Barbara Dawson Smith
A member of Romance Writers of America since 1981, Barbara Dawson Smith sold her first historical romance two weeks after sending it to a publisher. Her books have won the Golden Heart Award from RWA, and Best Historical Romantic Suspense and Best Regency Historical from Romantic Times. She has been a finalist for the National Readers’ Choice Award, Romance of the Year by Affaire de Coeur magazine, the Golden Quill, and the Booksellers' Best Award. She has also been a five-time finalist for the prestigious RITA Award, and realized a lifetime dream in 2002 when she won the award for TEMPT ME TWICE. Barbara also writes romance as Olivia Drake.
Barbara lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, two daughters, two cats, and who knows how many neighbor children running up and down the stairs. When she's not finishing a chapter or teaching a seminar on writing, she enjoys browsing in her collection of over a thousand research books.
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Books
- Beauty And The Brute - 1998
- Candle In The Snow - 1990
- Countess Confidential - 2006
- Defiant Embrace - 1957
- Defiant Surrender - 1987
- Dream Spinner - 1990
- Duchess Diaries, The - 2005
- Fire At Midnight - 1992
- Fire On The Wind - 1992
- Glimpse Of Heaven, A - 1995
- Her Secret Affair - 1998
- Never A Lady - 1996
- No Regrets - 1985
- Once Upon A Scandal - 1997
- One Wild Night - 2003
- Rogue Report, The - 2006
- Romancing The Rogue - 2000
- Seduced By A Scoundrel - 2000
- Silver Splendor - 1989
- Stolen Heart - 1988
- Tempt Me Twice - 2001
- Too Wicked To Love - 1999
- Wedding Night, The - 2004
- With All My Heart - 2002
Anthologies
- Christmas Romance: Love Stories - 1990
- [[Scandalous Weddings - 1998
Series/Related Titles
Defiant Fletcher
Fire Coleridge
The Rosebuds
Related Books
Awards/Honors
- Tempt Me Twice - Barbara Dawson Smith won the 2002 RITA® in the Short Historical Romance category.
