Books by Brenda Joyce and Complete Book Reviews

Brenda Joyce, Author Harlequin Books $7.99 (377p) ISBN 978-0-373-77275-9
In Joyce's latest de Warenne Dynasty Victorian romance (following The Perfect Bride), Ariella de Warenne is an extremely well-traveled young gentlewoman with radical thoughts and an independent lifestyle. Viscount Emilian St. Xavier is half-gypsy,...
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Brenda Joyce. HQN, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-0-373-77692-4
Marked for execution in a French prison in 1794, British spy Simon Grenville agrees to pass information to the French in exchange for his freedom. Returning to his life in Cornwall as the earl of St. Just, Simon learns that his estranged wife has...
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Brenda Joyce. HQN, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-373-77655-9
Prolific Joyce (Deadly Vows) opens her French Revolution series with a tale of two lovers who treasure politics over romance. Dominic Paget has been spying in France for the British government. Near death after an assassination attempt, he is...
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Brenda Joyce, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (408p) ISBN 978-0-312-20387-0
The heroine of romance novelist Joyce's (The Finer Things) hardcover debut thinks she will live happily ever after, and instead unearths a nest of family secrets. Born into a working-class family, talented ballerina-turned-Broadway-dancer Jill...
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Brenda Joyce, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-26247-1
Confession, depression, possession and sexual obsession drive this story of contemporary sibling rivalry and ancient betrayal. Joyce (The Third Heiress) spices up her latest romantic suspense novel with the ghost of an enraged 16th-century countess,
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Brenda Joyce, Author St. Martin's Press $6.99 (437p) ISBN 978-0-312-96621-8
When Lionel DeVere, young heir to the earldom of Stanhope, vanishes, the old earl presumes that his second son, Garrick, is responsible and sends him into exile. But this Georgian by the author of Splendor really starts 14 years later when the earl...
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Brenda Joyce, Author St. Martin's Press $6.99 (486p) ISBN 978-0-312-96391-0
Joyce (The Finer Things) has some of the components of an epic romance: a complex narrative, lots of historical detail and a heroic era--the Napoleonic wars. The hero, Russian Prince Sverayov, is to die for, but a little indistinct as Joyce doesn't...
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Brenda Joyce, Author St. Martin's Press $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-96155-8
Bestselling author Joyce (Captive) puts a spin on the Pygmalion story in this Victorian-era romance about a gutsy orphan who sets out to become a lady. As a ragged, hungry child, Violet Cooper falls in love with nobleman Theodore Blake when she...
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Brenda Joyce, Author Avon Books $5.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-380-78146-1
Anne St. Georges may be Marchioness of Waverly, Countess of Campton and Highglow, Baroness of Feldstone, Viscountess of Lyons and one day Duchess of Rutherford--but she is not happy. Four years earlier, Dominick St. Georges compromised her in a...
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Brenda Joyce, Author Avon Books $5.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-380-77572-9
The blossoming of a shy, introverted artist and the man who captures her heart are the engaging protagonists in Joyce's seventh historical romance after Promise of the Rose. Lame from a childhood injury-which seems to disappear midway through the...
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Brenda Joyce, Author Avon Books $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-380-77139-4
This bodice-ripper, set in turn-of-the-century America, has all the subtlety of a cartoon. Regina Shelton, whose daddy is an English earl, is traveling by train through central California on an extended holiday from which she'll return home to marry
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Brenda Joyce, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-28449-7
A wealthy San Francisco do-gooder finds herself enmeshed in a mystery dating back to WWII in this romantic suspense novel by New York Times bestseller Joyce (House of Dreams, etc.). Claire Hayden leads a privileged and pampered life rescuing stray...
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Brenda Joyce, Author Avon Books $7.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-380-77573-6
The author of After Innocence creates a smoldering, if uneven, novel with all the pomp, pageantry and quite a few of the personages of the Elizabethan era. Heading home to Ireland from the Norman convent where she has spent six years, Katherine...
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Brenda Joyce, Author Dell Publishing Company $7.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-440-20609-5
Jealousy, lust, violence and political intrigue make for surprisingly uninspired fare in Joyce's romance set in England in 1069. Rolfe of Warenne, one of William the Conqueror's valued soldiers, has been sent to suppress Saxon uprisings in the north
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Brenda Joyce, Author . HQN $7.99 (424p) ISBN 978-0-373-77219-3
In Joyce's second Masters of Time novel (after Dark Seduction ), New York heiress Allie Monroe hides her secret life as a Healer, sworn to defend the innocent and fight a plague of demons as a member of the shadowy Center for Demonic Activities.
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Brenda Joyce, Author . HQN $7.99 (377p) ISBN 978-0-373-77244-5
Joyce's seventh de Warenne novel is another first-rate Regency, featuring multidimensional protagonists and sweeping drama. Six months after the death of her father, Lady Blanche Harrington must seek a husband to help manage her vast fortunes....
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Brenda Joyce, Author . HQN $7.99 (372p) ISBN 978-0-373-77233-9
Bestselling author Joyce kicks off her Masters of Time series with a master's skill, instantly elevating her to the top ranks of the ever-growing list of paranormal romance authors. Her strong, smart heroine, Claire Camden, is a woman damaged by
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Brenda Joyce, Author . HQN $6.99 (379p) ISBN 978-0-373-77137-0
The latest from Joyce offers readers a passionate, swashbuckling voyage in her newest addition to the De Warenne dynasty series. This installment showcases Cliff De Warenne, third son to the earl of Adare, gentleman, privateer, notorious lady's...
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Brenda Joyce, Author . HQN $6.99 (554p) ISBN 978-0-373-77184-4
This third volume of Joyce's popular de Warenne dynasty (following The Masquerade ) features impetuous and independent de Warenne daughter Eleanor, betrothed to a kind, decent and well-connected Englishman, Peter Sinclair. As might be expected,...
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Brenda Joyce, Author . Mira $7.50 (560p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2209-2
The chunky second volume in bestseller Joyce's de Warenne Dynasty series (after The Prize ) dances on slippered feet, belying its heft with spellbinding dips, spins and twists. Jane Austen aficionados will delve happily into heroine Elizabeth 
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Brenda Joyce, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-28474-9
At the start of this trashy but alluring romantic thriller by Joyce (The Rival), 32-year-old Kait London, a New York City PR executive, gets a surprise midnight call from her estranged twin sister, Lana. The two haven't been in touch in years....
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B. D. Joyce, Author, Brenda Joyce, Author St. Martin's Press $6.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-97767-2
Seasoned historical romance writer Brenda Joyce recently branched out into contemporary fiction with a new series (House of Dreams), written under the pseudonym B.D. Joyce. Beautiful socialite Francesca Cahill is a determined bluestocking who...
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