

The blurb on the original UK edition of the book reads like this: ” Miss Dorothea-Darent had no intention of ever tying the knot, not until a dashing-stranger with hazel-eyes kissed her under a tree. Laurens first novel still continues to go in and of print today. She ended up writing seven more books for Mills and Boon in total.

Laurens gave up the dry world of professional science to write fiction. That first attempt at writing a British Regency romance became her first book, “ Tangled Reins ” which was published by Mills and Boon. It was something she had always wanted to do anyway, she had just never done it. So, she decided she would write one herself. She really wanted to read a Regency romance, but couldn’t find any in the stores. One day after she and her husband had returned to Australia Ms.

She was hooked on romance novels from a very young age and still have shelves of them all around her home. Laurens would gobble them up after her mother was finished. Her mother borrowed romance novels from her friends at work and Ms. She remembers reading her first one at age thirteen when she borrowed “ These Old Shades ” by Geogette Heyer from her mother. Laurens had been infatuated with romance novels from a very young age. She continued this work she had studied to do and rose to great heights until she was heading up her own research laboratory. Laurens kept working as a research scientist, only now she worked in the field of cancer research. Once she and her husband returned to Australia, Ms. She and her husband spent four years working as scientists in London and traveling throughout England, Spain, France, Northern Italy, and Portugal. Laurens’ first job in London was as a research scientist. Her Early Careerīecause of her education in biochemistry, Ms. in Biochemistry from the university there and once finished moved with her husband (whom she says was “ acquired along the way ”) to London via an overland journey from Katmandu. She lived in Australia until adulthood and completed all of her schooling in Melbourne. At that young age she moved with her parents to Melbourne, Australia where her parents still live to this day. Laurens was born in Sri Lanka back when the country was still known as Ceylon, but only lived there until she was five. She has traveled the world extensively which attributes to her being able to write well about the places she’s been to and seen and which also makes the settings in her novels come alive with authentic detail. Laurens’ novels are set in the era of the British Regency, with settings ranging from Scotland to India. Some of her titles include Cynster, Bastion Club, Black Cobra Quartet, and Casebook of Barnaby Adair novels. She is a romance novelist who’s had 29 of her 50 books end up on the New York Times best seller list. An international New York Times best selling author, Stephanie Laurens has been a published novelist for over twenty years.
