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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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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!

How the series evolves

beginning
#484 Marriage Without Love
3.5· strong start
peak
Song of the waves
4.3· best book in series
the pit
Darling Deceiver
2.4
finale
Wanting
3.4· sticks the landing
overall
3.6· it's a rollercoaster

Books in this Series

#484

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!

#635

The sex war

3.4 (9)
2

"Daniel was a sweet poison to her. When Lindsay discovered her brother was in a state of financial disaster, she was willing to do anything to help--or almost anything. Daniel Randall, her ruthless ex-husband, was the one person who could rescue her brother, and he would--if she agreed to resume their marriage. "Everything has its price," he said. But Lindsay wasn't about to be bought; she would never forget that the desire Daniel stirred within her led to heartache. Yet she couldn't forget her brother, either. This was blackmail!"

#658

A Secret Intimacy

3.5 (13)
3

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…

#725

Gallant antagonist

3.6 (5)
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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.

Bought with His Name

4.0 (30)
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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.

Darling Deceiver

2.4 (7)
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At seventeen, Carissa had been a silly, romantic teenager in love with a dream called Cade Fernand — which was why she had behaved the way she had on the one dramatic occasion they had met. Now, eight years later, they had met again, in very different circumstances, and she had no reason to suppose that Cade would even recognise her, let alone remember her. But he did remember — and, it soon became obvious, still despised her as he had all those years ago. And Carissa realised, hopelessly, that her feelings for him had not changed either... In her very 1st moment of passion, Carissa had yielded to Cade Fernand. He was a famous singer, handsome--& blind. Her love was a beautiful dream--& a bad mistake. It took 8 years for Carissa to forget. Then suddenly, Cade was back--no longer blind, still as attractive as ever, & hiding from a killer. Carissa, working for the agent handling his tour, was assigned to help him. But even the threat to his life couldn't take Cade's mind off the woman Carissa had become...

Hell or high water

3.6 (9)
2

"We can't sell it to someone like him!" Helen had to admit the sale of their estate was necessary. She and her mother could no longer afford to keep it up. But she couldn't agree with her mother that selling it to the popular writer, Jarret Manning, would be a good deal. Jarret was a stranger, a rootless jet-setter with no sense of tradition. Yet Helen soon discovered that arguing over real estate was the least of her problems with Jarret. He threatened to come between her and her fiance, Charles. And he seemed likely to succeed!

Dangerous Rhapsody

3.6 (16)
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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?

Hard to Get

3.5 (2)
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He seemed completely immune to her Rich girl Lara Schofield had never met a man she couldn't instantly captivate, and in fact she'd made a hobby of collecting hearts and breaking them while she remained personally uninvolved. Until she encountered Jordan Sinclair. He was devastating, everything a woman could ask for. And he was utterly indifferent to Lara. But what Lara wanted, Lara got, and she was determined to have Jordan Sinclair. Even if it meant playing with the potent fire of his passion, and playing with Jordan was very dangerous indeed....

Song of the waves

4.3 (4)
1

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!

Heaven here on earth

4.0 (11)
3

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

3.8 (6)
3

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

3.0 (1)
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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?

3.0 (7)
2

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

3.8 (4)
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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...

Southern Nights

3.7 (3)
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Every novel in this collection is your passport to a romantic tour of the United States through time-honored favorites by America’s First Lady of romance fiction. Each of the fifty novels is set in a different state, researched by Janet and her husband, Bill. For the Daileys it was an odyssey of discovery. For you, it’s the journey of a lifetime. Your tour of desire begins with this story set in Florida.

Wanting

3.4 (8)
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This man was more than a match for her. As a model, Heather was accustomed to being regarded as a sex object, but she made certain no one in her private life treated her that way. She kept men at a distance, using her body as a lure and a torment, then rejecting her would-be lovers as retribution for the traumatic experiences of her past. All that changed when she met Race Williams. He was a master at the game of enticement and denial, and for the first time Heather knew what it was to burn for something she couldn't have...