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Anne Kristine Stuart, who also goes by her nickname Krissie, is an American author of over 100 romance novels. Anne Stuart was born on May 2, 1948 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was born to highly educated parents who lived in Princeton, New Jersey. To say that she had a dysfunctional childhood would be an understatement as she had an abusive alcoholic father that was a terror to the entire family. However, this did not deter the headstrong Stuart, as she managed to survive as she lost herself in her love for books. A voracious reader of Victorian England gothic, she began writing stories while she was in the fifth grade. Unlike most innocent fifth graders that knew nothing about love, her stories involved racy love scenes even from that very young age. At the age of seven, she sold her very first writing to Jack and Jill Magazine for $25. However, it was not until she was 25 that she published her very first novel, a gothic romance that she named Barrett’s Hill. Since then, she has published many novels in paranormal, historical romance, suspense, series romance, romantic adventure, romantic suspense, regencies, and even more gothic. While she admits that she loves to misbehave from time, this has not stopped her from making her name as one of the best romance writers of her generation. A grandmaster of the romance genre, she has won many awards including the Romance Writers of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She has also made most of the prestigious bestseller lists and won several other awards such as the RITA.
When she is not on the road, you can find her in Northern Vermont, where she has a lakeside home. The home is 20 acres of paradise near a small town where she lives with her husband Richard Ohlrogge, with whom she has been with for more than 25 years. She also has a music system, five computers, and a satellite dish. She loves watching movies and has several TV and DVD players littered all over the house so that she can watch the latest from anywhere. She also loves to do a lot of quilting and has four sewing machines, on which she spends a lot of time quilting and creating goofy wearable art. Her two children have left home, but she has a springer spaniel and four cats that she asserts do their best to keep them from being lonely. Most of the time though she spends writing and she can write for hours every day. Stuart is a great speaker and often-outrageous writer, which has gotten her speaking engagements all over the US, as well as on Women’s Day, USA Today, People, Vogue, and Entertainment Tonight among other national magazines.
Anne Stuart started out in Gothic romances, which are romance novels typically set in historical settings. Most of her first novels typically featured a brooding master of the house and a governess. Over time, her repertoire of novels became more varied as she came to write contemporaries and regencies. As it currently stands, romantic suspense is her favorite type of novel that has given her the most success in her professional writing career. While her novels can be either contemporary or historical, a common aspect of these novels is that they retain that strong gothic feel that is s hallmark of her work. Most of her novels feature the archetypal bad boy meets good girl, but outside forces conspire to keep them apart. Winner of the innovative romance award, Stuart’s novels are darker than your normal historical romance. Her heroes tend to be dark heroes that we love to hate. She has written about mimes, cult leaders, and assassins and the women who just cannot get enough of them. Most of her novels have dark and tormented heroes and heroines though to a varying degree. Nevertheless, even as her heroes tend to be dark tormented souls, the essence of her stories is the romance narrative. When it comes right down to it, the stories are about a man and a woman falling in love and toughing it out, despite the external and internal forces that work against their love for each other.
In Black Ice the first novel in the Ice series of novels by Anne Stuart, Chloe Underwood an American book translator is living hand to mouth in Paris. She would give anything to have some little bit of passion and excitement, and would even take some danger if it was presented. When she lands a weekend job to translate at a business conference in a country chateau, she jumps at the opportunity to earn some good money and get away from her dreary city life. By pure accident, she finds out that the attendees are not the business executives they say they are. They are high-level illegal arms smugglers. Since she now knows too much one of them proposes that they kill her. But Bastien Toussaint, one of the executives has pity on her and escapes from the chateau with her. She is now fleeing from an angry team of killers accompanied by the most seductive and terrifying man, she had ever met. But the questions remain, what are the motives of Touissaint, and would she survive long enough to find the answers to her questions?
The third novel of the Ice Series, Ice Blue sees Summer Hawthorne come into possession of an exquisite ice blue ceramic bowl. Her departing Japanese nanny has given her the bowl with which to remember her by. Believing the bowl has only sentimental value she thinks nothing much of it, until somebody tries to kill her and straw the bowl. It turns out that the bowl is a priceless relic that is wanted by several governments, threatening an international crisis that could escalate into global war. Meanwhile Takashi O’Brien, an international operative has been tasked with retrieving the bowl, with the express directive that nothing was out of bounds in trying to get back the bowl. Traveling across the Pacific and into the beautiful mountains of Japan, the two find themselves confronting a truth, which is as deadly as it is seductive.
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Just completed my first read of “The Absolutely Worst Man in England, Scotland and Wales”. The character Christopher St. James Constant is the absolute complex character I enjoy. However, there are several editor issues. First, there is a reference to “ . . . and Bob’s your uncle” that I could not grace back to anything. Then St. Constant was described as dark haired. Not true. Then he was called a Marquess when, in fact, he was an Earl. These did not stop me from reading, but they were annoying.
Overall, this is a book I will read several times over. Thank you for your creativity.