Mary-Jo Wormell (born 1947), better known as Mary Lyons, was a popular British writer of 45

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Mills & Boon Mills & Boon is a romance imprint of British publisher Harlequin UK Ltd. It was founded in 1908 by Gerald Rusgrove Mills and Charles Boon as a general publisher. The company moved towards escapist fiction for women in the 1930s. In 1971, the ...

from 1983 to 2001. Wormell, along with two other prolific Mills & Boon authors, launched Heartline Publishing on 14 February 2001. The publishing house was meant to fill the gap between Mills & Boon and mainstream fiction. The publishing house appears to have closed as the website is now defunct. Wormell was a Conservative Party parliamentary candidate. She has been married three times.

Bibliography

Single novels

*The Passionate Escape (1983) *Caribbean Confusion (1983) *Desire in the desert (1984) *Spanish serenade (1984) *Love's Tangled Web (1984) *Dangerous Stunt (1985) *No Other Love (1985) *Eclipse of the Heart (1985) *Mended Engagement (1985) *Escape from the Harem (1986) *Passionate Deception (1986) *Hay Fever (1987) *Stranger at Winterfloods (1988) *Hurricane! (1988) *Love in a Spin (1989) *No Surrender (1989) *Dark and Dangerous (1991) *Silver Lady (1991) *Double Fire (1992) *Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue (1992) *Love Is the Key (1992) *Love's Revenge (1993) *It Started with a Kiss (1994) *The Yuletide Bride (1995) *Keeping Secrets (1995) *Mr. Loverman (1996) *Husband Not Included! (1997) *The Valentine Affair! (1997) *The Playboy's Baby (1999) *The Italian Seduction (2000) *Their Convenient Marriage (2000)

The Notting Hill Grooms trilogy multi-Author

:2. Reform of the Playboy (1997)

Big Event Series multi-Author

*Baby Included! (1998)

Society Weddings Series multi-Author

*The Society Groom (1999)

Omnibus in collaboration

*Desert Destinies (2001) (with

Helen Brooks Rita Bradshaw (born 1949) is a British romance novelist. She wrote historical romances under her real name and contemporary romances under the pseudonym Helen Brooks. Biography Rita Bradshaw was born in 1949 in Northampton, England. She met h ...

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References and sources

Harlequin Enterprises Ltd's WebsiteBBC – Publishing for Love's Sake

External links

Mary Lyons's Webpage
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