Set in the decadent, upper-class world of late 19th-century England, Johnson's latest romantic caper (after Golden Paradise) features Princess Christina, a woman of formerly modest means who is trapped in a loveless though lucrative marriage to
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Susan Johnson, Author . Bantam $6.50 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-58254-3
Johnson's latest Victorian-era erotic romance (following Tempting) thrills with each turn of the page as two reckless individuals tumble headlong into an explosive relationship. Alexandra Ionides, who occasionally poses as a nude model and also...
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Susan Johnson, Author Bantam $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-553-57214-8
Best known for her erotic love scenes, Johnson (Brazen) continues to play to her strength with her latest sizzling release. Becoming a governess after the death of her father, Serena Blythe has dreams of becoming a painter. After years of saving,...
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Susan Johnson, Author Bantam $7.5 (368p) ISBN 978-0-553-57215-5
The brutality of war and sexual excess are the dominant themes of Johnson's latest (after Wicked). Borrowing historical facts and figures from the decade following the French Revolution, the author fictionalizes a steamy love affair between Russian...
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Susan Johnson, Author Bantam Books $7.99 (293p) ISBN 978-0-553-57867-6
Johnson (To Please a Lady) is at it again: turn the air conditioner on high and take out the fireproof oven mitts before opening the pages of this erotic Victorian romance. Jack Fitz-James, a dissolute young marquis renowned for his bedroom skills,...
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Susan Johnson, Author Bantam $6.5 (288p) ISBN 978-0-553-58255-0
Three 30-something blonde bombshells meet up in their hometown of Ely, Minn., to schmooze, booze and have wild sex with younger men in Susan Johnson's chaotic contemporary, Blonde Heat. The ""mind-blowing"" sex that Lily, Ceci and Serena share...
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Susan Johnson, Author Fawcett Books $2.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-70219-2
Soap-opera elements are firmly in place here: naive Marika is cast opposite handsome Cameron in the school play while his vindictive girlfriend Tiffany snarls in the wings. Cameron starts dating Marika, but Tiffany has plans for getting Cameron...
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Susan Johnson, Author Bantam $7.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-553-29955-7
Johnson ( Sinful ) merges improbable history, titillating sex and sustained suspense, using the struggle for Scottish independence from British rule as the backdrop for a love story. Johnnie Carre, a powerful Border Lord in Scotland, kidnaps...
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Susan Johnson, Author Bantam Books $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-553-57865-2
Followers of Johnson's 19th-century romance St. John series will welcome the story of Pasha Duras, the Eurasian son of Teo and Andre Duras from Taboo. Here, Pasha (who displays the usual romance-novel aversion to marriage) meets his lustful match in
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Susan Johnson, Author Bantam Books $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-57866-9
Johnson's latest historical, set in 18th-century England, relays the May-September romance between 18-year-old Robbie Carre, the roguish hero of Johnson's Outlaw, and 30-something widow Roxanne Forrestor. The sexually charged story opens with Robbie,
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Susan Johnson, Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $15 (249p) ISBN 978-1-57566-805-5
Nominally set in 1821, Susan Johnson's latest erotic historical romance dispenses with 19th-century formalities (not to mention language and mores). Aptly titled Again and Again, it tells the story of Lady Caroline Morrow, a blueblood fallen on...
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Susan Johnson, Author Doubleday Books $15 (375p) ISBN 978-0-385-42467-7
Chelsea Fergusson, daughter of the impoverished Earl of Dumfries in this 18th-century romance, foils an unwanted marriage to the wealthy but loathsome Bishop Hatfield in an unlikely manner: she makes herself unacceptable by losing her virginity to...
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Susan Johnson, Author Faber & Faber $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-571-16217-8
Australian writer Johnson's intriguing U.S. debut is a poetic tale of family heritage, the power of memory and one woman's attempt to find herself. (Oct.)
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Susan Johnson, Author Faber & Faber $22.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-571-16957-3
Johnson's ( Flying Lessons ) second novel is an example of that unusual breed, a thoughtful epic, which meticulously maps its hero's interior landscape even as he spans decades and continents. The ``big life'' in question is desired by Australian-bor
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Susan Johnson. Berkley Sensation, $7.99 mass market (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-24490-6
Johnson’s fourth 1890s romance (after Sweet as the Devil) skimps on the plot but not the passion. Griselda MacKenzie is brazen, confident, and independent. At a country house party, she’s introduced to wildly handsome libertine Alec Munro, earl of...
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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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Susan Johnson, Author . Kensington/Brava $15 (309p) ISBN 978-0-7582-0939-9
It's 1816, and actress and playwright Annabelle Foster loves (and desires) handsome Murray D'Abernon, 13th Marquis of Darley, who goes by the name of Duff and reciprocates her feelings. Belle's widowed mother dotes on Duff, and Duff's
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Susan Johnson, Author . Allen & Unwin $14.95 (310p) ISBN 978-1-74114-664-6
Australian novelist Johnson evokes a tormented portrait of the fictional writer Katherine Elgin from her journal entries, excerpts of her unfinished autobiographical novel and assorted letters. This fragmented novel spans the decades from Katherine&#
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Susan Johnson, Author . Berkley Sensation $7.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-23020-6
Bestseller Johnson follows Gorgeous as Sin
with another sizzling 1890s romance. Osmond, Baron Lennox, freely takes on new lovers right and left. When he stumbles into Isolde Perceval's hotel room instead of the one where a paramour waits for...
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Susan Johnson, Author . Pocket/Washington Square $14 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3777-6
In her American fiction debut, Australian writer Johnson—the author of four novels and a memoir—offers a racy, intelligent tale of friendship and ambition. Rachel Gallagher and Anne-Louise Buchan, both aspiring artists who knew each...
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Susan Johnson, Author . Washington Square $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3296-2
Australian novelist Johnson covers an astonishing amount of territory in this seemingly simple story of new motherhood. Belonging to a generation of women who imagined themselves in complete control of their bodies and their lives, she writes, "M
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