Loretta Chase, née Loretta Lynda Chekani (born 1949) is an American

writer A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, travelogues, p ...

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." Pr ...

since 1987.

Biography

Loretta Lynda Chekani was born in 1949 in a family of Albanian origin. She studied at New England public schools before receiving a bachelor's degree from

Clark University Clark University is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded in 1887 with a large endowment from its namesake Jonas Gilman Clark, a prominent businessman, Clark was one of the first modern research universities in the ...

, where she majored in English. Her past lives include clerical, administrative, and part-time teaching at Clark and a "Dickensian six-month experience" as a meter maid. After college, her first professional writing job was for an exhibition catalog. This led to a job moonlighting as a corporate video scriptwriter. During this time she met a video producer who enticed her to write novels...and eventually to marry him. Her first Regency manuscript, Isabella, was bought by the first New York editor who read it and led to a successful career as a romance author. Chase said of her marriage: "The books resulting from this union have won a surprising number of awards, including the

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RITA® Award." Her books have also won several

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Reviewers' Choice awards, various RRA-L (Romance Readers Anonymous) awards, and the All About Romance Top 100 Romances award multiple times.

Bibliography

Trevelyan Family Saga Series

#''Isabella'' 1987/Nov #''The English Witch'' 1988/Jul

Regency Series

#''Viscount Vagabond'' 1989/Jan #''The Devil's Delilah'' 1989/Jun

Scoundrels Series

#''The Lion's Daughter'' 1992/Oct #''Captives of the Night'' 1994/Mar #'' Lord of Scoundrels'' 1995/Jan #"The Mad Earl's Bride" in ''Three Weddings and a Kiss'' 1995/Sep (with

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and Kathleen E. Woodiwiss) #''The Last Hellion'' 1998/Apr

Carsington Brothers Series

#''Miss Wonderful'' 2004/Mar #''Mr. Impossible'' 2005/Mar #''Lord Perfect'' 2006/Mar #''Not Quite a Lady'' 2007/May #''Last Night's Scandal'' 2010/Aug

Fallen Women Series

#''Not Quite a Lady'' 2007/May #''Your Scandalous Ways'' 2008/Jun #''Don't Tempt Me'' 2009/Jul

Single Novels

*''Knave's Wager'' 1990/Jun *''The Sandalwood Princess'' 1990/Dec

Omnibus

*''Isabella and the English Witch'', 2003 *''Viscount Vagabond and Devil's Delilah'', 2004 *''The Sandalwood Princess'' / ''Knave's Wager'', 2004

Dressmakers Series

*''Silk is for Seduction '', 2011/July *''Scandal Wears Satin '', 2012/June *''Vixen in Velvet '', 2014/June *''Dukes Prefer Blonds '', 2015/December

Difficult Dukes Series

*''A Duke in Shining Armour '' 2017 *''Ten Things I Hate About The Duke '' 2020

Anthologies (Other)

*"Falling Stars" in ''A Christmas Collection'' 1992 (with Stella Cameron,

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and

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) *"Falling Stars" in ''A Christmas Present'' 1994 (with Judith E. French and

) *"The Mad Earl's Bride" in ''Three Times a Bride'' 2010/May (with

and

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) *"Lord Lovedon's Duel" in ''Royal Bridesmaids'' 2012/July (with Stephanie Laurens and Gaelen Foley)

References

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Regency Romance, Verlag dp DIGITAL PUBLISHERS

External links

Official website
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