Karen Young

Karen Young, who makes her home in Texas, is the author of over 30 novels. She sold her first book to Silhouette. She won the 1993 RITA® in the Long Contemporary category for her novel The Silence Of Midnight and her single-title novel Someone Knows was also a 2003 RITA nominee in the Romantic Suspense category. She is the recipient of a Romantic Times Magazine Career Achievement Award and several Reviewer's Choice Awards. Her works have also appeared on the USA Today bestseller list. Young is a member of the West Houston RWA, a chapter of the Romance Writers of America.

Her stories often explore uncomfortable topics such as alcoholism and domestic abuse.

As an author for Silhouette Romance, Karen Young published seven novels.

Books

• All My Tomorrows - 1989
• Belle Pointe - 2006
• Beyond Summer - 1991
• Blood Bayou - 2009
• Compelling Connection - 1989
• Darling Detective - 1986
• Debt Of Love - 1991
• Father's Heart, A - 1998
• Forever Kind, The - 1987
• Full Circle - 1999
• Good Girls - 1998
• Having His Baby - 1996
• In Confidence - 2004
• Irresistible Intruder - 1984
• It Takes A Miracle - 1996
• Jilted! - 1999
• Kiss And Kill - 2000
• Lie For Me - 2011
• Maggie Mine - 1987
• Missing Max - 2010
• Never Tell - 2005
• Private Lives - 2003
• Promise, The - 1994
• Roses And Rain - 1994
• Sarah's Choice - 1988
• Shadows In The Mist - 1994
• Silence Of Midnight, The - 1992
• Someone Knows - 2002
• Sugar Baby - 1996
• Time To Heal - 2011
• Touch The Dawn - 1993
• Very Special Favor, A - 1994
• What Child Is This? - 1999
• Wilder Passion, A - 1985
• Yesterday's Promise - 1983

Series/Related Titles

Family Man (multi-author series)

• A Father's Heart

Nine Months Later (multi-author series)

5. Having His Baby

The O'Connors

1. Roses And Rain
2. Shadows In The Mist
3. The Promise

Women Who Dare (multi-author series)

32. Sugar Baby

Awards

• 1993 RITA Award Winner - Long Contemporary Romance, The Silence Of Midnight
• 1993 RT Reviewers Choice Award Winner - Harlequin Superromance, The Silence Of Midnight

Recognitions

• 2011 Audies Finalist - Inspirational/Fiction, Missing Max
• 2010 Christian Book Award Finalist - Fiction, Blood Bayou
• 2003 RITA Award Finalist - Romantic Suspense, Someone Knows
• 1997 RITA Award Finalist - Long Contemporary Series, Having His Baby

Awards (body of work)

• 1993-1994 RT Career Achievement Award Winner - Best All Around Series Romance