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Pat Warren
Pat Warren (born 1936) is an American author of contemporary romance novels under her own name and the pseudonym Patricia Cox. At age 16, Warren began writing a column for the Akron Beacon Journal. As an adult, she wrote articles about marriage and motherhood for the Detroit News. In 1986, she sold a novel to Silhouette Books. Two years later, in 1988, she won the inaugural Desert Rose Award, given by the Phoenix Desert Rose chapter of the Romance Writers of America.
HE will come to you in shades of darkness.
— from Forbidden
Most acclaimed
Simply Unforgettable
New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh returns to the seductive world she knows so well--Regency England--in a new novel filled with her trademark wit, sensuality, and breathtaking storytelling. With this, the first in a dazzling new quartet of novels, Balogh invites us into a special world--a select academy for young ladies--a world of innocence and temptation. Drawing us into the lives of four women, teachers at Miss Martin's School for Girls, Balogh introduces this novel's marvelous heroine: music teacher Frances Allard--and the man who seduces her with a passion no woman could possibly forget....They meet in a ferocious snowstorm. She is a young teacher with a secret past. He is the cool, black-caped stranger who unexpectedly comes to her rescue. Between these two unlikely strangers, desire is instantaneous...and utterly impossible to resist. Stranded together in a rustic country inn, Lucius Marshall, who is the Viscount Sinclair, and Frances Allard share a night of glorious, unforgettable passion. But Frances knows her place--and it is far from the privileged world of the sensual aristocrat. Due to begin her teaching position at Miss Martin's School in Bath, Frances must try to forget that one extraordinary night--and the man who touched her with such exquisite tenderness and abandon.But Frances cannot hide forever. And when fate once again throws them together, Lucius refuses to take no for an answer. If Frances will not be his wife, he will make her his mistress. So begins an odyssey fraught with intrigue, one that defies propriety and shocks the straitlaced ton. For Lucius's passionate, single-minded pursuit is about to force Frances to give up all her secrets--except one--to win the heart of the man she already loves.Once again this incomparable storyteller captures a time and a place like no other. And in Lucius and Frances, Mary Balogh gives us her most unlikely lovers yet--a nobleman in search of the perfect wife and an unconventional woman willing to risk everything for an unforgettable love.From the Hardcover edition.
Nobody's child
1996
'Kath walked for so long that she wanted to lie down in the snow and sleep but she thought of her sister and knew she must go on. Soon the snow was so deep that she couldn't move. She could feel her shoes disintegrating and her feet were numb. The sky cleared and a great big moon came out and there were so many stars. She remembered what her mother had said before she died, that each star was one of her people. She musn't give up now ... ' When their mother dies and their father, in his grief, burns down their wagon and runs away, Kath and Ella - gypsy sisters - suddenly become orphans. With no one to turn to for help, they face hardship and hunger at every turn. Will their special sisters' bond be strong enough to see them to safety?
The lyon and the lamb
1990
Daughter of a fearsome publishing king, editor Augusta Lyon had had it with domineering males. Nonetheless, she was roped into accompanying some egotistical superstar author on a whirlwind cross-country publicity tour. Who could have predicted that celebrated David Lamb would be the sexiest man she'd ever met? Alas, David was no lamb -- he was more like a wolf in sheep's clothing! Despite appearances, David recognized that Gussie was one appealing woman -- a veritable lioness hiding her animal charm behind a straitlaced exterior. Witness the glorious auburn mane bound up in a matronly bun. But he had a plan to make her let down her hair and her guard. In no time this Lyon would lie down with the Lamb!