Biography

Madeline Hunter's first book By Arrangement was published in 2000 and she received the award for Waldenbooks Bestselling Debut Author that year.

In 2000 she also received a rare starred review from Publisher's Weekly for her book By Possession. This happened again in 2003 with The Charmer.

She has been nominated four times and has twice won the Romance Writers of America

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's prestigious RITA award, first in the long historical category for Stealing Heaven in 2003 and then in the historical category for Lessons of Desire in 2008. Fifteen of her books have appeared on the USA Today

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 bestseller list. She has also appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List  and the Waldenbooks

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 Paperback Fiction Bestseller List. Romantic Times has awarded four and a half star reviews to fifteen of her books.

Madeline Hunter is a Ph.D. in Art History, and she teaches at the college level. She currently lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two sons.

Recognition

• 2000 - Received Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Long Historical Romance, for Stealing Heaven
• 2008 - Received Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Historical Romance, for Lessons of Desire

Medieval Historicals

• By Arrangement
• By Possession
• By Design
• The Protector
• Lord of a Thousand Nights
• Stealing Heaven

The Seducer Series

• The Seducer
• The Saint
• The Charmer
• The Sinner
• The Romantic

The Rothwell Series

• Rules of Seduction
• Lessons of Desire
• Secrets of Surrender
• The Sins of Lord Easterbrook

The Rarest Bloom Series

• Ravishing in Red
• Provocative in Pearls
• Sinful in Satin
• Dangerous in Diamonds

Other

• "An Interrupted Tapestry" in Tapestry (anthology with Lynn Kurland
  Lynn Kurland
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  , Karen Marie Moning
  Karen Marie Moning
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   and Sherrilyn Kenyon
  Sherrilyn Kenyon
  Sherrilyn Kenyon is a bestselling US writer. Under her own name she writes Urban Fantasy, but is best known for her Dark-Hunter vampire series. Under the pseudonym Kinley MacGregor she wrote historicals also with paranormal elements...
  
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External links

• Official Madeline Hunter Website
• The Goddess Blogs
• Author Spotlight and Author Bookshelf (Official publisher web page)