Joanna Bourne

The Forbidden Rose

Forbidden Rose

It's France. 1794.

As usual, civilization has fallen with a basso profundo clatter and all right-thinking people are at each other's throats. In Paris, the guillotine's doing a roaring business. Civil war batters and bashes its way across the countryside. On the philosophical front, the world's teetering on the cusp of old loyalties and new.

Maggie is caught in the center. Her old certainties have been swept away. Love and loyalty pull in different directions. To survive, she'll become someone she barely recognizes.

And Doyle ... our Doyle is playing the detached loner. This is maybe not so smart when half of France is after his neck.

 

Do we see Adrian?


Oh yes. Adrian's a strong secondary character in the FORBIDDEN ROSE. He's at his most exasperating. He's a teenager; he has no loyalties; and he's armed.

 

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And the other books . . . 

 

The Spymaster's Lady

The Spymaster's Lady

 

Two spies on the run - a woman loyal to France, a man loyal to England - and a secret that means peace or war for two nations.

They break the first rule of spies.
They fall in love.

 

 

 

 

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My Lord and Spymaster

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He found the traitor, the man who killed his best friend.

Trouble is, he's falling in love with the traitor's daughter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Her Ladyship's Companion

Her Ladyship's Companion

 

 

Melissa Rivenwood finds love and danger on the coast of Cornwall. Can she trust the enigmatic Giles Tarsin?

 

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What's Next?

What's next? When is your next book out and what will it be?

I'm working on Adrian's story, as yet untitled.  If all goes well, it willI be on the shelves somewhere in the neighborhood of fall, 2011.

 

Tell us about the story. Who, what, where, and when?

We meet Adrian's lady, Justine, in the Forbidden Rose.  This is Adrian and Justine working out a few of the little problems involved in one British spy and one French spy being in love.

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Forbidden Rose

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My Lord and Spymaster

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And as long as I got you here looking at my books, I might as well go on and tell you about these here . . .

Really Good in Fact Maybe Best Romances

Ever  Ever Ever

These are Romance books of enduring quality.

I've picked only one book per author, being fair, and spreading the praise out.

 

>Annie's Song, by Catherine Anderson > Valley of Horses, Jean Auel > Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen > Simply Love, Mary Balogh > An Unwilling Bride, Jo Beverley> Tregaron's Daughter, Peter O'Donnell (Madeleine Brent)> Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte> Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte>A Woman of Virtue, Liz Carlyle > Lord of Scoundrels, Loretta Chase > Welcome to Temptation, Jennifer Crusie > The Proposition, Judy Cuevas (Judith Ivory) > Windflower, Tom and Sharon Curtis (Laura London)> Rebecca, Daphne DeMaurier > Knight in Shining Armor, Jude Deveraux> Thigh High, Christine Dodd > Outlander, Diana Gabaldon> Alinor, Roberta Gellis > Angelique in Love, Serge and Anne Golon (Sergeanne Golon)

> The Perfect Rake, Anne Gracie> The Grand Sophy, Georgette Heyer> The Sheik, Edith M. Hull > By Arrangement, Madeline Hunter > Flowers from the Storm, Laura Kinsale > Wildest Hearts, Jane Ann Krentz (Amanda Quick, Jane Castle) > Pearl Cove, Ann Maxwell (Elizabeth Lowell) > Paradise, Judith McNaught > Charming the Prince, Teresa Medeiros > Curse of the Pharaohs, Barbara Mertz (Elizabeth Peters, Barbara Michaels)> Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell> The Scarlet Pimpernel, Emma Orczy > Nobody's Baby But Mine, Susan Elizabeth Phillips > The Rake, Mary Jo Putney > The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn > Hunter's Moon, Karen Robards > Naked in Death, Nora Roberts (J.D. Robb) >Tokaido Road, Lucia St. Clair Robson> Gaudy Night, Dorothy Sayers> Katherine, Anya Seton> My Brother Michael, Mary Stewart

> Whisper His Name, Elizabeth Thornton > The Lightkeeper, Susan Wiggs > Forever Amber, Kathleen Windsor > The Gamble, Joan Wolf > Shanna, Kathleen Woodiwiss

 



New and Wonderful
Books . . .

> Demon Forged, Meljean Brook> Untouched, Anna Campbell > Goddess of the Hunt, Tessa Dare > Duke of Shadows, Meredith Duran> Proof by Seduction, Courtney Milan> The Scent of Shadows, Vicki Patterson

> The Dead Travel Fast, Deanna Raybourn

> The Slightest Provocation, Pam Rosenthal

> The Wicked Lover, Julia Ross> His at Night, Sherry Thomas

 

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