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Penny Jordan

Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on 24 November 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru". She had been a keen reader from the childhood - her mother used to leave her in the children's section of their local library whilst she changed her father's library books. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction. At the age of eight, she was creating serialised bedtime stories, featuring make-believe adventures, for her younger sister Prue, who was always the heroine. At eleven, she fell in love with Mills & Boon, and with their heroes. In those days the books could only be obtained via private lending libraries, and she quickly became a devoted fan, and was thrilled to bits when the books went on full sale, in shops and she could have them for keeps. Penny left grammar school in Rochdale with O-Levels in English Language, English Literature and Geography. She first discovered Mills & Boon books, via a girl she worked with. She married Steve Halsall, an accountant and a "lovely man", who smoked and drank too heavily, suffered oral cancer with bravery and dignity. Out of his own money, and at a time when he could ill afford it, her late husband bought her the small electric typewriter on which she typed her first novels. Her husband died at the beginning of the 21st century. She has earned a living as a writer since the 1970s when, as a shorthand typist, she entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, Penny found an agent who was looking for a new Georgette Heyer. She published four regency novels as Caroline Courtney, before changing her nom de plume to Melinda Wright for threebair-hostess romps and then she wrote two thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock. Soon after that, Mills and Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan. However, for her present historical romance novels, she has adopted her mother's maiden-name to become Annie Groves. Almost 70m of her 167 Mills and Boon novels have been sold worldwide. As a widow, Penny Halsall lived in a neo-Georgian house in Nantwich, Cheshire, with her Alsatian Sheba and cat Posh. She worked from home, in her kitchen, surrounded by her pets, and welcomed interruptions from her friends and family. She passed away on 31 December 2011.

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Marriage Without Love

3.5 (2)
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They had shared a beautiful affair. Then Briony had learned the shattering truth. Although she had been deeply in love with Kieron, a reporter then, he had wanted her only for a newspaper scoop. It was painfully ironic to Briony that his calculated lovemaking should have resulted in such a beautiful baby boy....It was no less ironic that Kieron Blake should now be Briony's new boss at the Daily Globe. One look at little Nicky told him the truth - and set them on a collision course. Either Briony married him or he took his son away!

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A Secret Intimacy

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It was a dreadful shock to Sasha when she met Jake Redway again – the man who had been instrumental, as she saw it, in ruining her life. So why did she find herself so drawn to him now? It couldn’t be love, could it; she didn’t love Jake, she hated him. And in any case, she didn’t ever want to love anyone again, not after Philip…Even if she wasn’t fairly certain that Jake’s only real interest in her was as a smokescreen for his secret love affair with another man’s wife…

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Gallant antagonist

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Deceit was never part of her nature Jancis Langfield knew that love meant nothing without loyalty and trust. Her parents' bitter divorce had taught her that, never mind that Thorp Kingman thought! Jancis could appreciate what a headache her irrepressible friend, Thorp's niece Sophie, was being, but why did Thorp have to assume Jancis herself was tarred with the same brush? Thorp had no right at all to pass judgment on her - until Jancis decided to tell him one tiny lie that mushroomed. Now she faced a lifetime of regret...and heartache.

Once for All Time

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Together they'd faced both crisis and death Clotilde had worked with Dr. James Thackery at London's busy St. Alma's Hospital for three years, but she'd never regarded theirs as anything more than a solid professional relationship. Then tragedy struck, and it was James who stepped in and took charge of Clotilde's shattered world, offering her his unhesitating comfort and support. It would have been so easy to fall in love with him, were he not already committed to another woman....

Bought with His Name

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To discourage him, Genista had deliberately let the arrogantly handsome Luke Ferguson believe that she was a promiscuous adventuress. She knew from experience the hurt a man could carelessly inflict on an innocent heart, and she realized how vulnerable she was to his brand of magnetism. Luke's proposal of marriage was a shock, as was his method of asking. It sounded very much like blackmail, and in the circumstances she had no alternative but to accept.

Frustration

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Considering the tumultuous circumstances of their first meeting. It was hardly surprising that Jake Lang should dislike and despise Natalie Buchan; although she hadn’t intended it that way, he could hardly be blamed for thinking she had seen him as nothing but a cheap substitute for her dead husband Angus. But their work threw them together and it was difficult for Natalie to avoid him – with the inevitable result that she found herself genuinely falling in love with him, and her love for Angus settling gently into the past. Yet what future was there for her and Jake? Could she ever make him change his mind about her?

Night of Love

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The Man: Steven Ryker, strong-willed, determined...dangerous to love! The Myth: That this tough guy didn't give a thought to any woman. The Legend: He was a man no female could resist, with a heart no woman could claim. The Awful Truth: Meg Shannon was in town--and Steven was in trouble! Once Steven had given sweet Meg his love, but she'd thrown it all away for a life that excluded him. Well, he didn't care that she was back in town; he'd learned his lesson the hard way. This bachelor wasn't going to get burned again, no matter what Meg said about circumstances beyond our control." His control was doing just fine, and she could forget all about rekindling their flame.

Dangerous Rhapsody

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"Don't be deceived, Emma," Damon said violently. "I'm not letting you go because I feel sorry for you. I'm letting you go because I have no intention of losing my self-respect over a little cheat like you." It didn't seem to matter any more what his reasons were. Emma knew only that she needed him now - more than at any other time of her life. The love she had felt for him when she was seventeen had not died. It had deepened. And today her love for him was that of a woman. Could she ever make him realize how she really felt about him?

The mating season

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City sophisticate and country girl. Jonni was both. She'd never really given up her love for country living--but now she was a fashion model living in New York. Her fiancé, Trevor, fit her glamorous city life-style. Gabe Stockman, however, was decidedly different. And meeting him again at her parent's ranch in Kansas, Jonni was suddenly swept with doubt and uncertainty. It was a difficult choice: the elegant, well-mannered man she was engaged to, or the earthy, vital ranchman who felt Jonni belonged in the country--and in his arms.

Song of the waves

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To her fellow passengers on the luxury cruise, Wendy Brown appeared to have everything going for her. She was young, beautiful, wealthy and fun-loving. They'd have been shocked if they'd known Wendy's secret. But she had vowed to tell no one what had changed her life. Yet, loving Garth Rivers, knowing that he loved her, how could she let him go on believing they had a future together? For Wendy, there was no future at all!

Forbidden fire

3.5 (2)
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There were two great loves in her life . . Louise's love for her beautiful home, Queen's Dower, was as solid and unchangeable as the house itself. But her love for her stepbrother, Daniel, had subtly evolved over the years. While she had adored him during her childhood, she now loved him with a woman's passion. She couldn't let Daniel hold her at arm's length, shut her out of his life. She didn't want any other man. She belonged with Daniel, just as she belonged at Queen's Dower. And it would always be that way!

Heaven here on earth

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Ryan's dream-come-true became a nightmare! The loan of her friend Mark's studio meant three blissful weeks for Ryan to sketch and paint. Every artist should be so lucky! Then she arrived at Montgomery Hall and found herself reacting to the insinuations of Mark's uncompromising older brother, Grant. Everything about Grant sent shivers of excitement through Ryan, evoking a response too powerful to ignore. But nothing she could say or do would convince the arrogant man of her integrity. Worst of all, Ryan found herself falling in love with him!

Midnight Lover

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Your father is alive... Those four words irrevocably changed Leonie Lincoln's whole conception of her past. She had to find him, talk to him--discover the hidden "whys" about herself. But however remote West Africa seemed in England, when she got there some things were surprisingly immediate--like the threat of tribal war and domineering foreign correspondents. "Take some advice, " Greg Thornton told her when he learned about her mission. "Fly back to England. There are all manner of dangers in the jungle.... "

Love's Only Deception

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Her sudden wealth seemed like a curse! A beloved friend had left Callie large shares of his family's firm, Spencer Plastics. Overnight she'd become one of Britain's wealthiest women and, it seemed, one of its most desirable! A Spencer heir's insistent courtship troubled her, until she discovered his family's plot for her marriage -- and divorce. But she was too much in love to see what lay behind the attentions of her next suitor, mysterious millionaire Logan Carrington. Too late she discovered how true the adage, money can't buy happiness -- or love!

Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?

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Trust didn't come easily to Tess... Tess was wary of good-looking men. Too often they were sexual opportunists to whom fidelity meant nothing--like her father. And she doubted if playwright Steve Houghten was any different. He'd turned up uninvited at her brother's villa in the south of France and was trying to win her affection. But he asked too many questions about her father's affairs for Tess to trust her emotional response to him. Tess had never understood the crazy things women did for the men who treated them badly--but then she'd never actually been in love before...

The Bride of the Delta Queen

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The lady was not for sale. Selena Merrick anticipated having a pleasant vacation in New Orleans. She was even lighthearted enough to joke with a group of conventioneers who mistakenly thought she was a lady of the night. Chance Barkley, however, overhearing Selena's foolish words about the fees she supposedly charged, took them seriously and insisted on hiring her services. Selena managed to escape him, but when they met again on board a Mississippi steamboat she knew her luck had run out...

Sun lord's woman

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Kismet – a force as gentle as an Arabian night, yet as cruel as the desert heat – brought Linda Layne from mock-Tudor suburbia to the arms of the only man she could ever love. Then on their wedding night it dealt the cruellest of cards. Sheikh Karim el Khalid was a man proud of his Arab blood, too scarred by the events of his childhood to let love grow between them once he had discovered Linda’s background. Yet love was the only thing that would bridge the gap between his own and Linda’s heritage.