Stephanie Laurens

Stephanie Laurens was born in Sri Lanka and has a Ph.D. in biochemistry. She worked for many years as a research scientist in the area of cancer research and travelled with her husband through the Far and Middle East and through Europe. She currently lives outside Melbourne, Australia with her husband, two daughters and two cats.
Four years in London gave her the settings for her eight Regency romances which were published from 1992 to 1996 in the Mills & Boon Historical Romance imprint. In 1997 she started writing historical romance novels and is a New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal and USA-Today bestseller.

On the Web

• Stephanie Lauren's website

Books

• All About Love - February 2001 (Avon) PB
• All About Passion - September 2001 (Avon) PB
• Beyond Seduction - September 2007 (Avon) PB
• Captain Jack's Woman - October 1997 (Avon) PB
• Comfortable Wife, A - March 1997 (Mills & Boon Historical Romance #542)
• Devil's Bride - March 1998 (Avon ) PB
• Fair Juno - August 1994 (Legacy of Love #418)
• Fine Passion, A - September 2005 (Avon) PB
• Four In Hand - April 1993 (Masquerade #365)
• Edge Of Desire, The - September 2008 (Avon) PB
• Gentleman's Honor, A - October 2003 (Avon) PB
• Ideal Bride, The - March 2004 (William Morrow) HC
• Impetuous Innocent - April 1994 (Legacy of Love #401)
• Lady Chosen, The - September 2003 (Avon) PB
• Lady Of Expectations, A - December 1995 (Legacy of Love #483)
• Lady Of His Own, A - October 2004 (Avon) PB
• On A Wicked Dawn - May 2002 (Avon) PB
• On A Wild Night - April 2002 (Avon) PB
• Perfect Lover, The - February 2003 (William Morrow) HC
• Promise In A Kiss, the - December 2001 (William Morrow) HC
• Rake's Vow, A - October 1998 (Avon) PB
• Reasons For Marriage, The - January 1995 (Legacy of Love #438)
• Rogue's Proposal, A - October 1999 (Avon) PB
• Scandal's Bride March 1999 (Avon ) PB
• Secret Love, A - July 2000 (Avon) PB
• Tangled Reins - September 1992 (Masquerade #352)
• Taste Of Innocence, The - March 2007 (William Morrow) HC
• To Distraction - September 2006 (Avon) PB
• Truth About Love, The - March 2005 (William Morrow) HC
• Unwilling Conquest, An - July 1996 (Mills & Boon Historical Romance #509)
• What Price Love? - March 2006 (William Morrow) HC
• Where The Heart Leads - February 2008 (William Morrow) HC

Novellas

• Lost And Found in "Hero, Come Back" - June 2005 (Avon)
• Melting Ice in "Rough Around the Edges" - June 1998 (St. Martin's Press)
• Rose In Bloom in "Scottish Brides" - June 1999 (Avon)
• Scandalous Lord Dere in "Secrets Of A Perfect Night" - December 2000 (Avon)

Series/Related Titles

The Lester Family Triology

1. The Reasons For Marriage - 1995 (Leonore Lester)
2. A Lady Of Expectations - 1995 (Jack lester)
3. An Unwilling Conquest - 1996 (Harry Lester)

• spin off A Comfortable Wife - March 1997 (Philip Marlowe, 7th Baron Ruthven)

The Bar Cynster

• prequel The Promise In A Kiss - 2001 (1783, Sebastian Cynster, 5th Duke of St. Ives & Helena de Stansion, Comtesse d'Lisle, the parents of the hero in Devil's Bride)

1. Devil's Bride - 1998 (1818, Sebastian "Devil" Cynster, 6th Duke of St. Ives)
2. A Rake's Vow - 1998 (1819, Spencer "Vane" Cynster)
3. Scandal's Bride - 1999 (1819, Richard "Scandal" Cynster)
4. A Rogue's Proposal - 1999 (1820, Harry "Demon" Cynster)
5. A Secret Love - 2000 (1820, Rupert "Gabriel" Cynster)
6. All About Love, 2001 (1820, Alasdair "Lucifer" Cynster)
7. All About Passion, 2001
8. On A Wild Night, 2002
9. On A Wicked Dawn, 2002
10. The Perfect Lover, 2003
11. The Ideal Bride - 2004 (1825, Michael Anstruther-Wetherby, brother of Honoria Cynster, Duchess of St. Ives, heroine of Devil's Bride)
12. The Truth About Love - 2005 (1831, Gerrard Debbington, brother of Patience Cynster, heroine in A Rake's Vow)
13. What Price Love? 2006
14. The Taste Of Innocence - 2007 (1833, Charles Morwellan, Earl of Meredith, brother of Lady Alathea Morwellan, heroine of A Secret Love)

• spin off Lost And Found in "Hero, Come Back" - 2005 (Reggie Carmarthen was introduced in On A Wild Night)

The Bastion Club

A last bastion against the matchmakers of the ton - seven bachelors band together while looking for wives

• prequel Captain Jack's Woman - 1997 (1811, Jonathon Hendon, Lord Hendon)

1. The Lady Chosen - 2003 (Tristan Weymss, Earl of Trentham)
2. A Gentleman's Honor - 2003 (Anthony Blake, Viscount Torrington)
3. A Lady Of His Own - 2004 (Charles St. Austell, Earl of Lostwithiel)
4. A Fine Passion - 2005 (Jack Warnefleet, Baron Warnefleet of Minchinbury)
5. To Distraction - 2006 (Jocelyn Deverell, Viscount Paignton)
6. Beyond Seduction (Gervase Tregarth, Earl of Crowhurst)

Casebook of Barnaby Adair

1. Where the Heart Leads - 2008

Awards/Honors

• Romantic Times 2005 Career Achievement Award Nominee
• Romantic Times 1998 Reviewers' Choice Award Winner - Devil's Bride (Best Historical Romance Book in a Series)