Harlequin Romances

About Author

Anne Hampson was born on November 28 in England. At age six she had two ambitions: to teach and to write. Poverty after WWI deprived her of an education and at 14 she was making Marks & Spencer's blouses at one shilling (5p) each. She retired when she married. Later, when her marriage broke up, she was homeless with £40 in her purse. She went back to the rag trade and lived in a tiny caravan. But she never forgot her two ambitions, and when Manchester University decided to trial older women she applied, and three years later had achieved one ambition, so set her thoughts on number two. In 1969, her first novel, Eternal Summer, was accepted five days from posting and she soon had a contract for 12 more. From the caravan she went to a small stately home, drove a Mercedes and sailed on the QE2. From the first book, came over 125 more written for Mills & Boon, Harlequin and Silhouette. Alan Boon (the Boon of Mills & Boon) and she came up with the title for 'Harlequin Presents' over lunch at the Ritz. She suggested to Alan that they have a historical series. He told her to write one - it was done in a month, entitled Eleanor and the Marquis under the pseudonym Jane Wilby. She has the distinction of being number one in Harlequin Presents, Masquerade and Silhouette. Many of "Presents" have been reprinted many times (some as many as 16) and are now fetching up to $55, being classed as "rare" books. She has had 3 awards, one at the World Trade Centre where she received a standing ovation from her American fans, who had come from many states just to meet her. She has written her autobiography, entitled Fate Was My Friend. She is retired, but in 2005 she wrote two romance and crime novels, both of which were published by Severn House.

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Books in this Series

Stormy The Way

Anne Hampson

2.9 (7)

"Wanted. Good looking young man to perform simple task. Few hours only. Generous remuneration." When Ricky had blandly jilted her in order to make a more advantageous marriage and had then had the nerve to invite her to the wedding, Tara Maine was determined, for pride's sake, to go, but equally determined not to be an object of pity. So she had advertised for a bogus 'fiance' to accompany her to the wedding, and in the devastatingly handsome young Greek, Paul, found exactly what she was looking for. It was only when Paul's stern older brother Leon Dorkas, domineering and with the worst possible opinion of Englishwomen and their morals, got mixed up in it all that Tara realised what deep waters she was getting into!

Stars over Sarawak

Anne Hampson

3.4 (5)

There was an old tribal saying, Carl Denver told Roanna, after circumstances had caused her to spend a month with him in the jungle, that if a person saves another's life three times then he can claim that person as his property. Carl had saved her life three times, but although she loved him Roanna feared marriage to a man as hard and unfeeling as the toughened boss of an oil company in Sarawak, domain of the onetime famous White Rajahs. This story of two people thrown together in the primitive jungle of Borneo, with its mysteries and its dangers, and where the one-time head-hunters still often lived by the poison dart, makes it one of the most stirring and exciting this author has eves written.

Walk in the shadows

Jayne Bauling

4.0 (6)

What her father called her "missionary streak" had once again led her into trouble! Responding to a young lady's plea for help, Nicola Prenn found herself in a most compromising situation. It earned her the deep contempt of Barak Sorensen, the young lady's arrogant fiance. Nicola thanked her lucky stars she'd never have to see him again. And then her father accepted a commission on her behalf, to paint the portrait of a man called Sorensen.... Unable to correct the first impression she'd created, Nicola dreaded the coming encounter!