Lori Handeland (born 1961) is an American author of

romance novels A romance novel or romantic novel generally refers to a type of genre fiction novel which places its primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and usually has an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Pre ...

. She has twice won the

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RITA Award.

Biography

Handeland has wanted to be a writer since she was 10 years old. As an adult, she wrote her first book in a two-year span. It was chosen for publication. Handeland has written over 30 novels. For

St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, in the Equitable Building. St. Martin's Press is considered one of the largest English-language publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under si ...

, Handeland writes single-title paranormal suspense romance novels, some of which are written in

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. She has also had several contemporary romance novels published in the

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Superromance category line. Handeland is a two-time winner of the

's prestigious RITA Award, in 2005 for Best Paranormal Romance for ''Blue Moon'' and in 2007 for Best Long Contemporary Romance for ''The Mommy Quest''. She has also been nominated seven times for ''Romantic Times'' Reviewers' Choice Awards, winning in 2005 for ''A Soldier's Quest''. Handeland is married and has two sons.

Bibliography

Stand-Alone Novels

*''Second Chance'' (1994) *''Charlie and the Angel'' (1995) *''Shadow Lover'' (1995) *''D.J.'s Angel'' (1995) *''Full Moon Dreams'' (1996) *''By Any Other Name'' (1998) *''Dreams of an Eagle'' (1998) *''When You Wish'' (2000) *''An Outlaw for Christmas'' (2001) *''Red Moon Rising'' (2015), a novella previously published in the anthology ''Stroke of Midnight''

Series

''Precious Gems'' ''Historical Romance'' line

Lori Handeland is but one of multiple authors that wrote mostly non-related romance stories for this now defunct line of books *35 ''Just After Midnight'' (1999) *67 ''Loving a Legend'' (2000)

''Harlequin'' ''Superromance'' line

Lori Handeland is but one of many authors that write or have written mostly non-related romance stories for this line of books *922 ''Mother of the Year'' (2000) *969 ''Doctor, Doctor'' (2001) *1004 ''Leave It to Max'' (2001) *1063 ''A Sheriff in Tennessee'' (2002) *1099 ''The Farmer's Wife'' (2002)

= ''Luchetti Brothers'' series

= Part of the ''Harlequin Superromance'' line, but with connected characters *1151 ''The Daddy Quest'' (2003) *1193 ''The Brother Quest'' (2004) *1226 ''The Husband Quest'' (2004) *1293 ''A Soldier's Quest'' (2005) *1334 ''The Mommy Quest'' (2006)

''Rock Creek Six'' series

Books 2, 4, and 6 of this series were written by Linda Devlin *1 ''Reese'' (2001) *3 ''Rico'' (2001) *5 ''Nate'' (2002)

''Night Creature'' series

*1 ''Blue Moon'' (2004) *2 ''Hunter's Moon'' (2005) *3 ''Dark Moon'' (2005) *4 ''Crescent Moon'' (2006) *5 ''Midnight Moon'' (2006) *6 ''Rising Moon'' (2007) *7 ''Hidden Moon'' (2007) *8 ''Thunder Moon'' (2008) *9 ''Marked by the Moon'' (2010) *10 ''Moon Cursed'' (2011) *11 ''Crave the Moon'' (2011)

''The Phoenix Chronicles''

*1 ''Any Given Doomsday'' (2008) *2 ''Doomsday Can Wait'' (2009) *3 ''Apocalypse Happens'' (2009) *4 ''Chaos Bites'' (2010)

Shakespeare Undead

# ''Shakespeare Undead'' (2010) # ''Zombie Island'' (2012)

Sisters of the Craft

#''In The Air Tonight'' (June 2015) #''Heat of the Moment'' (June 2015) #''Smoke on the Water'' (August 2015)

Collections

*''Trick or Treat'' (1997) (with Lark Eden, Stobie Piel and Lynda Trent) *''The Farmer's Wife / Dreamless'' (2002) *''Then He Kissed Her'' (2003) (with Kate Donovan and Julie Moffett) *''Stroke of Midnight'' (2004) (with Amanda Ashley, L A Banks and

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) *''Wrong Man / Daddy Quest'' (2004) (with Laura Abbot) *''Family of Her Own / Brother Quest'' (2004) (with

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) *''Husband Quest / Operation - Texas'' (2004) (with Roxanne Rustand) *''Dates from Hell'' (2006) (with

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and

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) *''My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding'' (2006) (with L A Banks,

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, P N Elrod,

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, Sherrilyn Kenyon and

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) *''Moon Fever'' (2007) (with Caridad Piñeiro,

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and

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) *''No Rest for the Witches'' (2007) (with

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, Cheyenne McCray and Christine Warren) *''Hex Sympols'' (TBA)

References

External links

Official website
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