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Author: Leigh Michaels | Website
Leigh Michaels is the author of 80 contemporary romance novels and three historical romances. Her books have been published in 25 languages and in more than 125 countries around the world, and more than 35 million copies have been sold. Six of her books have been finalists in the Romance Writers of America RITA contest, and she has been honored with Reviewer's Choice awards by Romantic Times magazine. The Iowa Library Association presented her the Johnson Brigham award in 2003 for substantial and sustained literary contributions to American culture.
She also writes non-fiction, including On Writing Romance, which has been called the definitive guide to writing romance novels, and Creating Romantic Characters. She teaches romance writing online at Gotham Writers Workshop. She is also the coauthor with her husband, Michael W. Lemberger, of a book about the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904, and of many local history books.
She wrote her first romance novel when she was a teenager and burned it, then wrote and burned five more complete manuscripts -- sending more than a quarter of a million words up in smoke -- before submitting to a publisher. Her first submission was accepted and published by the first editor to read it.
Published Works & Book Reviews
Just One Season in London
Second in a smart, sexy, Regency romance series intertwining three love stories from award-winning, bestselling author.
Young Viscount Ryecroft has two problems: a beautiful sister to marry off and no money to fund her London season. Perhaps he needs to find an heiress for himself first? And then there's Rye's mother, who'll do anything to help her children, including sell herself to the highest bidder...
Reviewer: TheBookQueen
Review: Aug 19, 2011
Genre(s): Historical Romance
Just One Season in London held so much promise-promise of romance and second chances, of happily ever afters and all the twists in the road while trying to get there. But upon reading the novel, I found much of it to be, unfortunately, lacking in most of these areas, along with a few other important ones as well.
I believe my biggest disappointment was the characters; from Miranda and Sophie to Rye and Robe
The Mistress' House
What readers say about Leigh Michaels:
"Beautiful and romantic... I couldn't put it down."
"Witty, snappy dialogue and great characters!"
Three beautifully intertwined love stories...
The rules are made to be broken...
When the handsome, rakish Earl of Hawthorne buys the charming house across the back garden from his town home, he never expects the lovely lady he installs there to ensnare him completely...
Again...
After Lady Keighley marries the earl, it seems a shame to leave the house empty, so she offers it to her childhood friend Felicity Mercer, who discovers that the earl's gorgeous cousin is precisely the man she's been waiting for...
and again...
Finally, feisty Georgiana Baxter moves into the house to escape an arranged marriage, and encounters the earl's friendÿMajor Julian Hamptonÿlate one night in the back garden. The handsome soldier is more than willing to give her the lessons she asks for...
There is plenty of gossip, scandal, and torrid speculations surrounding the "mistress' house", but behind closed doors, passions blaze...