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About the author
A member of RWA since 1984, Joan has been apublished author since winning the Golden Heart Awardfrom Romance Writers of America in 1987 for herRegency, The Prodigal Spinster. Since then she has writtena total of twenty novels, nineteen of which have alreadybeen released. Along the way Joan has made severalbestsellers lists and won numerous awards for her work,including this year's award for Career Achievementin Regency Romance from Romantic Times Magazine.She lives in Washington State with her golden retriever,Libby, and an ornery alleycat named Pounce. She isalso a killer Trivial Pursuit player, and loves the smokeywail of a tenor sax and the icy bite of perfectlychilled champagne.
Summary
A Delicate FlowerLady Caroline Burroughs is desperate. Her unscrupulous guardian is squandering away her inheritance, and now wants to gain complete control over her dwindling wealth by forcing her to wed his aged crony. But Caroline has found a solution to her woes. Though it means surrendering her long-cherished dream of marrying for love, she agrees to a preemptive temporary union with a devilishly handsome stranger -- a brave and noble Scotsman who believes that love is an illusion.
A Thorny RomanceMajor Hugh MacColme has every reason to hate the British -- since the Crown stole his ancestral castle and sent his father and brother into exile. And he never imagined he would end up marrying one of the enemy. But a year spent in the intimate company of an exquisite English rose seems a small price to pay for recovering his birthright. For tender-hearted Caroline, however, the difficult part will be coping with her unexpected desire for this proud and distant man -- and harder still, convincing Hugh that the wife he has no use for is the warm and healing love that he truly needs.
