Anne Stuart was born on May 2, 1948 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. She became a voracious reader as a child.
Rock and roll and gothic romances were her lifeblood in her 20s. She moved to Vermont and wrote her first romance, Barrett’s Hill. It was published in 1974, when she was just 25. She has written many romances for several publishers including Dell, Doubleday, St. Martin’s Press and Harlequin. She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from Romance Writers of America.
She and her husband live in Northern Vermont. They have two grown children and several pets. She enjoys watching movies, listening to rock and roll, and quilting.
Even in death, Miranda's father had his revenge. And Miranda found herself put under the guardianship of the Reverend Smathers and his strange little family. In that stilted hypocritical household, Miranda's willfulness got the best of her - ...
'Please, my child, I haven't much time left. I want to die knowing whom I can trust.' Free-spirited, innocent young Lorna MacDougall shivered at the words. She was governess to Lady Margaret's grandchildren. Why would the wealthy ...
Young, impetuous Charlotte Morrow was embarking on a new life in Venice, the City of Lovers. Newly orphaned, yet filled with more excitement than grief, she had barely arrived in the cosmopolitan city when Holger von Wolfram, the dashing Austrian cap...
Young and free-spirited, Luciana longed to escape the superficial glitter of London and embrace the romance of Venice as her mother had done twenty years before. Now, like an irresistible enchantment, the Great City of Canals beckoned the tall, raven...
They called him Satan. His arrogant good looks compelled. His black eyes seemed able to see into one's very soul. Nicholas, the viscount Wyndham, was deemed a dark and dangerous man, outcast from polite society, hardly a fit companion for an inno...
Were the lines around his eyes from laughter or light living? One good look at Ronan Patrick Blakely, Marquis of Herrington, and Gillian Redford thought she knew the answer. This knight in tarnished armor, who had rescued her from a coach accident...
They were linked together by a chain of love Cathy Whiteheart was a battered woman on the run when she met Sinclair MacDonald. She had been trying to forget the past, to swear off men, and to avoid the kind of hurt that remains after the physical ...
There was nothing to give her heart's ease Cassandra O'Neill was appalled and shocked when she was falsely accused of tampering with lab results in her job as a researcher. She had always done meticulous work and was extremely hurt when her co-wor...
Carefully guarded, untouchable--her heart was like a museum piece. James Elliott thwarted her at every turn, outmaneuvering and outbidding her, scooping up art treasures before she could acquire them for San Francisco's Museum of American Art. It ...
She was all caught up in his tangled lies... The porcelain butterflies arrived like clockwork every year on her birthday. Rachel Chandler received gifts postmarked from exotic places all over the world from her brother Emmett Chandler, who had bee...
They were never meant to become friends -- or to fall in love The rest of the family was skating when Anne Kirkland met Noah Grant. He'd obviously been invited to New Jersey for the weekend, but by whom? Noah wasn't one of Anne's sister Holly's ...
Scandal, intrigue, and romance at a lively weekend party... HE WAS SO COLDLY HANDSOME, IT WAS POSITIVELY CRIMINAL. Why, his icy blue eyes made Elizabeth's heart flutter at their very first meeting. No doubt about it, the rumors were right:...
Her entire world was about to change Jessica Hansen vowed to climb the corporate ladder and make it to the top no matter what she had to do on the way. But her tough-as-nails exterior was a mask, hiding the frightened woman underneath crying for e...
Puente del Norte -- the last place on earth Maddy Lambert had expected to find herself. Yet here she was in the middle of Central America in an embattled guerrilla camp on a mission impossible. She'd come to get her dying father, whose ideals...
Nothing ever happened on Muscatoon Island After two years of devouring mystery novels and acting as a part-time cook for the Muscatoon Inn, Jeannie MacPherson realized that her vacation from her sensational ice-cream empire was definitely losing i...
"Something's coming. And it involves a man." The tarot and the pendulum were in agreement, but Sybil Richardson was dubious. Despite her position as secretary of the Society of Water Witches, Sybil's psychic skills were notoriously mediocre. When ...
SHE HAS A SIXTH SENSE FOR TROUBLE ... AND SHE'S READY FOR LOVE. Stunning beauty disguised the lethal skills that made trouble-shooter Maggie Bennett tough, icy, and cool. She thought she was ready for anything until she was assigned to protect ex...
Death wore a puppet's mask . . . Judith Daniels knew that her friend, Lacey, feared for her life. And when Lacey died suddenly, Judith was convinced that her death had not been an accident. Desperate to learn the truth, she applied for Lacey's job...
THERE ARE TWO THRILLS SHE CAN'T RESIST - ADVENTURE AND DESIRE! Her irresistible beauty and deadly skills in the martial arts always got her out of the tight spots. But Maggie Bennett couldn't escape a stab of pain and passion when her new partner...
SHE'S ABOUT TO IGNITE LIFE'S MOST EXPLOSIVE MIX - DANGER AND DESIRE! A perfect blend of provocative beauty and fighting skill kept her safe in the most dangerous situations. But Maggie Bennett had no protection against her feelings for the handso...
He'd come for a reason .... It had taken fifteen years for the small town of Morey's Falls, in the Montana foothills, to come to terms with a tragedy that had touched all their lives. Now, Tanner, the son of the man who had been the cause of it al...
IN PARIS THAT SPRING, RAIN DARKENED THE SKIES, AND WHENEVER IT RAINED, THE KILLING BEGAN.... Claire McIntyre tried to ignore the murders - the headlines of women stabbed to death, the city's mounting fear. She tried to forget, too, the painful pa...
Sandy was up to no good As Jane Dexter scrambled to keep a secret formula from falling into the wrong hands, her hired accomplice proved useless as a jack-of-all-illegal-trades. Convinced that a gloriously sensual woman lurked beneath Jane's ho-hu...
There's nothing like the brisk autumn nights of the North As cold winds rattled through broken windows and loose doors. Farnum's Castle felt like an icebox. Marielle Brandt couldn't complain to the landlord - she was the landlord, having inherited...
Blackheart had promised to give up a life of crime. Ferris Byrd had no intention of marrying a cat burglar. She trust her fiance, but when news came of jewel robberies in European cities Blackheart had recently visited, she began to wonder. Had h...
WHAT WAS IT THEY SAID ABOUT THROWING STONES? All that stood between Michael Dubrovnik and the creation of Dubrovnik Plaza was a building that begged for demolition--and Glass House's obstinate owner. Michael had met his share of Park Avenue blu...
PETER WAS DRIVING HER CRAZY Residing in the attic of the Delacroix family mansion, Peter Andrew Delacroix Jaffrey exerted a powerful fascination on his cousin's widow. Margaret Jaffrey had been warned not to trust Peter, that his sad smile hid...
MIXED BLESSING Elizabeth Hardy was afraid - afraid of her ability to see things she had no way of knowing, and afraid to risk her heart again. In Colonel Sam Oliver she found the one man who could give her courage - and tempt her to love once more...
NOSTALGIA WAS HER ENEMY Isabelle Romney couldn't escape her memories of Rancho Diablo--and the man who'd stolen her birthright. Cool, cynical and daring, Luke Cassidy had been first in her father's heart--and for better or worse, Luke was first...
Flying ace Angela Hogan dreams of making a record-setting run from Newfoundland to Cuba. But the Depression threatens her very survival - and in a last-ditch effort to save Hogan Air Freight from bankruptcy, Angela hires Jack Clancy. A renowned w...
TRUE LOVE NEVER DIES Though Katharine Lafferty was engaged to be married, her heart was still in mourning. Katharine had been nineteen and a college coed. Danny McCandless had been twenty-four and a well-dressed, coolheaded criminal. And his ef...
THE NIGHT WAS HIS Between dawn and dusk, Ethan Winslowe's weird mansion was as still as a crypt. Beneath its maze of gloomy corridors, its owner slept far from reach of the sun. As night fell, and fears and phantasms rose to haunt her, Megan Ca...
SHE LED HIM A MERRY CHASE... When San Francisco heiress Sally MacArthur's sister absconds with their father's priceless jade falcon, Sam Spade's biggest fan hires the most low-down private eye in the book. Unshaven, cynical Jack Diamond knows h...
HEAT WAVE Despite the sultry heat of Florida swamp country, Jassy Turner was usually coolheaded in a crisis. But Turner's Landing had never seen anything like the steamy heat of Caleb Spenser. Handsome as sin and twice as mean. Caleb was rumore...
WHO WAS HE? This enigmatic stranger with the sexy smile wasn't what he seemed. The man who called himself Michael Dowd came into Francey Neeley's life under mysterious circumstances and soon had her heart fluttering and her blood pumping. For whe...
HIS REPUTATION PRECEDED HIM Too late, film critic Silver Carlysle discovered what kind of enemy she'd made when her scathing reviews launched an all-out war with movie mogul Rafe McGinnis. Rafe was reputed to be cold-blooded, cynical and predat...
It was Sebastian Brand's job to terrify people, and he did it very well--but only on the screen. Or so Emma Milsom hoped. Because someone was stalking her, someone who wanted her dead, and it was her heart's deepest desire to cast dangerously appeali...
Once a daughter of the aristocracy, lovely Ghislaine "Gilly" de Lorgny lives for the destruction of Nicholas Blackthorne--the notorious rake she holds responsible for the cruel loss of her virtue, family and fortune. Now that the rogue has reentered ...
When Shannon Donnelly met divorce lawyer Patrick Lockwood in a crowded courtroom, the attraction was inexplicably instantaneous. They were complete opposites - him cynical, her sentimental - but there was no denying that sudden sizzle. What they didn...
HE WAS THE STRANGEST VALENTINE! When James Sheridan Rafferty died in the famed Saint Valentine's Day massacre, he'd no idea that Cupid's wicked angels would give him a second-chance ... in 1993. All he had to do was fall madly in love within fort...
A gentle convent-bred daughter of an enterprising earl is unwillingly wed to a handsome, wicked lord - and awakens the goodness in her new husband's tormented soul with the potent power of love....
A silent scream, a bloodstained knife... A century past, the faceless killer had strolled out of the London fog and into history, the most infamous murderer who ever lived. And only reporter J. R. Damien knew he had never died, could never die. It...
Wrongly accused of his father's murder, handsome Valerian Romney must flee his vengeful pursuers--ingeniously disguised as his older brother Phelan's "wife." But desire endangers the Romney's brazen masquerade. For ruffles and ...
Everyone on the island of St. Columba said Ailie Wallace was a bit daft. But when a mystical lover comes for her from the depths of the cold sea, Ailie alone must embrace the man that everyone fears - and claim his rapturous love as her own....
BAD BOYS WEREN'T MEANT TO BE ANGELS... ...until Gabriel Falconi returned to earth! With just one last chance to redeem his immortal soul, the man suddenly felt truly alive. He could really taste mulled cider, feel snow melting on his skin, ap...
To survive, Emma Langolet has committed a shocking crime. But, to her amazement, the notorious scoundrel James Killoran has agreed to accept responsibility for her desperate act - though the handsome Irish earl professes no interest whatsoever in the...
Had he unwittingly fallen for a nun? Rescuing a late army buddy's baby was a last request Reilly couldn't refuse. But he also found himself rescuing - and falling for - his buddy's wife! At least, that's who he thought the stubborn lady trudging b...
She couldn't remember her own husband... After a car wreck, Molly Winters awakened with amnesia - to terrifying news. She was being released into the custody of Patrick Winters, to whom she was apparently married, and from whom she was obviously e...
As range war spreads across the rough-and-tumble West, a black-clad stranger with an angel's face and a tarnished soul rides into Wyoming, where he clashes with a feisty young widow determined to fight for her land ... and win the heart of this enigm...
Cloaked in the form of a stranger, he lived a lie with the one woman he couldn't deny himself. and heart soaring romance....
10... 9... 8... He swirls you across the dance floor one last time... 7...6...5... You uncork champagne, don your party hat and grab your noisemaker... 4...3...2... He wraps his arms around you and you look into his eyes... 1... His lips meet your...
She is an impoverished noblewoman who lives by her wits as a Tarot reader for the English nobility. He is London's most notorious cat burglar. They met one dark, glittering night. Yet even Jessamine Maitland cannot foresee the destiny that will s...
Kelly Malone wants commitment and stability. She needs a good father for her baby...but will she find him in a rough-and-tumble rancher?...
Half-sister to Richard the Fair, Alys has been schooled in the sheltered ways of the convent, far from the treachery and intrigue of castle life. Until she is taken from the cloister and brought to a place filled with secrets. Here she is to meet her...
This story matches the climate in the Old West when a part-time sheriff and gunfighter and a gutsy dance hall proprietress head toward a dangerous showdown with their hearts....
A WOUNDED WOMAN Rachel Connery is a woman with a mission--to destroy Luke Bardell, the charismatic man who seduced millions of dollars from her dying mother, thus robbing Rachel of her inheritance. Now Rachel wants revenge--and she's willing to e...
The man had secrets... Blindsided by a hurricane, Katie Flynn was seeking shelter from the storm -- but all she found was a moody, broody recluse named O'Neal. Trapped with him in his house on a windswept cliff overlooking the wildly tossed sea, K...
BEWITCHED BY DESIRE Disgracing her minister father by dancing barefoot in the moonlit forest, Elizabeth Penshurst is banished to her distant relatives in the wilds of Yorkshire. When she meets Gabriel Durham, who was expelled from the priesthood a...
Emma O'Bannion has been entertaining herself with romantic daydreams about the mysterious, gorgeous Frenchman who's moved into her New York apartment building. On a whim, she decides to act on her instincts for once, and ends up in water so hot that ...
A SHADOWED PAST In the wealthy MacDowell family, adopted daughter Carolyn Smith always felt like an outsider. But as she tends the dying MacDowell matriarch, Aunt Sally--the only mother she's ever known--Carolyn hopes her aunt will find peace. The...
Gowns of White No man can resist a woman in white... Five days before Susan Abbott's wedding and she hadn't a thing to wear. That is until the too-darn-sexy and enigmatic Jake hand-delivered an heirloom wedding gown - and changed her pri...
SHE HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO TRUST A DANGEROUS MAN WITH HER LIFE.... Practical Maggie Brown was the dutiful daughter, the good sister-and in trouble again because of her feckless family. But Ben Frazer held the answers to her problems. Maggie hired hi...
As the child bride of and elderly husband, Lady Julianna of Moncrieff learned little of men and nothing of pleasure. So when the newly widowed lady finds herself thrown into the company of the mocking and elegant Nicholas Strangefellow, a maddening c...
Marika, the astonishingly tall, vibrant, bigger-than-life personality that Edward-of-the-designer-suits has spent his life avoiding, is the proprietor of a funky maternity shop. Edward's expectant sister needs a few things, but his order for her has ...
HOUSE OF SHADOWS The house on Sunset Boulevard has witnessed everything: from the infamous murder-suicide of a '50s starlet and her lover, to the drug-fueled commune in the '60s, to the anguish of its present owner, Jilly Meyer, who is struggling to...
They needed no words between them... The man had no identity, no past, and the mind of a genius packaged in rippling muscles and sun-seared skin. It was Dr. Elizabeth Holden's job to uncover the mystery of this man, who seemed to speak only the la...
Two men -- different as Night and Day... Michael Blackheart: The illegitimate son of a legendary cat burglar, Michael is going to steal the world's most valuable private collection, right out from under the noses of the rich and famous -- and beat...
It was a dream come true. Buying a run-down farm in a beautiful Vermont town is the start of a new life for Sophie Davis. She moves her mother, Grace, and her half sister, Marty, out of the city, hoping the change will help both women sort out the...
Twenty years ago, a talented and rising poet disappeared in the Maine woods. Now English professor Jodi Ferrell wants to write his story, and find out what really happened to Michael O'Flannery....
Jamie Kincaid knows she can't move on with her life until she has answers. And she's walking straight into the fire to find them. A year ago Jamie learned that her beloved cousin, Nate, had been killed. Beaten to death in what police suspect was a...
There's the date from hell -- the guy in a bad suit and toupee -- and the hot date from hell.These men are waaay too tempting. One wicked, sexy grin and, well -- who can resist! Certainly not these three women... A spy should know better, but t...
Independent and headstrong, Elizabeth of Bredon wants only to become a nun, but her journey to the convent of St. Anne's threatens her choice. It's not the escort of holy friars who tempt her, but the man they are taking to do penance for his many si...
Angela McKenna is back in Crescent Cove after a painful divorce. As if that isn't enough, she discovers that her secret teenage crush is also back in town, hiding from the world. Her Christmas could use brightening up. Maybe if she bought a special c...
When you dance with the devil, you hold hands with temptation... Christian Montcalm was a practical man, if a destitute scoundrel, but his plan to bed and wed the delectable Miss Hetty Chipple would take care of that sticky wicket. However, there ...
NEVER GET IN THE WAY OF A MISSION The job was supposed to be dead easy -- hand-deliver some legal papers to billionaire philanthropist Harry Van Dorn's extravagant yacht, get his signature and be done. But Manhattan lawyer Genevieve Spenser soon r...
Anne Stuart's Out-of-Print Gems is a special collection of some of Anne’s personal favorites from her long career. She has added comments to share why each book was, and still is, important to her. In her own words: "These are some of my favorite b...
You're invited to spend the weekend with three extraordinary sisters... When she was sixteen, Dee Fortune kidnapped her two younger sisters and ran from danger. Now twenty-nine, she's still trying to control her shape-shifting power--no easy task ...
TALK ABOUT LOST IN TRANSLATION... In the wake of a failed love affair, brainy beauty Jilly Lovitz takes off for Tokyo. She's expecting to cry on her sister Summer's shoulder, then spend a couple months blowing off steam in Japan. Instead, she's sn...
This Christmas, holiday getaway has an entirely new meaning... Take Eloise. First she's kidnapped by Santa, and now she's camping out in an abandoned lighthouse with the most infuriatingly intoxicating cop she's ever met. Is she sleeping with the ...
Abby has just arrived in Summerville, Ohio, with her placid Newfoundland, Bowser. She's reluctantly inherited her grandmother's coffee shop, but it's not long before she's brewing up trouble in the form of magical baked goods and steaming up her l...
A PREDATOR LURKS IN THE RAIN-SOAKED STREETS OF SILVER FALLS Rachel is finally getting it right. After years of wandering, she's married the perfect man and settled into the ideal life. But as her sleepy little town turns into a killing ground, she re...
Venice, 1740. Desperate, starving, Kathleen Strong makes her way to a job interview that promises a chance at proper employment...and maybe a bite to eat. Accused of "gross immorality," she's adrift after being dismissed from her governess positio...
A damaged beauty. The cruelest heart. Ruined beyond repair and shunned by London society, lovely Miranda Rohan rebelliously embraces the freedom that comes from having nothing left to lose. However, this dangerous course throws her under the power...
Elizabeth Pennington has come to the war-torn South American country of Callivera to volunteer at a tiny mission. Kidnapped by the local rebels who are more interested in ransom than politics, she ends up at their camp in the Andes where she meets Fi...
Anguished by death. Driven by revenge. Bryony Russell and her two sisters are left destitute by the disgrace and unexpected death of their father, a wealthy shipping magnate. He left a cryptic note, and Bryony is determined to find the real villai...
A Victorian beauty finds passion…with the man who may have murdered her father. Madeleine Russell, the beautiful daughter of a shipping magnate, counted on marrying a wealthy husband. Then her father’s disgrace and death left her with no dowry...
She’s crept back into the home she lost. He’s crept into her heart. Sophie Russell was once society’s darling. But after the disgrace and death of her father, she now finds all doors firmly shut to her -- including those of her family home. ...
Evangeline Morrissey remembers the last time she saw her husband: it was during their honeymoon, right before he stole her elderly aunt's earrings and abandoned her. Now, five years later, the enigmatic man who’d broken her heart and destroyed her ...
Pro-bono lawyer Jenny Parker is the only true innocent in her family. The daughter of a New Orleans crime lord, she's tried for years to make her own way, but family ties always have a way of pulling her back in line. When her younger brother gets in...
The SoldierTough, gorgeous soldier of fortune Reilly (Whatever his other name is) promised his best friend he’d take care of his wife and baby, bringing them out of the war-torn South American country they were stuck in. He was expecting a spoiled...
Rita Award winning title“Desert Isle Keeper” " All About Romance ReviewsJessica Hansen’s success and icy calm hide painful secrets and a past that shapes her life. That is, until she meets Springer MacDowell, her best friend’s son. One deci...
Madison Simcoe has had enough. She’s a cold, lonely workaholic who’s been harassed one too many times by a fellow worker, it’s Christmas and the spirit is gone, and she feels like a stranger in her own life. A little retail therapy should cheer...
Kit Adderley is the worst man in England, a bored libertine who’ll do anything to entertain himself, including kidnapping the strong-minded, freckled dab of a girl promised to his partner in crime. Bryony Marton is trapped in a quiet life and lo...
Emma Manchester was a proper young lady with the soul of a pirate. For the last twelve years she’s done everything she’s supposed to do, while yearning to break the rules, and now she’s engaged to marry a respected magistrate and her future loo...
The Gunslinger... Mad Billy Maddox, aka the Angel of Death, comes to the tiny town in Johnson County, Wyoming as a gun for hire to scare away the settlers. He’s a man who makes his living with his guns, and he never expects to find someone to make...
Kitty Whitehead has never gotten over her banishment from Mariposa, the family home in Spain. When her glamorous cousin Bella comes up with the daring suggestion that they take each other’s place, she reluctantly agrees, for the chance to say goodb...