Ruined through her vile brother's schemes, Eleanor Chivenham is offered rescue by marriage to a rake with an infamous French mistress. Eleanor accepts, determined to treat the arranged marriage with cool dignity. Then she meets Nicholas Delaney. Not only does he stir her senses, but the trouble and pain beneath his smooth exterior reaches her heart.
Nicholas is indeed troubled. While serving his country by seducing secrets out of a French spy, he is persuaded to marry Eleanor to protect his family's honor. But such chivalry runs counter to his carefully wrought rogue image, and extends the life-threatening plots shadowing him to Eleanor. To assist, Nicholas reassembles the Company of Rogues, a schoolboy group he started years before.
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But not even they can dampen Eleanor's fighting wit that is quickly unmasking their enemy and testing Nicholas' formidable will. AWARDS: Best Regency Novel, Romantic Times Bookrak Bestseller RITA, finalist REVIEWS 'A splendid love story. A veritable feast of delight.
Romantic Times Topics: Arranged Marriage, Family Honor, Witty, Steamy, Regency Era, England, and First in a Series.
Contents. Biography Early life and education Mary Josephine Dunn was born 22 September 1947 in, England. She was of Irish descent. At age 11, she went to an all-girls boarding school,.
At 16, she wrote her first romance, with a setting, completed in instalments in an exercise book. She read history and American studies at in Staffordshire from 1966 to 1970 , where she earned a degree in English history.
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The broad-based learning of Keele's foundation year and the availability of archived newspapers were useful resources to enable her to develop her fiction writing. On 24 June 1971, she married Ken Beverley, whom she met at Keele. Career After graduation, she quickly attained a position as a youth employment officer. She stayed in this profession until 1976, working first in, Staffordshire, and then in, Nottinghamshire.
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In 1976, Beverley moved to Canada, where her scientist husband was invited to do post-doctoral research at in, Nova Scotia. When her professional qualifications proved unusable in the Canadian labour market, Beverley decided to develop her early interest in creative writing. Many of her 'Rogue' characters were created in an initial manuscript entitled A Regency Rape. At this point, Beverley did not have a fixed idea of the narrower literary boundaries drawn by the traditional and thus created a literary hybrid. A precursor of the Regency historical novel, the work had a more varied cast of characters which, while respectful of the world of, broadened the scope and intensity of the genre. At this time Beverley was still unpublished, but devoted her time to caring for her two young sons and participating in the movement, which made her especially careful to portray births in her novels realistically but positively.
The turning point in Beverley's writing career came when her move to led to her attendance at a talk on 'The state of romance in fiction' by Janet Adams, at Beaconsfield Library on 23 May 1984. The executive advisor of the Writers' Association for Romance and Mainstream demystified the creative process for the budding author and was sufficiently impressed by Beverley's writing to act as her agent.
That same year, the family moved to, Ontario, Canada, where Beverley became a founding member of the Ottawa Romance Writers' Association (ORWA). Formed in 1985, ORWA became her 'nurturing community' for the next 12 years. In 1988, Beverley, who was actively writing science fiction as well as romance, was a finalist in the Writers of the Future Contest. That same year, she sold her first romance novel.
With her ensuing success in the latter genre, she allowed speculative writing to slide, though elements of it appear periodically in some of her romances and novellas. Beverly wrote at multiple blogs:. Jo Talk, a solo blog where 'she posted anything that interested her'. Minepast, a solo blog where 'she shared interesting tid-bits of history she discovered as she researched her novels'. the UK Historical Romance blog. Word Wenches, a group blog comprising posts by eight women 'historical authors who blog about history, writing, and anything vaguely related' Personal life Soon after university, Beverley and her husband Ken moved to, Ontario, Canada.
Beverley became a Canadian with dual citizenship, and she and Ken raised their two sons there, then moved to. More recently, she and Ken moved back to England , and they lived in, though they were considering returning to Victoria permanently.
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Later life and death In 2012, Beverley survived a bout with cancer and was in remission for four years. However, the cancer returned and moved very quickly; she succumbed to it on 23 May 2016.
She died in a care home in. Recognition.
This section does not any. Unsourced material may be challenged and. (May 2016) Her works have been translated into many languages and have won her many awards, including five RITAs, two Career Achievement Awards from, The Golden Leaf Award, and the Readers' Choice Award. A member of the Romance Writers of America (RWA) Honor Roll, Beverley is the sole Canadian romance author inducted into the RWA Hall of Fame.