Julie Garwood





Julie Garwood

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January 01, 1946

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Julie Murphy was born in 1946 in Kansas City, Missouri to a large Irish family. At the age of six, Julie had her tonsils removed and complications from the surgery resulted in a long period of recuperation. She fell hopelessly behind in school and never caught up. "I was a slow, slow reader," Julie says. "I hated it." At the age of 11, her mother discovered her daughter's secret and promptly enrolled her in a summer remedial reading class. "When I got there the nuns immediately realized I wasn't even remedial, and Sister Mary Elizabeth was drafted to tutor me." Julie came to know Sister Elizabeth as a friend and mentor. "She taught me to love the written word. Of course, some of the vocabulary was beyond me so I had to look up a lot of word...more


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“She let him know how much she liked what he was doing by scoring his back with her nails and crying out with pleasure.
"Oh, God."
"Nay, lass. Connor.”
Julie Garwood, The Wedding

“Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have.”
Julie Garwood, Ransom

“Noah, if we were to get married, you couldn't date anymore.”
Julie Garwood, Shadow Dance

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The heroes of Julie Garwood's historical romances are all lined up at a charity auction. Who are you going to bid on?

Brodick Buchanan
 
  8 votes, 29.6%

Alec Kincaid
 
  7 votes, 25.9%

Iain Maitland
 
  4 votes, 14.8%

Nathan St. James
 
  2 votes, 7.4%

Baron Royce
 
  2 votes, 7.4%

Other not listed - Please let us know!
 
  2 votes, 7.4%

Ramsey Sinclair
 
  1 vote, 3.7%

Baron Duncan of Wexton
 
  1 vote, 3.7%

Harrison Stanford McDonald
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Gabriel McBain
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Caine, Marquess of Cainewood
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Lucas Ross
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

Lyon, Marquis of Lyonwood
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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