Charlotte Lamb

Dark Master by Charlotte Lamb

Biography

Charlotte Lamb is a pen name of Sheila Holland. Since 1973 she wrote over 160 books under that name, mostly category romances for Mills & Boon. Her first book, Follow A Stranger, although first published in the UK as a Hardcover, was published in Paperback in the Harlequin Romance imprint.

Known for her rapid writing and intense work habits, she rivals Nora Roberts in output. She also published work under various other names.

Charlotte Lamb passed away in October 2000. Lamb's daughter, Jane Holland, maintains a blog/website devoted to her mother's work. Upon the death of Lamb's friend, Anne Weale, Jane Holland noted that her mother's prodigious output was not limited to fiction:

Charlotte Lamb and Anne Weale were both compulsive letter-writers, and after the invention of the fax machine (though before email became popular) they would fax each other sharp, witty, and incredibly detailed multi-page letters on a daily basis. Indeed, it was not unusual for them to send and receive these lengthy faxes several times in a single morning, knocking a topic like romance editing, the latest bestsellers, cover images for a new book, or even some hot publishing gossip back and forth like a couple of top-notch literary tennis players! I'm sure if my mother had lived to see the widespread use of email, their daily correspondence would have taken on new and even more epic proportions!

See Also

• Sheila Coates
• Laura Hardy
• Sheila Holland
• Sheila Lancaster
• Victoria Woolf

Books

• Abduction - June 1981, Presents, #435
• An Excellent Wife? - April 1998, Presents, #1949
• Angry Desire - November 1996, Presents, #1846
• Autumn Conquest - February 1979, Harlequin Presents #273
• Battle For Possession - November 1992, Presents, #1509
• Besieged - October 1992, Presents, #1498
• Betrayal - April 1983, Presents, #585
• Body And Soul - April 1995, Presents, #1733
• Boss's Virgin, The - November 2001, Presents, #2214
• Bride Said No, The - Presents, #874 April 1986
• Call Back Yesterday - September 1978, Presents, #253
• Carnival Coast - January, 1974 Harlequin Romance #1751
• Circle Of Fate - November 1987, Presents, #1025
• Compulsion - April 1981, Presents, #422
• Crescendo - September 1981, Presents, #451
• Cruel Flame, The - October 1980, Presents, #387
• Dangerous - November 1981, Presents, #466
• Dark Dominion - March 1980, Presents, #345
• Dark Fate - September 1995, Presents, #1763
• Dark Fever - October 1996, Presents, #1840
• Dark Master - August 1979, Presents, #305
• Dark Music - November 1991, Presents, #1410
• Dark Pursuit - June 1991, Presents, #1370
• Darkness Of The Heart - February 1984, Presents, #668
• Deadly Rivals - July 1996, Presents, #1822
• Desert Barbarian - October, 1978 Harlequin Romance #2206
• Desire - December 1981, Presents, #472
• Desperation - September 1989, Presents, #1202
• Devil's Arms, The - May 1979, Presents, #286
• Disturbing Stranger - January 1979, Presents, #268
• Dreaming - January 1994, Presents, #1618
• Duel Of Desire - October 1979, Presents, #314
• Dying For You - June 1995, Presents, #1743
• Echo Of Passion - June 1988, Presents, #1081
• Explosive Meeting - July 1986, Presents, #898
• Falling In Love - August 1994, Presents, #1672
• Family Affair, A - August, 1974 Harlequin Romance #1803
• Festival Summer - July, 1977 Harlequin Romance #2083
• Fever - April 1980, Presents, #350
• Fire In The Blood - June 1994, Presents, #1658
• Florentine Spring - September, 1977 Harlequin Romance #2103
• Follow a Stranger - October, 1973 Harlequin Romance #1722
• For Adults Only - February 1985, Presents, #762
• Forbidden Fire - July 1979, Presents, #298
• Forbidden Fruit - September 1993, Presents, #1584
• Frozen Fire, A - September 1980, Presents, #380
• Frustration - February 1980, Presents, #339
• Girl From Nowhere, The - January 1982, Presents, #478
• Guilty Love - December 1994, Presents, #1706
• Haunted - November 1983, Presents, #644
• Haunted Dreams - August 1996, Presents, #1828
• Hawk in a Blue Sky - May, 1978 Harlequin Romance #2161
• Heart On Fire - June 1992, Presents, #1467
• Heartbreaker - October 1981, Presents, #460
• Heat Of The Night - April 1987, Presents, #971
• Heron Quest, The - December, 1986 Harlequin Romance #2804
• Hide And Seek - August 1987, Presents, #1001
• Hot Blood - December 1996, Presents, #1852
• Hot Surrender - August 1999, Presents, #2046
• Illusion - August 1981, Presents, #448
• Infatuation - June 1984, Presents, #700
• Kingfisher Morning - June, 1985 Harlequin Romance #2696
• Kiss Of Fire - January 1988, Presents, #1042
• Long Surrender, The - March 1979, Presents, #277
• Love Games - March 1985, Presents, #772
• Love In The Dark - June 1987, Presents, #987
• Love Is A Frenzy - January 1980, Presents, #334
• Lovestruck - February 1998, Presents, #1935
• Man Hunt - October 1985, Presents, #827
• Man's World - February 1981, Presents, #412
• Marriage War, The - October 1997, Presents, #1913
• Master of Comus - July, 1978 Harlequin Romance #2181
• Midnight Lover - September 1982, Presents, #528
• Naked Flame, A - December 1984, Presents, #747
• Night Music - January 1981, Presents, #404
• No More Lonely Nights - May 1989, Presents, #1170
• Obsession - November 1980, Presents, #393
• Out Of Control - September 1988, Presents, #1106
• Pagan Encounter - December 1979, Presents, #328
• Playing Hard To Get - January 1993, Presents, #1522
• Possession - November 1979, Presents, #321
• Retribution - July 1981, Presents, #442
• Rites Of Possession - March 1991, Presents, #1345
• Runaway Wife - August 1990, Presents, #1290
• Savage Surrender - December 1980, Presents, #401
• Scandalous - October 1984, Presents, #731
• Secret Intimacy, A - January 1984, Presents, #658
• Secret Obsession - June 1996, Presents, #1816
• Seduction - May 1981, Presents, #428
• Seduction Business, The - February 2000, Presents, #2085
• Seductive Stranger - January 1990, Presents, #1236
• Sensation - June 1980, Presents, #364
• Sex War, The - October 1983, Presents, #635
• Shotgun Wedding - August 1992, Presents, #1480
• Silken Trap, The - August 1980, Presents, #374
• Sleeping Desire - January 1986, Presents, #851
• Sleeping Partners - June 1993, Presents, #1560
• Spellbinding - September 1991, Presents, #1393
• Storm Centre - July 1980, Presents, #371
• Stranger In The Night - March 1981, Presents, #417
• Surrender - March 1993, Presents, #1540
• Sweet Addiction, A - February 1993, Presents, #1530
• Sweet Sanctuary - January, 1976 Harlequin Romance #1938
• Temptation - September 1979, Presents, #310
• Threat Of Love, The - February 1992, Presents, #1435
• Too Close For Comfort - December 1992, Presents, #1513
• Twist Of Fate - May 1980, Presents, #358
• Vampire Lover - February 1995, Presents, #1720
• A Wild Affair - November 1982, Presents, #545
• Whirlwind - March 1988, Presents, #1059
• Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed? - December 1985, Presents, #842
• Wild Hunger - September 1996, Presents, #1834
• Wounds Of Passion - October 1994, Presents, #1687
• You Can Love a Stranger - December, 1988 Harlequin Romance #2950
• Yuletide Child, The - December 1999, Presents, #2070

On the Web

• Charlotte Lamb, Queen of Romance - Blog maintained by Charlotte Lamb's daughter in memory of her mother
• Authors's site at eHarlequin.com