Laura Kinsale (37 page)

LAURA KINSALE
is a winner and multiple nominee for the Best Book of the Year award given by the Romance Writers of America. She became a romance writer after six years as a geologist—a career which consisted of getting out of bed in the middle of the night and driving hundreds of miles alone across west Texas to sit at drilling rigs, wear a hard hat, and attempt to boss around oil-covered males considerably larger than herself. This, she decided, was pushing her luck. So she gave all that up to sit in a chair and stare into space for long periods of time, attempting to figure out What-Happens-Next. She and her husband David currently divide their time between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Texas.

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“[An] excellent author.”

Dallas Morning News

“The acknowledged master.”

Albany Times-Union

“First-rate romance.”

Amanda Quick

“Kinsale’s superb crafting raises the standard for an entire genre.”

Pam Morsi

“Magic and beauty flow from the pen of Laura Kinsale. She brings tears to your eyes, a smile to your lips, and lifts your heart with joy.”

Romantic Times

“Brilliant and beautiful.”

Julia Quinn

“[Among] all-time favorite romance novels…[is] anything by Laura Kinsale.”

Newsday

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LOWERS FROM THE
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H
IDDEN
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EART

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HADOW AND THE
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NCERTAIN
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE HIDDEN HEART
. Copyright © 1986 by Laura Kinsale. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

First Avon Books paperback printing: April 1986

EPub Edition © February 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-209198-7

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