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"The award-winning author of sixteen books and numerous short stories, Anita Mills lives on a rural acreage near Plattsburgh, Missouri, with her husband of thirty-one years, two of their four children, and assorted dogs and cats. A former teacher of history and English, she has drawn upon her love for both to enrich her novels."
~Romantic Times~
1987
Eleanor of Nantes is a beautiful woman pursued by several suitors, including Prince Henry, son of William the Conqueror. She chooses Roger FitzGilbert, but the evil Robert of Belesme kidnaps her. Roger must fight him one on one to get her back.
~Mary Jo Putney~
1988
Catherine, daughter of Eleanor and Roger, is forced to wed Guy of Rivaux, a Norman lord. However, she thinks she loves Brian FitzHenry, an illegitimate son of King Henry. Guy leaves her for five years, and when he returns he is determined to make her his wife in more than name.
~Publishers Weekly~
1989
Richard, son of Catherine and Guy, falls in love with Gilliane, a woman beneath him in social class - and he is betrothed to another woman. Gilliane knows she can never marry him, so she agrees to become his leman. However, she becomes pregnant and leaves him to wed another.
1991
Elizabeth, daughter of Catherine and Guy, is a widow. She refuses to remarry because of her unhappy first marriage. However, she is kidnapped by Giles of Moray, a Scotsman, who decides he wants to marry her. But the father of her dead first husband has other ideas.
1992
Arabella is a beautiful widow with a crippled son. William of Blackleith, illegitimate half-brother of Giles of Moray, is thrilled to marry her until he hears a rumor about her past - that her son was not fathered by her husband.
1995
Amanda Ross, trained in the East to be a lady, returns to run the ranch left by her mother and father, who were killed by the Comanche. She hates the Indians, and wants to hate Clay McAlester, a Texas Ranger who was raised by them. And then she finds herself with him in a Comanche camp.
~Joan Johnston~
"A brilliant western romance."
~Rosanne Bittner~
1996
Annie Bryce was stolen by the Comanche, after they killed her husband and baby son and gave away her daughter. Three years later, she is rescued by Hap Walker, former Texas Ranger and friend of Clay McAlester. He agrees to go with her into Indian territory to find her lost daughter, but he demands that she marry him first.
~Georgina Gentry~
"This gripping story about the healing power of love will pull at your heartstrings."
~Joan Johnston~
1993
Eleanor Ashton is forced to marry a wealthy but elderly man. Her husband wants an heir, so he plots to have a scandalous rake, Lucien de Clare, seduce her. However, Eleanor and Lucien fall in love - but then her husband tells her of his plot, and that Lucien was aware of it. She separates from Lucien, and then has his child.
~Heather Graham~
"Autumn Rain is exceptional, a masterful achievement, a keeper."
~Romantic Times~
"Powerful ... a story to touch all of your emotions."
~Janelle Taylor~
1993
Kate Winstead is married to Russian Count Alexei Volsky after a whirlwind courtship. She travels with him and his sister to his estate deep in Russia, where she becomes pregnant - but then discovers his shocking, decadent secret. A visit by Bell Townsend, a rake who is a friend of Lucien and Eleanor de Clare, gives her a chance to escape. Travelling through Russia in winter to the border is terribly difficult - and Kate is ill as well.
~Romantic Times~
1994
Elise Rand's father had tried to arrange a marriage between her and Patrick Hamilton, the famous London lawyer who defended Kate Winstead in her suit to annul her marriage. However, Hamilton wanted her as a mistress rather than a wife, and she refused. Then her father is accused of murder, and she agrees to the illicit relationship in return for his defending her father.
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