When Emily Longesley had agreed to marry her brother’s good friend, Adrian, Earl of Folbroke, she had mistakenly believed that she was marrying her soul mate. Charismatic, rich and as handsome as sin, Adrian seemed like the answer to all of her prayers, but all of Emily’s hopes and dreams for a rosy future where cruelly [...]

Lady Louisa Alstone has always known her own mind. Intelligent, stubborn and unconventional, Louisa has turned down so many marriage proposals she’s lost count, but the fiercely independent Lady Alstone is adamant that she will never marry for any other reason other than love – and the only emotion which her myriad of suitors have incited [...]

With a beautiful supermodel for a twin sister and a disastrous love life, it’s no wonder that Dr. Jane Cooper would sooner be scrubbing up for surgery than dancing the night away in a designer dress and killer heels! Having resigned herself to the fact that she will never be as pretty as her sister, Jane [...]

Scandal has always pursued Miss Aimee Peters. Before she was born, her mother had defied her father’s wishes to make a suitable match and had married a disreputable gambler and thief. Thus, Aimee’s childhood had been one long whirl of moonlit flits, shady characters and unexpected journeys all across the Continent. The one thing Aimee has [...]

Jessica Price had once thought that her life was simply perfect: she had a job she loved as a doctor, a loving partner whom she worshipped and a beautiful baby on the way. Jessica had thought that her life couldn’t possibly get any better, but her idyll was cruelly shattered by a tragic accident that had [...]

Dr. Gus Buchanan has always been a loner. Having realized from a very early age that he couldn’t rely on anybody but himself, Gus had built impenetrable defenses around his heart and vowed to give relationships and emotions a very wide berth. But all his resolutions had crumbled when he moved to the charming Scottish town [...]

Eva Redmond has always been a good girl. A reserved wallflower who’d much rather be surrounded by dusty old books in a dimly lit library than flirting with drop dead gorgeous hunks at a hedonistic party, Eva is less than thrilled when her tyrannical boss asks her to leave the safe haven of her office behind [...]

Penny Cartwright had once thought that her life couldn’t possibly get any better: she had a successful military career, a beautiful daughter whom she worshipped and the love of her husband Daniel, whom she adored with every bone in her body. Even when facing the toughest of enemies on the front line, Penny had always felt [...]

After having had her fingers burnt in the relationships department, Daisy Flynn had decided to turn her back on men and instead put all of her time and energy into building up her reputation as a chocolatier and into creating delicious chocolate recipes that would put her on the map and bring her one step closer [...]

Rafael Chaves has never forgotten the kindness Californian vineyard owner Dante Turino had shown him when he had been an angry and vulnerable young boy trying to survive on the mean city streets. Dante had taken the homeless Rafael into his home and his heart and given him a roof over his head, an education and [...]

The burden of responsibility weighs heavily upon the Honourable Clarissa Warrington’s shoulders: her mother’s addiction to the gaming tables is spiraling out of control and her sister, Amelia is spending money like it’s going out of fashion. Well aware of the fact that they’re heavily in debt, Clarissa is at the end of her tether. She [...]

Lady Rosabella’s childhood had been idyllic. Even though her father had been ostracized by his family for eloping with an opera singer, Rose had never wanted for anything as a child. Having been lavished with all the love and affection she could have wanted, Rose had been broken-hearted when her parents had both passed away. But [...]

Cassie Baines had once had the world at her feet: she was a successful supermodel with a career that was going from strength to strength and she was completely and utterly besotted with her young French boyfriend, Marcel. Cassie had known from a very early age that Marcel was the one for her and she had [...]

After a particularly difficult couple of months, charity worker Grace Faulkner had decided to take a break from the heavy demands of her stressful job to soak up the sun and recharge her batteries in her parents’ villa in the Algarve. After her relationship with her boyfriend had gone sour, Grace had sworn off men and [...]

The bottom had fallen out of Belinda Rochester’s world when her beloved sister Gwen had died in a tragic accident. Belinda had been absolutely devastated when she had lost the only person in the world who had ever cared about her. Gwen had been the only family Belinda had ever had. Their parents had been too [...]

Mollie Parker had spent most of her life caring for her beloved father in a tiny cottage on the grounds of Wolfe Manor, the beautiful ancestral home that belongs to the troubled Wolfe family. The gardener’s daughter had watched in horror as the patriarch of the Wolfe family made life hell for his many children- until [...]

Laurel had learned from a very early age not to rely on anybody but herself. Having endured constant heartache and disappointment during her childhood, Laurel had built a wall around herself and vowed never to let anybody penetrate the shutters which she had erected around her heart. Perfectly content to invest all of her time and [...]

Holly Valiant is sick and tired of being the sensible and plain country mouse everybody else takes for granted. She wants to lead an exciting life and be a glamorous city girl, so when she gets the job of her dreams – working as an agony aunt for Rock! Magazine – Holly packs her bags, waves [...]

CataRomance is delighted to catch up with five of the six authors shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists Association’s inaugural award for category romance, The RoNA Rose Award. CataRomance favourites Liz Fielding, Kate Hardy, Jessica Hart, Sarah Mallory and Mary Nichols chat to us about their shortlisted titles! LIZ FIELDING When I heard the news that [...]

When my editor first suggested I write for the RIVA line over lunch at a fabulous French restaurant in Richmond, I rejected it out of hand. I had my heart set on trying out for Blaze and she was unfailingly supportive of this career direction. Then I got home that night and thought – what am [...]