Bertrice Small

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Bertrice Small
  • Bibliography:
    61 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1978
  • Latest Book:
    May 2021
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About the Author

Bertrice Williams was born on December 9, 1937 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA, the daughter of Doris S. and David R. Williams, both broadcasters. She studied at Attended Western College for Women and Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School. On October 5, 1963, she married George Sumner Small, a photographer and designer with a History Major at Princeton. They had a son Thomas David. She has lived on eastern Long Island for over 30 years, and she loves it! Her greatest passions are her family; Finnegan and Sylvester, the family cats; Nicki, the elderly cockatiel who whistles the NY Mets charge call; her garden; her work, and just life in general.

Published since 1947, Bertrice Small is the author of over 50 romance novels. A New York Times bestselling author, she has also appeared on other best-seller lists including Publishers Weekly, USA Today, and the L.A. Times. She is the recipient of numerous awards including Career Achievement for Historical Romance; Best Historical Romance; Outstanding Historical Romance Series; Career Achievement for Historical Fantasy; a Golden Leaf from the New Jersey Romance Writers chapter of Romance Writers of America; an Author of the Year (2006) and Big Apple Award from the New York City Romance Writers chapter of RWA, and several Reviewers Choice awards from Romantic Times. She has a "Silver Pen" from Affair De Coeur, and an Honorable Mention from The West Coast Review of Books. In 2004 she was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by ROMANTIC TIMES magazine for her contributions to the Historical Romance genre. And in 2008 she was named by ROMANTIC TIMES along with her friends Jennifer Blake, Roberta Gellis and Janelle Taylor, a Pioneer of Romance. Bertrice Small is a member of The Authors Guild, Romance Writers of America, PAN, and PASIC. She is also a member of RWA's Long Island chapter, L.I.R.W., and is its easternmost member on the North Fork of Eastern Long Island.

Full Series List in Order

The Border Chronicles

1 - A Dangerous Love (Oct-2006)
2 - The Border Lord's Bride (Oct-2007)
3 - The Captive Heart (Oct-2008)
4 - The Border Lord and the Lady (Oct-2009)
5 - The Border Vixen (Oct-2010)
6 - Bond of Passion (Oct-2011)

Cyra Hafisa

1 - The Kadin (Feb-1978)
2 - Love Wild and Fair (Dec-1978)

The Friarsgate Inheritance

1 - Rosamund (Oct-2002)
2 - Until You (Oct-2003)
3 - Philippa (Oct-2004)
4 - The Last Heiress (Oct-2005)

The O'Malley Saga

1 - Skye O'Malley (Oct-1980)
2 - All the Sweet Tomorrows (Apr-1984)
3 - A Love for All Time (Jul-1986)
4 - This Heart of Mine (Aug-1985)
5 - Lost Love Found (Feb-1989)
6 - Wild Jasmine (Aug-1992)
7 - Darling Jasmine (Sep-1997)
8 - Bedazzled (Jul-1999)
9 - Besieged (Mar-2000)
10 - Intrigued (Feb-2001)
11 - Just Beyond Tomorrow (Feb-2002)
12 - Vixens (Feb-2003)

The Pleasures

1 - Private Pleasures (Jul-2004)
2 - Forbidden Pleasures (Jul-2006)
3 - Sudden Pleasures (Jun-2007)
4 - Dangerous Pleasures (Aug-2008)
5 - Passionate Pleasures (Aug-2010)
6 - Guilty Pleasures (Aug-2011)

The Silk Merchant's Daughters

1 - Bianca (Oct-2012)
2 - Francesca (Apr-2013)
3 - Lucianna (Oct-2013)

World of Hetar

1 - Lara (Jun-2005)
2 - A Distant Tomorrow (May-2006)
3 - The Twilight Lord (May-2007)
4 - The Sorceress of Belmair (May-2008)
5 - The Shadow Queen (Apr-2009)
6 - Crown of Destiny (May-2010)

Wyndham Saga

1 - Blaze Wyndham (May-1988)
2 - Love, Remember Me (May-1994)

Book List in Order: 61 titles

  • The Kadin

    Cyra Hafisa - 1

    Abducted from a life of privilege, she was sold into slavery in a distant land. For Lady Janet Leslie, there would be no escaping the harem of the wealthy and powerful Sultan Selim. But from the moment the handsome ruler spied his breathtaking "Cyra,...

  • Love Wild and Fair

    Cyra Hafisa - 2

    THE EPIC CONSUMMATION OF A GRAND AND GLORIOUS LOVE! IN AN AGE OF CHIVALRY AND SAVAGERY... A story of unbounded love that sweeps from the snowy Scottish Highlands to the exotic pleasure domes of Constantinople to sultry, intrigue-ridden Naples.....

  • Adora

    Ellora's Cave: Blush

    A THOUSAND NIGHTS OF RAPTURE, TEN THOUSAND JOYFUL DAWNS, FOREVER HE WOULD WHISPER HER NAME, THE SECRET OF ALL LOVE... Her mahogany hair and violet eyes captivated young Prince Murad the moment he saw her in a convent garden, and their love flowere...

  • Skye O'Malley

    The O'Malley Saga - 1

    There has never been a woman like Skye O'Malley With ebony hair, blue eyes, silken skin, and a luscious body, she is a hot-tempered vixen made for love. Courageous and wise, mistress of a mighty fleet, shrewd overseer of vast wealth, and both frie...

  • Unconquered

    Miranda -- Strong-willed. Impetuous. Brilliant. Beautiful. Unconquered -- when she's forced to marry a stranger to keep her home -- even though it's clear he's the only man for her... Unconquered -- when a savage Crimean slave breeder see...

  • Beloved

    BELOVED OF THE GODS. BELOVED OF MEN. Her deep gray eyes, silky raven hair, magnificent body, and astonishing beauty rival the qualities of her legendary ancestor Cleopatra, and indeed, at her birth, her stars proclaim she will be lucky--and very a...

  • All the Sweet Tomorrows

    The O'Malley Saga - 2

    She's raven-haired and green-eyed ...hot-blooded and sexy... clever and intelligent... EVERYONE ADORES SKYE O'MALLEY Her husband, Niall, now presumed dead ...Her beloved children, for whom she will sell herself in marriage... Her dear friends i...

  • This Heart of Mine

    The O'Malley Saga - 4

    Embarking on a dangerous secret mission for Queen Elizabeth, beautiful, indomitable Skye O'Malley and her noble husband Adam de Marisco must leave behind their lovely, 15-year-old daughter Velvet. They have no fears for the safety of their youngest c...

  • A Love for All Time

    The O'Malley Saga - 3

    HE IS SKYE O'MALLEY'S HANDSOME YOUNG BROTHER...SHE'S A BEAUTIFUL STARNGER Conn O'Malley is an Irish rogue no woman can resist. Known as the handsomest man at court, he has been seducing and abandoning wenches and royal ladies alike, until he meets...



  • Enchantress Mine

    It was a time of savagery, splendor and undying love! From the golden pleasure domes of Constantinople to the barbaric pomp of Malcolm of Scotland's court, this is the magical tale of ravishingly beautiful Mairin of Aelfleah, called Enchantress b...

  • Blaze Wyndham

    Wyndham Saga - 1

    Blaze Wyndham. The ravishing beauty who came to the lavish and lustful court of Henry VIII to become the mistress and confidante of the most powerful man in England. Although he demanded her surrender with all the awesome power of his position, the K...

  • Lost Love Found

    The O'Malley Saga - 5

    To the ivory palaces and harems of the East comes the exquisite Valentina, driven by destiny, heritage...and passion. VALENTINA HAD BEEN ADMIRED, MARRIED, WIDOWED, YET HAD NEVER KNOWN LOVE.... ...Not even at the illustrious Court of Queen Eliza...

  • The Spitfire

    THEY CAST THEIR DESTINIES TO THE WINDS OF DESIRE.... The year is 1483. Beautiful Lady Arabella Grey, young cousin of England's King Richard III, glories in her betrothal to Sir Jasper Keane, protector of Greyfaire Keep, her ancestral home on the t...

  • A Moment in Time

    Set in 1060 Wales, this details the adventures of a Welsh lass of high degree who will suffer various physical humiliations and have two husbands, one of whom changes shape when occasion demands. Quite beautiful Wynne has refused offers of marriage i...

  • Wild Jasmine

    The O'Malley Saga - 6

    Skye O'Malley's glorious granddaughter follows her destiny from India to England... From the palaces of pashas in seventeenth-century India to the scandalous court of James Stuart of England, one woman struggles against fate to find true l...

  • To Love Again

    A NOBLEWOMAN IN EARLY BRITAIN, A SLAVE IN EXOTIC BYZANTIUM, SHE WOULD ALWAYS BE A MAGNIFICENT CREATURE OF LOVE AND DESTINY...Britain AD453, Beautiful, headstrong, and defiant, Cailin Drusus possesses the strength and pride of her Celtic-born mother, ...

  • Love, Remember Me

    Wyndham Saga - 2

    Lovely Nyssa Wyndham, fair and proud as her mother, Blaze, is lady-in-waiting to Henry VIII's fourth wife.... Scandalizing all of England, Henry has his marriage annulled, for the Queen cannot meet the bawdy desires of the insatiable king. Henry s...

  • The Love Slave

  • Hellion

    SHE WAS CALLED BELLE FROM HELL.... As fierce and indomitable as any man, Isabelle of Langston rules the family lands with an iron hand after her father's death. But the brazen beauty meets her match in Hugh Fauconier, bold knight and rightful Saxo...



  • Darling Jasmine

    The O'Malley Saga - 7

    Jasmine had been forced into marriage twice. Rebelling at King James' decree that she wed Jemmie Leslie, fifth earl of Glenkirk, she fled to France with her children. But her youngest, the illegitimate offspring of Jasmine's hot-blooded lover, Prince...

  • Betrayed

    Bertrice Small brings history to life through indomitable women who live with wit, intelligence, and courage and who love with fierce delight. Now she sweeps us to a time and place of fiery power struggles, where one woman holds the key to a country'...

  • Deceived

  • The Innocent

    Eleanore of Ashlin had promised her life to God--until fate intervened. With her brother's untimely death, Eleanore becomes the heiress of an estate vital to England's defenses. Now she is ordered by royal command to wed one of the king's knights rat...

  • Bedazzled

    The O'Malley Saga - 8

    Determined to elope with a peer whose name has been blackened by his murderous brother, Lady India Lindley boards a ship bound for Italy with her intended. But when the vessel is taken captive by Ottoman pirates, the independent beauty becomes a slav...

  • Ecstasy

    in Captivated

    Dagon, Prince of Aramis, has been betrayed by his twin brother, and sold into slavery. He vowed to escape his tortured life, and seek revenge...until he was brought to Kava. Now Dagon is under the rapturous spell of the women who rule this kingdom an...

  • Besieged

    The O'Malley Saga - 9

  • A Memory of Love

    A tale of stunning passion, reckless danger, and the fierce will of a remarkable woman who can wield a sword as powerfully as any man -- and who dares to fight for her most uninhibited desires... Spirited, iron-willed Rhonwyn is the bastard child of...

  • Mastering Lady Lucinda

    in Fascinated

  • Intrigued

    The O'Malley Saga - 10



  • The Duchess

    In this lush new novel, Bertrice Small has created a moving story of consuming passion and undeniable love set against the noble splendor of Georgian England. . . . As the daughter of the richest man in England, Allegra Morgan attracts a number of...

  • Just Beyond Tomorrow

    The O'Malley Saga - 11

    With his father dead and his mother in France, Patrick Leslie, Duke of Glenkirk, discovers the obligations of the estate and its people are now his alone. But during a day of hunting, a chance meeting ensures that he will not be alone much longer, fo...

  • The Awakening

    in Delighted

    Marguerite Abbott, the most enchanting courtesan at the most elegant brothel in Paris, has lost her heart to no man...until an irresistible visitor from New Orleans teaches her the true meaning of Eros' delights....

  • Rosamund

    The Friarsgate Inheritance - 1

    Rosamund Bolton is the heiress to the manor of Friarsgate on the wild Cumbrian border between England and Scotland. More than a splendid inheritance, Friarsgate will chart the fate of the orphaned beauty widowed at a precious young age. It will take ...

  • Vixens

    The O'Malley Saga - 12

    With their unbridled romance, unforgettable characters, and lush sensuality, Bertrice Small's bestsellers have captivated readers again and again. Now she concludes her thrilling Skye's Legacy series with the story of three cousins, all great-great g...

  • Until You

    The Friarsgate Inheritance - 2

    Rosamund Bolton is determined finally to live her own life. She has claimed her inheritance, rejected her latest suitor-- and decided to travel to the court of her dear friend, Queen Margaret of Scotland. It is against this lavish and unpredictable b...

  • Zuleika and Her Barbarian

    in I Love Rogues

    Princess Zuleika of Dariyabar has no intention of marrying her ruthless cousin, even if she has to give herself to the enemy, the barbarian AmirKhan, to be free of him. AmirKhan is both intrigued and amused by this outspoken, beautiful creature who s...

  • The Dragon Lord's Daughters

    Meet the daughters of King Arthur's descendant, Merin Pendragon. They have an appetite for adventure and a gift for driving men wild with desire. Marrying them off may seem an easy task, but it's only going to prove that when it comes to these girls,...

  • Private Pleasures

    The Pleasures - 1

  • Philippa

    The Friarsgate Inheritance - 3

    Bertrice Small takes us back to the sensuality, drama, and intrigue of King Henry's sixteenth-century court to tell the story of Philippa Meredith--the daughter of one of her most beloved characters... The eldest child of Rosamund Bolton and heire...



  • Lara

    World of Hetar - 1

    Welcome, dear reader, to the world of Hetar. A land of Forest Lords, of Shadow Princes and Coastal Kings. A place that is both civilized and savage. Where the social classes know their place, but where anyone can, under the right conditions, advance ...

  • The Last Heiress

    The Friarsgate Inheritance - 4

    The "reigning queen of romance, New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small concludes her acclaimed saga of Rosamund Bolton and her daughters with this tale of passion, intrigue, and seduction set against the glorious backdrop of King Henry's co...

  • A Distant Tomorrow

    World of Hetar - 2

    My dear readers, Five years have now passed since the Winter War between the Outlands and Hetar. But Gaius Prospero has not given up his scheme to become emperor, and unexpected tragedy causes Lara to once again heed the pull of her destiny. Find...

  • Forbidden Pleasures

    The Pleasures - 2

  • A Dangerous Love

    The Border Chronicles - 1

    Orphaned by England's War of the Roses, betrayed by her half sister, Elizabeth of York, Adair Radcliffe is taken captive during a border raid and sold into servitude to Conal Bruce, the laird of Cleit. The laird seeks a housekeeper and bedmate--but i...

  • The Twilight Lord

    World of Hetar - 3

    Lara, Domina of Terah, has mysteriously disappeared while visiting the New Outlands. The Dominus is frantic to find his beloved wife, but when no trace of her can be discovered, Magnus Hauk turns to two strong allies--Prince Kaliq of the Shadows and ...

  • Sudden Pleasures

    The Pleasures - 3

    New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small returns with a novel about a woman whose life takes a sudden -- and seductive -- turn.... Ashley Kimbrough has everything a woman could want: a successful business, close friends, and a satisfying sex...

  • The Border Lord's Bride

    The Border Chronicles - 2

    The Border Chronicles, continues with this tale of a woman rescued, a man enraptured, and a love unanticipated by fate.... Duncan Armstrong, laird of Duffdour, has sworn not to wed unless it is to a lass he truly loves. But when he needs a favor f...

  • The Sorceress of Belmair

    World of Hetar - 4

    A Past Awakened Magic coursing through his blood, Dillon, son of Lara, Domina of Hetar, follows his mystical path to Hetar's brightest star. Belmair is a forgotten world. And, it turns out, his people's lost heritage. Summoned to marry the king's ...

  • Dangerous Pleasures

    The Pleasures - 4

    New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small explores the deepest recesses of the imagination where one woman's sexual fantasies lie in wait? Widowed with five children, stay at home mom Annie Miller has been just getting by--and growing restl...



  • The Captive Heart

    The Border Chronicles - 3

    A tale of a young woman and the rugged laird who holds her heart captive.... It's 1461, and the winds of war rage across England, uprooting Henry VI's court -- including Alix Givet, the daughter of Queen Margaret's physician. Alix's plight becomes b...

  • The Shadow Queen

    World of Hetar - 5

    Mourn me but briefly. Then find your destiny, Lara, my love, my life. Now let me go. With those words, the spirit of Magnus Hauk, Dominus of Terah, leaves his body--and thus the fate of a nation rests upon the faerie woman Lara's shoulders. ...

  • The Border Lord and the Lady

    The Border Chronicles - 4

    Lady Cicely Bowen, daughter of the Earl of Leighton, is sent away by her father when her jealous stepmother threatens her safety. Soon the exiled Cicely becomes best friends with Lady Joan Beaufort, the king's cousin-and when Joan is married to King ...

  • Crown of Destiny

    World of Hetar - 6

    A hundred years have passed since the Faerie woman Lara last saved the world of Hetar from the darkness. Her youth and her beauty remain as always. The passing years, however, have taken many of her friends and kin. Her influence has waned. Those who...

  • Passionate Pleasures

    The Pleasures - 5

    Some think librarians are stuffy, narrow-minded prudes-but that's not true of Kathryn St. John. She runs Egret Point's library and is very involved in her community, even down to keeping them up with the latest trends. One major trend she turned the ...

  • The Border Vixen

    The Border Chronicles - 5

    Aware of the covetous interest in his land, the laird of Brae Aisir announces that any man who can outrun, outride, and outfight his headstrong granddaughter "Mad Maggie" will have her as a wife-along with her inheritance. His proposition cau...

  • Guilty Pleasures

    The Pleasures - 6

    New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small once more brings her readers back to Egret Pointe and the ladies who love to play in The Channel. But this time instead of one story, one naughty heroine, you'll meet five naughty heroines in five sepa...

  • Bond of Passion

    The Border Chronicles - 6

    Bertrice Small's breathless Border Chronicles continues as a mysterious nobleman and his bartered new bride untangle a plot of illicit seduction, daring betrayal, and deadly royal intrigue... Called the handsomest man in the Borders, Angus Ferguso...

  • Bianca

    The Silk Merchant's Daughters - 1

    Florentine silk merchant Giovanni Pietro d’Angelo and his wife want nothing more than to marry their daughters to wealthy men of distinction. But when their son’s dangerous indiscretion implicates him in a tragic accident, it is their eldest daug...

  • Francesca

    The Silk Merchant's Daughters - 2

    New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small continues her glorious historical-romance series featuring four sisters in Renaissance Florence who have anything but marriage on their minds…. Giovanni Pietro d’Angelos selected his oldest daug...

  • Lucianna

    The Silk Merchant's Daughters - 3

    In this sweeping new series of Renaissance Italy, Bertrice Small does it again with all the passion and historical splendor that has captured the imagination of her legion of fans.... After her two elder sisters become the scandals of Florence, Lu...

  • Sudden Plesures

Award-Winning Books by Bertrice Small

The Awakening
2002 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Historical Anthology
Blaze Wyndham
1988 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Tudor Romance
The Love Slave
1995 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Sensual Historical Romance
A Memory of Love
2000 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Historical Romance of the Year
The Spitfire
1990 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Tudor Romance
The Twilight Lord
2007 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Historical Paranormal


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Bertrice Small has published 61 books.

Bertrice Small does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Sudden Plesures, was published in May 2021.

The first book by Bertrice Small, The Kadin, was published in February 1978.

Yes. Bertrice Small has 8 series.
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