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Christina Dodd (born July 14, ?) is the best-selling American author of suspense and regency historical romance. She is a recipient of the RITA Award. Biography Dodd is the youngest of three daughters (her sisters are 8 and 10 years older than she is) whose father died before she was born. Although her mother had been a housewife with few job skills, after Dodd's birth she found a job and worked diligently to support her children. Despite the hard work, she still found time every day to read to her children, instilling in Dodd a love of books.Dodd attended college in Boise, Idaho, where she met her husband, Scott. After graduation, she worked as a draftsman in an engineering firm, designing a sawmill. During her lunch hour, Dodd would begin reading a romance novel. While working during the afternoon, she would often plot an ending for the story, and almost always eventually discovered that she liked her endings better than the ones the author intended. After her daughter was born in 1980, Dodd decided to stay at home and try to write a book. Over the next ten years, she wrote three romance novels. For five of these years, she also worked part-time at an independent bookstore. By talking to customers and watching what they purchased, Dodd was able to learn more about what people like to read. Her first two manuscripts were consistently rejected. The third, Candle in the Window, won the Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award for unpublished authors, resulting in its publication in 1991 by HarperCollins. The book won many awards and has not gone out of print.Her first editor was conservative, and often cut or severely trimmed the love scenes that Dodd had written. When Dodd moved from HarperCollins to Avon, her new editor chose not to interfere in the love scenes. Her first novel for Avon, A Well Pleasured Lady, was the first of her novels to include love scenes written in Dodd's "normal, unedited frankness."A Well Pleasured Lady also marked Dodd's transition to writing historical romances set in the Regency period. Regencies allowed her to continue writing historicals while including fewer details on "what the characters are wearing, what the idioms mean, and who the scions of society were."The heroines of Dodd's historical romance novels are based on her mother, an "impoverished yet determined woman who, in spite of adversity, fights to take control of her life and always wins." Her novels have since been translated into twelve languages and have appeared on The New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. Her 2003 novel, My Favorite Bride, spent 15 weeks in the top 15 of the New York Times Best Seller List. The Romance Writers of America have awarded her their RITA Award, the highest honor given to romance novelists. Dodd has even appeared as a clue in the Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle (on November 18, 2005). In 2003 Dodd released her first contemporary romance.Dodd and her family have lived in California, Idaho, and Texas, but they currently reside in Washington. She and her husband constructed a 5300-pound standing stone circle on their Washington property, where they celebrate the annual summer solstice. Writing process Dodd normally begins her writing process with a 10-20 page outline of the story. Every morning, she revises the pages that she wrote the day before. After refamiliarizing herself with the storyline, she then continues writing. She will also usually lightly outline the next few chapters that she is intending to write. When she reaches the midpoint of the manuscript, she often does a larger-scale revision. By the time she reaches the conclusion of the story, it is ready to be sent to the editors.Dodd also relies occasionally on plot weekends. She and several friends who are romance novelists, including Connie Brockway and Susan Mallery, meet at a hotel for three days. Each author takes a turn, describing the type of book she wants to write and the ideas that she already has. The group then brainstorms various plot scenarios. Awards Romance Writers of America RITA Award, Candle in the Window Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award, Candle in the Window Library Journal Top 5 Romances of 1997, A Well Pleasured Lady 1999 Romance Writers of America RITA Award finalist, A Well Favored GentlemanBibliography My First Candle in the Window (1991) Castles in the Air (1993)My Stand Alone Treasure of the Sun (1991) Priceless (1992) Outrageous (1994) Move Heaven and Earth (1995) That Scandalous Evening (1998)Knight Once a Knight (1996) A Knight to Remember (1997)Well Pleasured Well Pleasured Lady (1997) A Well Favored Gentleman (1998)Princess The Runaway Princess (1999) Someday My Prince (1999)Governess Brides That Scandalous Evening (1998)(Technically, That Scandalous Evening is not part of the Governess Brides series and is listed under the "My Stand Alone" heading, but characters in the book do show up and the events in the novel take place before those in the later Governess Brides books.) Rules of Surrender (2000) Rules of Engagement (2000) Rules of Attraction (2001) In My Wildest Dreams (2001) Lost in Your Arms (2002) My Favorite Bride (2002) My Fair Temptress (2005) In Bed with the Duke (2010) Taken by the Prince (2011)Lost Texas Heart Just the Way You Are (2003) Almost Like Being in Love (2004) Close to You (2005)Switching Places Scandalous Again (2003) One Kiss from You (2003)Lost Princesses Some Enchanted Evening (2004) The Barefoot Princess (2006) The Prince Kidnaps a Bride (2006)The Chosen Ones Storm of Visions (2009) Storm of Shadows (2009) Chains of Ice (2010) Chains of Fire (2010) Wilder (August 2012)Darkness Chosen Scent of Darkness (2007) Touch of Darkness (2007) Into the Shadow (2008) Into the Flame (2008)The Fortune Hunters This series is loosely tied to the earlier "Lost Texas Heart" series Trouble in High Heels (2006) Tongue in Chic (2007) Thigh High (2008) Danger in a Red Dress (2009)Scarlet Deception Secrets of Bella Terra (2011) Revenge at Bella Terra (2011) Betrayal (2012)Virtue Falls Series Virtue Falls (2014) Obsession Falls (2015) Because I'm Watching (2016) The Woman Who Couldn't Scream (2017)Cape Charade Series Hard to Kill (2018) shortstory Dead Girl Running (2018) Families & Other Enemies (2019) Novella What Doesn't Kill Her (2019) Hidden Truths (2019) Novella Strangers She Knows (2019) Wrong Alibi (2020)Novels Lady in Black (1993) The Greatest Lover in All England (1994) Once Upon a Pillow (2002) (with Connie Brockway)Omnibus Tall, Dark, and Dangerous (1994) (with Catherine Anderson and Susan Sizemore) One Night With a Rogue (1995) (with Kimberly Cates, Deborah Martin (Sabrina Jeffries) and Anne Stuart) Scottish Brides (1999) (with Stephanie Laurens, Julia Quinn and Karen Ranney) My Scandalous Bride (2004) (with Celeste Bradley, Leslie LaFoy and Stephanie Laurens) Hero, Come Back (2005) (with Elizabeth Boyle and Stephanie Laurens)External links Christina Dodd .... 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My Wicked Highlander
Jen HollingThe first in an exciting and magical MacDonell Brides trilogy set in Scotland featuring three sisters who are witches, from the awardwinning author of My Immortal Protector.With Sc...
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The Book Charmer
Karen HawkinsPrepare to fall under the spell of “this sometimes whimsical, often insightful, always absorbing story” (Shelf Awareness) following two fiercely independent women and their truly m...
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Scent of Darkness
Christina DoddAnn Smith loves her handsome, dynamic boss, Jasha Wilder, but her daring plan to seduce him goes awry when she encounters a powerful wolf whobefore her horrified eyeschanges into t...
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Point Last Seen
Christina Dodd"When it comes to nerveshredding, edgeofyourseat suspense, Dodd consistently delivers the goods...Point Last Seen is a gobsmackingly great read."Booklist STARRED REVIEW Perfect for...
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The Secret Recipe of Ella Dove
Karen HawkinsThree lives converge as a wildly talented baker returns to Dove Pond to face her past in this entry in the charming series that proves that sometimes miracles really do happen...El...
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Just The Way You Are
Christina DoddNew York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd’s Lost Hearts series… Mystery and misery scarred their young lives. Three sisters and their foster brother, torn apart by tragedy a...
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THE WATCHER
Christina DoddWhen Sheriff Kateri Kwinault gets a call about something strange happening at the local boys’ and girls’ summer camp, she finds herself telling a scary story that might be a little...
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Only With a Highlander
Janet ChapmanFrom bestselling author Janet Chapman comes the fifth novel in her Highlander series featuring a timetravelling Scotsman in modernday Maine.As soon as Pine Creek’s new mystery man ...
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An Accidental Seduction
Lois Greiman“Lois Greiman is a natural storyteller.”Victoria Alexander “Lois Greiman delivers.”Christina DoddLois Greiman’s sparkling talent for historical romance has never shone brighte...
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Close to You
Christina DoddNew York Times bestseller Christina Dodd brings you the mystery, romance and suspense in CLOSE TO YOU… Who knows the truth about her family? Who wants to keep her past hidden forev...
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Danger in a Red Dress
Christina DoddHome care nurse Hannah Grey is dedicated to her patient, an aging widow still tainted by the financial scandal her late husband perpetrated. She makes Hannah promise that upon her ...
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Hero, Come Back
Stephanie Laurens, Christina Dodd & Elizabeth BoyleTwo superstar New York Times bestsellers, Stephanie Laurens and Christina Dodd, join forces with one exciting rising star, Elizabeth Boyle, to create this sexy anthology with an ex...
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Night Whispers
Judith McNaughtDiscover the sensual and sweeping power of love in New York Times bestselling author Judith McNaught’s contemporary romances that will make “you laugh, cry, and fall in love again”...
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Touch of Darkness
Christina DoddFrom New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd comes the second book of Darkness Chosen, a seductive series about an ancient, dark evil that lives in the modern world...Hand...
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Wild Texas Rose
Christina DoddNew York Times bestseller Christina Dodd brings you her classic Western novella, WILD TEXAS ROSE, updated for your ebook reading pleasure. Fans of Linda Lael Miller will enjoy this...
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Forget What You Know
Christina Dodd“Extraordinarily entertaining….with a cinematic flair that Hitchcock would envy.” – Booklist, starred reviewPerfect for fans of Karen Slaughter, Lisa Jewell, and Sandra Brown comes...
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Strangers She Knows
Christina DoddI have three deadly problems:1. I’ve seriously offended a maniacal killer.2. I just had a bullet removed from my brain.3. My new daughter is growing up too fastand she’s in the lin...
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My Fair Temptress
Christina DoddMiss Caroline Ritter, accomplished flirt, acknowledgedbeauty, and ruined gentlewoman, offers lessons toany rich, noble lord too inept to attract a wife. Discardyour silly affectati...
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Wilder Family Halloween
Christina DoddFrom Christina Dodd: Several years ago, when I wrote WILDER FAMILY HALLOWEEN, I loved revisiting the Wilder family and discovering what happened after Darkness Chosen. This year, ...
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Paradise
Judith McNaughtNew York Times bestselling author “Judith McNaught comes close to an Edith Wharton edge” (Chicago Tribune) in this sensual and sweeping romance of two former lovers who mix busines...
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A Cup of Silver Linings
Karen HawkinsDiscover the “sometimes whimsical, often insightful, always absorbing” (Shelf Awareness) Dove Pond series with this novel that explores the magic in the tea leavesfrom New York Tim...
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Someone to Watch Over Me
Judith McNaughtDiscover the sensual and sweeping power of love in New York Times bestselling author Judith McNaught’s contemporary romances that will make “you laugh, cry, and fall in love again”...
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One Kiss From You
Christina DoddA bold woman known as the "duchess of Magnus" was wageredand wonin a card game. But the woman who arrived was her shy, quiet cousin Eleanor. Eleanor de Lacy must have been mad to a...
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Finding You
Carla NeggersThe New York Times bestselling author of Harbor Island delivers nonstop suspense and pulsepounding romance in this thrilling mystery that “proves once and for all that opposites no...
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Trouble in High Heels
Christina DoddNew York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd delivers a smoldering tale about a man who’s not what he seems and a woman who’s all trouble... When Brandi Michaels discove...
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Remember When
Judith McNaughtDiscover the sensual and sweeping power of love in New York Times bestselling author Judith McNaught’s contemporary romances that will make “you laugh, cry, and fall in love again”...
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Treasure of the Sun
Christina DoddTheirs was a Passion as Fierce as the Land that Claimed ThemBlackeyed Damian de la Sola was like no man Katherine Maxwell had ever known. Powerful and seductive, the aristocratic S...
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Wrong Alibi
Christina DoddPerfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Karin Slaughter and Sandra Brown, New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd delivers a heartstopping thriller, featuring a bold and bra...
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Perfect
Judith McNaughtDiscover the sensual and sweeping power of love in New York Times bestselling author Judith McNaught’s contemporary romances that will make “you laugh, cry, and fall in love again”...
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Love Never Dies
Christina DoddA murder committed. A love lost. A ghost haunted by the past. Only one woman can right the wrongs… If she can survive the night… From this “master of the genre,” Christina Dodd, co...
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The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams
Karen HawkinsA brand new novel in the “sometimes whimsical, often insightful, always absorbing” (Shelf Awareness) Dove Pond series that follows a gifted historian investigating the mystery of a...
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Almost Heaven
Judith McNaughtThis sweeping historical romance will take you from London’s drawing rooms to the Scottish Highlands as a young countess embarks on a twisting relationship with a handsome roguefro...
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Kidnapped
Christina DoddThe knight’s plan is simple. Kidnap the maiden. Take her back to the castle. Marry her. Use her fortune to care for his estate. Only one thing could possibly go wrong: he could ste...
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Some Enchanted Evening
Christina DoddOnce upon a time . . . in a kingdom high in the Pyrenees, three young princesses were forced to flee the chaos in their landvanishing without a trace and lost to their people . . ....
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Stone Angel
Christina Dodd & Audrey ShawNew York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd brings you STONE ANGEL: The Chosen Ones, an original paranormal enovella of 32,000 words (approximately 140 pages) written with Aud...
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Rules of Engagement
Christina DoddRules of Engagement:Choose a bride from this year's debutantes.Decide on a proper settlement.Send an announcement to The Times.Inform the bride of her good fortune.R...
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The Listener
Christina DoddAvailable now! New York Times Bestseller Christina Dodd kicks off her new suspense series with THE LISTENER, a short story of mystery and intrigue set in the small town o...
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Hidden Truths
Christina DoddHis new bride, Kellen, hovers between life and death.A convicted serial killer threatens their child.Max Di Luca goes on the hunt…What would you do to protect your family?
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Double Standards
Judith McNaught“Judith McNaught not only spins dreams, but she makes them come true.... She makes you laugh, cry, and fall in love again” (RT Book Reviews), especially in this romance that takes ...
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Almost Like Being In Love
Christina DoddNew York Times author Christina Dodd's bestselling romantic suspense series, Lost Hearts: Mystery and misery scar their young lives. Three sisters and their foster brother are torn...
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Once and Always
Judith McNaughtLet New York Times bestselling author Judith McNaught who “is in a class by herself” (USA TODAY) sweep you off your feet and into another time with her sensual, passionate, and spe...
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In My Wildest Dreams
Christina DoddSince she was a little girl, Celeste has had one burning desire:to marry Ellery Throckmorton. But what chance does a gardener's daughter have of capturing the heart of one of Engla...
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Into the Flame
Christina DoddIn this “devilishly clever, scintillatingly sexy paranormal series,”(Chicago Tribune) New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd introduces the Wilder brothersand the evil th...