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  <name><![CDATA[Lyn Cote]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Lyn grew up loving books. Her favorite night of the week was Friday night, when the Bookmobile came to her neighborhood in Waukegan, Illinois. She’d spend those two hours chatting with the driver of the Bookmobile and the librarian and making the big decision of the week — which books to check out! In those distant days, children were limited in how many books they could check out. Lyn could only take home six a week — and there were so many to choose from. Her favorites were Cotton in my Sack by Lois Lenski, The Little House series and the One of a Kind Family series. Later, she discovered Georgette Heyer’s Regency romances!
This love of books led to a desire to write. Lyn won prizes in high school and college for her poetry and, not surprisingly, Lyn became a history and English teacher. When she became a mother, she gave up teaching, and while raising a son and a daughter, she began working on her first novel. Then she wrote her second and third. Long years of rejection followed — as it does for most writers. Finally in 1997, Lyn got &quot;the call.&quot; Her first book, Never Alone, was chosen to appear in the first year of the new Love Inspired line. Lyn has written many articles on writing and the emerging Christian Booksellers Assoc. (CBA) fiction market. In 2006, Lyn's book, Chloe, is a finalist for the RWA's RITA, the highest award in the romance genre in the inspirational category.
Now, Lyn spends her days writing books that show the power of divine as well as human love. Her nest is empty and she and her real life hero, her husband, have more and more time to spend together in their home on a lake in the lovely northwoods. And books are still dear to her heart.

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  <title><![CDATA[Chloe (Women of Ivy Manor, #1)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Bette (Women of Ivy Manor, #2)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Leigh (The Women of Ivy Manor)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Carly (The Women of Ivy Manor)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Summer's End (Northern Intrigue #3)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Loving Constance (Love Inspired) Sisters Of The Heart #3]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Blessed Assurance]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Dangerous Game (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense) (Harbor Intrigue Series #2)]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[His Saving Grace (Love Inspired) Sister's of the Heart#1]]></title>
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