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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
    • 2018

      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. But sometimes the most womanizing rakehell can be irresistible, and even his most causal attentions fascinated the sheltered Maddy Timms. Then one fateful day she receives the shocking news - the duke is lost to the world. And Maddy knows it is her destiny to help him and her only chance to find the true man behind the wicked facade. But she never dreamed her gentle, healing touch would alter his life and her own so completely - and bind them together in need, desire...and love.

      Aventures & Passions: Des fleurs dans la tourmente
    • 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
    • 2005

      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
    • 2004

      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
    • 1997

      Sterne der Nacht

      • 507 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      London 19. Jahrhundert: Leda Etoile, eine schöne Halbfranzösin, arbeitet als Näherin in einem Modesalon für das tägliche Überleben. Eines Tages taucht ein atemberaubender Mann im Salon auf, der ihren Weg bald wieder kreuzen wird. Leda verliert ihre Arbeit und zu allem Überfluß wird auch noch in ihre Wohnung eingebrochen. Sie stellt den Dieb und enttarnt eben diesen gutaussehenden Gentleman aus dem Salon - Mr. Samuel Gerard. Damit sie seine nächtlichen Aktivitäten für sich behält bietet ihr Samuel eine Stelle als Sekretärin an. Da sie keine andere Wahl hat, nimmt sie die Stelle an und folgt ihrem neuen Arbeitgeber nach Hawaii, dem Ort seiner Vergangenheit, an dem sie den Grund für seine Verschlossenheit erfährt: Samuel Gerard, der wohlhabende Geschäftsmann ist ein Schattenkrieger, ein Meister der alten Kampftechniken eines fernen Landes. Durch seine leidvolle Vergangenheit gedemütigt hat er geschworen sein Leben lang keusch zu bleiben, doch innerlich verbrennt er am Feuer der unerfüllten Leidenschaft.

      Sterne der Nacht
    • 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