But Joss San Pietro had vowed to possess the woman whose beauty haunted him and enslaved his body and soul! Lilah Remy would marry another, her days filled with anguish, her nights with torment. That’s my life.The cruel code of her plantation society forced her to renounce the man she could never forget. The mother of three sons, I read, I write, and I chauffeur children. Since then, I've written over forty books, which regularly appear on the New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller lists, among others. That book, which is still in print, is Island Flame, and it was published when I was twenty-four. When that happened, the world lost a would-be lawyer and gained a writer. I aimed for a career as a lawyer and was actually in law school when I sold my first book. Still, it never occurred to me that I might become a professional writer. When I was eighteen, my first professionally published piece-a humorous anecdote-appeared in Reader’s Digest. Throughout grade school, high school and college I wrote for various school publications.

My first book was a ten-page effort written at age five for my grandmother. “Robards is one terrific storyteller.” – Chicago TribuneĮver since I was a little girl, I've loved to write.

“Karen Robards is one of the most popular voices in women’s fiction.” – Newsweek The result is pure magic.” – Romantic Times She seems to know instinctively our most secret thoughts and then dreams up the perfect scenario to give them free rein. Robards has the marvelous talent to zero in on the heart of erotic fantasy. “Karen Robards penetrates the steamiest of women’s fantasies.” – Chicago Sun-Times New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher’s Weekly bestseller Karen Robards is the six-time winner of Affaire de Coeur’s Silver Pen Award for favorite romance author.Īnd don’t miss Karen Robards’ newest crime thriller, THE ULTIMATUM, available in June! They find themselves enmeshed in a love affair as fiery as it is forbidden….

Shipwrecked, marooned on a deserted island with only each other to depend on, they must work together to survive as the passion that has always sizzled between them blazes into a conflagration too hot to resist. Destiny brings Joss and Lilah together as equals, then throws them together as mistress and servant onto tempestuous seas. Raised an English gentleman, Joss San Pietro finds himself caught up in the turbulent currents of the Deep South as he tries to right an ancient wrong. In this steamy romance by “the mistress of sizzling sensuality” (Romantic Times), the beautiful daughter of a plantation owner, Lilah Remy, is swept into a wild romance with the dazzlingly handsome man her family has just enslaved.

Desire in the sun by karen robards