{"title":"Laura Kinsale","description":"Laura Kinsale is the award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author of The Shadow and the Star, Seize the Fire, The Prince of Midnight, Flowers From the Storm, For My Lady's Heart, and The Dream Hunter. She and her husband divide their time between Santa Fe and Dallas. Shadowheart won the Romance Writers of America Rita Award for best long historical romance of 2004. Kinsale also won best romance novel of 1990 for Prince of Midnight. Kinsale was 1987-1988 Career Achievement Award Winner from Romantic Times Magazine. She was also Regency Historical Romance 2004 Career Achievement Award Winner from Romantic Times Magazine and the Innovative Historical Romance 1994 RRA Awards Nominee for Best Historical Romance Author.","products":[{"product_id":"the-prince-of-midnight-paperback","title":"The Prince of Midnight - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lady desiring vengeance seeks a highwayman's help in this tale by an author whose novels are \"the gold standard in historical romance\" (Lisa Kleypas).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Lady Leigh Strachan's father governed the town of Felchester--until a religious zealot murdered her family and turned the village into hell on Earth. Now, there is room in her heart for only one thing: revenge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Leigh plans to kill her father's murderer once she learns to aim a pistol, slash a sword, and ride a horse. She seeks out the Prince of Midnight, a legendary highwayman exiled to France, as her choice of tutors. But the man she finds in a crumbling French castle is no hero. Half deaf and suffering from vertigo, S. T. Maitland can scarcely walk, much less wield a sword atop a dancing stallion. Yet for reasons she can't explain, she remains with him, steeling her heart against the sight of his gold-streaked hair, green eyes, and brows adorned with a devilish curl at the arch . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Women mean nothing but trouble to the highwayman, so he wishes Leigh were less alluring. Alas, she is beautiful, with a piercing gaze and a determined spirit. Despite his broken balance, the loss of his horse, and the price on his head, he vows to return to England with her. He cannot resist the challenge--or the chance to sacrifice everything for love . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eFlowers from the Storm\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eShadowheart\u003c\/i\u003e, Laura Kinsale writes an \"unfailingly brilliant and beautiful\" romance (Julia Quinn).","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103709532383,"sku":"9781497642126","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/szWjRYN3Q19781497642126.webp?v=1781097481"},{"product_id":"for-my-ladys-heart-paperback","title":"For My Lady's Heart - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA princess sparks devotion in a chivalrous knight in this medieval romance by a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author who \"creates magic\" (Lisa Kleypas).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With Princess Melanthe di Monteverde widowed, a political marriage would tip the balance of power to any kingdom that possessed her. Determined to return to England alive and unwed, she hides behind a mask of witchery. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Protecting her is Ruck d'Angleterre, a chivalrous knight who never wavers--and the only man Melanthe wishes could lift the veil of her disguise. He once desired her, but now his gaze reveals distrust. As they flee her enemies, Melanthe's impossible love for the Green Knight grows. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ruck has remained chaste for thirteen miserable years, since his wife entered a nunnery, continuing to honor their marital vows. In that dark hour, when the church stripped him of his spouse and his possessions, the princess secretly came to his aid with two emeralds. Her safety is his duty, yet his heart is not pure. 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Sheridan Drake. Easily frightened, she is vastly relieved to have Captain Drake's help--until she discovers he's a scoundrel without a drop of honor in his body. In fact, nothing would make her happier than to forget him. Except she cannot seem to get his deep, stirring gaze out of her head . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sheridan has no patience for hero worshipers; war is a game of survival, not gallant deeds. But Olympia, who comes to him with plump cheeks and eyes full of expectation, has money, something of which he is in great need. And though Olympia is impossibly naive, for reasons he can't fathom, she touches him in some obscure, half-forgotten place, until the thought of losing her becomes even more impossible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Set in Georgian England, \u003ci\u003eSeize the Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is another exciting tale from the author of \u003ci\u003eFor My Lady's Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, whose work has been praised by Julia Quinn as \"unfailingly brilliant and beautiful.\" \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104380653791,"sku":"9781497642133","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/PXAn5VONmR9781497642133.webp?v=1781108180"},{"product_id":"shadowheart-paperback","title":"Shadowheart - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSwept up in political intrigue, an assassin and a princess embrace a passionate love in this fourteenth-century romance by a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As the last unmarried princess of Monteverde, Elayne is trapped in a marital bond when her hand is promised to the land's ruler. On the voyage to meet her future husband, she is captured by Allegreto Navona--the living embodiment of the dark angel she's seen in dreams. Endowed with godlike beauty, his eyes burn bright with sin. A woman of modesty would flee such a man. But try as she might, a wanton hunger binds her to his side . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Trained as an assassin, Allegreto is the bastard son of an ambitious lord who raised him to murder for control of Monteverde. Now that his father is dead, if Allegreto can make Elayne his wife, it will cleanse his tainted blood, and the country will be his, but she is no mere maiden to be possessed. Unexpectedly, he falls in love with her, finding in her quick mind and azure eyes the conqueror of his heart. 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