Barbara Schenck under the

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Anne McAllister is an American

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writer of over 55

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s since 1985.

Biography

Barbara Schenck was born in

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, but spent time on her grandparents' ranch in

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and visiting relatives in

Montana Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbi ...

. She met her husband through her job at a university library, and they have been married for over thirty years. The couple have four children. They live in

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but spends much time in Montana. McAllister holds a master's degree in

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. Before she began writing, she held jobs as a Spanish teacher, copyediting textbooks, and ghostwriting sermons. Her novels have been published in the Harlequin Presents, Silhouette Desire, Special Edition, and Harlequin American category romance lines. She has twice won the

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RITA Award, and has been a finalist an additional seven times. In 2000, she was awarded the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award as Series Author of the Year. She has also been awarded several Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Awards.

Awards

* ''Cowboy Pride'': 1997 Rita Awards Best Novel winner * ''The Stardust Cowboy'': 2000 Rita Awards Best Novel winner

Bibliography

Single novels

* Lightning Storm (1985) * Dare to Trust (1985) * Starstruck (1985) * Dream Chasers (1987) * To Tame a Wolf (1987) * Marriage Trap (1987) * Saving Grace (1989) * Once a Hero (1989) * Out of Bounds (1990) * Island Interlude (1991) * Call Up the Wind (1992) * A Cowboy for Christmas (1992) * Catch Me If You Can (1993) * The Alexakis Bride (1994) * Eight Second Wedding (1994) * New Years Resolution Family (1998) * The Playboy and the Nanny (1998) * The Antonides Marriage Deal (2006) * The Boss's Wife for a Week (2007) * The Santorini Bride (2007) * Antonides' Forbidden Wife (2008) * Savas' Defiant Mistress (2009) * One-Night Mistress... Convenient Wife (2009) * The Virgin's Proposition (2010) * Hired By Her Husband (2010) * Breaking the Greek's Rules (2012) * The Return of Antonides (2015) * Valentine Charms (2018)

Quicksilver Season Series

# Quicksilver Season (1985) # A Chance of Rainbows (1985) # Body and Soul (1987) # Marry Sunshine (1988) # Gifts of the Spirit (1988)

Imagine Series

# Imagine (1990) # I Thee Wed (1991) # Marry-go-round in With This Ring (1991) # MacKenzie's Baby (1992) # Never Say Never in New Year's (1998) # Marry Me... Maybe? (Omnibus) (2004) (with

Tori Carrington Tori Carrington is the pen name by the husband–wife writing team of the late Tony Karayianni and Lori Schlachter Karayianni. They have written over 28 romance novels since 1998. Biography Tony Karayianni was born in Smila, Greece and he gr ...

)

Code Of The West Series

# Cowboys Don't Cry (1995) # Cowboys Don't Quit (1995) # Cowboys Don't Stay (1995) # The Cowboy and the Kid (1996) # Cowboy Pride (1996) # A Cowboy's Tears (1997) # The Cowboy Steals a Lady (1997) # The Cowboy Crashes a Wedding (1998) # The Stardust Cowboy (1999) # Cowboy on the Run (1999) # A Cowboy's Secret (2000) # A Cowboy's Gift (2000) # A Cowboy's Promise (2001) # The Cowboy's Code (2001) # The Great Montana Cowboy Auction (2002) # The Cowboy's Christmas Miracle (2002) # A Cowboy's Pursuit (2002)

Tanner Brothers Sub-Series

# Cowboys Don't Cry (1995) # Cowboys Don't Quit (1995) # Cowboys Don't Stay (1995)

New York! New York! Series

# Finn's Twins! (1996) # Fletcher's Baby! (1997) # Gibson's Girl (1999) # Rhys's Redemption (2000) # The Inconvenient Bride (2001) # Nathan's Child (2003) # The Inconvenient Bride (2005)

Fetcher Bothers Sub-Series

# Finn's Twins! (1996) # Fletcher's Baby! (1997) # Gibson's Girl (1999)

Wolfe Brothers Sub-Series

# Rhys's Redemption (2000) # The Inconvenient Bride (2001) # Nathan's Child (2003)

Mcgillivray's of Pelican Cay Series

# McGillivray's Mistress (2003) # In McGillivray's Bed (2004) # Lessons from a Latin Lover (2005)

This Time, Forever Series Multi-Author

* A Baby for Christmas (1995)

From Here To Paternity Series Multi-Author

* Finn's Twins! (1996)

Eligible Bachelors Series Multi-Author

* Cowboy on the Run (1999) * Secret Father (2004)

Collections

* Dare to Trust / Call Up the Wind (2004) * Cowboys Don't Cry / Cowboys Don't Quit (2004) * Cowboys Don't Stay / Cowboy and the Kid (2005)

Omnibus In Collaboration

* My Valentine (1993) (with

Judith Arnold Barbara Keiler (born April 7, 1953 in New York City, United States), known more widely by her pseudonym Judith Arnold, is a best-selling American author of crime fiction and over eighty-five romance novels. She has been writing since 1983, and h ...

, Anne Stuart and Linda Randall Wisdom) * Marry Me Cowboy (1995) (with

Janet Dailey Janet Anne Haradon Dailey (May 21, 1944 – December 14, 2013) was an American author of numerous romance novels as Janet Dailey (her married name). Her novels have been translated into nineteen languages and have sold more than 300 million ...

, Susan Fox and

Margaret Way Margaret Way (b. Brisbane d. Cleveland, Queensland, Australia ) was an Australian writer of romance novels and women's fiction. A prolific author, Way wrote more than 120 novels since 1970, many through Mills & Boon, a romance imprint of Briti ...

) * Home For Christmas (1996) (with

Debbie Macomber Debbie Macomber (born October 22, 1948) is an American author of romance novels and contemporary women's fiction. Six of her novels have become made-for-TV movies and her ''Cedar Cove'' series of novels was adapted into a television series of the ...

and

Shannon Waverly Shannon Waverly is an American author of contemporary romance novels. Biography Waverly was born in Fall River, Massachusetts. Even as a child she enjoyed writing, and attempted to write her first novel when she was only 12. Unable to finish h ...

) * Valentine Affairs (1999) (with Muriel Jensen, Anne Stuart and Linda Randall Wisdom) * Wedlocked (1999) (with

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and

) * Christmas Presents (1999) (with

Penny Jordan Penelope Halsall (née Jones; 24 November 1946 – 31 December 2011) was a best-selling and prolific English writer of over 200 romance novels. She started writing regency romances as Caroline Courtney, and wrote contemporary romances as Penny ...

and

Sally Wentworth Sally Wentworth was the pseudonym used by Doreen Hornsblow (1936 or 1937, Watford - 2001, Hertfordshire), a British romance writer of 70 romance novels in Mills & Boon's from 1977 to 1999. Personal life Doreen was born on 1936 o 1937 in Watf ...

) * Blood Brothers (2000) (with Lucy Gordon) * Do You Take This Cowboy (2000) (with

Cait London Lois Kleinsasser (born April 11 in Washington, U.S.) is USA Today's bestselling American writer of over 45 romance novels since 1980 as Cait London. She also signed her novels as Cait Logan. Biography Lois Kleinsasser, of German-Russian ancest ...

) * Christmas Weddings (2001) (with

Elizabeth Bevarly Elizabeth Bevarly (born 1961 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States) is an American writer of over 70 romance novels since 1989. She is a ''New York Times'' bestselling author. Biography Bevarly was born in 1961 and raised in Louisville, Kentu ...

) * Even Better Than Before (2002) (with B.J. James) * His Majesty, MD / A Cowboy's Pursuit (2003) (with

Leanne Banks Leanne Banks (born May 14, 1959, in Roanoke, Virginia, is an American writer of over 60 romance novels since 1991. Biography Leanne Banks was born on May 14, 1959, in Roanoke, Virginia. She published her first novel in 1991, and since then she ...

) * Greek Millionaires (2004) (with

Sara Craven Anne Ashurst (née Bushell; October 1938 in Devon, England – 15 November 2017), who wrote using the pseudonym Sara Craven, was a British author of over 80 romance novels. Her novels were published by Mills & Boon from 1975. In 2010 she became ...

and

) * Love in the City (2005) (with

Miranda Lee Miranda Lee (born Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia) is a popular Australian writer of over 75 romance novels. She published her novels in Mills & Boon's since 1990. Biography Miranda Lee was born in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, A ...

and

Cathy Williams Cathy Williams (born 1957 in Trinidad and Tobago) is a British writer of romance novels in Mills & Boon since 1990. Biography Cathy Williams was born in 1957 in Trinidad and Tobago in the West Indies. She lives in Chiswick, London, England, w ...

) * Way Home / Cowboy's Christmas Miracle / Because a Husband is Forever (2005) (with

Marie Ferrarella Marie Ferrarella, née Rydzynski (b. March 28 in West Germany) is an American writer of over 272 romance novels as Marie Ferrarella, which have been translated into at least seven languages. She has also written under the names Marie Nicole, M ...

and

Linda Howard Linda S. Howington (born August 3, 1950 in Alabama, United States) is an American best-selling romance/suspense author under her pseudonym Linda Howard. Biography She began to write at nine years old, and wrote for twenty years for her own en ...

) * Men Made In America Vol 5 (2007) (with

Bethany Campbell Sally Lea McCluskey (née Bostwick; April 27, 1941 – March 26, 2022), known by her pen names Bethany Campbell and Lisa Harris, was an American writer of romance novels. Biography Sally McCluskey was born on April 27, 1941, in Omaha, Nebraska. ...

Ingrid Weaver Ingrid Weaver is a Canadian author of contemporary romance novels. Biography Weaver was born and raised in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. She has a degree in English literature. After her youngest child entered school in 1989 she began writing i ...

Peggy Webb Peggy Webb, née Peggy Elaine Hussey (born February 8, 1942) is an American author of romance novels. Biography Peggy Webb has born and raised on a farm in Lee County, Mississippi. As a child she would often sit in the hayloft and write down he ...

and

Annette Broadrick Annette Broadrick (born November 26, 1938) is an American writer of over 55 romance novels since 1984. Biography Broadrick was born on November 26, 1938, and raised as an only child for sixteen years, until her younger sister, Derralee, was bor ...

) * Men Made In America Vol 10 (2007) (with

Cathy Gillen Thacker Cathy Gillen Thacker is an American author of over seventy romance novels. Biography Thacker began writing to occupy herself while she was raising small children. She wrote seven books as she taught herself how to be an author. Her eighth att ...

Pamela Toth Pamela may refer to: *''Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded'', a novel written by Samuel Richardson in 1740 *Pamela (name), a given name and, rarely, a surname *Pamela Spence, a Turkish pop-rock singer. Known as her stage name "Pamela" *MSC Pamela, MSC ' ...

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and

Carla Cassidy Carla Cassidy, née Carla Bracale (born in Kansas, U.S.) is an American writer of over 80 romance novels since 1988. She initially signed her novels as Carla Bracale (her maiden name); now as Carla Cassidy (her married name). She also penned a ...

)

References

External links

Anne McAllister's Official Website
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