Rosemary Rogers

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Rosemary Rogers
  • Bibliography:
    28 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1974
  • Latest Book:
    September 2011
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About the Author

Rosemary Jansz was born on 7 December 1932 in the British colony of Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka), she was the oldest child of Dutch-Portuguese settlers, Barbara and Cyril Jansz, who was a wealthy educator who owned three posh private schools. She was raised in colonial splendor: dozens of servants never did a lick of work summers at European spas impossible to go anywhere without a chaperone. A dreamy child, she wrote her first novel at eight. At 17, Rosemary rebelled against a feudal upbringing and went to the University of Ceylon, where he studied three years. She horrified her family by taking a job as a reporter, and two years later marrying with Summa Navaratnam, a Ceylonese track star known as "the fastest man in Asia." The marriage had two daughters. Unhappily, he often sprinted after other women. Disappointed with her husband, in 1960, she moved with her two daughters and took off for London. In Europe she met her future second husband, Leroy Rogers, an african-american. After getting a divorce from her first husband, she married Rogers in his home town, St. Louis, Missouri. They moved with her family to California, where she had two sons. Six years later, when that marriage broke up, Rosemary was left with four children to support on her $4,200 salary as a typist for the Solano County Parks Department. In 1969, in the face of a socialist takeover of Ceylon, her parents fled the island with only £100, giving Rosemary two more dependents. At 37, the rich girl from Ceylon was on her uppers in Fairfield.

Every night for a year, Rosemary worked to perfect a manuscript that she had written as a child, rewriting it 24 times. When she was satisfied with her work, she sent the manuscript to Avon, which quickly purchased the novel. That novel, ''Sweet Savage Love'', skyrocketed to the top of bestseller lists, and became one of the most popular historical romances of all time. Her second novel, ''Dark Fires'', sold two million copies in its first three months of release. Her first three novels sold a combined 10 million copies. The fourth, ''Wicked Loving Lies'' sold 3 million copies in its first month of publication. Rosemary Rogers became one of the legendaries "Avon Queens of Historical Romance". The difference between she and most of others romance writers is not the violence of her stories, it is the intensity. She says: "My heroines are me", and certainly her life could be one of her novels. In September of 1984, Rosemary married a third time with Christopher Kadison, but it was a very brief marriage and they soon began to live apart. "I'd like to live with a man," she admits, "but I find men in real life don't come up to my fantasies. I want culture, spirit and sex all rolled up together." Today single, Rosemary lives quietly in a small dramatic villa perched on a crag above the Pacific near Carmel. Her four children are now away from home and she continues to write.

Full Series List in Order

Legend of Morgan

1 - Sweet Savage Love (Jan-1974)
2 - Dark Fires (Aug-1975)
3 - Wicked Loving Lies (Oct-1976)
4 - Lost Love, Last Love (Nov-1980)
5 - Bound by Desire (Mar-1988)
6 - Savage Desire (Dec-2000)

Logan-Campbell

1 - An Honorable Man (Dec-2002)
2 - Return to Me (Dec-2003)

Russian Connection

1 - Scandalous Deception (Apr-2008)
2 - Bound by Love (Aug-2009)
3 - Scoundrel's Honor (Nov-2010)

Book List in Order: 28 titles

  • Sweet Savage Love

    Legend of Morgan - 1

    PASSIONATE! TUMULTUOUS! INEVITABLE! A tale of human emotion that lays bare the heights and depths of love, passion and desire in old and new worlds... as we follow Virginia Brandon, beautiful, impudent and innocent, from the glittering ballrooms of ...

  • The Wildest Heart

    No man can own Rowena Dangerfield -- a sensuous, strong-willed lady with a fiery, unchained spirit--though many desire her. She has come to claim her birthright, following her destiny to the sprawling New Mexican frontier... and to the only man who c...

  • Dark Fires

    Legend of Morgan - 2

    LOVERS FOR ALL TIME! The unchained, unending passion of Virginia Brandon and Steven Morgan blazes anew, as their turbulent marriage is torn apart by a dramatic rush of events and their twin passions propel them across oceans and continents to sepa...

  • Wicked Loving Lies

    Legend of Morgan - 3

    In the sweeping tradition of Sweet Savage Love, New York Times bestselling author Rosemary Rogers takes readers on an epic journey that spans continents and explores the depths of human passions. Born of scandal and denied his birthright, Dominic ...

  • The Crowd Pleasers

    They are flawless faces on giant screens, and Anne Hyatt escaped a loveless marriage to be one of them. Anne is no innocent lost in the Hollywood jungle. And starving for the passion her heart craves, she is ready to take on the world's most ruth...

  • The Insiders

    THERE'S ONLY ONE THING MORE SATISFYING THAN MONEY AND POWER... Love moves wildly through the pages of THE INSIDERS, the one novel millions of readers will recognize as the ultimate sweet savage love experience! A former-model-turned-television an...

  • Lost Love, Last Love

    Legend of Morgan - 4

    THE FEVER! THE FIRE! THE ECSTASY! Theirs was a love that could never be tamed, yet the whims of fate and their own reckless desires were destined to tear Virginia Brandon and Steven Morgan from the rapturous heights of reunion -- and carry them to...

  • Love Play

    They have money, power and arrogance--and the world is theirs. Beautiful and unspoiled, Sara Coleville knows she can play their game. Now her fine-bred defiance and brazen masquerades have excited Marco Marcantoni--enflaming the hot-blooded duke's mo...

  • Surrender to Love

    Under the midnight moon of Ceylon, on the night of her debutante ball at the Governor's palace, Alexa Howard met her cousin, Nicholas Dameron. And in the sardonic curl of his hard, sensuous lips, in the commanding arrogance of his eyes, Alexa beheld ...



  • Three Volume Boxed Set: Dark Fires + Lost Love, Last Love + Sweet Savage Love

  • The Wanton

    They call her wanton, a woman of wild and independent spirit. But Trista Windham knows her heart -- and nothing can shatter her dreams. For love, in need, she surrenders her innocence beneath a radiant sky -- and binds her soul forever to Blaze D...

  • Bound by Desire

    Legend of Morgan - 5

    Out of the tempestuous union of Steve Morgan and Ginny Brandon came Laura--daughter of light, woman of desire, the child born of a blistering, incomparable passion. A ravishing temptress at play in a world of fabulous wealth, like her mother before h...

  • The Tea Planter's Bride

    THE BLOSSOMING An exotic flower from a faraway land, Celia came to London to become a proper English rose-a wide-eyed innocent, newly awakened by womanhood's kiss ...vet burning with a sensuous heat inflamed by gypsy blood. To one she is promised-...

  • A Dangerous Man

    Victoria Ryan tasted sweet freedom -- and love -- in Boston, far from the cast-iron code of behavior that shackles women in Alta, California. Now she has come home to find nothing has changed -- that she is to be married against her wishes by her fat...

  • Midnight Lady

    Kyla Van Vleet has journeyed from India with proof of her right to share in the late Duke of Wolverton's estate and repay the many kindnesses of the stepfather who raised her. But this ravishing young woman hasn't counted on the cold cunning of the D...

  • All I Desire

    Angela Lindsay enjoyed a pampered existence among French society, but she has had to trade it all and agree to live on her father's New Mexico ranch in order to collect her inheritance. While the wide-open land may boast a rugged je ne sais quoi, it'...

  • In Your Arms

    Orphaned by a tragic accident, sixteen-year-old Amalie Courtland set sail from America for a new life in England with her godmother. What she didn't expect to find was Lady Winford's handsome rogue of a grandson, Robert Holt Braxton, Earl of Deverell...

  • Savage Desire

    Legend of Morgan - 6

    The fire of their passion sparks as Steve and Ginny reunite in London. Their years apart have taken a toll, but nothing can change the fierce emotion that burns between the two. The lovers have made a pact to look beyond the hurts of yesterday and lo...

  • A Reckless Encounter

    Celia St. Remy Sinclair has harbored a dark obsession since the tender age of 12: to bring about the downfall of Lord Northington, the man responsible for her mother's death. Now an elegant and self-possessed beauty of 22, she leaves America for Lond...



  • An Honorable Man

    Logan-Campbell - 1

    Beautiful, headstrong Cameron Campbell knows her privileged life as a Mississippi senator's daughter is about to be shattered. Her fine Southern family has its share of secrets and scandal, and as her father decides to stand with the Union, long-held...

  • Return to Me

    Logan-Campbell - 2

    A fragile peace has come to the country in the aftermath of the Civil War, but tensions remain strong in the hearts and souls of those who fought for their land...and for love. For beautiful, strong-willed Cameron Campbell, the war had one shining...

  • Jewel of My Heart

    Where peril and passion await... Wild child Madison Westcott detests convention and has no desire to marry. Thumbing her nose at London society, she deliberately turns her coming-out ball into a spectacle by unveiling a scandalous self-portrait. T...

  • Sapphire

    Mills & Boon Super Historical

    NOT EVEN LOVE COULD STOP HER... Despite her privileged life in the sultry paradise of Martinique, the beautiful and daring Sapphire Fabergine will never be satisfied until she claims the honor and legitimacy that has been denied her. Sapphire sail...

  • A Daring Passion

    Legacy of danger Headstrong but sheltered, Raine Wimbourne longs for adventure--and when her ailing father reveals a closely guarded secret, she seizes her chance. Disguised as England's most notorious highwayman, Raine vows to uphold her father's...

  • Scandalous Deception

    Russian Connection - 1
    Mills & Boon Super Historical

    Desperate to escape her lecherous stepfather, flame-haired Brianna Quinn seeks refuge with the Duke of Huntley, a childhood friend. But her hopes crumble when she discovers that Edmond, the duke's hot-blooded twin, is masquerading as the duke to ...

  • Bound by Love

    Russian Connection - 2
    Mills & Boon Super Historical

    The illegitimate daughter of the Russian czar, Leonida arrives at the estate of Stefan, the Duke of Huntley, with secrets...and a mission. Searching for covert documents sequestered in Stefan's massive library, she is the perfect guest -- and the...

  • Scoundrel's Honor

    Russian Connection - 3

    When her younger sister is abducted, strong-willed Emma Linley-Kirov will make a deal with the devil himself to rescue her. Devastatingly handsome, Dimitri Tipova is a scoundrel, seducer...and the only man who can help her, though his motive is cold,...

  • Bride for a Night

    After Olivia Dobson is jilted at the altar, she endures another humiliation: a substitute groom! The elder brother of her runaway betrothed has taken matters into his own hands. Shy Olivia has long held a secret attraction for Andrew Richardson, the ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rosemary Rogers has published 28 books.

Rosemary Rogers does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Bride for a Night, was published in September 2011.

The first book by Rosemary Rogers, Sweet Savage Love, was published in January 1974.

Yes. Rosemary Rogers has 3 series.
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