Jane Feather is a popular British

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-American

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 writer

Writer

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 of historical

Historical romance

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 romance novels. In 1984 she wrote five contemporary romances under the pseudonym Claudia Bishop. She now is a New York Times bestselling, award–winning writer and she has more than ten million romance novels in print.

Biography

Jane Feather was born Jane Robotham in 1945 in Cairo

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, (Egypt

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), and grew up in New Forest, in the south of England

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. She has a master's degree in applied social studies from Oxford University. She is married and has three children.

In 1978 she moved with her husband and children to New Jersey

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, where she worked as a psychiatric social worker.

In 1981 she began her writing career after she and her family moved to Washington D.C.. Since printing in 1984 she wrote five contemporany romance novel

Romance novel

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s under the pen name Claudia Bishop and since 1986 has written under her name, Jane Feather historical romances.

Single novels

• Irresistible You (1984)
• Kiss Me Once Again (1984)
• It Had To Be You (1984)
• Where the Heart Is (1984)
• That Champagne Feeling (1984)

Stand alone novels

• Love's Charade (1986)
• Smuggler's Lady (1986)
• Beloved Enemy (1987)
• Reckless Seduction (1987)
• Chase the Dawn (reissued in 2004) (1988)
• Silver Nights (1989)
• Reckless Angel (1989)
• Bold Destiny (1990)
• The Eagle and the Dove (1991)
• A Valentine Wedding (1999)

"V" Series

1. Heart's Folly = Venus (1988)
2. Virtue (1993)
3. Vixen (1994)
4. Velvet (1994)
5. Valentine (1995)
6. Violet (1995)
7. Vanity (1995)
8. Vice (1996)
   • Vice and Virtue (omnibus) (2007)

Almost Trilogy

1. Brazen Whispers = Almost Innocent (1990)
2. Almost A Bride (2005)
3. Almost A Lady (2005)

Charm Bracelet Trilogy

1. The Diamond slipper (1997)
2. The Silver Rose (1997)
3. The Emerald Swan (1998)

Bride Trilogy

1. The Hostage Bride (1998)
2. The Accidental Bride (1999)
3. The Least Likely Bride (2000)

Kiss Trilogy

1. The Widow's Kiss (2002)
2. To Kiss A Spy (2003)
3. Kissed By Shadows (2003)

Matchmakers Duncan Sisters Trilogy

1. The Bachelor List (2004)
2. The Bride Hunt (2004)
3. The Wedding Game (2004)
   • The Bachelor List / The Bride Hunt (omnibus) (2004)

Cavendish Square Trilogy

1. A Wicked Gentleman (2007)
2. To Wed A Wicked Prince (2008)
3. A Husband's Wicked Ways (2009)

Anthologies in collaboration

• Wishful Thinking in "WHEN YOU WISH" - an anthology with Patricia Coughlin, Sharon Curtis, Tom Curtis
  Tom Curtis
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  , Elizabeth Elliot, Patricia Potter
  Patricia Potter
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   and Suzanne Robinson (1997)
• Snowy Night with a Stranger (2008) (with Sabrina Jeffries
  Sabrina Jeffries
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   and Julia London
  Julia London
  Dinah Dinwiddie is an American writer of romance novels as Julia London.-Biography:Dinah Dinwiddie aka Julia London was born and grew up on a ranch in Texas. She graduated college and worked in Washington D.C., traveling extensively in the United States and Europe before returning to Texas...
  
  )

External links

• Jane Feather at Fantastic Fiction