Daphne Clair

Biography

Daphne Clair (Daphne Clair De Jong) began her publishing career in the late 1970s, and writes romantic and literary fiction. She brings a feminist bent to her work and contributed an essay to the anthology Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance, edited by Jayne Ann Krentz, where she focused on the historical nature of the romance novel as a way of expressing issues related to women on a social level.

Daphne Clair is the author of over sixty novels. She has written 23 books for the Harlequin Presents imprint. As an author for Harlequin Romance, she published five titles. She also publishes under the name Laurey Bright.

Books

• A Ruling Passion - Presents, #679 April 1984
• A Wilder Shore - Presents, #385 October 1980
• And Then Came Morning - Presents, #1586 September 1993
• Dark Dream - Presents, #881 May 1986
• Dark Mirror - Presents, #1688 October 1994
• Dark Remembrance - Presents, #458 October 1981
• Darling Deceiver - Presents, #355 May 1980
• Edge Of Deception - Presents, #1749 July 1995
• Flame On The Horizon - Presents, #1648 May 1994
• Grounds For Marriage - Presents, #1866 February 1997
• His Trophy Mistress - Presents, #2249 May 2002
• Infamous Bargain - Presents, #1730 March 1995
• Jasmine Bride, The - May, 1980 Harlequin Romance #2329
• Lovers' Lies - Presents, #1970 July 1998
• Marriage Under Fire - Presents, #687 May 1984
• Never Count Tomorrow - August, 1981 Harlequin Romance #2420
• No Escape - Presents, #1056 March 1988
• No Winner - Presents, #1096 August 1988
• Pacific Pretence - December, 1982 Harlequin Romance #2516
• Promise To Pay - Presents, #481 February 1982
• Sleeping Fire, The - October, 1979 Harlequin Romance #2292
• Something Less Than Love - Presents, #367 July 1980
• Streak of Gold, A - September, 1978 Harlequin Romance #2197
• Take Hold Of Tomorrow - Presents, #711 August 1984
• The Loving Trap - Presents, #506 June 1982
• The Marriage Debt - Presents, #2347 September 2003
• The Riccioni Pregnancy - Presents, #2305 February 2003
• The Wayward Bride - Presents, #1271 June 1990

Non-Fiction

• Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance, edited by Jayne Ann Krentz - Contributed an essay
• Writing The Romantic Novel - with co-author Robyn Donald

Honors

• Katherine Mansfield Memorial Short Story Award in 1981 (non-romance fiction)

On the Web

• Daphne Clair/Laurey Bright
• Daphne De Jong - Biography at New Zealand Book Council