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Laura Kinsale

    Laura Kinsale, a New York Times bestselling author, transitioned to romance writing after a six-year career as a geologist. This prior experience, involving solitary drives to remote drilling sites and navigating male-dominated environments, provided a unique perspective that informs her narrative approach. Kinsale now dedicates her time to crafting intricate plots and exploring character motivations, trading the rugged outdoors for the quiet intensity of storytelling. Her work is known for its deep emotional resonance and the compelling development of her characters' journeys.

    My Sweet Folly
    The Dream Hunter
    Midsummer Moon
    Seize the Fire
    Shadowheart
    Flowers from the storm
    • 2010

      Lessons in French

      • 458 pages
      • 17 hours of reading
      3.7(2526)Add rating

      Laura Kinsale's unique and powerfully written love stories transcend the romance genre. In this, her first new book in five years, she delivers a poignant, funny, sexy, Regency romance sure to delight her many fans and attract a whole new readership.Trevelyan and Callie are childhood sweethearts with a taste for adventure, until the fateful day her father discovers them embracing in the carriage house and, in a furious frenzy, drives Trevelyan away in disgrace. Nine long, lonely years later, Trevelyan returns. Callie discovers that he can still make her blood race and fill her life with excitement, but he can't give her the one thing she wants more than anything--himself.For Trevelyan, Callie is a spark of light in a world of darkness and deceit. Before he can bear to say his last goodbyes, he's determined to sweep her into one last, fateful adventure, just for the two of them.

      Lessons in French
    • 2009

      Flowers from the storm

      • 560 pages
      • 20 hours of reading
      4.1(13477)Add rating

      The Duke of Jervaulx was brilliant and dangerous. Considered dissolute, reckless, and extravagant, he was transparently referred to as the ′D of J′ in scandal sheets, where he and his various exploits featured with frequency. But sometimes the most womanising rake can be irresistible, and even his most casual attentions fascinated the sheltered Maddy Timms, quiet daughter of a simple mathematician.

      Flowers from the storm
    • 2006

      Shadowheart

      • 488 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      Dangerous and dashing assassin Allegreto wants to regain his rightful place in the rich Italian principality of Monteverde. Happily, the means to do so is Lady Elena, long-lost Monteverde princess and sole heir to the kingdom. Though she is promised to his rival, Allegreto seizes her ship, takes Elena prisoner, and weds her, thus beginning their battle of wits and passion.

      Shadowheart
    • 2004
    • 2004

      A young knight will take up his sword for the honor of a beautiful and mysterious princess--and risk his life for the love that burns between them.

      For My Lady's Heart
    • 1997

      A mysterious lieutenant and a lonely, young widow must face the consequences that arise when their innocent correspondence transforms into a secret love--and a passion strong enough to destroy them both.

      My Sweet Folly
    • 1994

      The Dream Hunter

      • 348 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.6(23)Add rating

      Cool, reserved Lord Winter has been searching for the legendary horse known as String of Pearls. Instead he discovers Zenia Stanhope, an English adventuress, disguised as a Bedouin boy. Zenia longs to return to a comfortable life in England while Lord Winter wants to continue his dangerous adventures.

      The Dream Hunter
    • 1989

      Seize the Fire

      • 583 pages
      • 21 hours of reading
      4.0(1683)Add rating

      Readers should be enchanted. -Publishers Weekly An unlikely princess, exiled and innocent, and a war hero with hell to pay...

      Seize the Fire
    • 1987

      All the king's men could not surpass the intellect, nor all the king's ladies the beauty of Merlin Lambourne. As the infamous Napoleon's deadly army grows ever closer, Lord Ransom Falconer frantically searches for an inventor who can create a new way to defeat the advancing forces. He unexpectedly finds that only the lovely Merlin is adequate for the challenge. Drunk from her intoxicating beauty, Falconer whisks Merlin backto his home on a trail of tender kisses, oblivious to mounting whispers ofscandal. His quickly falls under the spell of her magical touch. But as Napoleon draws nearer, Falconer must use Merlin's own inventions to protect her from danger. The magic of love surrounds them as they fall under the spell of undeniable passion.

      Midsummer Moon
    • 1987

      Roderica Delamore, cursed with the ability to read minds, offers her entire fortune to marry the Devil Earl, a notorious Irish rake whose thoughts she cannot hear, only to discover the heights of passion and the torment of dark secrets from the past.

      Uncertain Magic