false 15987 56 28 Her second novel, also a contemporary romance, took third place in a writing contest. She sent the book to several prospective agents, many of which responded with questions similar to "Nice voice — but what line are you writing for?" Unwilling to try to fit her writing into some of the rules that governed contemporary romances, Abé chose to concentrate on historical romances. For her first attempt at a historical romance, the newlywed Abé chose to tell the story of her own romance with her husband, set in medieval times. The manuscript was purchased by Bantam Books and published as A Rose in Winter.
Many of Abé's subsequent novels have also been set in the medieval time period. Abé chose the time period because of its "great sense of dichotomy....It inspires thoughts of grandeur, of courtly grace and chivalrous knights — but at the same time there's a gritty, raw aspect to the period that just cannot be denied."

Abé has received the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award, and has been nominated six times for Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Awards, winning twice]]> female Texas 28429 0553588044 9780553588040 106 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946552m/28429.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946552s/28429.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28429.The_Smoke_Thief 3.85 626
Dubbed the Smoke Thief, a daring jewel thief is confounding the London police. His wealthy victims claim the master burglar can walk through walls and vanish into thin air. But Christoff, the charismatic Marquess of Langford, knows the truth: the thief is no ordinary human but a “runner” who’s fled Darkfrith without permission. As Alpha leader of the dra´kon, it’s Kit’s duty to capture the fugitive before the secrets of the tribe are revealed to mortals. But not even Kit suspects that the Smoke Thief could be a woman.

Clarissa Rue Hawthorne knew her dangerous exploits would attract the attention of the dra´kon. But she didn’t expect Christoff himself to come to London, dangling the tribe’s most valuable jewel–the Langford Diamond–as bait. For as long as she could remember, Rue had lived the life of a halfling–half dra´kon, half mortal–and an outcast in both worlds. She’d always loved the handsome and willful Kit from the only place it was safe: from afar. But now she was no longer the shy, timid girl she’d once been. She was the first woman capable of making the Turn in four generations. So why did she still feel the same dizzying sense of vulnerability whenever he was near?

From the moment he saw her, Kit knew that the alluring and powerful beauty was every bit his Alpha equal and destined to be his bride. And by the harsh laws of the dra´kon, Rue knew that she was the property of the marquess. But they will risk banishment and worse for a chance at something greater. For now Rue is his prisoner, the diamond has disappeared, and she’s made the kind of dangerous proposition a man like Kit cannot resist....In this bewitching novel, Shana Abé transports us into a world of exhilarating romance and magic.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 15987 3.74 1899 319 2004 1405310 0553588052 9780553588057 66 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183343487m/1405310.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183343487s/1405310.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1405310.The_Dream_Thief 3.84 413
Buried deep within the bowels of the Carpathian Mountains lies the legendary dreaming diamond known as Draumr, the only gem with the power to enslave the drákon. Since childhood, Lady Amalia Langford, daughter of the clan’s Alpha, has heard its haunting ballad but kept it secret, along with another rare Gift....

Lia can hear the future, much in the way she hears the call of Draumr. And in that future, she realizes that the diamond—along with the fate of the drákon—rests in the hands of a human man, one who straddles two worlds.

Ruthlessly clever, Zane has risen through London’s criminal underworld to become its ruler. Once a street urchin saved by Lia’s mother, Zane is also privy to the secrets of the clan—and is the only human they trust to bring them Draumr. But he does nothing selflessly.

Zane’s hunt for the gem takes him to Hungary, where he is shocked to encounter a bold, beautiful young noblewoman: Lia. She has broken every rule of the drákon to join him, driven by the urgent song of Draumr—and her visions of Zane. In one future, he is her ally. In another, her overlord. In both, he is her lover. Now, to protect her tribe, Lia must tie her fate to Zane’s, to the one man capable of stealing her future—and destroying her heart....


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 15987 3.74 1899 319 2006 1375607 0553805282 9780553805284 49 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1375607.Queen_of_Dragons 3.62 255 drákon—supersensual creatures with the ability to Turn from human to smoke to dragon. Now a treacherous new enemy threatens to destroy their world of magic and glittering power.
For centuries, they thought themselves alone at Darkfrith, but the arrival of a stunning letter from the Princess Maricara sent from the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania suggests the existence of a lost tribe of drákon. It is a possibility that the Alpha lord, Kimber Langford, Earl of Chasen, cannot ignore. For whoever this unknown princess may be, she’s dangerous enough to know about the drákon’s existence—and where to find them. That, as Kimber can’t help but concede, gives her a decidedly deadly advantage. And, indeed, it wouldn’t be long before Maricara breached the defenses of Darkfrith and the walls around Kimber’s heart. But the mystery of the princess’s real identity and the warning she has come to deliver, of a brutal serial killer targeting the drákon themselves, seem all but impossible to believe. Until the shadowed threat that stalks her arrives at Darkfrith, and Kimber and Maricara must stand together against the greatest enemy the drákon have ever faced—an enemy who may or may not be one of their own. They have no choice but to yield to their passionate attraction for each other. But for two such very different drákon leaders, will an alliance of body and soul mean their salvation, their extinction…or both?]]> 15987 3.74 1899 319 2007 28426 0553584979 9780553584974 25 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255891829m/28426.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255891829s/28426.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28426.The_Last_Mermaid 3.64 127
531 a.d.: The tiny island of Kell is said to be enchanted, inhabited by an extraordinary creature who comforts shipwrecked sailors passing into the next world. Prince Aedan of the Isles believes in no such nonsense—until he awakens on Kell itself and meets the sensuous siren who rescued him from the sea.

1721: Ronan MacMhuirich, Earl of Kell, is the target of an unlikely assassin: Leila, a mysterious woman from an exotic land. But his irresistibly beautiful would-be slayer is in just as much danger as Ronan when she falls for this man with a magic of his own.

2004: What do you do when you inherit a Scottish island you never knew existed—and find yourself pursued by a handsome stranger who wants to buy it from you? That’s what happens to Ruri Kell when she accepts Iain MacInnes’s invitation to visit her birthright, and listens to a proposition as sinfully tempting as everything else about him.

Three seductive love stories, three passionate couples, all linked by one of the most romantic myths of all.]]> 15987 3.74 1899 319 2004 3944722 0553806858 9780553806854 31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255891824m/3944722.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255891824s/3944722.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3944722.The_Treasure_Keeper 3.54 105 Queen of Dragons and The Dream Thief, Shana Abé has created a unique and vividly imagined world that exists side by side with our own—a realm populated by a race of supersensual men and women whose power to change shape permits them unlimited acts of pleasure…and ever-present danger. Now the survival of the drákon rests in the hands of a young woman with untried and unexpected powers—and the powerful Alpha male she must break every drákon law to save.

The drákon are at war, surrounded by an enemy they have every reason to fear. The sanf inimicus are no ordinary human beings but the most dangerous of hunters. They’ve sworn to exterminate the shape-shifters whose presence they now can detect, and they’ve already claimed a prize prisoner: Lord Rhys Langford.

It’s a blow the drákon clans feel from Darkfrith, England, all the way to the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania. But it strikes no one harder than Zoe Cyprienne Lane. A mere seamstress’s daughter, Zoe isn’t even in the same league as Rhys. In fact, as an unwed male in the Alpha line, according to drákon custom, he owns her. So nothing could be more outrageous—or personally ruinous—than the mere notion that she might set out on her own to find her childhood friend...and first true love.

But the unexpected is exactly what Zoe intends to do. For years she’s been hiding two extraordinary Gifts that have set her apart from other drákon females: the power to become invisible and the power to feel others’ emotions. Now, guided by a link to Rhys—his presence and touch as electric as if he were beside her in the flesh—Zoe uses both Gifts to infiltrate the sanf inimicus. And for Rhys, whose time is running out, Zoe is his last lifeline to a world—and a love—he never thought he’d regain. Only together again, hunter and huntress, can they save the drákon from the traitor in their midst who would destroy them all.]]> 15987 3.74 1899 319 2009 28428 0553582003 9780553582000 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946552m/28428.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946552s/28428.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28428.The_Secret_Swan 3.49 75
The Secret Swan

At fifteen Lady Amiranth St. Clare became the bride of Tristan Geraint. She thought all of her dreams had come true--until she learned on her wedding day that Tristan had married her only for her bloodline. A week later Tristan deserted her for the glories of battle. Heartbroken, Amiranth felt she'd been abandoned, not knowing that Tristan had become a prisoner of war--nor that he would one day return to the life he didn't know he wanted until it was taken away. Eight long years pass before Tristan finally comes home. A beautiful woman greets him in the garden, claiming to be Amiranth's cousin. Yet somehow she seems hauntingly familiar, with an ethereal radiance that stirs him deep within his heart. Is she really his wife, grown into a lady of breathtaking beauty--or another woman who has awakened within him a passion he has never known? To discover the truth, Tristanmust reveal the secrets of what happened those years he was away--and find the love that was closer than he ever imagined....
]]> 15987 3.74 1899 319 2001 28425 0553581996 9780553581997 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946550m/28425.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946550s/28425.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28425.Intimate_Enemies 3.83 41
What if....

What if you had your own wild Scottish island, a place of such rich and rugged beauty that it was coveted by not merely one country but three? What if you and your clan were the lifeblood of this isle, had lived there for generations, the magic of the land woven as deep into your soul as your pride in your family?

And now, what if an outside force threatened all that—not just the island itself but the very survival of all you love? What would you do to save your home and your people? Would you bargain with the devil himself? Lauren MacRae, fierce and desperate leader of Clan MacRae, certainly would. Brutal Northmen are invading the Isle of Shot, intent on destroying her world. To win this war, she's willing to risk everything by striking a deal with her most bitter foe: Arion du Morgan, the Earl of Morgan. Arion rules the English family which claims the island as its own. His people have lived on the other side of Shot as long as the MacRaes have lived on theirs; the feud between these two great houses is ancient and simmering. He and Lauren grew up as adversaries, but now Ari sees a chance for a new future for Shot—and he has more in plan for Lauren than he's willing to admit.

Amid battles and rescues, these two enemies are about to discover that forbidden attraction can become the most dangerous foe of all....

Like all my heroines, Lauren is smart and courageous, a woman who isn't afraid to follow her heart and do what she thinks is right. And like all my heroes, Arion is honorable, strong, even a little wounded. The dark violence of his past has steeled him into a man of noble convictions. All of those convictions are about to be put to the test as he finds himself falling in love with the one woman he absolutely cannot have.

Intimate Enemies lets their story unfold amid gorgeous vistas and deep, undeniable passion. I invite you to slip into their world and let the dream begin.
]]> 15987 3.74 1899 319 2000 28427 055358054X 9780553580549 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946551m/28427.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167946551s/28427.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28427.The_Truelove_Bride 3.62 34
The laird loved his lady fair and she him, both of them ruling just and right over their clan. It was the days of riches for them, of long summers and gentle winters, when the mountains still sang their songs at night and the deer were plump and plentiful. Each day was a jewel in the mind of God, and the Clan Kincardine was the most blessed of all people.

Into this peace came an evil faerie, who had watched the laird's lady for such a time until he fell into envy....

The Truelove Bride is the story of Avalon d'Farouche and Marcus Kincardine, two people whose fates are irrevocably intertwined into a fabulous lover's knot. This is a romance with magic and mystery, and the promise of a rich, satisfying adventure in love.

Lady Avalon was born with a secret, one she is desperate to hide from the rest of the world and even from herself: she has the gift of second sight, a strange power within her that can allow her to know the hearts and the minds of others.

She was also born with a burden: she represents the end of a hundred-year-old curse laid upon the Clan Kincardine, a proud but hungry people who will do anything to get her into their family. Avalon fulfills all the requirements of the warrior maiden foretold to end their curse: She has the unique beauty of her ancestress, the wife of the laird in the legend. She has the Sight. And she has the fighting skills necessary to be a true warrior.

She is the destined bride of their laird, Marcus Kincardine, who has been away on a crusade for most of Avalon's life. Betrothed since her birth, Avalon grew up with the story of the curse so deeply ingrained into her tumultuous childhood that she is desperate to escape it.

When a savage raid on her family castle killed her father, the child Avalon was rescued by the father of Marcus, Hanoch Kincardine, and then hidden away in a remote Highland village.

For seven long years she was presumed dead but secretly raised by him, yet Hanoch proved to be a brutal man. To fulfill the requirements of his family's legend he molded Avalon ruthlessly into a reflection of the warrior maiden said to end the curse.

Now grown and living in London, Avalon has no plans to marry anyone. And the last thing she intends is to hand over her life to the son of the monster who raised her. She wants nothing to do with the legend that has ruled her life up to now; despite her own gift, she despises superstition and the Kincardine curse that has manipulated her very identity.

In a sense she is a woman without a home, without any allegiances at all except to survival. When her English cousin and guardian summons her back to her childhood castle of Trayleigh, Avalon leaps at the opportunity.

But all is not what it seems at Trayleigh; Avalon finds herself in the midst of a dangerous plot to wed her to yet another man in an effort to gain her wealth. She plans her escape, but before she can act, she is kidnapped on the very night of her wedding by a new man, a stranger whose touch makes her feel strangely alive again.

This is Marcus Kincardine, back at last from his crusade in the Holy Land to claim his promised bride.

A dark knight with secrets and mysteries riddling his own past, Marcus has every intention of wedding Avalon and fulfilling his destiny with her. Yet he senses immediately that this lady is more than a prize to him, more than even a woman of vivid beauty and uncommon intelligence. She is his match.

Avalon and Marcus begin their battle of wits and willpower, each one determined to win the war—but it's going to take both of them to realize that their destiny is more than just marriage and the completion of a legend.

It is true love. ]]> 15987 3.74 1899 319 1999 868713 0553580574 9780553580570 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179045468m/868713.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179045468s/868713.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/868713.A_Kiss_at_Midnight 3.06 18
Anglo-Saxon Britain is beset with rumors of anarchy, chaos, the devil about to rise up and take over with the turning of the millennium.

The lord of one of the most remote and fertile lands of all has been said to run mad—releasing his peasants, his livestock, and letting the fields turn fallow. The Lord of Alderich, it is said, is preparing for the end of everything.

But Alderich and all it holds are to fall to another man at the end of this century: Rafael of Leonhart, a feared and famed mercenary, leader of a family which has long awaited this very year to inherit the land they claim should have been theirs ages ago.

Rafael has come home again from years of wandering to find the world turned upside-down: people fleeing to the woods, animals roaming free, and Jozua Rune, Lord of Alderich for just a few more days, locked firmly away in his family castle, methodically destroying all that Rafael has come to take.

Rafe sees only one possible hope for preventing the war that is about to ensue: Serath Rune, granddaughter of Jozua.

Serath has spent much of her life imprisoned behind convent walls. She is the living image of her dead mother—burned for witchcraft when Serath was just a child—and the likeness she bears to her stains her life. It is whispered she is enchanted, bespelled, cursed. Yet she is a young woman of intelligence and deep convictions, someone who isn't going to allow the end of the world to stop her from getting what she wants—and certainly not a man. Not even the man who means to take control of Alderich, and thwart her grandfather at any cost.

Against the backdrop of the coming millennium, one man and one woman stand opposed and then together, fighting the turmoil and desperation raging around them. The end of the century draws closer and closer—will Serath and Rafael discover their love for each other before the very end of time?
]]> 15987 3.74 1899 319 2000 868714 0553577883 9780553577884 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179045469m/868714.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179045469s/868714.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/868714.The_Promise_of_Rain 3.79 14
Strathmore is known as the Hound of Hell, King Henry's most infamous warrior, and this is to be his last duty to the king before being allowed to retire to his island earldom. He must return the fleeing family to London so that Kyla's father can stand trial for the brutal murder of her mother.

Kyla knows her father did not, could not have killed her mother, but now the point seems lost. Her father died at the outset of their perilous journey north to Scotland, and when Henry's army attacks and burns the village where she and her brother seek refuge, only Kyla is left to clear her father's name. She blames Strathmore, leader of this army—a man she has never met yet with whom she was supposed to end her days—for the destruction of her entire family.

Roland will stop at nothing to catch her, but Kyla has her own ideas of how to deal with this man who is chasing her, and the intelligence and determination to fulfill them.

The chase will take them both from England to Scotland to England again, London, and finally to Lorlreau: an island that, to the wary eyes of Kyla, seems to be a strange mixture of truth and enchantment.

Neither Roland nor Kyla planned for the passion and love which would become entangled in their unforgettable relationship, nor could they anticipate the inescapable danger which shadows the final outcome to the mystery behind the murders of Kyla's family....
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