Carol Marinelli was born in England to Scottish parents, then emigrated to Australia, where there are loads of Scottish and English people who did exactly the same thing, so she's very at home there.

There have always been stories dancing in Carol’s head and since the age of eighteen she dabbled with putting them down on paper, but it was a rather sporadic effort at first - slotted in between nursing and family - until finally she decided to take it more seriously...

The biggest thrill in Carol's writing life was typing, for the first time, The End. For so many years there had been chapters and outlines and endless stop-starts, but having a full story, from start to middle to end, gave her a rush she had never expected. It still does to this day.

Author Heidi Rice's first love was watching movies so, not surprisingly, her first proper job was as a film journalist. But after spending years sneaking off to read romantic fiction when she was being paid to watch movies, she decided to try writing a novel of her own.

Her first book, Bedded by a Bad Boy, was published by Harlequin Mills & Boon in 2007. Fortysomething published novels, novellas and short stories later, and she has nabbed three RITA finals, had her work translated into over twenty languages, become a USA Today bestseller and sold over three million copies of her books worldwide. In 2022, she's particularly excited about the four Harlequin Presents/Mills & Boon Modern novels she has coming out this year, in Feb, May, July and November! And the rerelease of her first full-length women's fiction novel, So Now You're Back as well as One Summer in Notting Hill another full length novel with One More Chapter - and the fact her books now have titles people don't laugh at unless they're meant to.

As you can probably tell, she loves her job, because it involves sitting down at her computer each day and getting swept up in a world of high emotions, sensual excitement, funny flawed women, sexy tortured men and glamourous locations where laundry doesn't exist ...

She lives in London with her husband and two sons, and lots of other gorgeous men who are entirely in her imagination (unlike the laundry, unfortunately).

NEW Pre-order Kingston’s Redemption (Kingston’s Redemption 3) Release September 30th

NEW Pre-Order The Mistress (Ruthless Regency Dukes 2) Release July 29th 2022

NEW Pre-order Kingston’s Captive (Kingston Security 2) Release April 29th 2022

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Carole is a USA Today Bestselling Author, Amazon #1 Bestselling Author, and an International Bestselling author. She has written over 275 romance novels in the Contemporary, Historical and Paranormal genres. Carole is the recipient of the Romantic Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award. Was awarded a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award in 2017. An Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Romance Author—ever. She is a 2014 Romantic Times Pioneer of Romance. She was also recognized by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012, for her “outstanding service to literature”.

Ruthless Regency Dukes:

The Wager (Ruthless Regency Dukes 1)

The Mistress (Ruthless Regency Dukes 2)

The Guardian (Ruthless Regency Dukes 3)

More books to come in this series

Kingston Security

Kingston’s Ransom (Kingston Security 1)

Kingston’s Captive (Kingston Security 2)

Kingston's Redemption (Kingston Security 3)

More books to come in this series

Regency Scandal

WANTON (Regency Scandal 1)

WILD (Regency Scandal 2)

WAYWARD (Regency Scandal 3)

SINFUL (Regency Scandal 4

Russian Dragon Heat

VLADIMIR (Russian Dragon Heat 1)

VAUGH (Russian Dragon Heat 2)

VIKTOR (Russian Dragon Heat 3)

More books to come in this series

Dance with the Devil:

MATTEO (Dance with the Devil 1)

LEON (Dance with the Devil 2)

KILLIAN (Dance with the Devil 3)

JERICHO (Dance with the Devil 4

KIERAN (Dance with the Devil 5)