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Novellas are long short stories or short novels, generally about a quarter of the length of a typical historical romance. They are published in anthologies which typcically contain stories by three other authors on a loose or tight theme. THE DRAGON AND THE VIRGIN PRINCESS... in Dragon Lovers
NAL Trade paperback March 2007Mass market paperback, October, 2007 The "faery four" are venturing in otherworld again, this time with four wonderful love stories featuring dragons -- all kinds of dragons! Jo Beverley, Karen Harbaugh, Mary Jo Putney, and Barbara Samuel. Read chapter one here. The Dragon Lovers page See my captioned dragon pictures here. Buy now from AMAZON.COM THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES... in Irresistible Forces
NAL Signet, March 2001 0-451-20380-1Lord Vandeimen returns home from Waterloo to ruined estates, his family all dead. His attempts to recreate something of his heritage leave him deep in debt, and he is ready to commit suicide when a woman bursts into his room with an extraordinary proposal. Mrs. Maria Celestin, widow of a wealthy foreign merchant, will pay him a small fortune to pretend to be her betrothed husband for six weeks.
Van cannot refuse, but he is wary of this outrageous good fortune. He is also intent on getting into the widow's bed. He doesn't expect to be dragged back into life, and into love, or into a battle to win the woman who bought him. "Darkly erotic." Publishers Weekly. About the whole collection -- "Atmospheric and charming...""Poignant..." Romantic Times. About the whole collection -- "You'll be looking for a young man after reading this unforgettable anthology!" Read an excerpt Read my article, In Praise of Younger Men, that inspired this anthology Note: This story is out of print but will be reissued along with its companion novels The Dragon's Bride and The Devil's Heiress in an omnibus trade paperback book THREE HEROES in June, 2004 Order Three Heroes now from AMAZON.COM DAY OF WRATH (RITA finalist) in STAR OF WONDER A millenial collection
Berkley, November 1999. 0-515-12653-5Out of print A holiday collection for the millennium, offering joy, hope, and romance. Four stories wrapped around the turning of the centuries, and a legend about a jewel touched by the Christ Child in Bethlehem. Day Of Wrath. 999 AD. When her childhood friend and love marries another, Wulfhera of Froxton enters a nunnery, but Viking raids and the coming of the millennium cause her to flee home. There she finds Raef a widower, but intent only on despair and suicidal vengeance. Then, on the shortest day of the year, she finds a precious jewel in the belly of a fish. Is it the fabled Star of the Magi? Can it really help her to bring peace, and save the life of the man she loves? ![]()
Harlequin Historicals, October 1999. 0-373-83417-9Reissue, October 2005 0-373-77148-7 This novella will be reissued in a new collection, A Bride By Christmas, in October 2008 alongside stories by Heather Graham and Candace Camp. It was a daring attempt to rescue Lady Nicolette de Montelan before her father finds out that she's pregnant with an enemy family's child, but it goes awry because Nicolette's cousin Joan has played the Blessed Virgin in the Christmas reenactment. After all, for Nicolette to do it would have been sacrilege! Now, however, Lady Joan finds herself trapped in a cave on Christmas Eve with the great Edmund de Grave, the Golden Lion, and neither of them are pleased about it. He's annoyed that his plan has been spoiled and worried about his brother, now in enemy hands. She's disappointed that a distant hero has turned out to be the sort to get a lady with child outside of marriage. A mighty battle ensues, but one that ends up breaking ancient hatreds and bringing the true spirit of Christmas and love to everyone around. THE LORD OF ELPHINDALE in FAERY MAGIC Four stories set when Georgian England and the Kingdom of Faery collide. Kensington, January 1998 Reissue, September, 2006
![]() Also featuring stories by Mary Jo Putney, Barbara Samuel, and Karen Harbaugh. This unique collection was put together on-line and features linked stories set in Georgian England in the boundaries between the human world and that of Faerie. Gwen Forsythe is startled, to put it mildly, to be told that she's part Faery, and that it is her duty to marry into the human family of Elphinson to strengthen the Faery bond there. It's not that she doesn't want to marry Sir Andrew Elphinson, her childhood friend. But Drew doesn't care for her, and is about to offer for another lady. Can she really seduce him at Faery's command? Buy now from AMAZON.COMA GIFT OF LIGHT in THE CHRISTMAS CAT(Regency) Berkley, November 1996
Kitty Mayhew is alone in the world, and at Christmas, but then her new cat and her maid involve her with the rake who lives nearby. A rake who doesn't believe in the Christmas spirit.
Tricked by a clever seducer, Kate Dunstable finds herself a pregnant army campfollower. She will not let her child be born a nameless bastard, however, and pursues the father into a battlefield, determined on marriage. There, however, she finds that her lover is dead. In despair, in labor, she accepts the offer of one of his fellow officers, a man who expects to die. But Charles Tennant does not die, and soon they discover that their midnight marriage has created as many problems as it solved. FORBIDDEN AFFECTIONS in A SPRING BOUQUET Zebra, May 1996 Anna Featherstone is just sixteen and should never even encounter a person like the wicked Earl of Carne, but when she discovers a secret door, she becomes entangled in his attempt to clear his name of an old scandal. The wicked earl doesn't know what's hit him. Literally! And Anna knows her problem all too well. She's suffering from forbidden affections... A MUMMER'S PLAY in A REGENCY CHRISTMAS, Signet, Oct. 1995 0-451-18014-35 Justina Travers is sure that her beloved fiancee was killed because of the treason of his commanding officer, Lucky Jack Beaufort. Now that Lucky Jack is home and Duke of Cramoore, she intends to end his luck forever. But after sneaking into his home as part of a Christmas mummers' play, she begins to uncover secrets that change everything. THE DEMON'S BRIDE in Moonlight Lovers NAL, October 1993 0-451-177223 Out of print Rachel Proudfoot has enough trouble resisting the temptation of rakish Lord Morden without supernatural intervention. When she plays the traditional role of the Demon's Bride, however, a mighty earth spirit wants to use them both to return to the world. LORD SAMHAIN'S NIGHT in ALL HALLOWS' EVE, October 1992 0-8027-1252-5 A childish superstition turns serious for Phoebe Batsford and the two brothers who are suitors for her hand. The trouble is that she ends up engaged to marry the wrong one, and only a ghost can sort it all out. (This only came out in a short run of hardcovers. You'll be really lucky to find it!) TWELFTH NIGHT in A Christmas Delight Zebra, 1991
A Christmas Delight is out of print, but this story was in a new collection, FIVE GOLDEN RINGSZebra, Oct. 2000 0-8217-7062-4 Every year at Christmas, the Conyngham family host a grand medieval twelve day feast, and this year Lady Alice Conyngham is organizing it for the first time. It presents only the usual problems until a man from her past turns up -- Tyr Norman, who had seduced her and abandoned her on Twelfth Night. But Tyr, now Lord Ivanridge, seems to think that he is the injured party, and he has the same power as before to melt Alice's common sense and willpower.
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