Anne Rundle Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Anthologies

Anne Rundle is a Gothic and romantic fiction novelist who has written more than forty works of fiction over the years. She published “The Moon Marriage” her debut novel in 1967 under her own name Anne Rundle, even though she would later on pen many novels under a bunch of pseudonyms.

Some of the pseudonyms under which she has written include Georgianna Bel, Joanne Marshall, Jeanne Sanders, Alexandra Manners, and Marianne Lamont.

As for her early beginnings, Anne Lamb Rundle was born in Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland England in 1920. She was born the daughter of a soldier named George Manners Lamb from whom she gets her last name and Annie Sanderson her mother.

Given her father’s profession, she went mostly to Army Schools in her preliminary years, before she went to the Berwick High School for Girls. Later on, she would get a job with Newcastle upon Tyne as a civil servant where she worked for eight years between 1942 and 1950.
She got married to her husband Edwin Charles Rundle in October 1949. Together, they got two sons Iain and James, and one daughter Anne. Over the years she won many awards for her fiction works including the Netta Muskett Award for new writers when she published her debut novel in 1967.

She was also the winner of the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Romantic Novel of the Year Award for the 1971 published Flower of Silence and the 1970 published Cat on a Broomstick.

Anne Rundle’s novel “Echoing Yesterday” is a brilliant work of fiction that follows the life and times of Clemence Kinrade.

Kinrade was left an orphan following a tragic storm at sea that took the lives of his parents and his little brother. Thereafter, she was taken by Jesse her uncle who she loved dearly, and given a new home.

When Jesse takes a wanton and wild Irish girl as his fiance, Clemence who is now becoming a grown woman, feels sharp daggers of jealousy. But menacing and handsome Luke Karran will soon come into her life and take over her entire being.
He is the son of Johanne the black-eyed man who is believed to be a witch and is driven by destructive and dark urges. During the Midsummer Revels, Clemence has a passionate encounter with Luke when she gets emboldened by a love potion.
However, once she realizes that she is pregnant, she finds Luke distant and cold, as he seems to have found a new target for his affection. But things are about to change and in a very big way.

Karen Kinrade is the second novel of “The Island” series of novels by Anne Rundle which she wrote alongside Alexandra Manners. It is an evocative and turbulent novel that is the perfect follow-up to the debut novel of the series “Echoing Yesterday.”
The lead in the novel is Karran Kinrade who is like her father in just everything. The man had been a wild gypsy who had managed to trap her mother who was known as impossible to get, into a desolate and wild love affair.

Still, Karran has a mind of her own, an elusive quality that had always captivated John Howard. He offers the dark-haired and white-faced child an offer of her home where he treats her like the child he never had.

She loves living in Ravensdowne where she lives a new life in the house by the sea. It is a life of uneasy luxury but soon enough tension spreads and encompasses just about everyone who lives on the island.

Anne Rundle’s “The Gaming House” is another brilliant work in “The Island” series, which is first becoming a favorite.

Karran was left all alone, abandoned in Ravensdowne the big house by the sea. She has never lost hope that one day her lover whose child she now carries would make her way back to her.

The only things that kept her safe from the jealousy and envy of the Islanders were the protection of her dead husband’s name and pride. But then a vibrant and very new character who is a gamester, a rogue, and an adventurer came into her life.
Karran is very cautious about bringing in any new man into her life but even though he does not immediately respond to O’Ferral, he helps her get back the tranquility she desperately needs.

However, just as they are settling in their newly renovated house, Gideon the father of her child returns, and his passionate pleas and demands threaten to upend her life once again.