged for treason first.
Lord Nightingale's Christmas
Neil Spelling, man-about-town and desirable bachelor, is in a pickle. He has fallen desperately in love with Lady Alice, but her father, the Duke of Sotherland, calls him a dunderhead and unsuitable for a son-in-law. Now an intimate holiday house party may provide the perfect occasion for Neil to appear dashing, daring, and irresistibly darling. If only a stranger hadn't intruded, a sinister plot hadn't developed, and the irascible Lord Nightingale hadn't piped up. Lovely Lady Alice doesn't know what to make of Mr. Spelling! In town he is so polished, and now he appears so shy. Worse, Lord Nightingale is making him a mockery. What is a lady to do? Lady Alice is ready to offer a kiss when an unexpected guest makes her tremble. Villainy is afoot during this Yuletide, and Mr. Spelling may prove a hero if discord can be ended, a father's heart softened, and love is able to conquer all with a Christmas surprise!
Just Perfect
JUST ANOTHER SUITOR? — Good manners may have demanded that the unattached Marquis of Kearny and Mallory undertake a trip to the country at his cousin's request, but something far more compelling requires him to remain. A wrong turn leads him directly into danger -- and into the most unsettling conviction that his stalwart rescuer, Lady Hannah Thorne, is destined to be the one and only woman he will ever love. That is, if he survives long enough to get to know her, of course, which hardly seems likely with wild dogs on his heels and news of a recent murder that has rocked the peaceful village.... NOT IF HE'S JUST PERFECT Quite content without a husband, Hannah is taken aback when she discovers that the stranger she rescued from Little Mynd moor is the very paragon of manly virtues her best friend, Anne, has been extolling. Something about this Mallory is disturbing -- or is that desirable? As their mutual friends insist on throwing them together, Hannah is surprised to realize that her feelings for Mal just may be the romantic sort. But before she can decide if this perfect gentleman will make the perfect husband, she must deduce who is trying to kill him....