Bertrice Small, Author New American Library $14 (407p) ISBN 978-0-451-22214-5
Small's second Border Chronicles novel (after A Dangerous Love) opens on the disruption of the Scottish highland home-and happiness-of pretty, 16 year-old Ellen MacArthur: cousins want her grandfather, Ewan, to change his marriage and inheritance...
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Bertrice Small. NAL, $16 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-23795-8
Renaissance Florence and Ottoman Turkey collide in the overwrought first Silk Merchant’s Daughters historical. Bianca Maria Rose Pietro d’Angelo, the 15-year old jewel of Florentine society, is bewildered when her father marries her to Sebastiano...
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Bertrice Small, Author New American Library $14 (369p) ISBN 978-0-451-20637-4
At the age of 14, Rosamund Bolton has already been married and widowed twice. The eponymous heroine of Bertrice Small's Rosamund is the heiress of Friarsgate, an estate on the border between England and Scotland. Her grasping uncle strives to ...
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Bertrice Small, Author Ballantine Books $10 (658p) ISBN 978-0-345-36862-1
Set in the early 17th century, the sixth volume about ``the magnificent'' Skye O'Malley and her family follows her granddaughter Yasaman Kama Begum, daughter of Indian Grand Mughal Akbar and Velvet O'Malley. Yasaman's husband is murdered by Salim,...
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Bertrice Small, Author Ballantine Books $8.95 (490p) ISBN 978-0-345-36540-8
When she can resist the temptation to be outrageous (such as staging a wedding with the bride stark naked), veteran romance novelist Small ( Blaze Wyndham ) offers realistic, appealing characters and an entertaining tale set in 15th-century England...
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Bertrice Small, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (327p) ISBN 978-0-453-00609-5
Blaze Morgan, at 15, is the eldest of Lord Robert Morgan's eight spirited but loving daughters, and the financially strapped aristocrat is relieved to have her married to Lord Edmund Wyndham, the kindly and enormously wealthy Earl of Langford, who...
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Bertrice Small, Author Signet Book $8.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-451-82141-6
The newest novel in the popular annals of Skye O'Malley focuses on Skye's brother Conn, the handsomest man in Elizabeth I's court, a character who was introduced in previous books. Beginning with Conn's courtship of Aiden St. Michael, the author...
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Bertrice Small, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $14 (409p) ISBN 978-1-57566-640-2
The latest installment in Small's popular historical-romance series, Skye's Legacy, has been chosen as the launch book for Kensington's new erotic romance imprint. It continues the saga of lusty matriarch Skye O'Malley, this time chronicling the...
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Bertrice Small, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $12.95 (374p) ISBN 978-1-57566-432-3
Building on the popularity of her bestselling Skye O'Malley historical romances, this second volume of Small's Skye's Legacy series (after Deceived) begins in 1625, and follows the volatile Lady India Lindley in her conversion from an innocent,...
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Bertrice Small, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $12.95 (324p) ISBN 978-1-57566-263-3
A veteran author of panting heavy-petters, Small (Darling Jasmine, etc.) tells a tale of two stepsisters with the same first name and very different attitudes toward men and sex during the reign of George III. Charlotte Aurora Kimberly and Charlotte
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Bertrice Small, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $12.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-57566-208-4
The final chapter (covering the years 1615-1623) in the lustful life of tireless matriarch Skye O'Malley unfolds in England and Scotland as Skye intervenes yet again on behalf of her favorite granddaughter, beautiful, hot-blooded Jasmine. Having...
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Bertrice Small, Author Ballantine Books $10 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-38599-4
Set in the early 12th century, between Henry Beauclerc's ascension to the English throne in 1100 and his eventual victory over his older brother Duke Robert of Normandy at the battle of Tinchebrai in 1106, Small's (Skye O'Malley) latest mixes a...
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Bertrice Small, Author Onyx Books $4.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-451-40160-1
This ``unpretentious romp'' through Tudor England follows sensuous, fiery Blaze Wyndham, who, newly widowed, seeks diversion at the court of Henry VIII. Soon she becomes the king's mistress, friend and adviser. PW commented upon this novel's ``cast...
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Bertrice Small, Author . Ballantine $14.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-43435-7
For those who simply can't get enough of the fashion, food and folly of the British upper crust, Small (Skye O'Malley, etc.) dishes up yet another historical romance involving a couple who find themselves at odds before learning the meaning...
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Bertrice Small, Author New American Library $14 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-21299-3
Small (Rosamond) delivers another lusty historical, this one set during the reign of King Henry VIII before the bloodletting begins. Now of an age to be wed, Philippa Meredith, eldest daughter of the fair Rosamond Bolton of Friarsgate, is beautiful,
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Bertrice Small, Author New American Library $15 (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-22792-8
Lady Cicely Bowen, confidant of Queen Joan Beaufort at the Scottish court, is determined to marry only a man she loves. However, her plans are dashed when she meets rough Scottish border lord Ian Douglas, who is so captivated by her that he kidnaps...
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Bertrice Small, Author Ballantine Books $25 (516p) ISBN 978-0-345-36863-8
Veteran romance novelist Small ( The Spitfire ) is capable of better work than this mediocre fantasy with its rudimentary characters and over-elaborate plot. ``Somewhere in time'' Rhiannon of ``the Fair Folk'' relinquished her magic powers to marry...
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Bertrice Small, NAL, $15 paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-23122-2
The fifth installment of Small's popular Border Chronicles (The Border Lord and Lady) offers a rollicking portrait of Scottish lass Margaret "Mad Maggie" Kerr, who in 1532, at 17, is looking for a husband who "will be content to let me do what needs
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Bertrice Small, NAL, $15 paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-451-22700-3
In Small's so-so latest installment to the Pleasures series (after Dangerous Pleasures), small town librarian Kathryn St. John is approaching 50, happy to be single, and totally satisfied about her addiction to "the Channel," a secret interactive...
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Bertrice Small, Author . HQN $13.95 (376p) ISBN 978-0-373-77449-4
Small's sixth and final World of Hetar erotic fantasy (after 2009's The Shadow Queen
) wraps up the series with agonizing slowness. Lara, the half-faerie woman who has repeatedly saved the land of Terah in the past, is ready to do it again
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Bertrice Small, Author . NAL $15 (403p) ISBN 978-0-451-22502-3
Predictability, contrivance and flat dialogue abound in this historical romance by acclaimed author Small. In 1461 war-torn England, Alix Givet is forced to marry a baron’s cruel son in order to find refuge for her dying father. When her...
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Bertrice Small, Author . Harlequin $13.95 (488p) ISBN 978-0-373-77295-7
Cinnia, daughter of the king of Belmair, is a sorceress with a problem: she wants to rule her father's kingdom as a queen in her own right. The Great Dragon, Nidhug, has other ideas, and selects Dillon, a mighty sorcerer from another world, as...
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Bertrice Small, Author . NAL $14 (407p) ISBN 978-0-451-21978-7
The prolific Small (Forbidden Pleasures
; The Last Heiress
) launches a stylish new historical romance with this action-packed erotic tale set in the English and Scottish borderlands just before and during the Tudor period. Small's never-say-die
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Bertrice Small, Author . NAL $14 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-20974-0
Small (Rosamund
) resumes the 16th-century tale of Rosamund Bolton, an orphaned English beauty who's been "a wife one way or another since... three years of age," and who now, at 22, wants to live on her own terms. Widowed thrice and the
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Bertrice Small, Author, Beatrice Small, Author . Kensington $15 (329p) ISBN 978-1-57566-737-9
Bestselling author Small (Intrigued) introduces another strong-willed heroine in the fourth of her Skye's Legacy series. Flanna Brodie, the only daughter of a Scottish clan and heiress to an important parcel of land, matches wits with Patrick...
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Bertrice Small, Author, Susan Johnson, Author, Thea Devine, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $14 (384p) ISBN 978-1-57566-606-8
Whether the four novellas gathered here strike readers as erotic or pornographic, they certainly push the envelope of the historical romance genre. Set in 1750, Small's ""Mastering Lady Lucinda"" finds the young, widowed Lady Lucinda Harrington...
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